The copper era and Morenci leader., 1913-07-25
TAXPAYERS TO SEE
WHERE STATES
FUND GOES
Auditing Department To Give Detail
of Expenditures In Arizona.


the state or territory of Arizona
taxpayers will be able to see whera
their money goes, to whom it is paid
the specific items, and the details oi
all the appropriations made. This
will be shown in statement which
the state auditor, J. G. Callaghan, and
his assistant, Jack Ormond, have pre-
pared and which will be given to the
public in printed form as soon as
possible.
There is no appropriation for the
printing of this statement, but in
view of the necessity of showing ex-
actly the condition of the state f.
nances as far as the appropriations
for the coming fiscal year are con-
cerned, the state auditor intends to
have the statement printed out of
his contingent expenses. According
to him and his assistant the matter
of showing exactly the operations of
the financial end of the state should
be shown to the taxpayer.
When corporation or business
house spends money" declared Or
mond this morning, ''the stockholders
want to know where it is to be spent.
The taxpayers of any state stand in
the same relation to the state gov
rnment as the stockholder does to a
corporation or business house, coli
Seduently this office has prepared
this statement and will make it pub
1ic."
Part of the appropriations for the
fiscal year are specific and known be-
forehand, as for instance salaries OF
the different officials, but the greater
part of the appropriations are es:inat-
ed as nearly as possible. Contingent
expense appropriations are made
from the experience of the Office for
which they are made, and so on doyr
the line of appropriations.
The summary shows that it will
cost the taxpayers of the state S2,-
000, ,597 80 to run the government dur
ing the fiscal year of 1913-1914. THIS
amount is $3.50, O,OS6.O7 in excess of the
amount appropriated for the fiscal
year of 1912-1913.
Of the miscellaneous funds, appro-
priated for the maintenance of state
institutions, etc., the annual appr0-
priation for the purpose is s797,300.
The other appropriations for this pur
pose both specific and estimated vas
$5S7, 7,1O7.5O In the general fund,
providing for the maintaining of the
departments of state, ETC., $191.5OO is
annually appropriated, both specifi-
cally and estimated. The added AZ
propriations to the general fund for
various matters, both specific and
estimated, amount to $424,289.90. II
will be seen from this that the annual.
expected appropriations, both specific
and estimated, which are not annual
necessarily amounts to total of ST.
OH, 1897. 40. This makes the grand
total above stated of $4,000, ,597.40.
Some of the appropriations in de-
tail follow: The state fair gets
$4,000 for maintenance and iir-
provement. The state land board rc
ceives $4,000. The Attorney Gell-
erals department receives $4,000 for
salaries, travelling expenses, office
expenses and contingent expenses. The
board of control receives $9500 This
is divided into three items, salary of
secretary $2400, travelling expenses
$500 The code commissioners and
his help will cost the state $4,000.
The governors office will cost Arl-
IONA $4,000 for the next fiscal year.
This is divided into the following
items: Salary of governor $4,000,
secretary to the Governor $4,000, cler-
ical expenses and assistance $4,000,
contingent expenses $3.50, rewards
for escaped criminals $1,000 (estimat-
ed, acquisitions for eXtrad1t1ons
$1,000 (estimated), proclamations
$1,000 The National Guard of the
state will entail an expense of $27,-
$50. The live stock sanitary board
will cost to operate $16,20O. This is
divided as follows: per diem and !
for salaries of secretary, in |
spectors and office employees, $15,-
200.
The State Land Commission will !
have 900 to spend during the next
fiscal year. 1t is divided into the
following items: Salary for mem
bers $4,000, chief clerk $2400, clerical
help $4,000, office expense $4,000, trav-
cling expense $4,000 and filing fees
$4,000 The tax commission will
cost the state $4,000 for the next
year, divided into the following items:
Salary of members $1,000, secretary'S
salary $24OO, clerk $1,000, other help
$500, travelling expenses $4,000, office
$4,000, Board of Equalization
expense $500.
Specific appropriations for state
of more than ordinary
interest follow: For the asylum for /
,onded debt $4,000; military fund /
the erection of armories) $1,000;
Northern Arizona Normal $S9,437; /
oioneers' Home $500; prison main {
enance S2O,25O; Industrial school l
$4,000; Tempe Normal school $133,- \
90 and the University of Arizona
162, 800. Most of the appropriations
or the above state institutions in \
luded the cost of erection of build
1gs as we'll as the maintenance of \
hem and the old buildings
The auditor expects to have the F
ompleted statement in the hands of
ne printer in a very few days, and F
ill have the statement out in ample