The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-04-13
SENATE WE'LL
PLEASED With
SUPPLY Bill
Upper House Is Satisfied
With $83,0OO,O00 Act
Now Passed
By HENRY LESESNE
The Times News Bureau
Sir Wairsr Hotel

RALEIGH, April 13.-The ap-
proDriaticns bill which has now
been approved by both houses Of
the general assembly represents
reduction Of approximately
$14.000,0O0 under what was az
tually expended in the past bicn~
MUM, according to the best avail
able estimates here. and is go
proXimately $23,O0O,000 under
the appropriations bill enacted
two years ago. This substantial
reduction, it is pointed out, was
made despite the fact that allow
ance was made in the new appro-
nriations bill for state-suppOrS-
ed eight months school term,
whereas the appropriations bill al
1881 provided only for a SIX
months term.
In round numbers. the 1888 an
propriations bill finally agreed
upon calls for an expenditure Of
$S3, 100000 during the next Olcn-
MUM, for general fund, highway
fund and debt service. The ap-
propriations bill passed two years
AGO called for expenditures Of
$106. 100000 for these purposes,
but a retrenchment program III
der the budget bureau brought
actual expenditures down 70
around $97,0C0,000, according TO
present estimates. The 1888 hill,
while representing many comrro-
misses between those who wanted
to boost the figure and those who
wanted to cut it, passed in both
houses by substantial malorltics.
In the senate, where the bill
was finally approved with only
nine dissenting votes, the bill met
with general approval. While
some few members Of the senate
wanted to cut employees Of state
departments even more than the
50 per cent provided in the bill, a
majority thought that this was as
far as the state could 90, point
ing out that a recent survey by
the department Of labor revealed
that living costs had decereaseG
onlv q per cent since the peak
wear of 1929. and that the federal
Government had gone only so lar
as to cut employees IS per cent.
The 80 per cent cut represented q
compromise between q cut OF 81
per cent proposed by the senate
and a cut of Al per cent proposed
by the house.
The difference between the pro-
posed house salary cut and that
proposed by the senate, it is est
mated. amount to approximately
100000. This, with the eight
months school term apprOprla-
tons, were the principal causes OF
disagreement between the two
houses. The senate boosted the
house appropriation Of $l4,O5O,-
600 for a six months school term
to S16,OOO,OOO for an eight
months school term, thereby abol-
ishing between $4,000,000 and
S5,O0O,OOO in special district
school levies. &,
"While the appropriations Dill
represents a compromise, and l DO
not fully agree with some of ITS
provisions. believe that the leg
islature should be complmented
on the appropriations bill it has
just passed" said Senator Larry
Moore of Craven, chairman CT
the joint committee on reorganr
ization of state government, and
apostle of economy. ut has adopt
ed an eight-months school term
and reduced general appropria-
tons substantially. / believe an
eight-months school term can be
efficiently run on $16,000,O00.
81 believe that history will re-
cord the 1888 appropriations bill
as one of the greatest economies
in state government in genera
ton. In 1881 and 1882 our school