The Green Forest tribune., 1913-03-14

Total, $2,552, ,5S2.95. Under deficiencies, the following:
 $23,031.77, supplies and services of judges and chancellors.
 $76,000, newspapers. $500, presidential electors.
 $S,000, printing reports.
 $124,000, four state agricultural schools.
 $56,S65, state hospital for nervous diseases.
 27,999.47, state employees. $21, ,000, Confederate home.
 $444,30, attorney generals office.
 Total, $337 7,640.56.
 Under extension, the following;
 $25,000, support and maintenance of Arkansas national guard.
 $2,600, expenses of veterans to Con- federate Gettysburg reunion.
 $40,000, State Fair, Hot Springs, az ! riculture improvement.
 $3,259.37, refund certain amounts.
 $5,00O, silver service battleship Ar | kansas.
 $250, to B. w. Green, for services.
 $16,500, heating plant, state normal 1 Conway.
 $10,0OO, educational campaign against tuberculosis.
 $145,000, tuberculosis infirmary Qn- sane asylum).
 $306,O022S, four state agricultural schools.
 $30,00O, improvement tuberculosis sanitarium.
 $7,500, geological survey.
 $95,000, electrical engineering build ing GU. of Al.
 Total, $676,511.65.
 You will observe under the head Of maintenance we have pleced the bills for the support of the state govern ment and institutions of the state.
 Under the head of deficiencies we have pleced those bill carrying appro priation to meet the obligations al ready incurred and obligations to be incurred to maintain some of the in stitutions to the end of their fiscal year.
 Under the head of extensions we have calssified those bills and items of bills which provide for improve. ments. labor for the institutions of the state, and those bills which present some sort of claim, the propriety of which the committee is in doubt, also which carry appropriations which are a demand upon the state when no legal ind ah1 oyot at all exists. Of these bills we recom- mend that the following do not pass:
 State fair, Hot Springs agriculture improvement, $40,000.
 Refund certain amounts, $3,259.37.
 Silver service battleship Arkansas, s5,0O0.
 To B. w. Green, for services, $250.
 Total, s4S,5O9.97.
 The total amount ot all the appro- priations asked is $3,574,43516. The total prospective revenue which will accrue to the general revenue fund under the present ate of taxation will amount to $2,2S7,063. This leaves a difference between the appropriations asked for and the prospective revenues of $1,2S7,372.16. But the sum of the appropriations asked for include the sum of $390,200 for the support of the penitentiary
 Two house joint resolutions were adopted in the senate, the first being house joint resolution 8, Johnson, plac- ing the members of the general as. sembly on salary of $750; and the other, house joint resolution ', Smith, of Bradley, permits cities and towns to vote upon local measures, thus re- lieving the general assembly of many local bills Both provide for constitu- tional amendments, and must be sub- mitted to the people. As two constitu- tional amendments have already been approved for submission, only one of these can be voted on in the next general election.
 The following bills were passed in the senate:
 247, Phillips, amending the law gov erning juvenile courts to place them directly under the county judge in. stead of circuit court.
 196, Moore, granting circuit judges the right to parole.
 259, Ferguson, creating board of examiners for barbers In towns os over 200 inhabitants.
 267, Ferguson, organizing water improvement district for Walnut Ridge,