The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1914-07-17
HEAVY CUT IN
BIG MONEY BILL
TOTAL AMOUNT CARRIED IN
GENERAL APPROPRIATIONS
$4,420,3S0.90,
Newspaper Union News Service.

Baton Rouge.-Vetoing items aggre
eating $l,250,9S4, including all Of the
appropriations out of the revenues of
1916, Governor Hall returned the
omnibus appropriation bill to the
house. The action of the governor,
while surprise to many, was in some
degree forecasted by statement from
the governors office to the effect that
the big money bill exceeded the anti
cipated revenues of the state by about
100000 for the two years.
The action of the governor makes a
special session of the legislature neces-
sary. That special session will face
the issue of either reforming the ap-
preparations for the fiscal year from
June 80, 1915, to June 80, 1916, so as to
make them come within the revenues
OF the state, or of finding some means
of obtaining additional revenue.
Anent his action, in vetoing large
items Of the bill, the governor gave the
following statement
THE appropriations for the two years
ending June 30, 1916, far exceed the
estimated probable revenues for the
time covered by the appropriations.
The difficulty could not well have
been remedied without reducing items
which cannot be done under the Con-
stitution. Items were vetoed there
fore in order to bring about the neces-
tons.
sary reformation of the appropria-
This seemed to be the only course
open by which veto OF the entire
bill could be avoided. A veto of the
entire bill would have precipitated an
extra session at once, since no money
would have been available for the ordi-
nary expenses of the state government
and Of the maintenance of the state
institutions until reformation of the
appropriations could be conveniently
made"
The total Of the omnibus apprOpria-
ton bill was $4,420,3S090 In addition
there were special appropriations a.
mounting to something over 100000.
A view of the situation may be gain
ed from the following tabulation:
For the last six months of 1914, gen.
eral appropriation bill, $1,114,156,90;
special appropriations, $24O,S16.54. To-
tai 1884, 1894, plus first six months,
appropriated in 1912, $4,000; total,
| S2,23O,973.44 For year 1915, general
bill, $2,252,504; special appropriations,
$53,5OO; for six months, 1916, $685.
0O4; general bill, $1,053, 100; special
bills, $3.50; total, $1,061 ,970.
The estimated revenues of the gen
eral fund are $1,950,0O0 per year. The
excess of the aggregate appropriations
from the general fund, therefore, total
approximately 100000.
7 All of the appropriations from the
revenues Of 1914 were saved by the
fact that the state had a surplus on
hand amounting to $4,000 This was
saved from the revenues of 1913
through the action of the legislature
in 1912, supplemented by pressure
from the executive by means of which
the appropriations for 1912 were held
down.
In his veto the governor did not
touch the appropriations for the state
departments. These are overhead ex
penses of the government in most
cases fixed by the Constitution and
laws and therefore nothing could be
gained by vetoing them as they would
have to be re-enacted at the same
figure.
! The fiscal year of the state, runs
from June 80 to June 80. The veto was
exercised, therefore, ON the appropria-
tiOns for state institutions during the
period June 30, 1915, to June 30, 1916.
+. The institutions affected suffer as fol
lows
Institute for Blind Maintenance
| $4,000, repairs and other items $4,000.
School for Maintenance $780,
900, repairs and other items 81 200.
State University Maintenance $780,.
600, Agricultural Department, S29,094.
| State Normal-Maintenance $4,000,
water supply, etc, $4,000
| Ruston Institute Maintenance $685.
900.
Reform School Maintenance, $12,.
500.
Pineville Asylum Maintenance
$l55,0O0; buildings and repairs s75,-
900.
| Jackson Asylum Maintenance $3.50.
600; buildings $4,000.
| Compensation for Assessors-S55..
600.
! New Orleans Charity Hospital
Maintenance s23S,OoO, nurses training
$4,000.
/ Shreveport Charity Hospital Main,
tenance $4,000; tuberculosis santa.
rum $4,000.
! tuberculosis Sanitarium- $40 900.
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