Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-02-26
YIELDS PRUNING KNIFE
APPROPRIATIONS MADE BY
LEGISLATURE ARE LIGHTER.
Where Oregon Tax Money Will Go
During the Next Biennial Per
iod-Figures in Detail.

is 81, l,25S,09O less than was appropri
ated two years ago. These figures arr
based upon the actual general anC
continuing appropriations totals, ant
! an estimate of $350,000 for specia
appropriations. For the general funC
the appropriations total $3,516,300
and those cared for by existing laws
millage tax and special funds amount
to $2,610,731. For the 1913 session
the aggregate appropriations were
$7735,921.68. While the ways anc
means committee gave the appropria.
| tion for the industrial accident com.
mission as 1867 ,187, as a matter Of
Fact it is only about $4,000, or one
seventh of the amount collected in
fees by the department.
Following are the general appro.
lRpriations: Oregon state hospital
l$305, $50; Oregon state penitentiary
E$202,00O; state institution for feeble
minded, $144,961; state capitol and
supreme court buildings, $58,650;
Oregon institute for blind, $2S,213
state school for the deaf, $54,9S7
compilation laws, resolutions and me-
MORALS of twenty-eighth legislative
assembly, $4,000; state training school
$65, ,275; state industrial school for
girls, $34, POO; legislative expenses,
$65, 900; special agents, $1,000; state
library, $23,S00; supreme court IL
brary, $15,612; state water board,
1885, 1896; state engineer, $37 7,43O; de-
partment of education, $39,088; boun-
ty on wild animals, $4,000; orphans
and foundlings, 100000; state board
Of health, 100000; Social Hygiene So
ciety, $4,000; Florence Crittendon
home, $500; Patton home, $4,000;
Historical society, $4,000; state tu-
berculosis hospital, $53,125; state
treasury department, $36,375; execu-
tive department, $4,000; secretary
of state, $61 900; Old Soldiers home
$31 ,658.75; state board of horticul-
ture, $4,000; forestry board, $780,
900; livestock sanitary board, $49,-
940; Humane society, $4,000; Nation
al Guard, $155,0OO; completing Eu-
gene armory, $4,000; state board of
control, $4,000; sealer weights and
measures, $4,000; fee for legal SER
vices |. H. Van Winkle and Martin
Pipes, $4,000; state fair, $38,931. 81;
attorney generals office, $4,000;
sundry deficiency claims (thirteen
items), $8l7927; twenty-eighth legis-
lative assembly miscellaneous print
ing, ETC., $4,000; election expenses,
$4,000; fugitives from justice, re-
wards, $19,29S.56; miscellaneous
claims (twenty-eight items), $6457.-
So; industrial welfare commission,
$1,000; state pilot commission, $24OO /;
labor commissioner, $11, 800; child la
Dor commissioner, $4,000; wayward
girls, $4,000; supreme court, $780,
600; bureau of mines and geology,
$25, 900; mineral exhibit at Panama
Pacific exposition, 10000; dairy and
food commissioner, $4,000; land de-
partment, $4,000; banking depart
ment, $4,000; tax commission, $780,
900; railroad commission, $4,000;
circuit judges, 100000; district at
torneys and deputies, $134,OOO, and
purchase of land for Oregon state
hospital, $4,000.
Other items.-Appropriations car
ed for by existing laws, millage tax
and special funds, for which no ap-
preparations are necessary are as fol-
lows:
Agricultural fairs, 500, 400; bar
bers examiners, $4,000; corporation
commissioner, $37, 200; teachers ex-
aminers, $4,000; dental examiners,
$4,000; Oregon agricultural college
instruction, 100000; exper-
iment stations, $2O7, 400; agricultural
college extension service, $194,106;
University of Oregon, $4,000; high
way commission, 100000; industrial
accident commission, $4,000; insur-
ance department, $4,000; optometry
board, $3.50; medical examiners,
s1095; motor vehicle registration,
s47 ,150, and stallion registration
board, 81, 400.
Among the special appropriations
are the following: Returning Oregon
Panama-Pacifc exposition exhibit to
state and establishing permanent ex-
iibit of Oregon products, $4,000; re-
Emma Groves for land pur-
chase, $3.50; exterminating rabbits,
$4,000; reimburse Ada E. Lundberg
ior loss of husband killed while work
ng on Tumalo irrigation project,
5000; reimburse W. H. Singler, S99.-
50; relief Of John Hunter, builder
Roseburg armory, $4,000; payment de-
iciency travelling expenses veterans
o Gettysburg celebration, s4s19.9O;