Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-01-05
Bureau Chiefs Planning
Many Extensions and
Improvements
WILL SOON BE SPENT
Deparlmcnts Will Ask Legislature
For More Clerks. Factory lnspec'
tors and Other Attaches.

Richmond, Jan. 5-With a surplus
in the State Treasury OF S6oo'ooo
state department heads are hopelu'
so they. express themselves, that tne
Legislature, which meets next week
viii be more generous in depart
mental appropriations, despite the
threat of lean years to follow the
loss of State liquor licenses after
next November.
The State department chiefs are
completing their estimates to be SUD
mittcd to the Finance Committee OIL
tho General Assembly. A review OIL
these estimates shows that the bu-
rcau chiefs arc planning important
extensions and improvemcnts-lt they
can get the money.
The Secretary of the common
wealth, who in the last appropriation
bill received $1,000 a year, is ex-
pected to ask the Legislature Tor
several additional clerks to handle
The automobile licenses. If the money
is not allowed the Legislature VIII
be ;ske dto establish q separate au-
tomobilc license bureau. For the ad-
ditional clerks the Secretary OF the
Commonwealth needs, according to es-
Inmates, not less than $4,000 year.
Commissioner Doherty, Of the De-
partment Of Labor, needs at least TWO
mose factory inspectors. lie now has
only two of these inspectors, and they
are unable, it is declared, to cover
the State as it should be covered. The
of Labor receives 100
a wear. The Legislature will be. asked
# is said, for not less than $4,000
/; year.
The Department of Agriculture and
immigration, including the Food ana
Dairy Bureau, receives from the
State $4,000 year. The agricultural!
work, strictly speaking, is paid Tor
from collections of fertilizer taxes.
Commissioners Koincr announces that
he is planning the establishment o!
a market bureau. For this the COM
missioner needs, it is said, about 3d.
900 year.
The State Auditor says he thinks
he can continue to show surplus III
the treasury without asking for
larger Office force. lit may, however.
ask the Legislature to ALLOW an m
crease in the salaries of some of his
deputies and clerks. )
The State Bureau of Insurance Is
self-sustaining, and, therefore, does
not expect to ask for an appropria-
ton. The State Corporation Commits
sion, now receiving. .$4l,25o year.
will not, it as announced, ask Of an
increase,
Davis Bottom, State Superintendent
of Public Printing, is allowed about
s56,0OO annually. He has not deii-
nitcly announced that he will request
the Legislature for larger appro-
priation, but it is known that he has
certain improvements in mind which
could be made for $4,000 more yeal
and which would be of great assist
ance and benefit.
The Legislative Reference Bureau
now receives $4,000 year. Other
States appropriate for this work as
much as $4,000 annually. Senator
Lewis Machen, director of the bureau
says that he expects to ask the Legls-
lature for $4,000 a year. The Ell,
ficiency of the bureau could be great
ly increased on $4,000 a year, ne
said, but it's value could be vastl!
augmented with $4,000.
For schools the Department OF Pub
lie Instruction has announced that
it would ask for S3,00O,000 more. Thi:
money is not to come from the State
Treasury, however, The department
will ask the Legislature I'd increas,
its appropriation Sl,5OO,oOO. The
other sl,50o,oOo, it believes. can b,
raised locally. The extra State appro
priatiop, it shows, can be raised by re
tanning the special l0-cent emorgenc.
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