Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-13
ADMINISTRATION FACTION FlAkS
TO CUT INSTITUTIONAL AP.
PREPARATIONS.
LEGISLATURE DIVIDED
OVER ALLEGED DEFICIT
Senate Inclined to Favor Meeting SIT.
uat;oH VIA, Increased. Taxes-Heuse
Committee Chairman Biares Execu.
tive Council For Failure to Antici-
pate Expenditures.

Special to Times Republican.
Des AIoines, Feb. lS.-How TO meet
| the alleged deficit III the state treasury
wn.ch Gov. W. l.. Harding declares
Will amount to practically Sl,5o0,oO0 on
June 80 next Is now the chief matter in
the minds Of the members OF the ThiT-
ty-sevenlh general assembly Of Iowa
II IS apparent that Iwo methods meet
with favor with the members OF the
senate for meeting this condition.
One is 10 raise the state levy. The
other IS 70 cut down on the appropT!a-
tt:ons especially for the state educa-
tional institutions and the institutions
under the board of control.
In the house the administration fol-
lowers will oppose any raising OF the
tax levy. They viii favor cutting
down OF appropriations as much as
possible.
New methods Of handling the states
funds are being suggested Secretary
Davidson. OF the state executive coun-
Gil, believes 1t would be a good plan 10
make the state treasurer the depository
for the moneys used by the state edu-
cational institutions and have the
funds paid out by the state treasurer
just as are the board OF control funds,
instead of having them deposited IN
the college treasures 10 be paid out by
the college treasurers. Ii is claimed.
however, that these funds are seldom
held any length Of time in the college
treasures but are promptly checked
out Secretary Davidson suggests that
if they were in the state treasury they
would help TO create a working bal
anCe.
Favor Working Fund.
Many of the legislators believe that
there should be working fund in the
state treasury TO take care of just such
conditions as have recently arisen
Governor Carroll first advocated the
doing away with any working fund OF
any consequence. He believed il was
unnecessary. The same idea was car
ried out by the Thirty fifth and the
Thirty sixth general assemblies and
these two bodies not only failed to pro-
vide a working fund but did not certify
sufficient funds to meet all of the ex-
penditures which they authorized.
II is also pointed out by those favor
ing the plan of providing a working
fund that the appropriations made by
the legislature take effecr July l while
the money TO pay them does not come
IN until the following March or April
so that there is quite period Of time
before these funds can be had. This
necessitates a working balance, it is
pointed out.
Senator Foskett. chairman OF the
senate appropriations committee. be.
iieves that an additional levy will have
to be raised TO meet the condition. He
also favors cutting down appropria
tons.
representative Bob Johnson. Of
Humboldt county. chairman of the
house appropriations committee. de-
clares that the trouble is with The ex-
eCutive council for not making a suffi
GENTLY high Levy. He says the council
talked about their cutting down the
state levy as tho it was something 20
be proud of when as a matter Of fact
the council should never have cut the
levy.