New-York tribune., 1912-04-21
STATE APPROPRIATIONS
SHOW s45,726,0OO TOTAL
Amount Approved by Governor
Exceeds Last Years Figures
by $9,309,000.
NEW LAWS NUMBER $50
Annual Supply Bill Gut to So
$4,000 and Appropriation
Measure Reduced TO
S2S.1t3.0O0.

Albany. April 2o-state appropriations
for 1912. totalling s45, 900. were approved
nv Governor Dix This is an increase of
ss7s2ooo'over the total for 1911. The sink
ing fund requirements for this year are
ts657.0Oo, en- automatic increase OF s2Sl7-
200 over the amount required last year
making the net increase for this year se,-
$4,000
The enactment OF an increased direct
tax law estimated to give the state an
annual revenue Of 81. 10000 will be suff1-
cient 70 meet the increased appropriations
and give the state working surplus, ac-
oording to Seymour Van ssntvoord. legal
adviser 70 the Governor.
Bills appropriating s53,224ooo we're sent
TO the Governor by the Legislature. He
vetoed items totalling s7.49s,00o.
The State Controllers Office estimates
the total revenue to be raised by the state
for the next fiscal year at so0e0oOp, ana
reports an estimated surplus of s3,ssooo0
The annual supply bill which totalled
s612e,0O0 when II was sent TO the Governor
was reduced to s3,56 900, and $1,000 was
clipped from the annual appropriation bill
making its total S2S.1l20Oo Appropriations
approved for the state prisons and charits-
bic and insane institutions aggregated s4,-
$4,000. while special appropriation bills
signed call for an expenditure of s9,70i0N
The Principal Increases.
The principal increases were as follows:
For new construction and improvements
for charitable institutions, prisons and hos
pitfalls. s2,3H,0O0; for the maintenance Of
asylums hospitals charitable institutions
and prisons and FOR educational, agricult-
ural and judiciary expenditures $96OWO; for
highway repairs, $4,000; for new state
education building, $6Ss,O0O. and for capital
reconstruction and power plant, $4,000.
The Governor signed $50 new laws this
year Last year the total was 9Oi and in
1910 il was 7O7. The last measure approved
was the Madden bill. increasing from $,-
10000 to SS,0OOOOO the amount OF bonds for
the construction Of the Westchester County
trunk sewer.
Among the items vetoed in the annual
supply bill was a lump appropriation Of
$4,000 for the contingent fund of the Sen
ate and Assembly of which 100000 was
to have been used In paying the expenses
of the Ferris Water Storage investigating
committee. the proposed investigation by
a legislative committee Of forest. fish and
game conditions i'm the Adirondacks, an
inquiry into the needs of state institutions,
including the advisability of continuing
work on the proposed Harlem prison, the
preparation of a uniform charter for third
class cities and for other legislative in
vestigatons.
Expenses Of Counsel Denied.
The Governor also vetoed an item IL
$4,000 to pay the expenses of the counsel
on both sides engaged in testing the con-
stitutionality Of the law creating the State
Board of Claims. Ex-Governor Frank 5.
Black and ex-Justice Morgan j. O'Brien
were the leading attorneys for the judges
of the old Court of Claims in this litiga-
tion, while ex-Justice Herrick appeared for
the Board of Claims.
Another item disapproyed was for $685. 93S
to pay the counsel engaged on both sides
Of the Senate investigation into the bribery
charges preferred against ex-senator
lothian p Aids by ex-senator Benn Con-
ger.
Those who were to benefit included Mar
tin w. Littleton. 5000: Lewis l.. Carr,
S5,627; Louis Z. Grifith. $2.2l2; Danforth
l.. Ainsworth. $500; James W. Osborne,
$3.50; Augustus Van Wyck. 5000: d. w.
Van Hoesen,, s4.9is; Nelson F. Bonney,
s1,o5S.
Additional items vetoed were $4,000 sp-
propriation and s409.51s reappropriation for
continuing work at the Wngdale prison,
NooO0O for grade crossing eliminations,
100000 for the purchase by the state of
additional property at Saratoga Springs.
$4,000 for digest of New York City special
laws by the Senate Cities Committee. $3.50
for Asa Bird Gardiner for counsel fees in
the Thaw case and sS1.SO0 for salary and
expenses in the State Fire Marshals Office.