Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-02-22

As shown by the above summary of
appropriations for the session of 1915
as compared to that Of 1913. while
some inaccuracies may have crept in
in the general summing up up funds
appropriated during the last session,
the total amount provided by the legis-
lature just adjourned falls short of the
previous session by $755, 800 but, when
the continuing appropriations left on
the statutes and mllage taxes are TAX
en- into consideration the decrease is
cut down to paltry $S7,S which may
easily be made up when final check
is made upon the action of the last
session during its dying and spasmodic
hours, when it was practically a physi.
cal impossibility to keep an accurate
check upon the variations between the
two branches.
While the general appropriations
were left practically intact as recon.
mended by the Joint committee ON
ways and means, there were a few
changes made in some of the institu-
tional and departmental allowances
principal among which was the reduc.
ton of the estimate for the girls indus.
trial school, $4,000 having been de.
ducted which had been recommended
for new cottage; the appropriation
for the labor commissioner was re,
duced from $36,S00 to $11,500. which
affects the fund for the payment of
factory inspection but this, however
has been provided for by allowing the
labor commissioner to pay this expense
out Of the fees received by the depart.
ment all of which heretofore reverted
TO the general fund, and $4,000 was add.
ed to his fund to provide for the child
labor commission.
The banking department fund was
reduced from $36,9l0 to $4,000. but
the balance Of the expense incurred by
the department is to be taken from the
fees collected during the biennium
The fund for the payment Of salaries
and expenses of circuit Judges was in.
creased from $4,000 TO 100000 Ia
make allowance for the new .udgeships
created, aud $4,000 was added to the
special appropriations for the purchase
Of the Salem hospital site for squarng
up the lands Of the O. S. I. a. Six
thousand dollars was also added to the
national guard fund for furnishing and
equipping the armory at Eugene
The expenses of the legislative as
sembly were incorporated in several
different appropriations so that II i,
impossible to segregate them accurate
ly until careful checl, is made Of the
several items but there was ono an
preparation of $4,000 early in the ses
sion, another bill carried 100000 fol
legislative expenses and still another
$4,000, making a total of approx
mately $4,000, without figuring in tn,
overtime and additional pay allowed
the Officers, clerks, etc., of the tw,
branches Of the last night The prin
cipal items in the continuing appropria
tions are the millage taxes voted by
the people which include S7l4,g05 fol
the University of Oregon, 81 ,4jG,0l!
for the several departments of m,
agricultural college, including S954,5l,
for resident instruction, and sl00,00I
for the state highway commission. An
appropriation Of $96I1S7 also stand
for the accident insurance commission
In the confusion attendant upon III,
effort to consolidate some Of the de
partments, some Of which were success
ful and others not, II is expected tha
some of tho appropriations overlappe,
aud others fell short and II win prob
ably be mp to the emergency hoard {,
straighten out some legislative tangle
before the close of the year.