Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-02-08
REDUCTIONS or MORE THAN
SEVEN MILLION DOLLARS m
b.. BUDGET RECOMMENDED
BY GOVERNOR. %
SUGGESTS CHANGE IN LAW
REFERRING TO ESTIMATES
Contends That Date In Present Meas.
ure for Submitting Estimates Does
Not Give Executive SuffIcicnt II
Time to Make Up Budget
InteIiigcntiy.

st. Paul, Jan. 81. - Reductions
amounting to more than seven million
dollars I'm the budget estimates Of
state institutions, departments and
boards are recommended In a special
message transmitted to the legislature
with the printed budget, containing
the original estimates.
The Governors address in full is as
follows: =
Gentlemen of the Senate and House OF
Representatives:
Pursuant to Chapter use. Session
Laws Of 1915, am herewith trans
hitting to you the estimates OF the APP
preparations asked for by the various
state departments, boards, institutions
and activities for the period from
August /, 1917, to July 81, 1919, to-
gether with my revision Of the same.
A Suggested Change In the Present
Law.
The present law provides that the
estimates shall be submitted to the
Governor not later than December first
preceding the session Of the Legisla-
true and that the Governor shall as
semble the estimates and In consulta-
ton with the chief executive officers.
not later thar December thirty-first.
make final revision thereof, causing
the budget to be printed and submitted
to the Legislature not later than Feb.
ruary iirst. Several departments were
unable to submit estimates on the date
specified making 1t impossible to COM
plete the required accounting work un.
I'll December twenty.ninth. on which
day conference OF the chief executive
officers OF the state was held at the
Office Of the Governor. At this and
subsequent conferences. said officers
were unanimously of the opinion that
the giving OF hearings upon the es.
Inmates to those interested therein
and the ascertaining or all the facts
In connection Herewith would be i'm,
possible In the short time allotted to
them for this work. therefore re-
commend that the date for submitting
the estimates be changed from Decem
her first to August fifteenth. This
would allow each department two
weeks after the end of the fiscal year
for the preparation OF its estimate
and give the Governor q reasonable
length of time before the session fol-
an examination into each aud every
item requested, Under the conditions
which exist this year II has been I'm
possible for me to go into such detail
and make such investigation as had
hoped would be possible, but wish
to submit for your consideration thu
following recommendation and the re
vision of the estimates as hereto ap
pended a ss
Total Appropriations Requested.
II the reductions herein recommend
cd are not made, the appropriation
TO the various departments and insti
tutiens for the year ending July 81
1918, would total approximately $l2
s64,aot and for the year ending Jul,
81, 1919, Sl4,lsS.aSi, making the tota
for the biennium the sum Of $2T, 0OS
| 1S2. The original estimates of expen
dltures as submitted by various on
Gals to the Governor for the tw,
| year period ending sJuly 81. 1919. ar,
therefore $9.So7.as0 higher than tn,
appropriations for the current bien
MUM. but II the eliminations herein
after suggested are adopted by tn
Legislature there will scarcely be an
Increase In the tax rate for the mex
hiennium. as the state auditors es
Inmates. herewith submitted to 70,
show that receipts for the next tw
fiscal years will be somewhat highe
than for the present biennium. TIL
receipts from railroad taxes and othe
indirect sources for 1918 are estimate
at $S.423, 100 and for 1919 Mt $7,s3s, 20,
| Emergency Fund.
In the enrolling OF appropriate
bills, errors are sometimes discovere
after the Legislature adjourns wher,
by items are omitted with no one a,
thorixed TO correct mistakes. Their
are also times when the Legislator
IL not In session that emergencis