The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-09

FOR PAST YEAR
BREAKS RECORD
Taxpayers Footed Bill of Ten
Million Dollars.
Attorney Generals Department
Spent S3S,7S1.7s.
TO COST MORE NEXT YEAR
Budget Will Show Increase of
Four Million, Claim.
State College and University
Biggest Expense Item.
TO COST MORE NEXT YEAR
Budget Will Show Increase o
Four Million, Claim.

State expenses for the year ending
July 1 were substantially ten million
dollars. It was the biggest expense
bill ever paid by the taxpayers of Kan
sas In spite of this altitude record
in expenses the cost of state govern
ment for the fiscal year ending next
July will be between thirteen and four
teen millions.
The rather startling figures of state
expense-itemized according to de-
partments and institutions-wereg given
to the public today by N. A. Turner,
state auditor. They are the basis for
his recent appeals to state officials to
apply the emergency brakes to state
expense.
Expense Still Climbing.
From direct appropriation of S.
041, ,043.33. the state spent $685.
632O6: It added $3,737,115.12 to the
state funds thru collection of fees. OF
this amount S2,S77,7O3.36 was spent
making the grand total for the year
ss,sS6,S35.42. In addition to bal
anceS of $1,S41, ,823.03 remaining from
fees and unexpended balances of gen.
eral appropriations. there is a further
appropriation of S10,117, 399.78 avail
able for this year.
To raise the $10,117.S99.7s. state
taxes were this fall advanced sub
stantially so per cent. Use of uneX-
pended balance and a portion of the
two to three million dollars additional
fees is anticipated in preparing for
the current years expenses. This
course will probably mean a grand to-
thing like fourteen millions. 1t may
drop as low as thirteen millions.
Legal Dept. Expense High.
One of the greatest proofs of the
official theory that public moneys
are to be spent was shown in the at
torney generals department. From a
direct appropriation of $31.180.71, the
Of $76.S1. The office also collected
fees amounting to $2.675.25 and had
d balance from this fund of s47.42.
The biggest expense item for the
last year was for the state agricul
tura1 college and state university. The
farmer school spent 1865, ,350.24 in
direct appropriations while the state
university spent $907.369.57.
Boards and commissions also cost
a considerable sum. Most of them
came thru the year with limited bal
anceS.
Fuel Bill Is S2OO,162.
For the present fiscal year the in
dustrial court has an appropriation
of s132, within $4,000 of the
state appropriation for 2S district
judges and double the expense of the
state supreme court. The public utiI-
tiles commission has an expense al
lowance of $86,565.57. Appropriations
for the board of health are $50, ,273.89
board of education S68.013.32. board
of administration, $48,50o, banking de-
partment, $72, ,266. The department of
agriculture has an appropriation of
$2S,661.
Fuel and freight bills for the state
last year cost s2O0,162.92 IN spite OF
the fuel produced from the state pri-
son mines.
Fees received by the agricultural
college during the year totalled $685.
1918 from which there is a balance
of $13,939.99. State university fees
aggregated about 100000.