Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-04-30
STATE FINANCES
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pose of the House finance committee
from the time it visited the first
state benevolent institution that no
would be known in making
appropriations for the better care and
housing of the states afflicted and I'M
1t is for this committee
and the legislature to determine how
the money should be appropriated to
best serve the state and protect socie-
ty; and, in studying this question, the
one unanimous expression has been,
except a few newspapers with a pet
hobby, that first should come adequate
appropriations for the housing and
care of the Feeble Minded that socie-
ty may be better protected, and that
a remedy may be applied for the less
ening of the multiplication of this
class of citizens. Next to the Feeble
Minded the demand for an ~appropria-
ton has been made for the Epileptics
and Insane. The great students of
sociology of this state have placed
before the finance committee that
their solution of the problem to less
en- the expense to the state for care
of the mental detectives is by segrega-
ton, and they contend that as the in
mates of these institutions are not
there by some willful act of their own,
but are there through causes over
which they have little or no control,
they should have first consideration.
They also point out that the Reforma-
tory at Mansfield has a wonderful
lot of boys who are clamoring for an
other chance to make good in the
world. Under the present conditions,
DR.. Leonard says that in many in
stances their surroundings are not for
The best, and he is appealing for a
LARGE appropriation to make suitable
conditions for the best and highest
development of the youth in his
charge.
The House finance committee has
not forgotten the ~Penitentiary, but
in conditions in which the inmates of
these. other institutions live, are far
different from those in the peniten-
tiary, and with the limited amount of
money to be spent. it is the purpose
of this committee to so place it that
the most good will be achieved. We
have considered the plant we are
placing on the windows ledge.
State Auditor Donahey says in a re-
port. there vas a cash balance unin-
numbered in the General Revenue fund
of the state on March 8, 1915, of the
amountof S6,500,00. This statement is
incorrect as a glance at his tabulated
report will show that he has included
in the general revenues fund several
specific funds amounting to many
thousands of dollars that cannot be
used but for the specific purpose pro.
scribed by the statute which creates
them. But granting his statement tt
be true, the short budget a%ppropria,
ton which carries $4,000, 100000 wiped
out every dollar of that balance. tt
say nothing of the additional ap.
preparations of $1,000, 100000 for the
support of the common schools, anC
5000, 100000 to pay claims arising fol
payment for property destroyed il
stamping out the foot and mouth dis
ease, and to these appropriations mus
be added a deficiency created during
the Cox administration of ,O0O.O OF
So if MI. Donahey's statement b,
correct, it is obvious that the appro
priations for the years 1915 and 1911
must be made against anticipated
revenues and not from actual cash OF
hand.
FRANK H. REIGHARD.