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STATES APPROPRIATIONS.
One Hundred and Twenty-Five
Getting Money from State.

Continuing the course of articles
started last week in this paper, re-
garding the States appropriations
to charities. we this week publish
an article showing the number and
kinds of institutions receiving State
money.
The State this year spent fol
the maintenance of charitable in
situations the sum of $1,136.11S.S6,
beside continuing appropriations
amounting to the sum of $215, 900.
The continuing appropriations are
split up among the following kinds
of Institutions:
Twenty-four general hospitals,
$223.0O0.
Six insane hospitals, $329,250.
Eight special hospitals, $4,000.
Four day nurseries, $4,000.
Three placing-out agencies,$4,500
Two dispensaries, $1,000.
Ten reformatories, $4,000.
Nine miscellaneous institutions,
$4,000.
Fifteen homes and asylums for
adults, $37,250.
Twenty-Five homes and asylums
for children, $4,000.
Nineteen educational. $174,61S.S6
1t will thus be seen that the
State is lending its support to vari-
GUS kinds of philanthropic work
from a two-room dispensary to the
great Springfield Hospital, caring
for 1900 insane patients; homes
and asylums for children include 8
fresh-air projects, while the educa-
tional institutions run from a small
deaf and dumb school, handling pri-
mary children, to the Johns Hop
kins University. Almost every line
Of philanthropic work is in the list.
The $215, 900 spent in continuing
appropriations is particularly OBJ
noxious in that this is money much
of which was appropriated years
ago to institutions which have now
either gone, changed their charac-
ter, or outlived their usefulness.
The bad feature is that these ap-
preparations continue automatically
until the Legislature passes an act
repeating them, and frequently run
on without anyone knowing what
work the, institution is doing, or,
in fact. whether it is doing any
thing. The late Governor Crothers
made several attempts to have this
system of continuing appropriations
repealed. but apparently was not
very successful. since the last Leg
islature created at least three new
appropriations OF this character.
The vast majority Of this fund goes
to educational purposes. and while
in many cases 1t Is we'll used, in
many others It is going to institu-
tions which either have become part
Of the public school system, or are
running in competition with 1t. The
coming Legislature should clearly
stop these continuing appropriations
The balance of the money appro-
priated, amounting to $1,674,50O,
was appropriated for the erection OF
buildings; the vast majority of it
going to public institutions. There
was, however, about one-third- of
this amount given to private insti-
tutions for building purposes. In
connection with this, the State has
no security that the buildings will
be used for the purposes for which
the money was asked, and since the
title of the property is in an insti-
tuition over which the State has no
control, there is nothing to prevent
them doing what has been done in
other instances elsewhere, lie. sell
ing the property tor purposes of
no value to the State, and convert
ing the proceeds to their own needs.
1t seems to be perfectly clear that
II the State sees fit to build build
ings for private institutions, it
should only do it with such safe
guard as will insure the property
reverting to the State, should it
ever be used for other than the
purposes stated in the appropriation.
Next week we will take up the
question of the auspices backing
the various organizations.