Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1913-12-26
CONTINGENT SYSTEM CRlLLED.
Special Attention Is Also Called to Increase
Cost of State Government.

Special Attention Is Also Called to Increase
Cost of State Government.
Pierre, 8. D.. December 26..-In the
annual report of State Auditor Ander.
son, just received from the printer,
there are traces of political effort. The
state auditor, apparently, is trying to
make case against recent administra.
tions. when he knows full we'll that the
state Legislature alone is responsible
for these increases. Member from the
different institution towns, are con-
stantly pulling and hauling for larger
appropriation and special sppropria.
tions, and they have managed to effect
combinations enabling them to "get
by"
In the preface to his itemized report
Auditor Anderson states that the gen.
ersl fund expenditure for state depart
ments and institutions for 1913 were
Sl,705, ,2l0 33, being an increase of $685.
4l9.44 over 1912, approximately IS per
cent. He also states that the expense
showing for 1918 is an increase Of 80
per cent over 1906.
Much Of the special Significance in
this showing Is minimized by reference
to the county expense showing in the
same volume, these county disburse-
ments having no reference to state af.
fairs. Comparing the total county ex-
penses of 1906, the year of the low
water mark in state expenses, with the
total county expenses of 1918, it is
found that there has been an increase
of from ss,1l4,849.22 to $15,7I7,5s3 so,
about the same percentage as the in
crease In state expenses.
No one holding state office at
Pierre, from the governor down, has
the power to appropriate single dol.
lar of state money. There are just two
sources Of responsibility for the large
worcestershire county boards on county
affairs and the state Legislature on
state affairs. Any revolutionary feel.
ings on these subjects should be di'
rected along the right lines.
Auditor Anderson, in his preface, al.
so "touches up" the question of per.
mitting some Of the fee departments to
have unrestricted access to contingent
funds. he says:
''ln my last report l recommended
that moneys and fees collected by ali
offices or departments be placed in the
general fund, and that sufficient
amounts be appropriated from the gen
eral fund to properly support and
maintain each office, department anG
institute Of the state. Irenew the rec
commendstion at this time for the rea
son that consider these special ant
miscellaneous funds a disgrace, an in
vitstion to extravaganza and graft, ant
y vicious system whereby many thou
sands of dollars are annually takel
from the state treasury without tn,
knowledge of the legislature. The pur
pose of bills creating funds is careful
ly concealed and the bills do not 90 be
fore the appropriation committee TO
action. Ibelieve that the trainers o
the constitution intend ed that al
moneys and fees collected by Stat
officers and departments, except none,
received from the sale and lease o
school and endowment lands, shoul,
be deposited In the state treasury, t.
.he credit of the general fund an,
there remain until the legislature ga,
at to take it out by specific appropris
ton and in definite and exact amounts
A woman's idea Of bore is simply
man who never dstters her.
Blessed is the man who loves to wor
for he will never have to hunt for