The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1921-02-10
REDUCE STATE LEVY 3h MILLS
House Appropriation Bill Makes Big
Cut i'm Many Departments.

Columbia, Feb. 7-Carrying a tot
al appropriation of $6,563,O86.71 for
all State departments and a reduction
OF the State levy of IL 1-2 mills Of
1920 to IL mills and a SUSPENSION
entirely of the special state wide q
mill levy for the construction of
highways, the general APPROPRIATION.
bill was reported out to tn lower
House by the ways and meaI COM
mittee Monday.
III the measure is passed us intro
duced tonight a total reduction of
Ia mills will be made in taxes Of
State, 1 1-2 mills coming from tic
general levy and mills from the
special 2-mill tax levy for the con-
struction of highways. This 2-miIl
levy would be suspended for the pres
ent year.
Some large reductions from the
requests OF the departments are not
ed in the bills as reported out by the
ways and means committee and also
as recommended by the Governor in
his budget recommendations while
on the other hand some increases are
allowed The total requests of the
State departments were $9SO6SO6,-
) 50 and the Governor recommended
S7,111, 6SS.S3. BY these figures it is
!; seen that the bill reduces the recon-
t $54S,602
The University of South Carolina
is trimmed from request of 1885,
154 TO S211,755, this, however, being
= few thousand above the Governors
- recommendations.
f The Citadel is given a decrease
from request of $623,O15 to $452,-
= 315 and Winthrop likewise shares a
: trim from $S3S,005.17 to $416,0S3,
i this being q little above the recon-
e mendations of the Governor.
e For Confederate Veterans
n The committee adopts the bill to
again place the payments of Confed-
8 crate Veterans by the Comptroller
e General and provides for a total of
n $3.50, ,27O.34 for this department. This
! Is big increase from the request,
T but is due to above 100000 for pen
:. sions to veterans.
n The work of the committee was
largely to reduce the tax levy to show
: SOME appreciation of the financial
n and economic condition of the State
: at this time and at the same time
d trying to make sufficient appropria-
e tions for the current operation of the
:. government.
t Chairman Hughes, of The commit
y tee, said tonight. I'm doing this it
: was necessary to suspend all per-
: manent building programs, with the
v exception, of course, of the old prog
rams for the building provided for
1 b. the Legislature last years and years
E past. The only new building carried
= in the bill is an appropriation of
$4,000 for improvements at the
: school for the deaf and blind. This
item is the only one for buildings or
improvements not already provided
for by law, Mr.. Hughes said.
The public schools are well cared
, for, the bill appropriating S1,566,830,
for the State Superintendent of Edu-
cation office against $921,200 for
last year, but reduction from $2,-
154, $50 from the request of the de-
partment and $1,973,950 as recon-
mended by the Governor.
I'VE got right down to an actual
operating basis, allowing no salary in
creases," said Mr.. Hughes.
i basis, the same as of 1920, is
carried in the bill.
Highway Department Suffers.
i i large number of departments are
cut and a few increased among the
big IIuEnings being the commissioner
OF agriculture's office from a request
Uf &i%5,940 to $77,743 40, the high
way commission from request of
Sass 24S and a recommendation from
400. The highway commission suffers
the biggest cut, propOrtionately, to
any department. No provision is made
for the commission the amount in
th. bill being $4,000.
The bill would carry levy of IL
mills on the total taxable property of
the State of approximately S44S,OO0,
900.
The bill carries the following ap-
pl Opriations for the various depart
ments and institutions:
The executive department, $103,-
5000.
The Governors office, $2S,150
Secretary of states office, $11, ,225. .
Comptroller Generals office, $780,
I27O.S4
Attorney Generals office, $4,000
State Treasurer's office, $685.
I2112.27.
The Adjutant Generals office, $40.
1880.
University of South Carolina $211,-
755.
The Citadel, $452315.
Clemson College, $226,147.15.
: Winthrop College, $416,0S3.50.
State Medical College $11,117.50.
Confederate Home College, $4,000.
) John De La Howe Industrial School.
$17,448.
= School for the Deaf and the Blind
| $161, 1888.
State Superintendent of Education's.
office $1,566,S30.
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