The Green Forest tribune., 1909-05-21

l9G,UOU. however, no appfopfldtloH was made for Confederate pensions or for the state capitol by the 1907 legislature. These two items, for the present session, amount to $1,795, ,000.
 List of Appropriations.
 Mileage and per diem of assembly, $155 900; railway rate case, $50,0O0; constitutional amendments deficit S6,612; clerks deficit 1907, $4,946; relief of people of Brinkley, $10,000; four agricultural schools, $160,000; general appropriation, $500,000; Re form School deficiency, S3T04; State University, $223.000; Supreme Court librarian, $550; Carroll D. Wood, sal ary, S416; assistant literary teacher in Blind School, S1,000; deficit in as- sessor's salary, $1,23S; salary of Gov ernor Pindall, S5,510; private relief, $310; laundry man at Deaf-Mute school, $620; tick eradication, $10,- 900; Blind School, $101, ,6S0; Insane ute, $11S,000; penitentiary deficit, S9,S00; State Normal deficit, $2,100; State Reform School, $3S,000; State Capitol, $795,000; Branch Normal $25,500; State Normal School, $91,- GOO; experiment station, $52,000; Confederate pension, $1,00000O; re- lief of A. B. Crowder, $2,000; Insane Asylum No 2, $20,0OO; State Peniten- tiary, $330,000; payment on state farm $65,000 Confederate Home, $60,- 665; Tuberculosis Sanitarium, ESQ., 900.
 It is reported that the governor be- lieves that unless the Tax Commis- sion, just created, increases the reve- nues materially a deficit in the gen. eral revenue fund of more than $1,- 000,000 is inevitable before the meet ing of the next legislature.
 Governor Donaghey has announced that he had decided upon three men to comprise the State Tax Commis- sion, created by the thirty-seventh General Assembly under the provis ions of the Bradham-Smith bill, and that practically everything depends at the present time on the question as to whether these three men can finance the commission and system provided under the new statute. The announcement leads to the belief that the Bradham- Smith bill will become effective and that within a very short time, despite the fact that the legislature failed to pass the bill carrying nearly S30,000 appropriation to bear the expenses of the new system
 All Arkansas is deeply interested in the outcome of the tax commis- sion act. If that act is put into ef feet it will mean relief for the pres ent financial condition of the state. This will do much toward relieving the need of an extra session of the legislature. If the act is not put into effect there is practically no new source of revenue, as the result of the recent session of the legislature and the state can have no other course, it is argued, than to plungo into debt This would result, it is we'll understood from friends of the administration, in an extra session to relieve the shortage of the state treas ury.
 The bill to repeal the act making corporations pay employees every two weeks instead monthly failed to pass.
 A resolution was offered in the House regarding the special message of the governor to that body on the prohibition question: This resolution called attention to the House having passed two bills and a resolution covering the prohibition question and that the Senate has fail ed to take up the measures. In the resolution surprise and dismay were expressed at the governor having sent a special message to the House when the Senate was the derelict body on the liquor question. The resolution was not adopted