Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-12-03


gen legislation by the General Assembly connection with
acts involving appropriations and keep
ing with sound business methods that the failure of
State to adopt this plan of procedure earlier of the
prelmnares of lawmaking is unaccountabe No thrifty
plans spend money until he knows where the money
is coming from
The Legislature of State a body largely
posed of thrifty Vermont farmers and business will not
apply the methods they their business that of
the commonwealth upess they make the State to have
the they appropriate to various objects and for var
purposes. This morning, therefore, aid to
lawmakers we'll for the information of the general
reading public consider in detail the of Vemont
According to the comparative statement prepared by
State Auditor Graham the income Of the State Of Vermont
for the of 1913 aggregated the of $5SS41709
and of this total the corporation tax including that rail-
roads, savings institutions and netted $1,1465512
leaving only SAL 9097 the income of the State treasury
from all other sources combined.
The taxes paid under the corporation tax law in detail
follows Savings banks and trust companies $751;
66649; railroads. 1892 231S6 transportation companies
$3O7323 sleeping companies $4O0; express compan
les $76280 telephone and telegraph companies S29045
49, insurance companies $146675S9 building and loan
sociations, $84981; national banks, $5340919 making
total corporation tax of $1,146,51512.
The income from the administration of justice
follows Probate courts 1913 $780, county clerks for county
courts and $4327974; Burlington city court S4347
Sc Barre city court $1711s7; Bennington municipal
$6059S Bratteboro municipal court $184014 Montpelier
city court S30469 Orleans county municipal court $685.
Rutland city court 49, ST. Adams city court S2435
&c. Bellows Falls municipal court 81 O9952 Essex county
municipal court $315O9 Windsor probate district municipal
court $47184 Wnoosk municipal court S2,135.33; Gale
dona county municipal court $258234; jail labor S2241
&c. making total income from the administration of justice
of $9O,153.81
The balance of our revenue for 1918 was contributed
from various State institutions and other follows
Highway automobile maintenance tax license fees $102
96742 State prison. s272463o industrial school at Yer
$2511O; house of correction at Rutland SO9O461
State hospital at Waterbury, S49994 foreign insurance
companies $1234830; charter fees $685. liquor license
fees $62l85S4 fourth class liquor licenses, S10468 oeo
margarine fees $780, foreign creameries $1O circus Ii
$1,000 collateral inheritance S7859285 annual
license taxes to do business charter taxes S425
partnership tax $780, interest bank balances $490478.
secretary Of State fees $111.90
income from these different sources has varied but
there has been gradual increase in the total annual income
of the State from all during the past six since
the aggregate exceeded 81 100000 follows 1908 $126
51s62; 1909 S119 2724O 1870 81 3l3387O2; 1911, ST.
397,696.81; 1912 S1,476,334.74; 1913 $1,588,417O9
1t is evident from this that the average increase in the
States income from all during the past
$685. but other things being equal the
this would be far above the The
appraisal of the property of the telephone companies last
spring made the aggregate of received from them for
the months ending June &c. 1914 S1 5625O at the
rate of $2325 for the present year. double the
last which s117240 There will also be increases
in the railroad totals well in the automobile mainten
ance fund Secretary OF State Bailey has figured on the
sbty Of about 10000 auto number cards for Vermont dur
ing the of 1916 and this has been ncreas
ing the about 200 for the past four this
would bring the income from the next be-
tween $4,000 and $1750OO but this money under the law
all be expended for special roadwo and therefore
not be regarded available for general appropriation
The continuation of the increase in the
poraton would make the income from this
from 81 $4,000 the coming if the State
of collecting all it's taxes from this at existing rates
and the addition to this of increased from other
of 100000, compared with $44l9OO in
1913 would make total only $175OO00 compared with
total expenses of $1,8S7, 4O507 in 1913
The State commissioner of taxes must make
appraisal the railroads and telephone companies to be sub
mtted beginning of the year. and if these
payers aggeved they appeal from the appraisal Of
the commissioner to the board of appeals consisting of Lieu
Governor Hale K Darling Secretary of State Guy
W. Bailey and State Auditor Horace Graham from whose
decision there is appeal
Manestly it would greatly facilitate the making of a
budget ntellgenty, far income concerned if the
of all this could be established