The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-03-14
ELIMINATES
$176,0OO FOR
new BUILDINGS
Legislators Urged to Pay
More Attention to Budget
Board Recommendations

More Attention TO Budget
Board Recommendations
APPROVES REST OF BILL
Okeys Appropriations For
New Buildings at Mandan
School and at Hospital
Having Topped $4,000 from the
appropriation for the state agricul-
tural college at Fargo and signed an
preparations for the Mayville Nor
NAL school and for new buildings at
the Mandan Training school and
jamestown hospital for the insane,
Governor A. &. Sorlie today COM
pleted consideration Of bills present.
ed to him by the recent legislature.
A checkup showed that the execu.
tive vetoed 20 measures in their en-
tirety and cut out certain tins in
the general state budget and agricul.
tural college appropriation measures.
The Mayville normal appropriation
carried $17S,850 for maintenance and
operation Of that institution. The
new building at the Mandan state
training school will cost $4,000 and
will be used as a dormitory for girls.
The appropriation of 100000 for
jamestown will be used in construct
ing new ward building at the state
hospital for the insane.
The Veto Message
In his partial veto Of the agricul-
tural college appropriation, the ex-
ecutive said:
Il have before me House Bill No.
40, making an appropriation to pay
the general maintenance. improve
ments and repairs, equipment, mis-
cellaneous and public service of the
agricultural college at Fargo.
Il find that the appropriation
provided for this institution includes
new buildings as follows:
wing on agricultural build
Wing on Science Hall .... $4,000
equipment ...... a.... 5000
Total -: :..........., $l78.oO0
"The above items were not recon-.
mended by the budget board. and
owing to the fact the legislature has
seen fit to make appropriations con-
siderably in excess of available
funds. 1t becomes necessary for me
to veto these three items.
THE budget board worked sin
cerely and honestly for six weeks
during the fall to determine where
the state of North Dakota could best
invest approximately $S,OO0,OOO and
after careful study they recommend
"a the appropriations itemized in
their report to the legislature. ]
hope the time will soon come when
legislators will pay more attention
to the recommendations of the a.a-
get board. If no attention is to be
paid to the recommendations report
ed by the budget board then why con-
tinue to incur the expense of oper-
ating such board?
with the exception of the items
above eliminated, have approved
Of House Bill No. 40, and herewith
file the same"
$44l,9OO Cut From Appropriations
check-up today showed that tho
governor has vetoed appropriations
.otaiiing $44l 900, divided as follows:
Agricultural college, $4,000: items
in general state budget Sis 900: re-
volving fund to enable Bank of North
Dakota to pay delinquent taxes on
property to which it has taken title
on mortgage foreclosure. s25O.OOO.
Appropriations as passed by the
legislature totalled $9,l4S,47O5S. As
scaled down BY the executive they
total 5000, ,57O.58.
wkar knA~oS Ana.l
last fall the estimated income Of the
state for the bi-ennium was $780,
600. That figure has been aug
mented, the executive figures, by the
transfer Of 100000 from the state
bridge fund, 1000 transferred from
the gasoline tax fund; 5000, 1000 from
the new act requiring registration
Of titles Of ownership to automobiles
and 5000, 900 from the new tax on
snuff sales and increased collections
from the state cigarette tax. The
new law making more stringent rules
and regulations regarding the sale
Of cigarettes should materially in
crease the revenue from that source,
the executive estimated.
Surplus in Bonus Fund
In scaling down the appropriations
W HAVCl viz SI0 CC luCUuc uO AC"
count was taken of the fact that a
surplus may exist in the fund to pay
the state soldiers bonus. The amount
which will be necessary cannot be
determined until all the claims have
been filed but it is expected in many
quarters that a substantial surplus
will have accrued by the end Of the
biennium.
The state has been retiring bonus
claims at the rate Of $1,000, 900 u
year. special one-mill tax being
levied for that purpose. Claims al
ready filed would use up only slight
~ more than the $l.OOO.OOO which
will be received in 1928, it is said.
The two agricultural college build
ings were the only appropriations for
new construction killed by the ex-
ecutive.
In addition to new buildings at the
Devils Lake school for the deaf,
Wahpeton school Of science and the
state university at Grand Forks,
recommended by the budget board.
and new buildings at Mandan and
jamestown approved today. appro-
priations were made available for
new buildings at the institution for
feeble-minded. Grafton, and the
tuberculosis sanitarium at Dunseith.
NOT THAT CRAZY