Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-06-17
APPROPRIATIONS Of
NEARLY SS9,OOO,OOO
THAT AMOUNT SET ASIDE BY
LEGISLATORS FOR USES
OF STATE.
GETS $2,196, 900;
CHARITABLE AND PENAL
INSTITUTIONS S, 628, 900.
TOTAL AMOUNT CALLED FOR BY
BILL BEFORE LEGISLA-
TURE, s18,ooo,0oo.
Madison, June IA.

The total appropriations for the
next biennial period in Wisconsin
amount to $8,915,00O.
When it is considered that the bills
before this legislature called for ap-
preparations aggregating about $18,-
100000, the labors of Senator George
3. HudnalI and his fellow members OF
the Joint committee ON claims, can be
appreciated even by him who runs.
In addition, it must be remembered
that, if the reports of the committee
on claims had been followed in all
cases by the legislature the cut would
have been fully 100000 larger.
Secretly Frear, early in the session,
in his estimate of the appropriations
asked for, sounded the note of warn
ing and it was well needed by the
committee Of the total appropriated
the university receives, with its two
seventies mill tax, $2,196,0OO for the
biennial period; the charitable and
penal institutions of the state $685.
500. as follows: For maintenance for
the period. $1.215,O0O; for buildings
and improvements including 100000
for a detention hospital at Oshkosh
for the criminal insane in connection
with the Northern hospital, S33,5OO
and for defcients 100000 For state
normal schools there is $993,3OO, in
Guiding S68O.OOO for maintenance,
1921 300 for buildings and improve
ments. and $4,000 as a deficiency APP
DrOpriation: for the new capitol ST.
100000 for the period, 100000 each
year from the general fund of the
state and $450,O0O from a tax levy.
Among the heavy items which were
wholly cut out were about 100000
for the binding Irvine plant at Wau-
pun: S125,OOO for a dynamite plant at
Waupun: three new normal schools
asked for. at Green Bay. Rhinelander
and Amigo sums ranging from
$4,000 for a site at Green Bay to
$4,000 at Rhinelander; for the Alaska
Yukon exposition, $4,000; the large
number of state park appropriations
asked for were cut to a general ap-
/ DrODriatiOn for the state park board
J
| of $4,000 a year, and large cuts were
made in the appropriations for state
associations of one kind and another,
| the university appropriations and
those for normal schools charitable
and penal Institutions and for the de-
partments of the state government,
all salary raises asked for being cut
70, 10
missioner and for the banking com
missioner. Very few new clerkships
were allowed, also.
The number of county training
schools for teachers asked for was
10. at an increase of $4,000 for the
two years. while the number allowed
was two. at $1,000 The number of
county agricultural schools asked for
was four. with $4,000 additional,
while the number granted was two,
at an increase for the two years of
$4,000.
Among the new items, about the
largest was the appropriation for the
teachers pension fund of $4,000 a
year for the two years.
The appropriation for the state
troops was cut from $4,000 to $780,
600 for the two years. while the ap-
preparations asked for naval militia
were cut off entirely and while four
divisions were provided for in the
Chapple bill, they will have to be
seIf-sustaining.
The clerks of the committee have.
not yet completed their summing up
of the work of the session. but
enough is given here to indicate that
The committee members and chairmen
earned the gratitude of the taxpayers
by their close attention to the de-
mands which were made upon the
state treasury.