New-York tribune., 1910-06-20
GOVERNOR HUGHES
L0PS Off N,713,47
Appropriation and Supply Bills
Still Carry More than
S39,OOO,OOO.
TIME FOR RETRENCHMENT
Probably the Greatest Cutting in
the History of State-Many
Legislators Will Gnash
Their Teeth.
ley Telegraph to The Tribunal


Albany, June 19--Announcement was
made to-day OF Governor Hughes's ac-
ton on the annual appropriation and
supply bills and the horde OF individual
appropriation measures which an un-
usually compIaisant Legislature sent TO
him. When that Legislature reassem-
bles tomorrow night there will be much
wailing and gnashing Of teeth. for the
Governor cut from an aggregate of more
than S4,0Oo,0OO proposed for his ap-
proval by the Legislature the sum OF
Alb. 747 81. some of it very fat pork"
To be sure, even that generous slice
cut from the states expenditures leaves
the total Of appropriations this year
S3,456. 294 81 greater than last years
chunk amounting TO SASS. $50 06- This
increase, the Governor points out in his
official summary Of the appropriations,
Is due TO increased cost of the states
charitable and penal institutions and
schools, increase in the salaries OF the
Supreme Court justices. increased ap-
preparations for highways, aside from
the proceeds of highway bonds; a big
appropriation for the Secretary OF State.
TO enable his department to carry out
provisions of the new motor vehicle law.
an allowance for abolition of grade
crossings, and the like.
Appropriations for these purposes. in
Guiding one Of 1921, ,139 IS for an ac-
cumulated deficiency for state insane
crease in this years total as compared
with that OF last year.
AS the Governor points. in vetoing
item after item, bill after bill, the states
finances are in no condition for reckless
spending. To put it mildly. the state is
poor. considering the drain on its re-
sources. That reflection will be no COM
fort to the numerous legislators who saw
their pet pork bills go through like
the proverbiaI creased pig, only to have
them slaughtered by this Governor with
a queer notion OF keeping the states ex-
penses somewhere within hailing dis
tance of it's receipts
Not all the items disapproved were OF
that character, however Some repre-
sented purposes wholly laudable and ex-
penditures proper and almost necessary.
hesitation. but he blue pencilled them
nevertheless. for nothing not imperative
was allowed to get by him.
A Very Generous Legislature
1t was a very generous Legislature,
this years. The purse strings were I'M
tied all the tine-in fact. some said they
were thrown away and all that was
necessary to gain permission to plunge
into the states golden hoard and carry
away some Of il was TO profess a dislike
for Hughes and an intention to vote
against his direct nominations bill OF
course. these persons were acknowledged
cynics and disturbers of the peace New
artheless. the records show that in the
legislation sent to the Governor for his
were appropriations for six
new armories. the smallest calling for
$50. 900; for five new agricultural schools
at $4,000 each and new agricultural
experiment. station: with generous ap-
propriations for Cornell and a proposed
college of forestry at Syracuse Univer-
sity; appropriations for cleaning snags
and stumps out of creeks and mud out
Of lakes in numerous corners Of the
state, totalling 100000. and various
other items. ranging rom $4,000 for
new kilns and heating plant at the
State School of Ceramics at Alfred uni
versity, the pet OF Assemb1yman Jesse
to $500 for a new house for
frfo 2t
for EpileptiCs at Sonyea. Livingston
County. and items for hospitals and
prisons. including stone crushers. pig
yeries and slaughter houses, road rollers
and "a clubroom and bowling alley for
employees. $1,000 the last at the Hud-
son River State Hospital
The Governor swung his axe lustily IN
,utting out all such items II is safe 10
ay that not before in his term of Office.
md probably not before in the history
# the state. has there been such cut
ing of appropriations. Persons familiar
With the financial legislation for years
ay that never before has there been
uch patent need for work with the AKA
What effect this wholesale slaughter q
herished pork" will have on the Gov
rnor's recommendations at the extra
ession is a nice problem Certainly It
ould hardly increase the opposition to
ireCt nominations, although the Cow
rnor spared neither friend nor foe Of
hat reform II may add some element
f personal bitterness 10 the situation.
Z should. in the opinion of old legis-
ltors bring about some legislation TO
"a ~ Wit ~
IS expenditures. There has been much
ak lately that the Governor was likely
o recommend 70 the extra session some
teps toward the adoption OF a scientific
irect tax as a solution Of the annual
ifficulty-
The Governors Memorandum.
Governor Hughes issued the following
he total appropriations exclusive
OF appropriations payments from
sinking funds. frcrn trust funds