The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1925-03-11

pretty quiet in the house corridor and
in some of the committee rooms, and
unlike Saturday there was no dice
game, and poker and blackjack were
not being played. Saturday n SEN
ator attache is said to have cleaned
up more than 500. Some of those
who voted against the pari-mutuel
bills are said to have been in the
games.
Appropriation Figures
AS agreed on by the conference
committee, the bills remain, in large
part, as amended by the senate.
The appropriations for the attor-
ney generals office are raised to $27,-
500 a year and for the superintendent
of public instruction to $26,65O a year.
The senate had cut the former $4,000
a year and the latter $1,180 a year
The state engineers appropriation
was raised from $4,000 to $11, 600 and
, his travelling expenses from $500 to
$1,000 a year. The board Of health
, was raised from $4,000 to $4,000 a
year to take care of certain work of
the orthopedic commission. The la
: Dor and publicity division of the de-
partment of agriculture was raised
. from $5,525 a year to $500 a year.
The appropriation for high schools
furnishing normal training was in
creased from $4,000 to $4,000 a
G year The ~orthopedic commission was
cut from $4,000 to S16,5O0.
Extension Work
Funds, for farm extension work were
: fixed al" $80,56O for the first year
and $84,379 for the second year.. The
: senate figure was .$7O,97O for each
. year and the original figure was $685.
: $40 for the first year .sand $97,21O
=, for the second. t ii.
The cut of $4,000 a year made by
the senate in the prison appropriation
was restored and the provision ap.
priating $4,000 the first year and
100000 the second year as payments
on the purchase of the Conley prop.
erty was eliminated from the bill
The appropriation for the prison is
A. now $4,000.
te Figures recommended by the senatt
for the teaching units of the state
Sc university were approved with the
Il exception of the state normal school
N which is raised from S74,6OO a yeal
n to $76,6OO a year.
h The state fair appropriation i
le erased from the appropriation bill
with the exception of $500 a yea
providing for a caretaker for tn,
ed grounds, but a deficiency claim O
$5,1G4.56 is allowed. The remainde
w of the state fair deficiency claim
le which was originally 81 ,433.O6, i
he not allowed. 49,: .-t
lie Committee Figures
Slightly less than six and a hal
- million dollars was appropriated b
. the nineteenth session of the Montan
:. Legislature, according to. a tabulatio
=. made by Senator F.. T. Mcconnell
chairman Of a special senate com
III mittee. ~
Of this amount the general fund
charged with $5,916,691, of whic
y, $287,8 01 will be used ~immediatel!
~ and $5,628,89O, represents allotment
fer state activities for the two yeal
beginning July 1, 1926.
The remainder, $685., SO6.7O, is al
~ propriated from special funds.
A statement made by the house al
preparations committee estimate
$4,000, 900 as the annual income to Il
u general fund during the coming b
ennium. Taking this as a basis, Il
az balance in the general fund after pa,
-. ment Of appropriated amounts at Il
end of the coming biennium would
$685., 300, which would be increased
diminished by whatever balance
en- -,
- at the beginning of the period. The
must also be deducted an amount e
timated at $141,1OO a year for inte
H. est on general fund warrants, viii,
must be paid but which does not r
quire an appropriation.
Appropriations of the eighteen.
+cb session for the year 1924, accor
ing to the house committee statemeI
were $S,178, 223.59 , which is $21!
877.53- greater than the amount a
propriated for the two year peri
by the present legislature.
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