The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-05

amounting to from So to 40 per cent
were asked. General increases
mended in the bill providing for the
Topeka State Hospital and Wilson eX-
planned that this was to be done in
all other appropriation measures.
Senator Schoch made an eloquent
plea in behalf of the increases asked
in the Capper budget. He brough,
out the fact that Topeka and Shawnee
county are spending large sums in
public improvements at this time es-
pecially to give work to the returning
soldiers and sailors and that Nother
communities of the state are doing
likewise.
With individual communities doing
this. do we want the great state of
Kansas to indulge in so-called econ
omy practices?" he asked. with
Kansas boasting that she is out of
debt and with the greatest wheat crop
on record in prospect with a guaran-
teed price, Is this time to be penuri-
Gus and to save pennies when such
saving cramps the state institutions
and prevents the employment, of the
returning soldiers?"
After askingN these questions Schoch
brought out the fact that the Topeka
, State hospital has been crowded for
/ the last few months and that many
times in the last ten years it Also has
! been so crowded that new patients
! could not be taken care Of
| Schoch was Joined in his protest
| against cutting the appropriations
recommended in the budget by Sena-
, tor Getty of Wyandotte, who said:
Like the senator from Shawnee, 7.
too have a little pet lamb to look
after. 1t is true it is a black lamb
/ and has wool-it is the Western uni
! versity at Quindaro-but Il want to
see it get all that the state manager
| has recommended it have, and l am
opposed to having its appropriations
cut down by the ways and means
committee"
Senator Wilson announced that the
ways and means committee has agreed
| to cut all salary and wage increases at
! all the state institutions to 25 per cent
! and all maintenance and repair in
| creases to a like amount.
Coleman for Budget System.
Rolla w. Coleman then gained the
| floor and bitterly denounced this
! policy, unfolding the budget system
and asserting that the amounts asked
! for in the budget have been fixed by
/ the stateN manager. who has made a
special study of conditions while the
members of the ways and means COM
mittee have been unable to do this.
"As 1 understand it, the ways and
/ means committee is making sweep
4 ing rule to cut all increases to 25 per
cent regardless of conditions and in
! the face of scientific Investigations
efficiency and ability have been proved
by his record in the past"
| Would the senator from Johnson
have the ways and means committee
done away with entirely and have the
senate rely solely upon the recon-
mendations made in the budget?'
Senator Wilson asked.
81 most certainly would not" Cole
man replied 81 would retain it and
where an investigation showed that
| changes be made in appropriations
recommended in the budget, 1 would
conditions as they are now being
made
Coleman asserted that in the old
days when the institutions maintained
| Hobbies and when there was no budget
| system, large appropriations always
were asked,-because it was taken for
| granted that they would be cut, and
the amounts were increased so thai
they would about meet requirements
after being sliced
Thinks Attention Insufficient.
! But things are different now" he
said. I'VE have a scientific system oil
| figuring the needs of the institutions
! and l think we should give our new
/ budget system more consideration thar
it apparently is being given by the
ways and means committee
Senator Pomeroy suggested that the
budget was made while the nation
was at war and while there was no in
dication there would be a decrease il
prices but that now the war is over
the commodities needed may be ex-
pected to become cheaper
Upon the vote of the senate tbs
motion of Senator Schoch lost an6
the recommendation of the ways an(
means committee were upheld.
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