Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-04-02
ALMOST A MILLION.
COMMITTEE FINISHES WORK OF
APPoRTIoNiNG FUNDS.
VERY LARGE SUMS ARE NAMED
Estimates of Other institutions Are
Also Reduced on Account of
Lack Of Money.

Des Neutrality-suspicious. which
total almost $1,0O0,OOO are provided
for in bills which will be introduced
by the appropriations committee of
the senate as the result of the work
OF that committee, the house commit
tee and the conference committee rep
resenting both, during the last sew
eral weeks.
The appropriations are cut far be-
low the askings for the educational
institutions and for some of the in
situations managed by the board of
control, but the bills as prepared for
introduction are the result of careful
study of the needs Of the schools and
of the board Several hearings have
been granted to the members of the
board and to the representatives of
the three educational institutions
Where appropriations have been cut
the committees have tried to make
only such reductions as will have the
least bad effect.
Schools Get Large Sums.
The state university will receive
$4,000 additional to its present APP
preparations during the coming two
years and in addition the bill calls
for 100000 for special purposes and
an annual addition of $29,5O0. The ag-
ricultural college at Ames gets 100000
extra during the coming two years,
together with $4,000 annually addi-
tional to the present appropriation
and s1O7,50O for special uses. The
state normal school will receive $751;
900 additional appropriation annual
ly and $4,000 for special purposes.
The board of control institutions
will receive total Of $515,700, ac-
cording to the bill, and $4,000 of this
amount is to be used by the board of
control for the purchase of addition
al lands for institutions as the board
sees fit
The Iowa City bill contains the fol-
lowing provisions for additional
funds:
There is hereby appropriated out
of any money in the state treasury
not otherwise appropriated, to the
state university, the sum of $4,000
annually hereafter, and the sum Of
$4,000 annually for two years. for
additional support fund; the sum of
$500 annually hereafter for addition
al repair and contingent fund, and the
sum of $4,000 annually for two
years for library support"
State Normal.
For the state normal school the bill
carries an annual addition Of $4,000
to the teachers fund and $4,000 for
the contingent and repair fund. The
special appropriations are as follows:
Support Of library, $4,000; librarians
salaries. $4,000; paving and improve.
ments of grounds. $4,000; nurse and
hospital support. $4,000.
The following appropriations. In ad
dition to the $4,000 for land. are pro.
vided for the board Of control insti.
tutions:
Soldiers home. Marshalltown- SIS. 900
Soldiers orphans home, Daven.
port ----------- ---- 1880
School for the deaf. Council
BUTTS -------- ---------- $500
Institute for feeble minded,
Glenwood ------- ------- $4,000
tuberculosis sanitarium, Oak
dale -------- ------- $1,000
Industrial school, Eldora------ 51.50C
Industrial school, Mitchellvll1e 1855
Hospital for insane. Mt. Pleasant
- -------- Observation-Disclosures II. 40t
Hospital for insane, Independ-
ence ---------- ------------ 76,95t
Hospital for insane, Clarinda $4,000
Hospital for insane, Cherokee 1856
Penitentiary. Fort Madison 22,O0l
Reformatory, Anamosa ------- 24.40l