Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-27
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MeCaIa'H statement

The chairman of the Committee on
Appropriations of the House of Rep
resentatives, William ]: MeCaig, is
sued the following statement:
During the session the committee
was confronted with a request for
appropriations to the extent of about
$3.50, ,000,0 600. In dIseharging the du-
ties connected with the work of this
committee 1t Is only reasonable that
the committee deal with the PROPOSE
tion as would a businessman with his
own affairs and to that end IL was
necessary, first Of ALL to ascertain
the outside limit of the amount to
which we could make appropriations.
During the session of 1917 appropria-
ton bills of all sorts were passed ag-
gregatfng between SS5,000,000 and
sS6, 900. 900. During the past two
years the activities of the Auditor
Generals Department were such that
a largely increased amount of reve-
nue. was collected and covered into
the State Treasury to the extent of
our being convinced that the reve-
nues of the Commonwealth for the
next two years would approximate
sos, 100000. Since that conclusion was
reached the present session of the
Legislature passed some laws which
Will lHCIGdSe Ine state s
revenues in the next two years to the
extent of possibly S103.000.00 or
S104. 900, 900. Based upon these latter
figures the committee felt justified in
recommending to the Legislature bills
aggregating $104,000,000 and we fully
expect that appropriation bills aggre-
eating that amount, which will in
due course reach the Governor, will
| be approved by him.
During the entire session both the
Senate and House committees worked
in complete harmony and in harmony
with the administration. The extent
to which this harmony has prevailed
is most forcibly set forth in the fact
that conference committees have been
appointed upon but two appropria-
tion bills during this session, fact
| not known in previous sessions. The
committee has had large problems
with which to deal and feels that the
work it has done will meet with the
hearty approval by the people of the
Commonwealth"
Snyder's Good Work
1t is interesting to note in connec-
ton with the management of the
Auditor Generals office under Charles
A. Snyder. the present Auditor GEN
eral, that at the end of his first full
fiscal year in office, to wit, Novem-
Der 30 1918, he collected, under the
various laws providing for the reve-
nues of the Commonwealth, the sum
of $44,165.36S.74 as against the sum
of $31.700,4S9.35 collected during the
last year of his predecessor. or an in
crease of s12, 1888. During the
same period disbursements were
made to the amount of $42, 2,407,064 80
as against s29. 9.360.493.19 during the
previous year. At the end of the fis-
cal year the treasury also showed a
balance of $9,SsS.9SS.55.
The Auditor General, early in his
administration adopted and put into
practice a businesslike and scientific
method of taxation as provided by
the several Acts of Assembly. The
result speaks for itself The collec-
tions for the first half of the pres
ent fiscal year amount to $23,556,-
771.70 indicating a total collection for
the, present year of $41.t13. 543.40.
or an increase of very close to Ss.-