The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-03-22
APPROPRIATIONS MADE
. NO PROVISION FOR CASH
SAYS MORE MONEY SPENT THAN
WILL COME INTO THE
TREASURY.

Did the members of the Fourteenth
session of the legislature make appro-
priations far in excess of the money
possessed by the state to pay them?
asks the Statesman.
Or is Governor Alexander libeling
the legislature--his democratic legs-
propriating money that is not in the
state treasury and can not be put in
the treasury in the next two years?
The governor insists that the APP
preparations far exceed the estimated
receipts, making it necessary that he
Veto bills totaling several hundred
thousand dollars If he is to save the
state government from bankruptcy.
Didn't Ask Treasurer
Asked if the governor had visited
his Office, or called him into a confer
ence for the purpose of learning how
much money the state has ON hand.
and what the financial condition of
treasurer, replied that the chief exec
utive had not talked with him about
moneys in the treasury. But neither
did members of the Legislative COM
mittee on appropriation discuss fin
ances with the state treasurer. he
says.
T,S n,.in no nd lan
islature authorized an ad valorem tax
levy of $1,000,000 annually That will
permit the state to raise $2,000,000 in
the years 1917 and 1918. AT the same
time, the legislature voted bond is
sue of $1,000,000 for the building of
good roads. The $S.000,000, the legis-
lature estimated, would be ample to
take care of appropriations, since the
state gets more than $1,000,0OO year
from interest on school funds, IL
renses of one kind and another, cor
poration taxes, income taxes. etc.
Two Years Ago.
Two years ago the legislature made
appropriations totalIng $2,1Si,576.50,
md fixed the ad valorem tax at $780,
poo annually. But the state board of
fixed the state tax levy
FOR 1915 at $S1O,olS.3l. and in 1916 at
1855, 3244S
The bond issue for the building of
highways will take care of the $1,000
300 for the construction of roads, and
ieducting it from the grand total of
S4,250,000 appropriated by the last
legislature leaves but $3,250,000 to be
raised by taxation and from other
sources.
The money raised by the state
through direct taxes in 1915 and 1916
to $1,496,342.79. The APP
made for the same two
years totaled $2,1S4,576.50. The diff
ference between the taxes and the APP
was $688, 233.71. That
had to be made up from moneys re-
ceived by the state from other
sources
The legislature has provided a tax
levy of $2,000,000 for 1917 and 1918.
Against that it has made appropria-
tons totaling approximately $780,
900, thus making it necessary for the
state to take in $1,25O,O00 over and
above its tax levy.
Seem to Run Short.
If the receipts to the state in 1917
and 1918 available for the running ex-
penses of the different departments of
the state government are not greater
than in 1916 and 1917 it would look as
though the Legislature had gone home
and left appropriations of more than
100000 which can not be met since
IL increased the tax levy but little
more than 100000 and increased the
appropriations over those of two
years ago by a trifle over $1,000.OO0,
not including the road expenses which
the bond issue will care for.
There is balance remaining in
nearly all Of the funds set aside for
the different departments and institu-
tions, but no one seems to know just
how much money will be available
from that source. The governor says
he doesn't know. and insists that no
me else knows as yet.