Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-09-20
Of
$l47,S66 Met
By State Board

By State Board
Deficiency appropriations assre-
eating s147,s66 asked for by eleven
state institutions. departments,
and societies, were au-
thorized by the state emergency
board in session here Saturday as
follows:
Hospital for insane. $83,500.
Board Of health, $14,816.
Training school for boys, $4,000,
State department, $12,700.
Public service commission,
$4,000.
Supreme court library. $30vs.
Inspectors OF child labor. $3.50.
School for blind, $4,000.
Livestock sanitary commission,
$4,000.
State hygiene society. 5000.
Present at the session of the
board were Governor Olcott, Secre-
tary Of State Kozer. state Treasure,
Hoff, Seymour Jones. speaker of
the house: J. c. Smith of Grants
Pass chairman OF the senate ways
and means committee, and Herbert
Gordon, chairman of the house
ways and means committee. w. T..
vinton, president of the senate did
not attend.
The board was unanimous In its
action upon all the deficiency re-
quests.
Two Surprises Sprung.
Two surprises were sprung at the
session today. The first was In
the size. or the. deficiency facing
the state hospital for the insane
$SS.500--which has been previous
ly estimated at between $4,000
and $4,000. DR.. r. e, Lee Steiner
in his petition for the deficiency au-
thorization presented tabulated
table Of the maintenance expenses
OF the institution which showed a
pending shortage Of approximately
$4,000 in this one item alone relief
was extended. Increased costs Of
operating including an increase of
ten per cent in salaries of attend
ants and assistants at the hospitals
effective last March l. was respon-
sible for the greater part of this
deficiency. Deportation Of alien in
mates called for an additional Item
of $4,000, transportation Of patients
from the various counties to the
hospital required an additional
$500 and restocking the hospitals
dairy herd which has been mater
tally depleted through condemna-
tions by the state livestock sanitary
board required $1,000.
The second surprise Of the ses-
sion was sprung when Richard B.
Dillehunt, dean Of the University of
Oregon medical school who pre-
viously. had served motive Of pend
ing deficiency telephoned to say
the school would pass the oppor-
tunity to secure an emergency ap-
preparation at this session.
One Claim Increases.
The claim OF the state board OF
health originally filed as $8644 was
increased at the meeting to $14,816
to include an item Of $3,202 for
past treatment Of state charges at
the Cedars and another item of
$4,000 to cover state cases at that
institution during the remainder OF
the present bi-ennium.
In presenting the claim of the
public service commission for de-
ficiency appropriation of $4,000
Chairman Buchtel called attention
to the fact that whereas the work
of the commission had increased
four-fold in the past four years the
personnel of the commission had
been seriously depleted due to lack
of funds to employ competent ex-
perts and to retain experts In the
face of better salaries offered by
other state departments and pri-
vate corporations. At the present
time a total Of 110 cases were or
the dockets of the commission
awaiting attention, while the com
mission was six months behind In
its consideration of these cases be
cause of the lack of assistants.
The deficiency claims OF the
state department office are segre'
gated into two groups. One item Of
1880 will cover increases in sal
aries to accountants, clerks ano
stenographers in the secretary OF
states office. The other item oi
5000 will cover increase in sal