The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-17

! AtchiSon ........... 10 70o.00 S,521 "
Topeka asylum So 09ooo AZ, so % %
! Larned asylum. 250, ,000.0J 10o,OU0.uo
! tuberculosis Sani-
tarium, Newton. 100000 5o.oOo.OO
Total ............. 50, ,s6s 5000 $s,Os2 SsS. 90
| Those are the appropriations which
/ will be asked at the hands of the 1913
/ legislature by the state penal and
| charitable institutions. While they are
! in excess of the appropriations made
| by the 1911 legislature, the increase is
not nearly so heavy as in the budgets
! of the state educational institutions.
| In addition to the amounts in the above
! table, the executive council asks $14,226
| in appropriations from the next legis-
| lature.
1t is estimated that it will require
| 100000 to complete the Memorial hall
in Topeka for which the 1911 legisla-
ture appropriated $252, 800. The execu-
heat tunnel and an additional $4,226 for
additional paving on the state house
grounds This paving is really badly
needed.
The state penitentiary has reduced
it's budget S11,3o0 and the state reform
atory is well within the amount asked
two years ago State Auditor Davis
has reduced the building appropriation
asked by the state soldiers home, re-
moving s., 900 from the amount asked.
In the appropriations asked is an
item for 0,000 for additional land at
the boys industrial school north of
Topeka. The girls Industrial school at
Beloit also needs more land and asks
S16,0 900 for this purpose. The girls
school also includes an item for $4,000
for new buildings. The Osawatomfe
asylum asks 900 for land and $101, 900
for additional buildings. Parsons asy-
lum asks $4,000 for new buildings. Two
years ago it received $35, $50 for build
ings while the Osawatomie asylum re-
ceived $17, 500 for similar purposes.
Kansas City's school for the blind
wants s., 500 for buildings this year.
Two years ago they received but 500
for their building fund.
The Olathe school for the deaf and
dumb wants $4,000 for additional build
ings. A similar amount was appropri-
ated in 1911. Two years ago the Win
field school for feeble minded received
Sc 600 for buildings. Because of a fire
in that school, s1S0,0O0 is asked this
year The orphans home at Atchison
received 81, 500 for buildings in 1911.
This year they ask for $4,000. In 1911
the legislature appropriated SIS, 500 for
new buildings at the Topeka asylum.
This years budget calls for s153, ,00O
for additional buildings. Two years
ago 100000 was appropriated for the
new asylum at Larned and this year
$3.50, 900 is asked to complete the con-
struction of buildings. The new tuber-
culosis sanitariun, recently located at
Newton. drew $4,000 as a starter in
1911. This years budget calls for $780,
600. These items explain most of the
increases in the 1913 budgets over the
amounts appropriated in 1911.
In discussing the budgets, State Aud
itor Davis in his report to the legisla-
ture says:
Davis Recommendations.
''I have not made a thorough investiga-
ton of the needs of these institutions as
take i THAT the legislature will desire
to go into these matters directly with the
board, but wish to say that while every
dollar needed to properly provide for the
comfort and welfare of the unfortunates
of the state should be granted that
creases in appropriations for mainten-
ance salaries and wages over that allow
ed for the current biennium unless addi-
tionaI room be provided to care for an
increased number of inmates. If any in
crease in maintenance funds be allowed,
the items classified as specials, except as
should be stricken out as such expendi-
lures to the extent actually necessary can
be properly met from maintenance funds |
In this connection 1 desire to call at
tention to the statement following this
budget containing the appropriations al !
lowed each institution by the preceding |
legislature for the current two years for |
salaries and wages; also the |
amoun+ of fees to the credit of each in
stitutfon on December 1, 1872 which fees
are available for the purposes specified !
above It will be noted that the balances |
in the fee funds at this date are in some |
cases large enough to cover salaries and |
wages of the institution for one year. If |
the same policy is pursued in the matter |
of the reappropriation of fees to the in
stitutions. there is no, reason for the in |
stitutions not having at the beginning oil |
the next biennium larger balances in the |
fee fund than at this date as they have a /
sufficient balance in the regular funds to |
meet the usual and ordinary expenses for !
of he
: hat with the construction of the new hos
pital at Larned. there would be little
need for additional room at this period to |
he provided at the other Institutions and /
/ would suggest that the legislature be
soaring in appropriations for such pur-
poses and for additional land. The
amount appropriated to the charitable in
stftutions shown in this budget for the |
ten year period beginning 1904 TO 1913 in