Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-09-21
ONLY SMALL PORTION OF MONEY
RAISED USED BY COMMON
WEALTH OF IOWA.
BALANCE is RETURNED
TO SEVERAL COUNTIES
Big Part of Funds Raised by States
as Mills Levy Goes Back to Home
Aid to County Fairs, County Farmers
Institutes, and Schools.
.ial to T!aes- Republican

Special 10 Times R~epuollc1n.
Des Moines. Sept. 21.-W. II. Wit
Iiams, chief revenue clerk in The state
auditors office, has just completed the
report O: the states expenditures iE
the last twO years or up to July l, 1916.
This report discioses that while there
was S~l5.3lN.y4S.4G diSbursed by the
state in the past two years, the very
large per cent OF IL was spent by the
state for The counties themselves. Only
q Ii.tle over 5000. 0O0 Of this money
wa collected by taxation, and The re
snainder IT around $9,000,Q00 was col
lected in license honey and fees.
When Il nan pays his state tax OF
- mills the big per cent OF this money
comes back to his home county. This
tax gees 10 help support the state
institutions under the board OF control
where the unfortunates from every
county in the state are cared for. l.
goes 10 the educational institutions, TO
the Iowa National Guard \ 10 the
general assembly as well as TO the
support of state offices. The autorno-
bile license money ali goes back TO the
counties eXcept > per cent which goes
to the general fund of the state 10 help
nav the cost Of collection and ) per
cerr which provides the maintenance
for the highway commission. The
hunters license fund goes back to the
counties and is used in restocking
rivers with fish and the fields with
game and in the maintenance OF fish
game vardens over the state
In the past " years the state in
under the board of contro.
have expended s4.4l3.so2.07 for support
and current expense. The buildings
and improvements have cost s7o''-
moss. The state has 10000 wards in
these institutions.
The three educational institutions -
Iowa located at Anies. Iowa City
Cedar Fails. have spent in these two
wears for support ard current expenses
sS.2-0.16G.93 and for Improvements
s~327.155.44.
The last general assembly cost s21s.-
e54.67. The Iowa National Guard IN
these pat TWO years has cost $3.50
9ST.20. The amount expended by or
der Of the executive council has been
$3.50, 051.45.
Counties Get It Back.
Out OF this - mills also IS expended
the money which goes to the aid of the
county fairs, the count farmers in
stftutps. normal training in high
schools ard the state aid to consoii-
dated schools. For instance there are
now 202 consolidated schools in the
state which are receiving state aln
whereas five years ago there were
scarcely a dozen such schools in Iowa.
In fact out Of the upwards Of slo.-
900, 600 spent in the past biennial pc
Rod only s1.ST4,35091 was spent 70.
state offices. that is for the state Of
ac!als'. employees and boards salaries
and Included in this is the
salary Of everr district judge in Iowa
inasruch as district judges are paid
out Of state taxes.
The special miscellaneous expenses
were s3.s991.2S1.s1 in the w years.
This * the fund into which the auto
n0btle license moneT is paid and from
which It is paid out which accounts
for the most Of the expenditure. Up to
Aug. ! Of this year every township in
the state of Iowa had received 1898
from this automobile license fund this
year.
Conscientious state officials who d.
everything IN their power 10 see that
the states funds are expended wisely,
that taxes are kept dow as much as
possible with the progress OF an up to
date state. are more or less sensitive TO
what is often known 10 be unfair criti-
cism Of state axes. They believe that
too often taxpayers who complain
overlook the fact that the big per cent
Of the money paid in state taxes goes
back to the counties themselves and
IN fact all Of il is spent either direct
~ or Indirectly for the benefit Of the
counties as a whole and not for any
one location or district or for any one
institution or purpose.