The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-02-15
CARRIES
FIVE MILL LEVY

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The general state appropriation
bill, carrying a five mill levy and an
aggregate of $5,671, ,6S447 for the op-
Grafton and maintenance of state de-
partments, institutions and agencies,
was introduced in the house of rep
resentatiSes by, the ways and means
committee last night = The total a,,4
tset,s yy6ea fdr Sin Ths bill,
dIe "a 90s, ,attSs 655 6555 3 less than the
amonf,s carried fhe 1891 sppropria.
zion Ateasur (which carried IL mill
levy5sx&he bill also carries reduc-
tion ssf $794, ,555.4s under the $685.
240H recommended by the governor
In the 1922 budgets
The measure, which was given its
first reading last night, will be placed
on the desks of the members in print
ed form this morning and will prob
ably be made special order for
Thursday night, according to f. T.
Hughes of Marion, chairman of the
ways and means committee. The ap-
preparation bill last year was intro
duced in the house, given three read
ings and sent to the senate in three
days.
The five mills provided for in the
bill levied on the $425, 600 taxable
property in the state, according to
Chairman Hughes, will rease $2,262,-
453 Of the $5,671, ,s64.67 appropriated,
while departmental and institutional
fees and collections will bring in
$931 900. This will leave deficit of
$2,478,231.67 to be raised for the re-
naming portion of the fiscal year by
the new revenue measures, now up
for consideration in the senate or in
the hands of the conference commit
tees. "The amount so estimated as
derivable from the new tax sources
Mr.. Hughes says, sis extremely con-
servative and if all the revenue bills
sent to the senate by the house are
agreed to by that body and become
law it is probable that the conference
committee may be able to reduce the
levy by one-half or one mill. If,
however the revenue bills agreed to
by the house are killed by the senate
just in such proportion will the levy
have to be raised by the senate" The
appropriation bill, were none of these
EewS revenue. sources made. available
Mr.. Hughes said, would require q
state tax levy of 10 1-2 mills as COM
pared with the IL mill levy of last
year.
The ways and means committee in
the bill have seen fit to reduce the
clerical help of the state receiving
over 1900 annually, 10 per cent OF
their salary, except in few in
stances. The salaries of state Off
GERS are not reduced, nor do the mem
bers of the general assembly prune
their own salaries. In at least one
case, that of corporation clerk in the
office of the secretary of state, tho
position is entirely abolished. No
appropriation is made for extra au
ditors under the comptroller genera
to review county books. The wages
of all porters in the State House were
reduced, some of them by amounts a:
large as so per cent.
Among the larger cuts, compared
with the appropriations of 1921, were
the comptroller generals office, $18,
600; the Citadel, $29O,000; STATE
Medical College, $4,000; John de ls
Howe school, $4,000; school fo,
deaf, dumb and blind, $55,0O0; super
intendent of education, $350,00O; state
hospital, $85,000; state penitentiary
$4,000; industrial school for boys
$4,000; reformatory for negro boys
$4,000; law enforcement fund, $14,
900; state board of health, $71 900
state warehouse commission, $16,
900; state electrician, $4,000; state
highway commission, $4,000, ant
Confederate infirmary, $4,000.
OF the colleges, the university gets
an increase of $1,000 over the appro.
priation for 1921, Clemson college ar
increase of $4,000 and the state ne
gro college an increase of $4,000
Winthrop college was cut, approx.
mately $4,000. Among the items al
lowed the university was an appro-
priation of $4,000 for plans and esti.
mates on a women's dormitory to be
erected there in the future. The en-
tire building program of the Citadel
was disaliowed.-The State.
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