The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-01
SMALL CUTS
ALL MONEY
MEASURES
No Funds to Enforce Dry
est Dry Law; Governor
Surprises Assembly.

Springfield, Ill, July 1.-United
Press-)-By generous use OF the
pruning knife on number of ap-
preparation bills, Governor Len
Small has kept his campaign pledge
| to hold appropriations to the min
1 imum
By slashing the appropriations of
friends and enemies alike. the state
executive cut s7,092,01213 from
| the appropriations of the Sind gen
eral assembly and thereby reduced
the state tax from about Sc cents,
| where it was before he began cut
ting, to between so and SIS cents
Action of the state executive
came as big surprise to many of
the senators and representatives
who came to the capital for the
| sine die adjournment which took
place late last night.
Attorney General Edward J.
Brundage, arch political enemy of
| the state executive, was hardest
| hit by Governor Small's action
Approximately S6S6,000 was cut
from the state legal authority's BIZ
, ennium appropriation OF this sum
|
| of the prohibition enforcement act.
and the state now has the "dryest'
prohibition enforcement law of any
state in the country with no funds
or no one to administer it. This
leaves the entire enforcement of
the prohibition act in the hands of
federal authorities.
J The attorney generals appropri-
| alton was cut from $1,137 200, or
$56S,600 per annum. to $450,600, or
| $225, 800 per annun- In addition,
all downstate inheritance tax at
torneys were cut off when the state
executive wiped out the appropria-
ton for their salaries. Other less
important items cut brought the
Total slash from the attorney gen
ferafs original appropriation to
| SS6s, 900.
e. of /. Suffers.
The University of Illinois also
tactics. The governors knife cost
the state school S1,640,000
The state institution also suffer-
ed when Governor Small cut $46S,-
700 from the omnibus bill for per-
manent improvements at the state
charitable institutions. A number
| of reappropriations also were cut,
as was the emergency appropria-
ton bill passed last spring.
Every state officer and depart
ment suffered from the executive
determination to reduce the cost
Of the government"
OF the total sum vetoed, approx
mately $4,000, 900 may be called
real saving to the taxpayers. In
cluded in this latter amount are the
cuts from the appropriations to the
attorney general, the state officers
and departments, the University of
Illinois, the Joliet penitentiary
building commission and the per-
manent improvements at the state
charitable institutions.
The remaining $3 3,0o0, 900 Of the
amount vetoed is made from re-
appropriations and the appropria-
tions into funds that permits some
branch of the government to take
money from one pocket and put in
the other. This is true particular
ly of the $76o, 900 for the state nor
NAL schools revolving fund.
Friends of the state executive de
clare the Small cut in the omnibus
bill is the biggest cut ever taken
in similar measure by any state
executive and they are inclined to
believe it exceeds the total of all
cuts made by the state executive
who preceded him.
The executives action fell like
bomb among the state officers, de-
partment heads and the Illinois
AntiSaloon league. Today Cover
nor Smal1's proposed special ses-
sion of the legislature Is being
looked upon with more favor than
it has at any time since the an
nouncement.
Some of the departments were
cut to an almost irreducfbie mini
mum and probably would welcome
an extra session as method of
procuring additional appropria-
tions. Whether the state execu-
tive would include a secondary
omnibus bill in his special session
call, in return for assistance in
the passage of certain of the bills
he promised the voters, remains to
be seen
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