The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-04-08
TAXES SHOULD BE
A TRIfLE Lower
SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE
MAKES SHARP CUT IN ALL
APPROPRIATIONS
dunn ROAD Law Amended
LOCAL TOWN BOARDS WILL
HEREAFTER HAVE CHARGE
OF ROAD WORK.

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finance committee has its way sharp
economy will be practiced in state de-
partments and institutions during the
next two years.
The committee has already cut a
100000 slice from the "appropria-
lions pie" In two bills covering needs
of institutions and, departments the
committee appropriated $1O,426,S62
for the next biennial period.
Take a glance at these figures and
then consider the appropriations of
1913 when $11,596,664 was set aside
for the same purposes for the two
years beginning August l, 1913.
The difference is $1,169,8O2. This
being that many dollars lower than
the appropriations allowed the state
years ago.
The state Board of Control, which
is the largest single spending agency
among the state departments by reas-
on of the number of institutions and
inmates it cares for, must get along
with $615,567 less than it was grant
ed two years ago. The board request
ed $6,3S4 ,638 to properly carry on the
work of caring for state wards. The
pairing knife as welded by the finance
committee sheared $1,541,615 from
this figure. The committee provided
an $4,S43,033 appropriation for the
board for the next two years as COM
pared to $5,458, 800 allowed for its US
eS two years ago.
The committee has figured it out
that SIS, 5S3 1929 will keep the state de-
partments running for the next two
years. The Legislature of 1913, one
of the most liberal which ever con-
vened in the state, gave.the state de-
partments $6,O4S,064 for the biennial
period ending August 1, 1915.
This is practical economy. There
is little of the theoretical about it.
The committee figured that if the de-
partments and institutions were not
granted the money to spend they
could not spend it. There is the fact
to be considered that if the amounts
asked for were really needed they
should be granted. But it seems the
experiment of cutting down requests
might we'll be tried for the next two
years.
Work and plenty of it is the por-
ton of employees in the offices of
Governor Hammond.
The governor is very careless" of
time. That is to say he uses up a
lot of it. 1t is no uncommon thing
for his official family to be on the job
at the Capitol long after p. m. and
sometimes until II p. m. And on hol-
idays. Why person can drop in the
offices most any holiday and find the
governor and his helpers busily en-
ployed.
How do the Solons spend their
spare time while the Legislature is in
session! --.e.=.-..r
Humph! Some off them sit around
the hotel Hobbies, some of them take
in the movies, some of them are COM
PEELED to. attend committee meetings
after. the sessions.
But the place that entertains the
most Solons is probably the burlesque
theatre. There you will find them
laughing at the antics of comedians
and sometimes watching Ssh-the
wriggles of the oriental dancer. Such
is life away from home.
$50
The Hennepin delegation in the
House Slipped" sleeping potion to
Senator E. j. Westlake's bill provid-
ing for a commission to study the
question of uniting st. Paul and Min
neapolis. The committee voted for
indefinite postponment of the meas
ure. So the Twins" will continue as
competitors for the honor of being the
Gateway of the Northwest"
A good story is going the rounds
of the Senate.
J. A. A. Burnquist, lieutenant gov
ernor and president Of of the body,
told it as follows:
"The other day George A. Turnman
of Minneapolis was standing about
the Senate talking. Suddenly page
approached and handed him note.
It recited. that the president of the
Senate wanted the Minneapolis sem
ator to take his seat and keep still.
Senator Turnham colored up bit and
marched to his seat. I learned of the
joke some time afterward. When it