The Cairo bulletin., 1913-12-04
Al Calro opera mouse. Thursday .peeember 4th

er 18th
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rron the assessed value OF the prop
erty for the year A. D. 1911; seven
million. seven hundred and fifty
thousand dollars ($7750,000) upon
the assessed value o; property for the
year A u. 1912; and for state school
purposes. to be designated state
school fund, the sum of two million
dollars i$2,0o0,000) upon the as
sessed taxable property for the year
A. u. 1911. and the sum of two
million dollars ($2,OOO,000) upon
the assessed taxable property for the
year \. D. 1912. in lieu of the two
| mill tax"
The governor. auditor and treas
Iurer shall annually compute the sew
eral rates per cent required to pre-
cure not less than the above
amounts"
To have covered this deficiency
anl left the treasury unimpaired,
the tax rate for 1912 should have
heen pic higher than the Csc rate
fixed by the tax commission In 1912.
In other words in order to have
kept the treasury in the condition
in which the state could pay bills
appropriated by the legislature. the
tax rate in December, 1912, should
have been fixed at soc.
Appropriation 5000 900 More
The present state tax comm, ssion
is faced with the necessity of rails
ing this $5.424.73O by increasing
the tax rate sufficiently to cover this
enormous deficiency. We are also
faced with the rorassity of ra sing
the rate sufficiently hieh to pay in
round numbers. SI0T0, 600 Of in
creased approximations which were
| made by the Forty-eighth General
Assembly, altho1gh The governor
vetoed appropriations which aggre-
gated SLt20,00O or theroahouts, by
pruning every possible item that he
could reach with veto, without i'm
pairing the efficiency of the educa-
tional charitable, penal and ad-
ministratlve institutions Of the state
The auditor Of public accounts.
pursuant to custom, has made a
statement of appropriations made by
the 18th general assembly for the
years commencing July /, 1913, and
July I, l9t4 respectively. which
is MS follows
Year 1918. $23,5S957G.42; year
I1914, SI4.325,SS1.51
In this auditors statement ap-
pears a list of the increased APP
.propr atoms made by the 4Sth gem
eral assembly for these two years.
We find in this printed report that
I$5256,oI3.00 of these appropria-
lions are supposed to be available
during the year 1913.
The increase of the appropriations
made by the 18Th general assembly
and available for the year 1913, is
rainly brought about by the follow
ling toms in ;he appropriations.
For state school fund, year 1919,
100000.
For state highway commission for
good roads. $507 500.
FOR state Panama-Pacific cxpu-
sttion, $297500.
For rivers and lakes commission
for building leyees at Cairo, Mound
city and ahawueetown on ONO river
to prevent inundatiou, 1861 200.
For Chicago state hospital, new
buldiuas, etc, $T19,SG6
I t5r Alton state hospital, new
build.ns. sf95II9.
For state colony Of cp.llptics.
S.aooDD.
For go0ct3ry Of state daGciencg
and emergency $I0S.703.
Tor coum s3ionera state contracts
err Urgency. $4,000.
I Fer Illinois National Guard. new
armorics and food emergency.
I$511.6I9.
fetal $4,64l,607.
Must Preserve States Credit
after careful consideration Of the
appropriations made by the 18th
general assembly for the year 1913.
and after taking into consideration
the fact that there is deficiency in
the public treasury Of S5.42A73o.
it was agreed that the tax for the
ensuing year should be fixed by the
state commission at the rate of zoe
per $t0o.
If we fix the rate at any less
amount the treasury at this time
next year will he depleted more or
less, and the financial reputation of
the state further discredited. It is
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