Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-19
GOVERNOR USES
HIS VETO|NG POWER
Whacks Almost 100000 From
the Deficiency Bill Passed by
General Assembly

Governor Martin C. Brumbaugh last
evening demonstrated that he knew he
had veto power and also that he was
not afraid to use 1t even on a legts-
lative appropriation when he did not
think there was necessity for il. The
Governor acted on the deficiency bill
and the folks throughout the State
who wait for such action as a means
of getting the measure" of new
Governor got 1t just as they did when
John K. Tener slashed the deficiency
bill placed before him in his first
month.
The Governor reduced the bill by
S9S,S00. The bill as it reached him
carried $573, ,127.7S and when he got
done with swinging the AK it stood at
S4T6.S27.7S. The practice the Gov
ernor had in his youth in the woods
of Huntingdon county evidently came
in handy because he used the veto aN
without fear or favor. chopping his
own department and hacking the legis-
lative and some of the others.
Legislators Hit
The heaviest blow fell in the House
and Senate. where each body was try
ing to get 50 ,000 for extra legislative
employees. He wiped out this $4,000
and also reduced 1000 each the con-
tingent expense accounts of President
pro tempore Charles Fl. Kline and
Speaker Charles A. Amber. Incl
amount given to the Executive.
The Governor held this bill the full
ten days allowed him by the Consti-
tuition and he has been busy asking
for explanations. Every department
was requested to put in writing why it
needle the money asked for and
whether IL was necessary.
The Senate and House items were
identical, except one relates to the
Senate and the other to the House.
That for the Senate reads:
For the payment of additional in
cidental expenses and the salaries and
mileage. session of 1915, of such addi-
tional officers and employees of the
Senate as may be authorized by reso-
luton. the sum of $500 or so much
thereof as may be necessary, to be
expended by the chief clerk of the
Senate. who shall render to the
Auditor General accounts from time to
time with specifically itemiZed vouch-
ers, to be settled in the same manner
as other accounts. Provided, that all
vouchers for salaries and mileage of
officers and employees shall be certified
by the President pro tempore and the
chief clerk OF the Senate"
After these items the Governor
wrote: Il withhold my approval from
this item for the reason that l am not
convinced of the necessity of this eX-
penditure."
The cutting out of the $4,000 will
mean that number of men who eX-
pected TO get jobs in the House and
Senate will not go to work. Some of
them were here this week anXiously
waiting for the Governor to approve
the bill so they could get on the pay
roll. They will now have to look else
where.
The cuts were:
Executive Department. Governors
ira DVR1inp pxnpnSpS ~ 0OO Slspj 4
approved; clerical, S2,50O asked, 800
approved; Auditor Generals Depart
ment. delinquent corporation prose-
cutions, $4,000, $4,000; clerical,
$4,000. $4,000: delinquent mercantile
prosecutions, $4,000, $4,000: Attorney
Generals Department. collecting sums
due for maintenance of insane. $40 600.
$4,000: Fire Marshars Department,
travelling and legal expenses, $4,000.
$4,000; Department of Labor and In
dustry. special sanitary inspection.
$4,000, $1,000; Department of Health.
tuberculosis sanatoria and campaign,
$135, ,524.45, Sis, ,524.45; Highway De-
partment, automobile division, $685.
600. $4,000: PJblic Grounds and
Buildings. repairs and supplies,
$4,000. $4,000: Water Supply Com
mission, salaries and travelling ex-
penses, $4,000. $500: salaries and
travelling expenses, $4,000. $4,000:
preserves and propagation of galne,
$4,000. $4,000; Department of FISH
cries. expenses, $500. $500; Depart
ment of Internal Affairs. collecting tax
statistics, $4,000, $4,000 State Board
of Censors, salaries. $1,000, $1,000:
Public Printing and Binding, plates
and cuts. $4,000. $4,000: Judiciary
Department. salaries. judges of Lack
awanna and Luzerne, S14,539.2S, S14.-
539.2S; expenses and salaries of Judges
holding court outside their districts.
$4,000. $4,000: salaries. Superior
Court officers, $500, $1,000: Senate.
additional employees, $4,000. vetoed;
contingent expenses. President pro
tenn, $4,000, $1,000; House of Repre-
sentatives. additional employees. S25,-
600. vetoed; fisheries committee. ex-
penses, $500, vetoed: contingent ex-
penses, Speaker. $4,000. $1,000: sal
aries and expenses of returning Off
GERS, s1.664, s1.664 inaugural ex-
penses, $25, 900, $4,000; primary cleo
tions, two years, S15O.00O, $15O.OOO;
commission of Construction of Build
ings. $4,000, $4,000; Smull's Hand
book compilers. $4,000, $4,000.
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