Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-08-02
APPROPRIATION BILL
OFFERED IN HOUSE
TOTALS $8,395,628
Representative Jones to Offer
Substitute Bill Following
Closely Figures of Last Year
With S7,500,O00 Total

The general appropriations bill, car
rying a total Of ss,395.s2s.64, was in
troduced in the house of representatives
Thursday morning. The measure, which
represents the result of several weeks
/ of exhaustive investigation by the
house appropriations committee. and a
special committee which operated dur
ing the vacation. exceeds the appropri-
atoms bill Of last year by more than
a million dollars. The appropriations
passed at the last session total $7.21S,-
SCOTS.
| Special appropriations amounting to
approximately 100000 are also contem-
plated by bills already pending so that
the total appropriations thus far rec
commended to the house amount to a
trife les than $4,000
To Offer Substitute
| Representative Garland NJ. Jones, of
Coweta- has prepared and will introduce
a substitute general appropriations bill
which, with a few exceptions, follows
| the figures of last years measure. The
total maintenance appropriations under
mfr. Jones bill are approximately $780,
900, which does not include any special
items. Mr.. Jones substitute contem-
plates increases in the appropriations
for the State Council of Defense, the
military department; the state santa
rum for the insane and the state board
of health. In practically all other par
ticulars his bill duplicates that passed
at the last session. His object in pre-
senting his substitute is to solve the
problem arising from disputes over the
appropriations for various educational
| institutions.
| Important Items
The most important items OF the gen.
eral appropriations bill as reported by
the committee are as follows:
/ For the maintenance of laboratories,
etc, OF the department of agriculture,
| 81 900.
| For the maintenance of the depart
ment Of agriculture. $4,000.
| Pure food department, $4,000.
State bureau Of markets, $4,000.
Live stock protection, $4,000.
/ Cattle tick eradication. $4,000.
Maintenance of prison department,
/ s11s, 900.
Pensions, s1,250,o0
State council of defense. $4,000.
Military funds, 100000.
State board of health, $4,000.
| Geological department maintenance,
! 81. 500.
Maintenance of the Academy for the
Blind, $4,000.
| School for the Deaf, 100000.
Georgia state sanitarium, ss45,0OO.
State sanitarium deficiency, s175,-
/ 600.
Soldiers home, $4,000.
State sanitarium for tuberculosis at
/ Alto, $4,000.
/ state university at Athens (mainte-
nance), $4,000.
| State College Of Agriculture Cmainte-
nance), $4,000.
State College of Agriculture (Smith
Lever fund.-, sSS,107.14.
State College of Agriculture (exten-
sion work., $4,000.
South Georgia Normal college. $780,
600.
University of Georgia summer school.
$500.
Georgia School of Technology, $780,
600.
Georgia Normal and Industrial col
lege, ss7,5o0.
Georgia Normal and Industrial col
| lege Cextension work., $4,000.
North Georgia Agricultural college
at Dahlonega, S26,5O0.
State Normal scholo at Athens, s67,-
500.
school for colored people at savan-
nah, $4,000.
State Medical College at Augusta, s1o,-
Oo0.
District Agricultural and Mechanical
schools, each $4,000.
Maintenance of the common schools,
| s3,TOO.OcO.
Smith-Hughes fund. $4,000.
Georgia Training School for Girls
| $4,000.
Public buildings, $4,000.
Public buildings deficiency, S2o'JoV'
Cnnar11 yrfrfiDp fund. $4,000.
To mature state bonds. 100000.
Interest on state debt, s24J,1sT.7o.
More for Schools
| The largest increase in the list of APP
propriations is that for common schools,
which is 100000 more than the last ap-
preparation. There also are increases In
the items for extension work and for
maintenance OF the various higher edu-
] catiOnal institutions.
The first item of the appropriation bill
/ TO be considered by the house, which
/ resolved itself into the committe OF
! the whole was the appropriation for the
! common schools of the state.
/ AS indicated by speeches made during
the consideration of the common schools
/ item in the bill, there are many mem
hers of the house who favor an increase
/ in the common school fund of a round
million dollars instead of half million.
| Considerable sentiment along this line
was evident during the discussion ana
it was not considered improbable that
the common school fund would be rails
| ed to $4,000, 900 before the matter was
finally settled.
| At the afternoon session of the house,
the common school item will come up
| for disposal and a decisive vote was an
ticipated after very little discussion.
Among the measures introduced
| Thursday morning was one by Mr..
| Jones, of Ebert changing the name of
the home guard to the Georgia State