The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-18
Additional 10 Per Cent of
Years Taxes Drawn Upon.
This Is Required To Pay the
September Expenses.
ONLY IS Per CENT REMAINING
This Must Run Institutions I'm
til First of Year.
Effort Already Being Made To
Pass the Buck.

With the drawing today of ten per
cent of the years taxes to meet Sep
tember expenses, just fifteen per cent
of the funds on hand for the pay
ment of 1917 expenses are available
In other words, the fifteen per cent
remaining in the hands of county
treasurers must meet all bills until
the new taxes are available Decem-
ber 20.
Kansas is facing another serious
financial squeeze because of the de-
pleted condition of the state funds
When the August bills were paid the
state had exhausted IS per cent OF
the taxes levied for this year. In or
der to meet the September pay rolls
and make payment on building esu-
mates, the state was compelled to
draw an additional 10 per cent This
means that with the issuance of state
warrants next week, S5 per cent of the
years taxes will have been spent The
state must then care for october and
November bills and meet expenses un-
til December 20 without overdrawing
the fifteen per cent balance
Try to Pass Buck.
Frantic efforts are being made in
state departments to meet conditions
The task of passing the buck to the
succeeding state administration has al
ready begun. Efforts to sidetrack
payment of bills until the new taxes
are availab BILE are giving state depart
! menIS serious concern.
One evidence of the efforts OF the
state to prevent use of the mot paid
| for want of funds stamp became ap-
| parent this week. The state board OF
administration served notice that pri-
| vate charities would not be designated
| until January /. 1t was stated that
the board desired to make indepen-
dent inspection of charities before dis
| tributing funds. Maybe it was a care
| fully concealed attempt to evade the
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I ties until the new taxes can be drawn
! upon.
The drafts issued today by Feed W
] Knapp. state auditor. and Walter Il
I Payne. state treasurer, are for $3S1--
516.40, or ten per cent of the taxes for
this year. The S5 per cent of state
taxes spent to this time brings the to-
| tai expenses from the tax fund to Oc-
tober l to S3,293, SS9.40. Fifteen per
| cent remaining for the payment of the
states bills until December 20 totals
S5S1,274.6O.
No Relief in Sight.
Not only is the state treasury run
ming low in available taxes in the
| hands of county treasurers, but the
| revenues from other sources are rap
/ idly being depleted. There are no
heavy fees coming this fall from the
| corporation tax or the inheritance tax
| The oil inspection fee is cut to 80 per
! cent of the former fee and the de-
partment is making a desperate ef-
| fort to maintain a minimum balance
| i'll order to evade further legal at
| tacks thru accumulation of anything
! like revenue producing fund. Sue
| cess in this undertaking has denied to
| the state new outside funds. Changes
! in the automobile license law does
not encourage accumulation of 2
healthy balance. And such a condi-
ton is being safeguarded. War prices
i for supplies and provisions for state
! institutions, backed by a threatened
heavy slump in fees in state schools.
tend to give the state administration
an opportunity for long hours of fig
ul'ing in meeting the financial prob
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