The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-09
1919 Legislature Broke All APP
preparation Records.
Amounts, However, Way Below
Capper Recommendations.
UNIVERSITY GETS BIG SUM
Its Total Appropriations
Amount to $2,14S,332.43.
Charitable Institutions Given
More Than 2 Million.

The recent Kansas legislature spent
S14, ,205s s1S3.15-or s3.036, 6,617.64 more
than any previous law making body
in this state, according to a report to-
day by Fred w. Knapp, state auditor.
Appropriations, however. were sS24,-
1887 below the recommendations
contained in the budget of Governor
Arthur Capper before his retirement
from office. They were nearly $780,
600 in excess of the recommended
of Auditor Knapp for the same pur-
poses.
Never in the history of the state
have appropriations even closely APP
preached the total expended by the
1919 legislature War time prices and
demands for betterments neglected by
preceding legislatures and state adj
ministrations as well as an enormous
deficiency in several institutions and
departments, brought the apropria-
tions above the IA million mark.
Big Yearly Appropriations.
Appropriations by the 1919 legisla-
ture for the present fiscal year-end>
ing June 30--amount to $754.34O.30.
Funds available for 1920 total s6S94,-
22S.65 and those for 1921 amount to
6,556, 1920. Much of the money
availa BILE for this year covers deficien-
cies and emergency appropriations in
cluding legislative expenses. Auditor
-
expense of 1857. .045.21, did not in
clude in his budget the legislative ex-
penSe and a number of emergency
items included in the expenditures
OF the total appropriations for the
next biennum. total of SIS, 5,6S3, ,010.6 Sc
goes to the big state schools. The
schools receive the lions share of the
state funds. The state university and
state agricultural college receive prac-
| tically S4,000.00O for the biennum, as
/ n cToi CT % M
| two years ago.
State University Leads.
The state university is the greatest
| individual recipient of state aid Its
appropriations at the hands of the re-
| cent legislature total 81, S,332.43. of
which but $64, ,102.43 will be available
before June 80. Next year the school
aid amounts to $1,1S3, 500. The state
agricultural college receives $1,793.-
453.45 for the biennum. An allowance
of 1881. 1.0f3.65 is made for 1920 and
1892, ,703.20 for 1921.
Following the educational institu-
tions. the second greatest state ex-
! pense is in the executive and judicial
/ budget. Appropriations for the state
house and state departments total
S4,132.497.60.
A total of s325.00O is provided for
coal at state institutions during the
next two years. This sum will be used
in addition to the total fuel output
from the state prison mines at Lansing.
Printing Plant Gets $4OS,417.'
! The state printing plant receives
| $4OS,417, while $246,400 goes to the
| adjutant generals office. The public
| utilities commission was given a fund
| of $120,S00, while the state supreme
court receives $126,091.62. The bank
| commissioners office receives $126,-
| 700. while $136,499 was appropriated
| for the board of health. The board of
administration was given a fund of
| $113.400 and the executive council
! S264,150 including 100000 for state
Z house repairs. Funds for industrial
and normal training and for state SUI
perintendent of instruction total $376.-
| 600.
State charitable institutions receive
! s2,345,15 The big Topeka state hos
pital receives $700,5O0 and Osawato-
mie hospital $597,150. Demand for
state aid in the fight on the white
plague won appropriation of s2O9.-
600 for the state sanitarium. at Norton.
of the appropriation of $1.546. 6.S24.S9
for state penal institutions, $742,113.06
will be used at Lansing prison. The
| Hutchinson reformatory received
| $316.4h.S3 and the Boys Industrial
school at Topeka was given s17S. 300.
| In appropriations fer patriotic institu-
tions, Fort Dodge soldiers home re-
ceives $445,200, while Mother Bicker-
dyke home draws s52.50O
fCouffnued ON mage sly ,