Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-09-07
STATE DERIVES REvENUEc FROM
MANY AND VARIED
CHANNELS.
LESS THAN ONE HALF
RAISED BY TAXATION
Direct TAX Only 100000 Out of Total
Of $16,oo0,000 Derived During Last
Biennial Period-Counties Contribute
Large Sums For Care of insane
Other News.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines. Sept. 7-Out of about
s16,0oO,O0o paid into the state treasury
in the biennial period which closed July
/ of this year, only about s6,000,0O0
were state taxes. The remainder or
some sl0,00o.0oO, was largely license
money and fees. There was raised by
state levy only about 100000 per
year Special levies provided $4,000
for the state university, S27l 900 for the
state agricultural college, and S1S6,SS7
for the State Teachers College in the
two year period These figures are
shown by the state treasurer's report,
just completed by Quincy Willis. dep
uty state treasurer.
1t cost the counties of the state in
the last two years 81, 44S,057 to care for
their insane, $3.50 to care for the blind,
sS06 for the deaf and dumb, S4S,S90 for
the feeble minded. S76,2T0 to support
the orphans home, S1I.4S0 for their
patients in the state tuberculosis hos
pital at Iowa City and s56,355 for the
support of the tnebriates at Knoxville.
Insurance taxes paid into the state
this sum Iowa companies paid $685.
704.s2. the United States companies
ss2s,S22.37 and foreign companies $685.
esS.
Auto License Fees.
The automobile license money dur
ing the two year period amounted to
s305o,63 Fees were paid in by the
auditors of states Office today totaling
sS.s71; dairy commissioner, S10s,44S;
state entomologist, s2,463; pharmacy
commission. s76,60l.
In addition to the automobile license
money the secretary OF states office
paid in miscellaneous fees s203,7S0. Oil
inspectors fees totaIing sll3, $40 were
collected.
Other fees paid In follow: Superin-
tendent of public instruction. s1l,76s;
county superintendent (teacherS' ex-
ANNA ions), $685.: board of medical
examiners, s7,607; board of health. ST.
100; board OF optometry examiners,
s735; dental examiners, Sass; mine in
spectors, board of examiners, s424; no.
tel inspectors, sl4,92S; animal health
commission. 1887; hunters license
fees, collected by county auditors,
S204, 1886; boundary waters fee. fish
and game warden, s6,11S: governor of
state, notarial fees. s4O,700; certifica-
ton and extraiition fees, si25, insur-
ance commission, s1S+,7G7. This makes
a total in fees of s4,16618O.
The collateral inheritance tax paid
into the state treasury in the biennial
period s697,368. There was collected
from the tate institutions operated by
the board of control s416,622 in refunds
and s60.461 in miscellaneous items. In
.--teAest on deposits IN banks of state
money amounted to s3s,507. Federal
Aid to the soldiers homes amounted to
$103,976. The total general revenue Of
the state amounted TO s15,252.53O, and
the balance on hand July /, 1914 was
$737,s60. making a total of s15,990.391.
The 100000 collected annually
from the state tax levy not only pro-
vides for the running Of the state Of
fees but for aid to consolidated schools,
to normal training in high schools, to
county fairs, and to considerable of the
building done by the state institutions
and the state colleges not provided for
by special levies.