The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-03-05
House Worked Overtime on
The Measure Yesterday as
The Bill Had to Go to the
Governor Today.
Total NET REDUCTION
s295,272 WAS MADE
The Democratic Cry of ''Econ-
omy Failed to Carry Very
Far in the Lower House OF
Legislature.
Palladium Bureau,
Indianapolis. March 5.

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! The house passed the appropri-
ations bill at midnight by vote OF
90 to 8. The total net reduction made
by the house was $295,272. The house
added 322,73S at the night session.
schools. The state statistician's office
10 left as 1t Is now. No reductions
made there. The salaries of the state
officers and employees in the state
house under this bill will be fully as
high, or higher. than under present
law and appropriations for the various
bureaus and departments will be high
pr. The democratic cry of economy
Wild not carry far in the state house.
Worked Day and Night.
Tho house considered the appropri-
ations bill nearly All day yesterday
and for . large part Of the night
When It adjourned at supper time it
had pruned 3313,s10 off OF the appro-
priations carried in the BILL and after
supper It cut off much more. But 1t
was said that 1t would be necessary
10 cut off a total Of about 4675, 900 be>
fore II would bring the appropriations
within the estimated receipts Of the
state for the years 1910 and 1911.
This was the task that faced the
house when It started at the Job with
the pruning knife. Whatever the house
lacked of cutting off that amount
would have to be cut off by the SEN
Ate. And that Is what the senate Is
wrestling with today. It is no easy
Job to reduce the appropriations
e676, 900.
The State Normal at Terre Haute
was the heaviest loser. The bill con-
tanned $4,000 for q new manual
training and domestic science build
ing and this was cut out. Forty thou
sand dollars Of the additional main
romance fund was also cut out.
University = Loser. !.
Indiana university lost a large part
~ It's additional maintenance fund
and 1t was provided also that NO part
Of the money should be available for
use until It was shown that each non
resident student had paid $50 a term
Or $50 year tuition. At present they
DO not pay any tuition fee at the uni
versity. This was one OF the things
pointed to by Governor Marshall in
EAis recent special message to the leg
s1slature when he told them the state
was broke. He said hundreds OF non-
resident students were being educated
q the expense Of the taxpayers OF
the state and that these institutions
should not be given additional appro-
priations for the purpose OF increas-
ing he facilities to take care Of stu
dents who come In from other states
and receive their education without
paying for It.
Purdue Lost $4,000.
Purdue lost $4,000 Ii its additional
maintenance fund and $4,000 which
was asked for to build a stock show
pavilion. The Girls Industrial school
lost $4,000 proposed for residence
for the superintendent. Also $500
for = laundry.
The appropriations for the Central
Hospital for the insane at Indianapolis
ana for the Eastern Hospital for the
Insane ct Richmond were left as they
were In the bill. The percapita for
maintenance at the Northern Hospital
Tor the Insane at Logansport was in
creased from $50 to $3.50. The
amounts for the Southern Hospital for
the Insane at Evansville and for the
Southeastern at Madison were not
changed
Slight changes were made at the
Village for Epileptics at New Castle
and the Soldiers and Sailors Orphans
Home at Knightstown.
The Girls school, near this city. lost
$4,000 that was proposed for a new
cottage and $1,000 for additional
equipment. Another $1,000 for the
purchase Of ground and the erection
OF brick house was cut off.
No change was made in the appro-
priatfons for either the Indiana Re-
formatory at Jeffersonville or the
State prison at Michigan City.
Few Salaries Docked.
A few salaries were reached ia
some of the state offices. The insur-
ance deputy in the auditors office was
reduced from $4,000 to $4,000. the
special examiner from $500 to $2.400
and the securities clerk from 50 500 to
$1,000.
The only change made in the insti-
tuition for Feeble Minded Youths At
Fort Wayne was the eddition Of $500
for new dough mixer. q
By the time the aouse got this far
with 1T job OF trimming down the an
preparations It had passed all Of the
big institutions OF the state and still
y had not reduced the total more
than half Of what was necessary 10
Be reduced. The remaining state of.
fees and bureaus have slight oppor-
tunitys for reductions. So the house
adjourned for supper and decided to
return at night and 60 Ct 4 again.