The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-10-08
A RECORD UNPARALLELED
Jefferson CITY. Mo. Oct, 4

the Missouri State Treasury go loni
way to establish which was the mos
economical, efficient and result-pro
ducing administration, the Gardner
neutrality-suspicious. regime which il
rapidly drawing to an end, or that O.
the "mystrious stranger" with Her
bert S. Hadlcy controlling the execu
tive reins which abruptly terminated
in January, 1918.
Here are the balances in the State
Treasury, all funds, and also the State
general revenue fund, alone, in ever
figures, as they stood on the morning
of the two days, September %, in
1912, and eight years later, in 1920
The facts and figures tell the tale for
themselves.
Balance, State Treasury, Sept. %
1912.
Grand Total, all funds-$3,Ol5,000.
State general revenue fund--$87O.-
600,
Balance State Treasury, Sept. %,
1920.
Grand total, all funds-$9,2 44,000.
, State general revenue fund, $685.,
900.
The highest State record as to total
of all moneys in Missouri's treasury,
present and past administrations, was
attained on September 7, 1920, just
three weeks ago, when the balance, all
in glittering yellow gold or the exact
equivalent, was $l2,446,000. Since
then nearly $3,500,000 in gold has been
divided between and paid to the public
school fund of Missouri's ia counties,
leaving the balance on Sept. %, 1920
at the comfortable and assuring sum of
$9'244,000.
And the best part of all is that the
bills Of Missouri up to September l,
1920, are paid, and the difcit Of 3d.
100000 which existed when Governor
Gardne~, Treasurer Middlelamp and
Secretary of State Sullivan took Off
cial charge of the affairs of Missouri
and ali accrued interest, discounts and
similar obligations, have been fully
and legally wiped out.
; Deficiencies, "Mysteriuos Strang-
er's" Regime.
In a speech on Sept. IS, 1920, at
Cape Girardeau, Arthur NJ. Hyde, the
republican candidate for Governor,
using information which was prepared
by a newspaperman, republican in pol
itics, and clerks in the office of George
(. Hackman, the present Republican
State Auditor, asserted that no def |
ciencies were handed down to the Ma
jor ADMINISTRATION from the four-year
period Wien Hadley was Governor of
Missouri, but, instead, there was
passed along surplus in the States
gener revenue fund Of 81 500, 900. How
correct these facts and figures are is
shown by tie Sixty-three deficiency
appropriations the General Assembly
of 1911 made to meet the unpaid bills
of Missouri for the first two years of
the regime of the Mysterious Strang-
er" the years 1909 and 1910, and, then
in 1917, to meet the still larger de-
ficiencics of last two years of the Had
ley epoch, 1911 and 1912.
The total deficiency appropriations
the four years of the Hadley term,
amounted to nearly $618,000.000. To
To cover the Hadley administration
deficiencies of 1909 1910, the Forty
sixth General Assembly, which met
in 1911, had to appropriate $685.
The Forty-seventh General Assembly |
in early 1913, to cover the Hadley adj
ministration deficiencies of the two
years, 1911 and 1912, had to appro-
pirate $32S,244, not considering $751; |
600 which also had to be appropriated |
and paid to meet the cost Of the tenn |
porary Capitol building erected after
the fire in 1911 which destroyed the
old State House.
Major Administration Paid Hadley
I Deficiencies
States Indebtedness, totaling $685. |
244 which ought to have been defray- |
ed during the Hadley administration,
went over unpaid into the year 1913 |
and to save MisGouri's credit, high
standing and financial reputation, had |
to be paid out of the general revenue
fund which rightfully belonged to the
Major administration, which regime
had also to meet the cost of the new |
temporary CAPITOL building, contract
ed for and built during the Hadley Gd- |
ministration, not considering other
heavy expenditures which were made |
necessary by the disastrous destruc-
ton of the old State House.
Gov. Hadley inaugurated the system
of withholding portion of all appro-
priations to create fund to meet old !
deficiencies. All improvement meas |,
ures for State schools, institutions and
other edifices, and many other neces-
sary appropriations, were vetoed by
Gov. Hadley in 1911 to create fund
to meet the deficiencies of 1909 and
1910, totaling $829,662. AS q conse-
quence when the Major adrlinistra-
tons commenced in 1918, the State
Normal schools and other educational
institutions and elcemosynary and
penal buildings and Enclosures were in
a deplorable condition end needed i'm
mediate attention to save them from
collapsing from neglect and decay.
State funds intended to keep these es-
adjustments and institutions in con-
dition had been used during the four
years of Rcpublica rule to meet other
less important obligations of the
State.
During the Major administration all
repair and necessary improvement to
State institutions and establishments
were made, end those which had been
destroyed by fire were rebuilt. 1t was
these necessary and badly needed re-
pair and improvements, entirely neg