Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-02-28
Says Land Office Investigation In
Observation-Disclosures Several
Miscellaneous Items.

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Returning the omnibus appropria-
tion bill with his general approval
except for certain specified items,
Governor Ernest Lister late yesterday
submitted message reducing the
total budget as rushed through the
legislature in one day last week by
$896.050, making it total $S,667,578.O7
instead Of 1868, ,62S.O7 as fixed by the
Legislature The items vetoed are CIV
en- above.
Concerning the appropriation of
$551.750 for the Temple of Justice
Governor Lister said:
This item is vetoed for the reason
that it calls for this money to be used
from the general fund of the state.
Personally am in favor of continuing
the work Of constructing capitol build
ings. but believe that the time has
arrived when the cost of such build
ings should be paid from the fund de-
rived sfstm the sale Of the capitol build
ing lands. am in favor of the issu-
ance of bonds against the capitol
building land grant for the constYuc-
tion Of these buildings and the bill
now pending before the legislature
authorizing the sale Of bonds for this
purpose will meet with my approval
should it be passed by the legislature.
I'm addition to the advantage in the
bond issue covering future improve
ments, it will also make 1t possible for
the money heretofore advanced from
the general fund for capitol building
purposes to be repaid to that fund. In
the above bill, provisions could be
made for an appropriation to become
available Immediately upon the sale of
a part Of all the bonds provided for,
and this department will lend its as
sistance to the proper prosecution of
the work, II such measure is passed"
Concerning his veto Of $4,000 for
the maintenance of the Cheney normal
school, the governor said:
II had hoped that before the time ar
rived for me to deliver this bill to you
the senate would have acted upon my
veto of the appropriation for school
buildings at Cheney, which veto the
house did not sustain. Had the action
of the senate been the same as the
house would have approved this
item Of $195,O00 for the maintenance
of the Cheney normal school. Inas-
much as no action has yet been taken
by the senate along this line hand the
bill to you with my veto on these
items"
The appropriation of $4,000 for the
state school for the blind, which was
to have been used for a new admins
tration and school building, was made
because the governor deemed the old
building sufiicient for two years more.
The item of $4,000 for remodelling
and fireproofing the chapel, dining
room and kitchen at the school for the
deaf was cut out because the govern
or was informed by the superintendent
that such changes would be imprac-
tical in the present building.
The 100000 appropriated for the
auditors Office was for an investiga-
tion of the land commissioners de-
partment which the governor deemed
inadvisable at this time and which he
suggested the board of accountancy
might do. Thirty-five hundred dollars
in the university fund for road from
Friday Harbor to the marine station,
mile long, was vetoed as unnecessary.
The item of $4,000 in the military
fund was vetoed because part of the
money was to be used for maintenance
and the bill did not so provide.
Twenty thousand dollars appropriated
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