The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-03-04
State REVENUE
NOT INCREASED
Despite Passage Of Anthracite
Coal Tax and Other Measures
FORCES GREAT REDUCTIONS
Governor Tener viii Cut Appropri
ton BiIls-Act Limiting Personally
Taxes to County Purposes Causes
Decrease In Expected Income.

Decrease in Expected Income.
Especial Harrisburg Correspondence.)
Harrisburg.-The States income for
the two years dating from June / last
will not be greater than the revenue
for the preceding two year period In
spite of the passage of the anthracite
coal tax and various other measures
which had revenue increases In view.
This is the opinion OF people on Cap.
itol Hill who have been making "a
study OF the revenue laws and ac-
counts for the sweeping reduction
which Governor Tener will be forced
TO make in the appropriation bills
The revenue anticipated by the an
thrasite coal tax will be more than
Offset by the enactment of the law to
make personal property a purely coun-
ty tax, and In any event II Is regard
ed as doubtful whether the State will
get much Of the litigation which IS
sure to be started when attempts are
made to collect 1t.
The act making personally taxable
for county purposes only will take
about 81, 300, 900 from the State Treas.
ury this year and as the years go by
the amount which would have re.
manned in the hands of the Stat
Treasurer will increase. Just how
much the anthracite tax will yield In
the two year period is problematical.
People on Capitol Hill who heard
millions talked about as thought they
were trifes during the days of the
Legislature are commencing to realize
the vast r~amifcations of even a mil
lion dollars. The Governor will be
forced to make unprecedented reduc.
tons in the general appropriation bill,
which carried almost S43, 900, 900 when
II left the Legislature.
The School Increase.
II the Governor cuts the SIC, 900, 900
school appropriation to extent of a
million dollars, which many think he
will be forced to do, he will be putting
II just where II was two years ago and
will not reduce 1t below what 1t was in
previous years, as William A. Stone
had to do In 1899. The conditions this
year are different. Governor Stone
took a million dollars off what the
schools had been getting. II Governor
Tener has to cut off q million dollars,
he will be leaving the appropriation
tust what II was made in 1907, 1909
and 1911, before the charity appro-
priations grew to such tremendous
proportions.
The Legislative Journal does not
show anw discussion of reasons for
the increase of the school %appropria-
tion from SIS, OOO, 900 to SIG, 900, 900 dur
ing the debates on the bill. II was
apparently one of those increases that
are made and just taken for granted
although no reason is announced for
their presence.
When Capitol Hill Is awaiting action
on the bill and the legislators are
away, no one appears to know the rea-
son for anything. The Governor is
denying himself to callers and stick
ing TO his task. Representatives Hugh
b. Piper, Philadelphia; William Blair,
Greene, and Alexander Morrow, Lee
high, had minute chats with him about
bills. Piper came about a weights and
measures bill.
In addition to cuts all along the line
in the general appropriation bill It Is
believed the Governor will make a
perpendicular cut in other appropria-
tions and that monument, memorial,
park, soldiers pension and various
public works bills will go by the
board.
Display Abbey Painting.
The last of the paintings of the late
Edwin A, Abbey for the Hall of the
House of Representatives at the Cap
itol, which arrived here last week from
London, was displayed when II was
stretched on a framework to be pho.
tographed before being placed on the
wall.
The canvas represents "The Read
ing OF the Declaration of lndepend-
ence," 1t is a companion piece to
"Ponn's Treaty with the Indians" and
will be placed on the left Of the Speak
el s desk,
The picture. shows Jefferson reading
the Declaration from a balcony at the
State House. From the real appears
the heads of several of the signers
peering out of windows, and in the
foreground is a crowd of citizens and
children, kept in place by soldiers Of
the Colonial army, The men in the
crowd are reverently holding their
cockade hats in their hands, and one
old man in the middle foreground is
leaning intently with his hand to his
ear for a trumpet,
Allison Hill Mans Goat,
Hunting the city for a yellow goat
was a new diversion for the local po-
lice force, and every copper was On