Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-04-07
APPROPRIATION
BILL IN SENATE
Carries Gross Fund of S12,-
937,831, Showing Decrease
of Over $527 900.

TR ENTON, April 7:-Senator
Whitney, chairman of the joint ap-
propriations committee. today intro
duced the appropriation bill. which
carries a total of s13,070,S31.21 for
the support of the state government
beginning July l and extending until
June 80, 1921. This total is de-
crease of S674,665.05 from the 1919
law.
Classified items which go to make
up the total of the new bill are as
follows: Executive and administra-
tive, S965.790; legislative, S11s,lSS.-
50: judicial, s567,071; regulative, Sl,-
73; agricultural. sSSs.2S0; military,
S333,O89.12; pension and retirement
funds, $4,000; constructive, $66l,-
600: general, S271,176.S0; state
emergency fund, 100000; institu-
tions and agencies. $5,762.259.02.
Some of the larger items included
in the bill for extraordinary purposes
and classed as investment expenu-
lures are 100000 for new building
at Morris Plains; zoo Tor mann
unit at Glassboro Normal School; S45,-
600 Jamesburg Home for Boys; $780,
$50 Feeble Minded Colony at New
Lisbon ;s160,000 new building School
for Colored Youth at Bordentown;
$4,000 improvements Girls Hoine
Trenton; S33,50 improvements Feeble
Minded Home at Vineland and $l6,VOO
for completion of Mahlen Stacy Park
in Capital grounds. Another large
item Is represented by S4O,oVo Ior
coal for state use, this amount belns
I'm excess of the contract price for
I last year.
Nearly fifty per cent. of the new
bill is appropriated for administra-
ton of the state Department OF In
stitutions and Agencies. and for the
support of state institutions or all
classes The total amount assigned
to the institutions is $5,762, ,259.O2, as
against s4,79S,S62,s6 appropriated last
year.
/. The Joint appropriations committee
anticipates "a balance In the state
treasury at the close of the present fis-
cal year of S7S8.232.32. Receipts for
the next year are placed at s10,35O,O 900
which with the balance will leave a
fund of S11,13S,232.32 for state
purposes. While the total of the ap-
preparations for the ensuing fiscal year
is S12.9S7,S31,21. of this amount So
564, 4,905.75, which is appropriated for
educational and motor vehicle pur-
poses comes from special revenue
funds. and the net amount of the ap-
preparation act payable will be $lO,-
357,925.4S.
One of the items in the bill that
will likely receive special attention
from Governor Edwards is $4,000 to
carry out the Mackay resolution for
an investigating committee to probe
Hudson county politics during the
coming summer.
The committee alsd planned to give
the Glassboro Normal School 100000
but the bill was pared down to $141, =
200 for this institution.
/ Appropriations for the judiciary
are increased from S513.915 for 1919
to 1861, ,071 for 1920-21. This raise is
due to the various bills increasing the
compensation of the higher judicial
officers
Next to the institutions department
the most expensive branch of the
state government is the educational
department. for which the new bill
appropriates $2.211. .236.73 as against
1887, ,752.61 for the present year.
Some of the larger items for educa-
tional purposes are $3.50 $40 for the
State Agricultural College; including
$500 for the new department OF
clayworking and ceramics; s126,7S0
for administration of the commits
sioner of education's office; 1867 900
for industrial education; s314,435 for
the Bordentown School for Colored
Youth; $132.650 for the State School
for the Deaf at Trenton; S14T 261 for
the Montclair Normal School; $751;
900 for the Newark Normal School;
$1SS,345 for the Trenton Normal
School and s14S,2S4.73 for the voca-
tional schools.
For administration of the work OF
the new National Guard an allowance
or $3.50. .609.12 is made.