The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-03-20
BUDGETS REDUCED
BY EXECUT|YEFEAR
OF n. D. REFERENDA
q Measures Eliminated, g
Partially Vetoed; Ducks
Beer Legalization Issue
REVENUE IDEAS REJECTED
Snuff, Tobacco Products and
Gaming Machine Collections
Put on Free List

tldAly ny N1OvCI1lOI WAA4hNn AnAA6CA
Saturday as the time-limit expired
for his consideration Of measures
passed by the recent legislature Mon
day engaged the attention Of various
state departments and institutions
affected by slashes totaling over half
q million dollars.
Twenty-seven legislative measures
went into the discard as q result Of
the gubernatorial veto. IS appropria-
ton bills were partially vetoed with
items stricken out or reduced. and
ore-the beer bill"-was permitted to
become law without hangers sigma
ture. Nine bills were fully approved.
The beer act, providing for NUM-
cipally-operated liquor stores for dis
tribution and sale Of such beer or
wine as may be legalized by congress,
becomes effective July I. but may be
deferred longer II 1t is referred to q
vote, as Is believed probable in po-
litical circles here. A referendum
would suspend operation Of the law
until It Is voted on at the June, 1894,
primary election.
Vetoed by the governor was q bill
to suspend highway construction for
Is months. with the veto message de-
claring the chief executive deemed It
advisable to leave this matter In the
hands Of the highway commission to
determine just what highway con-
struction shall be INDUCED In"
vetoes Revenue Bills
-Four bills affecting tax revenues
fell under the veto axe. One would
have eliminated an allowance Of one
and one-half per cent of the gas tax
to dealers collecting the tax; another
placed tax on snuff, third would
have taxed cigars and tobacco 10
per cent Of the wholesale price, and
the other proposed taxing gaming
machines Is per cent Of the receipts.
Measures limiting expenses Of pub
lie officials while travelling In and
out Of the state and permitting farm
ers to use hog cholera virus on their
herds were vetoed.
The bill to empower the railroad
commission to name livestock weigh.
ers and graders at market concern
tratton points felt the gubernatorial
veto, the governor calling attention
that he approved the measure com.
pelling buyers Of livestock to be licen-
sed which he believes gives neces-
sary protection demanded for live
stock producers"
Vetoed also was q bill to authorize
an appropriation Of 1885,, 900 for enlarg-
Ing the prison power plant to permit
It to serve state buildings In Bis
marck. with the governor pointing out
in his veto message that existing sta
tutes provide for authority to carry
out such . project.
Appropriations allowed by the leg.
slature were reduced, the governor
said, because revenue-producing
measures are threatened with sls-
pension through exercise Of the ref
erendum. He named the sales tax
law, gross receipts tax on utilities,
and scrip bill Is acts which are be-
lieved slated for referendum.
The agricultural college, experiment
station and extension division OF the
school took cut Of $S3, o07, while the
University Of North Dakota BUDGET
was trimmed 5000.
Hits Graften Institution
Minot. Dickinson, Mayville. and
Valley City teachers colleges budgets
were cut, while the Grafton Institute
for the Feeble Minded took one Of
the heaviest reductions with $4,000
pared from its budget. From the
jamestown state hospital appropria-
ton the governor cut $6l 900, includ-
ing $4,000 for building addition.
Appropriation measures for the
Wahpeton Science school and the II.
lendale Normal school were approved
without change.
A 1uu veto was exercised on meas.
ures appropriating $4,000 for the
state emergency fund; $l2,500 for the
North Dakota Soldiers Home: S25..
900 for wolf bounties: $500 for the
American Legion band, and 5000 for
. sewer ct the Mandan Training
school,
An allowance Of Sll,2oo for Dur.
chase Of land for the international
peace garden was reduced TO 1o,l76.
Two thousand dollars was cut from
the budget Of the Devils Lake School
for the Deaf and ~, 900 from the
Nandan Training school budget.
Hard hit by the veto axe Vas the
dairy department In the commission
Of agriculture and labor. OF 132,so4
voted By the Legislature for the dairy
division, the governor eliminated al
but 1854 which covers the salary Of
the dairy commissioner.
The railroad boards allowance yas
reduced from ~. 9oooo to 1el,00o, and
the commissions elevator division
from 420.5l5 to $le,loo; the state
printer from $500 TO 34,2o0: the sec-
rotary Of state from "a. ITS to 110,o39,
and the state engineer from 4l3Ol0
70 $3.50.
The governor cut his budget for
the executive offices $3.50. while cuts
Of : few hundred dollars were ef-
fected II each Of the budgets for tho
fire marshal. attorney general, su-
perintendent Of public instruction,
commissioner Of agriculture and ..
Continued On PAGo oevenl