Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1920-10-29
Gov. Davis Gives
Facts About State
CORRECTS INSTRUMENTATION OF
OPPONENTS REGARDING CAB
MET GOVERNMENT

There has been much misinforma-
tlon circulated about the Cabinet
FORM of government and its effect
upon taxation. l want to give Won
few of the facts of record that,
may be found in the State House by
anyone who takes the trouble to in.
vestigate.
The Cabinet form of government
mas not Increased State taxes. It
mas reduced them. 1t has cut $780,
O00 from our State taxes this year.
BY better efficiency it has saved
money and increased revenues at the
same time. 1t will do for Idaho
what 1t has done for Illinois-re-
duced taxes every year.
The Cabinet system is running on
appropriations made for the old sys-
tenn. The amounts to be appropriat-
ed were determined by the Legisla-
ture according to the needs of each
department. institution or industry
without reference to any particular
form of government. The $4,000
appropriation for tubercular cattle
was not given to the Department Of
Agriculture because of the Cabinet
system, but because the Legislature
believed that the owners of cattle
destroyed in the State should be
compensated. All appropriations
were considered upon their merits.
The Cabinet form of government
neither increased nor decreased the
appropriation for any department.
What it has done has been to en-
able every department to make a
record Of service and economy that
has not been eualled in the history
of the State.
The Department Of Agriculture
has done great work in standard
izing wheat. hay potatoes and fruit,
and in enforcing the standards
adopted This has opened the mar
kets of the country to the farmer
and his products are now sold on
grades established at home. The
farmer is now paid when his car
leaves the shipping station. Former
ly he was not paid until his car ar
rived at destination and the grades
made there often robbed him Of the
fruits Of his labor.
The Department Of Commerce and
Industry has increased receipts 64.9
per cent, while operating expenses
have increased only 2.65 per cent.
The Department OF finance and
budget has saved many times Its
cost to the State by the inauguration
OF a uniform system of bookkeep-
ing. When the Legislature meets
1t will have before it a bulge,
showing the cost and needs OF every
department. which is something oul
Legislature has never had. and vii
be Of immense benefit in cutting
out unnecessary appropriations.
The Department OF Law Enforce
ment will turn back one-half OF IT.
appropriation. 1t has already brough
into the treasury more money thar
II has cost the State
The Department OF Public Invest
ments has reduced delinquent loan
from half a million dollars t
, seventy-five thousand dollars. ant
earnings on loans and investment
haye been increased more than
quarter of n million dollars n year
, since April 1. 1919. loans and IN
vestments have been Increased IRON
: %, 9S8, 600 to sl3, b90, 900
o The state Land Department ada
n ed sixteen tunes as Inucu W ="
/ states endowment funds the firs
: year of the Cabinet form OF govern
: ment as was added In 1918. Earn
ings from this increase were Wal
a asa as compared to $S.642 for 1917
o These earnings were more than tou
: times the total cost OF the depar'
o INIT for the year.
q The Bureau OF highways has don
q SS Der cent Of all the work don
o since the department was organize
e In 1918. 1t has reduced the cost
r preliminary engineering on FEEDER;
Aid projects from as per cent
81 per cent and secured FEEDERS
4 Aid for three hundred miles
n highways as against one hundre
= miles before that time.
l. The Department OF Reclamatio
a has settled every Carey Act troub
n that was before the old land boar
r. and for more than a year no ne
= matter has been before the boar
!. for a longer period than two weel
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