Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-03-02
Vas directed, yet the present assembly

was directed, yet the present assembly
With estimated receipts and expendt-
lures before it, for the period ending
June 80 next, finds there will be a
shortage in funds amounting to ST.
1851. The combined statement to
the legislature of the treasurer of
state and the auditor of state, shows
that on the first day of last January
there was cash balance in the treas
ury of $116,247. At the same time
there were outstanding and unpaid
warrants amounting to $2S7 SAL, leav-
Ing net overdraft of s171,294. 1t
was estimated that the receipts from
all sources up to the first of July
will be $4,123, 200 and that all appro-
priations authorized to be drawn by
that date amount to $5,437,417. These
figures show difference of 1884,
217, to which should be, added the
January LIST overdraft of $171,294,
making an actual deficiency in the
state exchequer at that time of ST.
1851, an increase of $923,O39 over
the deficiencySof two years previous.
viii Order a Working Balance Kept
The legislators are finding no waste
of funds and no intention from any
source of a raid on the treasury, but
they are determined that the present
condition should not exist in Iowa,
and that the council should be in
structed to make a state levy large
enough not only to take care of cur
rent and past unpaid appropriations,
but also large enough to create a
good-sized working balance in the
treasury at all times.
The manner in which taxes are col
lected and forwarded to the state
treasury is given as one of the ex-
plantations for the shortage. II the
taxes due the first of January OF each
year and payable the first of March
and the first of September, were all
paid in March, the treasury under the
present regime could come very close
to running on a cash basis. Allow
ing half Of the taxes due to be defer
red until September, the biennial per-
iod closes in a condition which moth
ing but heavy working surplus can
obviate.
Looks "BOne DRY" sure.
OF all the temperance measures be-
fore the legislators only one, the pro-
hibitory resolution, has completed Its
journey Of both houses and received
the signature of the governor. Two
or three regulatory measures and one
"bone dry" bill have gone through the
senate. The bone dry measure was
one introduced by Senator Whitmore,
of Wapello. The stringent features
of the measure are that it makes the
place of delivery of liquor the place
of sale, and declares land in any case
sale in which the shipment or deliv-
cry of such liquors is made by COM
mon or other carrier, the sale thereof
shall be deemed to be made in the
county wherein the delivery thereof
is made by the carrier to the consig-
nee" Senators who discussed the bill
held that it would prevent the bring
ing into Iowa in any manner any Ii
quors. They hold that the words "or
other carrier" would absolutely pro-
hibit the carrying of liquor in auto
mobiles or any conveyance whatever,
in the state, and that it would forbid
the shipment of liquor for sacra-
mental or mechanical or medicinal
purposes. Senator Whitmore declared
the intention of the bill was to make
an air tight measure, so far as boot
leggers are concerned, but in answer
to a question he said that he did not
think it would prevent person
bringing liquor in for his own use,
nor would it forbid him splitting a
bottle with a friend as a courtesy,
but not as a sale. Senator Whitmore
has another measure in the hands of
temperance which, like the old mulct
law, may modify and loosen up the
drier statute. It defines the limitation
as to the amount of liquor a person
may have in his possession for per-
sonal use. As the measure is drawn
It will be unlawful to possess an
amount of more than two quarts Of
whiskey and twenty-four quarts Of
beer at any one time for personal use.
An effort was made recently by the
senator to withdraw this bill from
further consideration of the senate,
but an objection was raised, and it is
likely to be voted out of committee
now and the senators will be COM
PEELED to go on record as to its pro-
vision. The vote was 81 for to IS
against. No test of the temperance
strength has been made in the house,
but the members of that branch of the
assembly are said to be more nearly
unanimous for any measure that will
swat booze than are the senator's.
For Taxation of Terminals.
The railroad terminal taxation bill
is again before the assembly, intro
duced in the senate by Kimball, Of
Pottawattamie. Under the present
method of assessing railway property
for taxation the assessment is spread
equally over all the mileage of the
roads at certain valuations per mile.
The friends of terminal taxation say
this method is unfair to the cities. Ell