Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-03-06
FINANCIAL INVESTIGATING
! BODY MAKES ITS FINAL
~REPoRT$LAsT NIGHT.
DEFICITS ARE CARED FOR
And Depleted Funds Restored
Budget Commission Estab.
Nshed.

tee was discharged. The report waf
signed by Treadwell Twichell, chair
man; Senators Kretschmar, Sand
strom and Albrecht and Represents
tives Dickinson and Knox. This
committee has done the heavies,
work of the session, in all probabil
Fifty, and this is the second report
Handed in, with regard to its recon-
lamentations and work.
The committees report follows in
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S""Gentlemen::- AFa e
Your subcommittee of. the joint ap'
preparations committee, known as the
Lathrop Committee, beg leave to
make, this their final report.
Recommendations Adopted.
In a partial report heretofore made
we saw fit to make certain recon-
mendations with regard to the estab'
lishment of a board of regents. In
our opinion the creation Of such q
board would reduce the expense Of
our higher educational institutions
and add to their efficiency. Your hon.
Orable bodies have passed such a law.
We recommend the repeal, at least,
temporarily, of the so-called mill tax.
Ies, having in mind that any moneys
derived through taxes from an in
creased valuation of our property
would go directly to the states needs
and not proportionately to the insti-
buttons; it being necessary that the
states financial condition be relieved.
Your honorable bodies have repealed
the so.called mill taxes.
We also recommend that the valua-
ton of this state he increased to such
an amount as would, on q four mill
levy. take care Of the states curreLt
needs and provide funds to pay GER
tain deficits that we had discovered
and liquidate the unpaid bills which
we found accumulated. The resolu-
ton recommending such an increase
has been adopted by both houses.
We also called your attention to the
fact that the states business was not
being carried on along the lines OF
ordinary business procedure, nor was
the state, in many instances receiv-
ing fair value for the compensation it
gave to those in its employ. We call.
ed your attention to a difference of
approximately a million dollars for
the biennial period between the
states revenue and its expenditures.
Since our partial report we have re.
commended, from time to time, num-
erous. bills tending to cut out the
wasteful$ and uncalled for expenditure
of money. The legislature has seen
fit to follow our suggestions In prac-
tically all of the material recommen.
dations, and the suggestions offered
in Our report and the bills offered by
us, carrying with them in fact our re.
commentators and our export.
Deficits Cared For.
The appropriations, as recommend.
ed by this committee, will be exceed.
ed about $250,O00 by the act CT this
legislature. In. the amount appro
priated the deficits cared for aggre
gate approximately 100000. We
have also reimbursed the Wolf
Bounty Fund which had been depict
ed by a transfer irregularly Of $780,
600. We have made good the school
fund by approximately $4,000, a loss
incurred by the purchase of illegal
bonds. We have set aside the sum of
$4,000 for a general contingent fund.
We added enough to the general ap-
preparations for our state institutions
to bring them all up to an even date
Of July first Of the biennial period,
instead of having the appropriations
carry from different periods, extend.
ing from March first until July first.
An item of $115,0O0 that appears in
this appropriation is appropriated at
this time so as to make It possible
to add a building at the State Insane
Asylum and have it in the course Of
construction in 1916 SO as to be ready
for occupancy in 1917, when it will
be seriously needed.
Budget Commission.
We suggested. and the legislature
has adopted, a law creating g budget
commission, whose duty it will be,
prior to the next Legislative session,
70 inquire into, fully than time
and opportunity has allowed us, as
to the income and expenditure OF the
state, aud to make suggestions along
the same line as have been made by
this committee. 1t will be the duty
of that board to prepare forms that
will bring out the true financial con.
dition of each and every state institu-
ton and department. Each items8o
expenditure will be submitted to that
board. "a balance sheet Of each insti.
tuition will be required so that the
covering up or the disregard Of aade.
felt can no longer be withheld from
the legislative body.
This report In detail as to the ex.
Denditures of all natures, the re.
quests of all classes from each de-.
partment and institution, together
with the recommendations of said
budget commission, will be placed in
the hands of each member Of the leg.
islature not later than the tenth dav
.of. the session, which will give each
member of the Legislature, il he be
disposed to study the same, all of tho
Inflammation sthatayour sub-committee
has Been able TO dig out at this time,
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