Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-03-23
AMPLE FUNDS PROVIDED
FOR STATE INSTITUTIONS
Former Appropriations and Deficits
Furnish Basis for New
BILL
INCREASE VETERANS, PENSIONS

Thorough Digest OF Pruncd Budget
Discloscs Fact That Various De-
partmcnts Have Received Liberal
Treatment by General Assembly.
Despite the million dollar cut made
in the Legislatures general appropri-
alton bill. stat" institutions are still
allowed increased appropriations equal
10 tho combined allowances and de-
fclts OF tho two Immediately preced
ing years. II was learned yesterday.
when the bill WAS reviewed in the
Governors oiilce with the assistance
Of his private secretary Colonel Leroy
hodges. economist and efficiency an
alyst. In some cases an additional sum
has been allowed for emergencies that
might grow out of increased expenses
due to war conditions
IT was alfo learned. from other
sources that the appropriations OF the
1916 Legislature and the ensuing de-
ncits were taken as a basis for re.
adjusting tho bill after the Cover
nor had his first conference with the
conference committee appointed by the
Legislature to readjust tho bill SO that
its allowances could be brought with
IN the estimated revenue OF the State
Tor the next two years.
Analysis of the present bill shows
instances. Confederate pensions AFRO
Increased 70 Si.5o0.000 from sl,46e.oon:
virginia Home and Industrial Schoo,
lot Girls, in Chesterfield County, Is
given I'm increase OF $4,000 in the sec
ond-year allowance. and the civil con-
tlnseh' iund OF general government
expense Is raised 10 $4,000 from 500
900. The latter increase was especIally
insisted upon by tho Governor for the
reason that no allowance whatever hod
n"en made % make the State budget
Jaw effective. The $1,000 will be spent
'or surveys through which mistakes
similar TO that which brought the loo.
is,ators back to Richmond canno, =.
repeated. The bill creating this law
originally contained an augmentation
LOT this purpose, but for come u,ex
p'ained reason was stricken from !,
hcfore its passage.
MANY CUTS PARTLY DUE To
HoN1fS0R's STRONG ATTITUDE
some Of the biggest cuts noted in
tne OH are partly due to the Cover
nor hehef that the present is no time
10 erect new buildings. since NJ.
non needs much building material and
nrices are consequently much higher
'hah re thinks they VIII he after tho
war closes The largest loss in an
FORMATIONS is accredited to TIE va
'!ouS state hospitals in the different
~ e state ana TO the epilep-
, nc co!ony. Just little lees than So
ooo 900 was appropriated in the orig.
maj bill for these TIL. confar.n,.
committee shaved off s2Sa.ooo.
me next largest cut was from tho
"pp,opfEttion for roads which or;o
,nahs amounted In sl.s5o.E0o. rho cn.
VAS $4,000. This Is said TO be annia
49, care OF any Federal fund nnw
aEaiiablc TO Virginia. and IN n,,.r
zee an early beginning on t,a Gu
nishway system. for which prov,sion
vas Hladc by the Legislature.
me state Superintendent or r,,,,,
Instruction will not suffer anv saler',
reorease' since the Governor recadaS
rom MS desire TO have tho cur ,nad.
m"en ne learned that the preceding
superintendent had been alIowos M
tain fees. The department bs,dad I1 -,
. nc superintendent however. had
,',oo" shaved from its appropriations
'otaling s5.GO600o - ''o's
MANY STATE INsTITUTIoSs
Will. FEEL "PRUSING" KNIFE
me -FOUR State normal school were
originally allowed s5ss.O0O. The ,ost
Only $4,000 OF this amount The Nedi-
Solese or Virginia. at Richmond.
nnu us hospital lost $4,000 of ira
$4,000 appropriation, and the mil
rersity suffered pruning OF $4,000
from It's allowance OF S334ooO for IT.
sell and its hospital Virginia Poly
.echnie Institute lost $4,000 from its
s"so'c"o. Appropriations to other
schools and colleges were not changed.
The Penitcntiary and the Statn
farm appropriations, amounting to
S36l .10o. We're cut jus; s30.150 and tho
Virginia Home and Industrial School
Tor Girls lost $4,000 OF it's total an
preparation OF s76.100. although an ad-
c'tional $4,000 was given it for sec
ond years work.
General expenses of government.
originally s760.000. were cut to an even
100000. The Department OF Pub,fa
Printing lost s3l.7OO of it's s169.SS).
the Corporation Commission, $4,000 OF
It's Slao.000' the legislative reference
bureau. $500 of its $4,000: the Com
missioner of Labor. $3.50 OF his $40
400; the Division Of Markets. $4,000
OF it's $4,000; the Board of Health
$4,000 OF its $4,000: and Commits
sioner OF Insurance Joseph Button lost
each of the salaries allowed him under
the Soy Scouts appropriation and tho
Prohibition Commissioner.
CHARGES FOR REPAIRS
TO MANSION DEI.ETIsD
All OF the $4,000 at first allowed for
repairs to the Executive Mansion ami
the Governors Office was stricken from,
the bill at tho express request of tho
Governor. who was not pleased with
criticism directed toward the item oy
members of the House of Delegates
The Governor insisted upon this dele
tion in spite of the fact that every new
Governor coming into the Mansion in
recent years has been allowed sums at
least equal that called for in the bill
Governor Stuart had recommended tho
items. anyway, 1t was stated.
Appropriations for agricultural pur-
poses and Cntawba work were not dis
turbed, nor were any others EXCEPT
salary increases in a few instances.
State employees drawing less than
$500, who had been given increases.
were also left alone.
Governor Davis is confident that the
institutions OF the State can live well
within the sums allotted to them by
the new bill. He is determined to see
that all officials make an effort to keep
their expenditures as low as possible