The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-11-16
LETTER FROM THE
STATE CAPITOL
SIX MILLION WILL BE NECES.
sARY TO RUN STATE INsTiTu-
TIoNs NEXT TWO YEARS.
COST OF MAINTENANCE HIGH
The Incoming Legislature Will Be
Asked To Appropriate Sums For
In Excess OF Previous Years

Lansing .-Conservative estimates
based on appropriation bills approved
charities and appropriations made two
years ago for the state prisons and
insane asylums, indicate that at least
sc, 100000 will be necessary for opera
ting the state institutions during the
next two years.
Increased cost OF food stuffs. In
creased cost OF building materials and
inflated prices for other necessities
has made an extra demand for funds
and the incoming legislature will be
asked to appropriate sums far in ex.
cess of previous legislatures.
Two years ago the legislature APP
propriated $2,517,670 to care for the
prisons and state hospitals and con-
sentative estimates indicate that the
sum will have to be increased to 49,
100000 Special appropriations must
be made to provide new buildings and
more adequate facilities for state
wards and the board OF corrections
and charities has approved an item
Of SLAB ,052.05 for this purpose.
OF course it is up to the legislature
to approve or cut these items but they
are said to be necessary. Within the
past two years the inmates of the 10
state institutions have increased from
1887 to 1919 and the amount OF APP
preparations for the institutions has
TO be increased in proportion to the
increase in population and cost OF
maintenance.
Two years ago the estimate for food
for the Industrial school for boys at
Lansing was s3S,35O for each year of
the present biennial period, yet for
the fiscal year ending June 30. 1916,
the institution actually expended s42.-
1862 for food. The estimate for the
fiscal year ending June 3d. 1917 is
$4,000 The school for deaf, at Flint,
estimated at s16,50O, actually spent
21,416.79. Other state institutions tell
similar tale.
Special requests for appropriations
for some Of the state institutions an
proved by the state board of correc.
lions and charities are: Kalamazoo
State hospital, $117,4S190; Pontiac
State hospital, s11O,5OO; Traverse City
State hospital s34697; Ionia State
hospital, S19,725; Lapeer Home and
Training school, S1S9. 25O; Wahjamega
Farm colony, S4O4,670.
Jackson prison does not ask for any
special appropriation but Ionia refor-
matory wants SO 5000. while Marquette
prison desires $4,000. These amounts
have received the approval of the
state board of corrections and chart
ties.
The Lansing School for Boys will
ask for an appropriation of s272.000
for current expenses and special APP
preparations OF $142,781; Adrian
School for Girls, 100000 for current
expenses and a special appropriation
Of S15,276; State Public school at Cold
water, special appropriation Of ST.
391 with current expense appropria-
ton of $7O,322; School for Blind at
Lansing, $123,00O current expense ap-
preparation and sS5,317 special; Sagi-
nav Employment institution for Blind.
$4,000 current and $4,000 special;
School for the Deaf at Flint, $22,53O
current and s41,054 special; Michigan
Soldiers Home, 100000 current and
special.
The State Sanitarium at Howell.
with a present population of lis, will
ask for $4,000 for current expenses
and the state board has approved
special appropriations of S92,125.