The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-01-09
Isush When Drowning
|, Nan 6rabs at Straws
And Finds Them Gene
Gov. Warner Tries cowsrdIy sns
vsinIy To Save Himself BY
Blaming Auditor General
Bradley for lnsoivent
State Treasury.

III e'"' ''eAs'V treasury upon ex-Auditor
He cites that prior 1906 the each year TO
distribute the money primary school interest fund to within
4 an average of about $4,000 of the total amount
The withheld the odd striking the pei
capita would fund until the following year
For instance the amounted S3o7 capita would
placed So and in this of distribution
simplihed expedited
AS taxation of railroads
being upheld supreme several millions
of dollars back became available for primary school pur
poses 1906.
wisely by general and the superin
endent of public instruction distribute the entire sum at one
superintendent
Consequently 1906 had previously been left
balance neghborhood $4,000 there remained
a $raaa4s6.s7.
Atkinson bill also made available twice
much they had receiving annually that at the end OF
the there S6674e4 hand school money
When the legislative committee make the annual
budget governor called for the amount
the balance close of the 1906 and
! was informed that it approximately $a3ooooo.
The governor had be-
that average primary school
included in this the balance taken
into account in preparing the general budget.
Taking the average $4aooo which the committee had to
to be the of school represented the treasury
the general budget made for 1908 the basis of
difference between $3ooooo and Sa7ssooo when in
reality there available for outside OF the
school which be used for the schools alone only
Sro77sI4.
This left general shy the difference be-
$ss5sooo and $o77s4 ssos3 of which fact the leg
budget the be raised by taxation reduced by that
body $oo73a5
November 1908 money school ap
and the consequently BROKE despite the
campaign claims of Gov. Warner that it WAS NOT
To simplify:
Jones church which
belongs just nothing custodian of
\ school moneys.
Jones church money with his oYn.
When time for him make appropriations for
year. he consults his cash book and his balance
much of this money is his he recalls
that the church balance at the end the has averaged about
same deducng average
the bank he figures he has much with which to conduct his
business.
forgotten, that a rich member of the church
died during the year
As result before the through the church makes
upon for all of its he holds and Jones
finds himself suddenly broke in his business
What kind a business would you consider Jonesl
Would him look after interests for your
What kind of business does Gov Warner the
Of this Legislative committee to have been2
you members of the last legislature
governor would have understand them
Il to have been?
Or would you prefer to sit down and figure much
your taxes 100000 nearly million
general budget and then consider what the effect
would have been the aspirations
governor seeking third for the of landing him
\ self In the United States senatea
legislative governor
cognzant the school money the
treasury. whose fault it but their own'
How did they for the presence of much money
especially in the light Warner
i extravaganza?
did happen frightened governor failed point
the having reduced 100000 he
being charged with having bankrupted it?
the governor in that campaign
saving the of running worth while
talking point?
Yet himself
economist governor?
Possibly exAudor General explains this his
ner's attack
He he stated before the legislative committee IN THE
PRESENCE OF GOV. WARNER, why the balance
larger
The fact of the is the legislative committee
proportion years. COVER
nor it.
And tax
b fictitious and fraud upon the people of Michigan.
That Of the governors where he has