The Penn's Grove record., 1915-07-02
NO CAMP DUE
TO LEGISLATURE
Joint Statement Is Issued to
Show Responsibility
REFUTING WRONG FIGURES
Governor and State Utility Board Fix
Blame - Appropriations Commit
tee Was Told of Situation
and Refused to Act.

Especial Trenton Correspondence
Trenton.-The statement made by
Assemblyman Arthur N. Pierson, of
Union County, charging that the Gov
ernor and the State Board were
alone responsible for failure to hold
an encampment of the National Guard
this year, is refuted by a joint state
ment by the acknowledgements depart
ments. Pierson is a member of the
joint appropriations committee and
he cited figures from the comptrol-
ler's report to show that the Legisla-
ture made an appropriation equal to
the appropriation last year. Mr..
Pierson neglected to show why the
encampment could not be held this
year.
In his figures from the comp
troller's report Mr.. Pierson failed to
include suspended accounts amount
ing to more than $4,000, which
should have been added.
The statement indicates that the
States expenditures for the encamp-
ment last year were nearly $50, 900,
instead of $41,421, as set forth by
Mr.. Pierson. With increased cost in
railroad transportation, rations and
other military stores, it would cost
approximately $1,000 more to hold an
encampment this year.
The aggregate cost of an encamp.
ment this year would be $10O,672,
Mhi1n fakinO in o(oou0+ +bo oroo,o4
which would be contributed by the
Federal Government, the total avail.
able is only $82, 900, which would re-
suit in a deficit of more than. SIS, 900.
In these circumstances General
Sadler and General Murray insist
that the holding of an encampment
was an impossibility.
The statement says:
In the statement Of Assemblyman
Pierson, appearing under recent date,
he makes a comparison for the pur.
pose of showing that the appropria.
lions made by the Legislature of 1914
for 1915, and the appropriations OF
the Legislature of 1915 for 1915, were
in excess of expenditures for the 1914
encampment, and that it is possible
to encamp the entire National Guard
this year.
These figures, as they appeared in
the statement, are here given, and
are followed by comparative figures
prepared by the Quartermaster-Gen
erals office of the actual expenditures
during this period"
1t is shown in detail that since
the close of the fiscal year bills for
subsistence, transportation and other
acquisitions, aggregating $18, 537.69
were delivered to the comptroller
These bills were carried under the
requisition system for payment the
middle of December. The statement
adds:
These suspended accounts should
be added to he SAL, 421.42 mentioned
by Assemblyman Pierson as the &C
tual expenditures, which will cause
the encampment of 1914 to represent
a total expenditure from State funds
Of $50, 959.11.
I'm addition to the above expendi
lures from State funds, $~33,713.46 was
disbursed by the Federal disbursing
officer from United States allotments
under section 1861, Revised Statutes
The total cost Of the encampment OF
1914, including expenditures from
State and Federal allotments, was
~$93,672.57.
"Since the 1914 encampment, the
railroads have increased the rate OF
fare between New Jersey points and
Sea Girt camp grounds, from n and
one-half cents a mile to two cents a
mile, approximating $4,000 on the
item of transportation alone.
"The cost of the ration has in.
creased since the time the appro.
priation was made for the 1914 en-
campment to the recent date from
22.9 cents per man to 20 cents per day
per man. an increase Of 5 $4,000.
1.-THE cost of certain other stores has
been increased proportionately, and
it is estimated that an encampment
this year along exactly the same
lines as the encampment of 1914
would have increased approximately
$1,000, or require a total expenditure
of $%1OO,672.57."