The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-04-18
State Expense Boost
Taxes; Need Of knife
From Tuesdays Daily.

University campus III is rs
Prison building. rs rs rs
General university =. :. 20 20 .as
1 Total ............. 2.70 8. sc sos
The omnibus appropriation bills for
the state institutions and state de-
/! partmentS was introduced in the
senate late yesterday by the senate
finance committee and IN the house
J by the house appropriations commit
tee, as agreed to by the joint com.
mlttee which has beff working on
the bill for nearly three mouths.
The total appropriations for the
biennial period eginDiffg August l,
1913, will aggregate 21,g0U.00O. Two
years ago the total appropriations
were approximately S17,f00,0g0.
! Tax Levy Higher.
The tax levy for state revenue
I purposes win probably be 2.3 mills,
said Chairman Frank Clague of the
senate finance committee. Two years
ago the tax levy was fixed at a
maximum OF 10 mills THE increase
does not include the special 1-mil
road tax levy provided under the
II. =. Dunn good roads bill
Fhe largest contributing factor I'm
The increase IS an increase of ST.
! 150,00O in the special state aid to
schools, the legislature in bills al
! ready passed having made provision
Tor larger amounts to each class of
schools and larger appropriations to
/ take care of greater number of
schools. State high graded. semi
! graded. rural, consolidated and agri-
/ cultural high schools are benefited
Institutions Get Increase.
! The increase for the institutions
under the state hoard of control ag.
gregate Sl000.000. The passage OF
! the bill to give state aid to tubercu-
losis sanatora adds another half
million.
! The % mills revenue fund tax
with the | mill fot roads. the | mill
tax for tho state school fund and
! other minor state tax lcvies will
bring the state tax levy next year to
DIS mills. For thu present year it
is 1856 mills ana last year it was
2.7O mills.
The appropriation of $500 annual
~ for the. state board of visitors is
stricken out. but may be inserted on
the hoor of the house or senate.
Totals Carried in Bill.
Totals carried in the three big
appropriation bills presented today
are as follows:
Purpose
Year ending Year ending
july 81. 1915 July 81, 1915,
Educational -. $3426,S90 s3.S59.125
j departments -. 2.219.S70 2.227.74O
Board of control 2,932,O00 2.776.6OO
Total ..... SS,578,760 $685. 65
i'"mediatcl" available for state de-
partments S215.002.
The educational bill carries main
teran"" appropriations as follows:
Purpose 1914 1918
State university s%,549.SOO ;$f,2ss.15O
Normal schools 371.915 4775OO
School aid. ..... 1595,175 2.098,475
NO appropriation is included i'm
the bills for the Panama Pacific ex-
position at San Francisco next year
Bills or" in the committees allow
ing $4,000 for Minnesota building.
but have been voted ON adversely
in both houses and cannot be
BROUGHT ont exccut by fight on
the floor. The bills do not contain
any allowance for the Christiafia ex.
nasition. hut a $25 600 appropriation
bill for that purpese has been sent
out independently
One new building for the Univers-
ity of Minnesota is provided in the
educational bill. which grants s145,-
600 for a new building for the school
of mines and $4,000 to remodel the
Of mil
of the college of education
Other university buildings are
provided for in the committee bill
already introduced financing build
ings to cost 100000 BY certificates
of indebtedness for the university
school Of agriculture and the Wi
mona and Moorhead normal schools.
This bill provides s20O.0O0 for biol
ogy building at tho university Other
buildings provided for in The omni
bus bills made up today are as fol-
lows:
Addition to Duluth normal school
$50 600
New building for criminal insane
at st. Peter. 10000 ~
New heating plant for Rochester
insane hospital. $150.000.
WO IcW COICCSCS hhohu- "CJ
lum. $4,000.
Two new cottages at Hastings
asylum, $4,000.
Two new cottages At Sank Cen
ter home school for girls 100000.
Introduction of the bills. which
have been prepared in detail, was
halted today for consultation with
Governor A. O. Eberhart. whose veto
power includes the right to .5cut out
any item from an apDroBrlation bill.
He was asked to read the bills in
detail and give his views before
they are introduced at his request.
Several battles are looked for on
the floor when the bills come up
for vote. One Is promised on
the board of visitors and one on
the reduction in the salary of X. S.
Chase, state bank examiner, from
$4,000 TO $4,000.
The board Of control bill carries
the appropriations for all state in
stitutions except the state univers-
ity and normal schools. 1t is larger
by about 100000 2 year than two
years ago, owing to the increases
necessary for the larger population
of the institutions. especially the