The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-19
app PROP RIATI0NS.
Senate Committee Agrees on
X. e. Bill.
Liberal to Big School on Mount
Dread.
|T GETS S266. $50 MORE
Than Two Years Ago, But
S666,7S4 Less Then Wanted.
Total Will Be $1,246.OO0 If
House COncurs.

In event the house ways and means
committee in a special session tonight,
decides to concur in the recommends
tions which are said to have come
from the senate, Kansas university's
budget will be reduced $66S,7S4 from
the sum asked for. Even at that. K.
US appropriations. if not reduced by
the house committee, will be $1,246, 600
for the years 1914-15, or $266,63O
more than was appropriated by the
1911 legislature.
That is the first dope on the educa
tional appropriations. After working
nearly a month on the K. U. budget,
the ways and means committee has hit
bedrock and stopped. 1t is now al
most certain that within the next few
days the recommendations for the
school will be reported in both
branches of the legislature. Only an
attempt on the part of the house to
Sidetrack some of the items in the K.
U. budget can tie the matter up. In
event the house committee refuses to
accept the appropriation items which
they are now considering, confer
ence of the two committees will be
called and the matter fought out in
joint session.
If the reports from the ways and
means committee are correct, Kansas
university is to receive more than
quarter of a million dollars more than
was appropriated for the institution
years ago. And that in the face of
Democratic platform pledge for re-
trenchments, entirely in the hands OF
a Democratic legislature and Demo-
cratic governor.
Yet on the other hand, the stu
dent body at K. U. has multiplied, the
expense of continuing the work has
increased and more money is needed
H.
two years ago. And that in the face of a
Even under the 1911 appropriation, the
school claimed that it was badly in
need of funds.
Some of the Figures.
A comparison of figures shows that
the school was cut $155,S78 on main
tenance, but that the maintenance
which will probably be recommended
is but $29,370 short of the total ap-
preparation allowed by the legislature
1t was on the building budget that
the university received its greatest
Jolt. Only one building item is al
lowed. That is for the new laboratory
building and tunnel at Rosedale, for
which an appropriation of $3.50 may
be recommended. The administration
and college building, the electrical en-
gineering building, biological labora-
tory, repair shops, education building
and the $4,000 appropriation for an
extension of the college campus, all
have received the axe in the commit
tee conferences.
All items in the university budget
were cut by the committee. Now
they are subject to a second trimming
and possibly a third one when they
are considered on the floor. In event
an agreement can be reached this
week concerning the various items in
the budgets, they will be reported in
time to be made a special order for
next week. If there is conflict over
the several items, a joint session will
be necessary and it may be another
week before the budget is reported.
Appropriations Recommended.
It is claimed that the following
items, recommended by the senate
committee are now being considered
by the house committee and will be
reviewed at special session to be
held tonight:
Items 1914. 1915.
General maintenance, sal
ary and equipment. 80. .$465,000 $4s5, 900
Maintenance, medical
school, Rosedale .......... 10000 3O,COO
Permanent repairs and inn
provements, K. U.......-- $1,000 $1,000
State work, including scien-
tific survey .......-...--... 5000 25,WD
Chancellor s contingent fund 500 $50
Laboratory building and
tunnel, Rosedale .......... 5000 ~
Recommendation to reappropriate to
general maintenance fund, all fees to
Kansas university These amount to
about $4,000 making a total approprf-
atlOn OIL Sl,z4b,UUO, as compared with an
appropriation of s979,37o in 1911
Appropriations Asked
In the budget submitted to the Iegis-
Iature this year by State Auditor W.
E. Davis, the following appropria tions
were recommended:
Items 1914. 1915
General maintenance..-..s 5s7. 1893 $50, SO
Maintenance medical
school, Rosedale ....... 1869 1859
Permanent repairs, K. Z. 119,42S .
University extension 49,. 24,S60 29,Iy3
State work, scientific sur
vey, etc, ...--......-.:...: 1925 42,s7s
Chancelor's conting. fund 500 so
Central section admins
ton and college bldg. 1s6, coo 5000
Electrical engineering
laboratory unit ......... 15,OO0 ~
Addition to repair shops 5000 $3.50.
Biological laboratory
building -.-..--.-.---..--- 25Ut0
School of education bldg. ......... SOC q
Completion $4,000 section
hospital building ..... 5000
Laboratory bldg. with
tunnel, Rosedale .-...-.- 5000
Extension campus Law
renee and Rosedale..... 10000 -
Total .........-.sIo57 o57 671 sS57 17s
OF this sum. the university recon-
mended that $4,000 be taken from the
t11re saw fit to reappropriate the inter
est on the endowment fund and fees
collect. The reappropriation of this
money was recommended by the senate
ways and means committee.
Paid Rural Carriers Sf63.66S.
Postmaster A. K Rod gers has sent
his state statistics for the month of
January to headquarters in Washing