The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-12-28
BUDGET BOARD
OFFERS MANY
SUGGESTIONS
Recommends That Legisla'
ture Remove All Stand
ing Appropriations

Removal of all standing appro.
priations" is recommended to the leg
islature in the supplemental report
to that body prepared by the state
budget board.
These appropriations, board mem
bers contend, should come up for re-
view every two years in the same
manner that other state expenditures
are considered. In the past all stand
ing appropriations have continued in
effect without new legislative af-
firmation.
Items Affected
Among items which the budget
board recommends for removal from
the standing appropriation list and
inclusion in the budget are:
/. The standing appropriation for
the support of the guaranty fund
commission.
2. A standing appropriation for the
support OF research into conditions
affecting the artesian water supply
Of the state.
3. Removal of the standing appro-
priation for the support of vocational
education.
4. Elimination of the standing ap-
preparation for the support Of the
minimum wage department of the
wOrkmen's compensation bureau.
5. Elimination Of the standing APP
preparation for the education Of blind
children.
In some cases, it is pointed out
the standing appropriations have not
been used by the departments recciv-
ing them. In other cases the need
for them has passed entirely. That
for the education of blind children
was passed at time when the state
had no facilities for educating blind
children and was intended to pay
their expenses while they were train.
ed in institutions outside the state
Now the state trains blind children
in a state institution. During the
last two years the guaranty fund
commission has made very little use
of the standing appropriation made
for it's benefit, budget board mem.
bers said.
Another major recommendation il
that fees collected by the various de-
partments be turned in to the gen.
eral fund and the expenses Of those
departments be budgeted and paid out
of the general fund.
Other Recommendation
Specific recommendation include:
l. The dairy division of the depart
ment of agriculture and labor, II
being suggested that cream testers
license fees collected by the division
be turned over to the general fund.
z. All fees collected by the state
securities commission.
8. All auto transportation fees col
iected by the state railroad board.
4. That an amendment be made "a
section five Of the new gasoline tar
law permitting the state auditor to
credit the general fund with an an
nual sum from gasoline tax collec-
ti0ns to pay the expenses of enfOrc-
in~ the gasoline tax law. /,
Upward revision Of the amount
which each county pays to the sup
port Of insane patients ut the James.
town hospital for the insane also il
recommended. At present each coun-
ty pays SIS month for each patient.
The budget board would have It in
creased to $25 . month. By the
transfer Of other funds of the insti-
tuition it would then be possible ia
use the additional money in the con-
struction Of new buildings which the
board feels are badly needed.
Upward revision Of the fees collec.
ted by the state railroad board ii
connection with the regulation ol
railroads; local utilities and grain
grading, would make those activitiea
Of the state railroad board self
sustaining. The present fees, the
board held, are inadequate.
The board recommended that $4,000
appropriated ct the last session fol
. lighting plant at the state agricul.
tural college - transferred to the
item Of light, heat and power.