The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1913-03-21
ENORMOUS sum OF MONEY Spent
Nearly $25, 100000 for Appropriations
Many Important Measures Killed
Political Wrangle Retarded
Effective Work.

Deen flleQ with the secretary OF state
for this session, approved by the gov.
ernor with the exception of the Cheney
funds which passed over his veto.
Appropriations, totaling $5,597,816
still remain in the governors hands
for approval or veto. Among them are
the $4,000, 900 belonging to the indus
trial insurance fund, and automatically
provided for under that act, and sew
eral rotary funds that do not actually
come from tax levies.
The two Quincy Valley a%ppropria.
tons, totaling $4,000 for launching
the project, have not as yet been acted
upon by the governor, nor the sup
Elemental budget carrying more than
$500. 900.
Elimination of $8,0O0,0 o0.
Eliminating from consideration 81,
100000 for industrial insurance and
$4,000, 900 for the capitol land grant
bonds, which are not charged upon the
states direct taxation resources, this
sessions total appropriation is $751;
318,S06, with $14,276, 1920 estimated rev.
enue.
To the latter is added 81, 0 900 due
the general fund from the capitol fund
when the bonds are sold; 5000, 900
from state quarry rotary funds; $780,
900 from the jute mill rotary fund;
$128,00 already paid in from Lake
Washington shore lands sales and
$4,000 r~eappropriated from bridge
funds. These additions bring the total
revenue to be figured against the
grand total of appropriations up to
$16,311,820, leaving an apparent deficit
for this session of $6986, with several
minor fractions of income still unac-
counted for. 1t is estimated that the
state will about break even.
In dollars, as estimated from figures
in the governors office, appropriations
this session exceed those of last by
approximately $4,000, 900. The governor
can make no marked reduction from
this OF the supplemental budget, as it
carries only half a million, and of the
81, SOC, 900 in bills still before him,
aside from the industrial insurance al
lowance, are various appropriations
that stand as necessary expenses. One
item is 100000 appropriated for pos
sible initiative, referendum and recall
elections.
State Tax Levy 1872 Mills.
From available figures and esti-
mates, and without allowing for what
reductions the governor may make by
veto on remaining bills, the total tax
levy for state purposes will have to
be fixed at 1882 mills, an increase of
1.52 mills, or 26 per cent. Three
fourths of this increase is in road
taxes.
By failing to pass the automobile
and motor vehicle horsepower tax and
the fish code, this legislature has
created the increases of expenses
noted above without making a single
provision for increasing state revenue
from other than taxation sources.
Governor Lister Saturday signed the
permanent highway appropriation of
$~3,250,O00. He did not sign the levy of
n and a half mills for this fund, but
said that he would as soon as it came
before him.
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The principal accomplishments of
the present legislature have been
passage of the logged-off lands act;
the minimum wage law for women;
the red light abatement law; the moth
er's pension law and teachers retire
ment fund, the last named item with
a proviso that it must be referred to
the people for final adoption; mapping
of a complete system of state high
ways; comprehensive laws carrying
into effect the initiative, referendum
and recall provisions of the constitu-
ton; the Troy agricultural commission
consolidation bill; and the abolish
ment of capital punishment as the
penalty for murder.
What the Legislature Failed to Do:
The important measures killed or
failing to receive consideration, in
clude the presidential preference pri-
mary bill; recall of judges; amend
ment of the constitution by initiative;
first aid amendments to the workmen's
compensation act; the Oregon plan of
electing United States senator's; nom
partizan election laws; the water
code; the fish code; the Hastings con-
solidation bill; the blue sky law, and
drafting of a new constitution by a
constitutional convention.
The legislature was unique in that
four political parties had representa-
tives in each house. 1t was the first
Washington legislature that made no
serious attempt to ahmed in any way
existing liquor laws.
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