The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-11-17
Higher Taxes Inevitable.
Budget Commission Receives
Estimates of Necessary Ap-
preparations From Depart
ment Heads

Columbia. Nov. 15.--Increased ap-
preparations. including more than two
million dollars for public education
az compared with less than one million
last year, will have to be made by the
ls2l legislature. to cover the needs
OF various state departments as laid
before the state budget commission
TO date. The budget commission has
heard twenty of the state departments
and institutions, and about thirty
more are to be heard. or the twenty
already heard. only two have asked
for smaller appropriations than they
wore allowed last year.
The department of education is
asking for total appropriations Of
{2,os5,sso, as compared with $957,-
$50 last year. A large part OF the
increase Ia asked TO carry out four i'm.
portant laws, enacted last year. bat
Tor which no 1920 appropriations
were made; the act to relieve over
crowding elementary grades Of high
schools; the act creating "a state board
or teachers examiners: the school
library act; ana the act TO encourage
agriculture and home economies. The
items for which tho largest increases
are asked are those pi oviding for high
schools and baarar teeing seve n
months school term. '.-.
one or the two departments that
has SO far asked the budget commits
sion Tor less money than last year IL
the secretary OF state. Instead Of an
item OF S4l,S00 tor elections, ne asks
only $4,000. The attorney generals
once IL asking smaller appropriations
by S4,27l. due 10 the fact that
last year $4,000 was needed for codi-
lying the laws. es compared with only
$1,000 for the coming session. and
S33.s5l. was appropriated for the ca
nal case, as compared with J29,S5l for
the coming year.
The adjutant general Is asking for
Sl5S, lOI, as compared with appro-
prjations during the last legislative
session OF x4s, fS9. the increase being
asked to provide for the re-orga inza-
ton OF the national guard.
The state Board o: Public welfare
is asking for sS,069 more. needed
for enlarged stat work. The State
Board Of Health is asking for S60. .o34
more, or which the control of venereal
diseases is said to need s64.SOS as COM
''N' ~""'"oo the past
year, and the State and Palmetto
saniiariums sSS,+SJ, az compared
with S64.s55 this past year.
The Railroad Commission is asking
Tor an increase from $4,000 10 S29,.
III. The committee on printing is
asking for se6,4+5. al compared with
S3O.395 last legislative session. this
being needed for state supplies
The insurance department is ask
ing for SS.o1l more. of which So
Soo is new item. for inspection Of
investment companies" The state
library the state warehouse commits
sioner the state bank examiner. and
the industrial schools for girls and for
negro boys ar" asking slight ad-
vances over the 1920 appropriations.
Th9 Industrial school for boys and
the training school for the Feeble
Minded are asking large increases to
take care of their building improve
mcnts and additions.
The state relic room is the ONLY
department that has asked SO far for
the same amount, $1,000. The bank
examiners office asked for an i'm.
crease of only $50.
The budget mmission hearings
will last till ll;c i'm December, il Is
stated by Ben Sawyer, clerk OF the
Cntp mn iSsinp