Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-16
SNYDER GETS SN
MANY MILLIONS
Remarkable Showing by the
Auditor Generals Depart
ment in a Short Time

Clearing up of long unsettled state
taxation accounts and prompt dis
patch of business have enabled the
Auditor Generals Department to
show receipts for the first three and
half months of the present fiscal
year, to run over $7,000,000 more
than the receipts for the similar
period of last year and in spite of
disbursements twice as large as in
the same time, to show $4,000, 900
In the State Treasury on March IL.
The facts disclosed by a report made
by Auditor General Charles A. Sny-
der, on the finances, show a remark
able condition of affairs as regards
state finances in the midst of war
and closer collections than for
years. The interesting fact about
the situation is that in all the gath
ering in of the cash for the state
practically none has come in
through the escheat law and only a
comparatively small sum by means
of the stock transfer tax. Quite
substantial amount was secured by
settling up cases which had been
found by Mr.. Snyder on assuming
office to have been dragging along,
some of them for several years.
The report will make good the
prediction of Auditor General Sny-
der at the end of the last fiscal year,
when he said that while receipts for
that period would run about S5,-
los Il i A.,
the new fiscal year would break the
record. 1t is now believed that Mr..
Snyder's first year will run millions
ahead of the record of $35,000,000.
When Mr.. Snyder took office last
May, he found many corporation tax
settlements pending and faced one
of the worst conditions in regard to
papers relative to taxation that has
confronted any Auditor General in
recent years. 1t required months OF
work on the part of his corporation
and accounts bureaus to get things
Strengthened out. but the figures
establish what has been accomplish
ed without brass band accompanie-
ment.
The balance in the State Treasury
on March IL, was $10,233, 3,479.36 or
$2,353, ,454.47 more than on the same
at any time since the early days of
the administration of Auditor GEN
eral y. T.. Sisson, who retired in
1913, after establishing record.
However, demands under appro-
pratons will make hole in the cash
balance in the next thirty days. The
big balance has not been accumulat-
ed by deferring payments, but by
raking in the shekels.
The figures for March 12, which
was just before the Capitol pay day
came around, show that in less than
three and a half months the re-
ceipts were, S17,090,932.42 against
$1O,OSS,166.36 in the previous year.
the increase of $7,002. .766.06 being
due to the hard work of the corpora
tion tax settlement bureau in over
coming the accumulated settlements
and quick handling of business.
Payments by State Treasurer II.
NJ. kephart's department which
dlsburses on warrants. from the Au-
ditor General, maintained higher
rate than in the same period of
1917. The disbursements reported
were S14,93S, 1917 against $7.94S,-
S29.42, an increase of s6,9S9,3O7.75.
The balance in the Treasury would
have undoubtedly been larger if the
escheat law had been in operation.
According to officers of the Au-
ditor Generals Department, the
showing has been made without ad-
ditional sources of revenue to speak
oof, the direct Inheritance tax not
having commenced to produce as it
will before long. The prompt ad-
Justment of taxes is given as the
reason for the satisfactory showing.
and the results attest that settle
ments are not accommodating in files
in the department vaults.
The escheat law will commence to
produce in a few years. Funds re-
ported as liable under that act will
not be receivable under three years,
while the direct inheritance tax law
will commence to prove the money
maker expected about summer time.
Officials in the department conf
IDENTIFY expect the receipts for the
year TO run around S40,000,000.