Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1914-10-23
REPORTS SHOW DECREASE
IN STATE EXPENDITURES
Figures Prove That the Present State Admins
tration Has Been Economical--A Few Facts
About Powers of the Governor.

pointment in the spring Of 1913 to
October l, of that year, the expen-
ditures of the commission amounted to
$S,S27.19; the expenditures of the
commission from October i, 1913 to
October 1, 1914 have been $24,6S2.22.
The tax commission, created at the
same time and in response to the
same public appeal, spent for the six
month period of 1918, $5,113.56, and
for the year from October l, 1913, to
October /, 1914, $S,1S7.85.
The expenditures of the state tax
and public utilities commission were
new expenditures entirely. The ex-
penditures of new educational
board with the employment of a
state commissioner of education, rep
resented a heavy increase owe the
former cost of paying the expenses
only of local boards of education
! when they were in session at the sew
| eral state educational institutions.
The public utilities and tax commits
sions secured sufficient heretofore
untaxed public utility holdings to
pay the expenses of the commissions
to the amount of their appropriation.
These new expenditures were made
in direct response to the wishes of the
taxpayers of the state.
Departments which have shown an
increase in expenditures between the
two periods of October /, 1912, to
October /, 1913, as compared with
October 1, 1918, to October /, 1914,
are the game department, the state
veterinarians department, and the ad-
jutant generals department. All
other departments show decrease
in expenditures this year over last.
The game department from October
/. 1912, to October /, 1913, had ex-
penditures of $43,519.06, while from
October /, 1918, to October /, 1914
: the expenditures of this department
: increased to S55,367.70; the state
veterinarians department expense IN
creased for the same period from
S52, 1885 to $70,777.75. The adju'
: tant generals department from S2l,.
) 935.34 to $26, 10000. The decreases
in other departments for the tw'
!. periods were as follows: Insurance
commissioners department from So,
97O.83 to S4,872.57; the bank com
+ missioner's department from $40,
1929 to S11 1880; the immigration
= commissioners department from $l4i
'. 6O5.99 to $4,000; the pure foo
: commissioners department from $25
n 8O3.22 to $23, ,534.O9; the board OF hol
ls ticulture's department from $27,036
d. GO to s15,940.85; the water commits
e sioner's department from $7,09O.91
., S4,S38.3O; the state board OF healt
ID department from $14,222.56 to $11
sr 558.51; the state engineers depar
ment from S36,122.56 to $29,618.9'
5 the travelling library commissions d
d partment from $4,631 80 to $4,277.5
u the historical society from $2,2l7.'
II to $2,077.04.
~ without the new expenditures I
sh a state educational board and t
s and public utilities commission, t
y expenditures for al appointive offic
ne amounted to $27t ,49s.Ss from Oct
or ber /. 1912, to October 1, 1913, and
~ ~ s264, ,o5O.98 from October /, 1913,
october 1, 1914, showing decrea
in these appoihtive Offices expen
ny lures outside of the state education
a. board, the tax and public utilities co
noission. of $7,447.40.