The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1919-09-11
MONEY FOR NECESSARY
EXPENDITURES ONLY
Misinf0rmatiOn Being Given Out to
Discredit Present Administration

Boise, Idaho Sept. lit is apparent
from the official figure that consider
able misinformation has been distrib-
uted over the state either for political
effect adverse to the present state ad
ministration or innocently in the guise
Of hastily written news stories. Those
WHO are concerned In the matter from
the standpoint of opposition to the Re
publican administration are pretending
to make it appear that world of mon
ey Is being expended in excess of the
normal or necessary expenditures.
This is far from the truth as the
official records show.
What Alexander Left.
To begin with, the present state adj
ministration was left legacy of ST.
621 ,313.11 by the Alexander admins
tration, that it had to provide in or.
der to re-establish the states credit
and place Idaho on a cash basis.
From 1915 to 1918 both inclusive
the Alexander administration deliber-
ately failed to levy $606,313.11 which
was necessary to meet the expenses
that the Alexander administration it.
self incurred This deficiency had to
be met by the last legislature and the
present administration.
Moreover, when the late Governor
Haines turned the reins of admins,
tration over to Governor Alexander
there was an actual cash balance of
$747, 900 In the treasury. This was
all used by the Alexander administra-
ton. The Alexander administration
also spent for expenses 1921 900 insur-
ance for the soldiers home and the
Lewiston normal school fires $50,0OC
that was provided for the Snake river
bridge and $4,000 similarly provided
for the Gem irrigation district
All these items total nearly $1,625,.
600. In addition the Alexander admin.
istration created "A deficiency in 1915
of $217 1880 in current expenses.
This total of $1,S50,0OO represents
the cost in money to this state Of the
Alexander administration. In other
words, it was in the red that much
and the present administration had t.
make it up.
/ Limit ON Bonds.
The present administration was alst
with the fact that the constitutions
limit on bonded Indebtedness of 50,
100000 had been reached within les.
than $4,000, so 1t was necessary, il
order to defray the growing expenses
OF state government, which had in
creased in harmony with expenses o
every business and every family in tn,
state, to make appropriation and lev.
direct tax. But for this constitution
al limitation, much of this none.
would have been raised by bond is
sues, thereby avoiding direct taxation
1t will be recalled that S9S0.000 wal
appropriated for highways to whicl
there can be no objection by thos,
, who are interested in the growth ant
luCttibilultHI VI tIt SldLt. Vie nun
dred and seventeen thousand dollar
was appropriated for tuberculosis hos
pitfalls, which are certainly needed il
view of the spread of the white plague
, in Idaho. In addition there was ap
] propriated $911.267 for the followin,
I items:
Com Il fri tra DiefY~int H110
Idaho Techinal Institute. land. $50
10000, Soldiers Settlement Board
2 $100,00000 Soldiers Memorials, $50
|. 10000 Lava Hot Springs Improvement
!. S52.00000 Snake river improvements
$30,00000; Kootenai river bridge, so
900; StarMcCall state highway, $75
D 900; Spokane river improvements, $25
!, 600; Arrow Rock road. $1,000; She
shone Falls park. $4,000; Soldier
Home rebuilding, $4,000 State Pen
Tertiary improvements, $4,000; Nortl
{ ern Idaho Insane asylum, 100000
Idaho Insane asylum and hospita
, $12.500: Idaho State Sanitarium built
II ing. $100,000.00: University of Idah
buildings. S74.361: Idaho Technics
: Institute building. $4,000; Industri;
! Training school building. $67,700
School for the Deaf and Blind $63
l $50: Total SOIL. 267.00.
\ All these improvements were con
} paratively necessary for the state &c
} tainly has to take care of its institl
items and of those unfortunates depel
q, Mt upon it and to do everything pc
sible to promote development,
Strict Economy.
If there shall be eliminated item
for highways. tuberculosis hospital
etc, which amount to $2,000.000 al
which, but for the constitutional lin
on bonded indebtedness, would ha'
been secured by a bond issue. 1t
plain to he seen that the last legi