The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1935-03-14
COMMITTEE AIDING
GOVERNOR ADVISES
SHARP REDUCTIONS
Agreement Reached With lnsti.
tutionaI Heads to Permit
Adjustment
VETO AXE WILL BE SWUNG
Total Of $165,oo0 viii Be
Chopped From State Ex-
pensss by This Process
VETO AXE WILL BE SWUNG

slashes which may total up to no..
900 in appropriations made for tho
next biennium by the legislature were
under consideration Thursday by .
legislative financial advisory commit
tee for recommendation to Governor
Walter Wexford.
The committee, headed by Senator
A. F. Bonner. Jr., Of Richlaud. VA
making q final check Of Appropriated
bills passed and possible reductions.
and expected to complete it, recon-
mendations for presentation either
late Thursday or Friday In attempt
to balance the state budget.
A tentative plan was outlined By tho
group following conference With
heads Of all higher institutions q
learning In the state, who agreed to
a voluntary reduction Of expenditures
under direction Of the state board Of
administration, with the total not to
be reduced beyond $4,000 below the
figures passed by the Legislature.
The tentative plan outlined BY Sen
ator Bonner would recommend:
Use Of the gubernatorial veto axe to
chop off tl65,00O In items Of appro-
priation for state departments and
some OF the state institutions.
To Eliminate Buildings
Elimination Of 1856, 900 for two new
buildings at Grafton state school and
jamestown state hospital, eithef b
veto, or by agreement that Conytruc.
ton must be through public work.
administration funds
Scaling down to total apprUpria-
lions for the educational institutions
by $4,000 through agreement and
not by veto, with institutions 10 get
original total II revenue shows In
crease after first year Of new bieu-
num- -.
Possible recommendations under
the tentative plan may call Tor tho
governors veto axe to be used.
Included in the tentative plsn nor
cutting out $165,000 through veto 81
some items. are:
5000 for purchase Of old Fort Linz
coin in Morton county by direct veto.
5000 deduction in appropriation
for construction Of q sewer for state
penitentiary.
Cut Capitol Maintenance
$4,000 reduction in the state capitd
maintenance fund.
$1,000 from the livestock sanitar1
board appropriation.
$4,000 from wolf bounty appropris
alton.
$1,000 from appropriation Tor state
historical society.
$4,000, the complete appropriation
for state board Of auditors.
$1,000 from the old soldiers home
appropriation.
$1,000 from public health laboratory
appropriation.
$4,000 from public health dspart-
ment.
$4,000 from bovine tuberculosis
fund.
$4,000 from state training schooi
appropriations.
5000 from Bottineau state school
Of forestry appropriation.
$500 total appropriation for con.
struction Of sewer to connect Man.
dan state training school with sewer
system Of Mandan.
5000 from national guard appro-
priation.
List Department Cuts
Departmental cuts which would Be
made include: Supreme court. o2S0;
secretary Of state, $1,000: state insur-
ance department, 1880: land COM
mission, $1,000: state engineer. e900:
state printer. $1,000.
Heads Of the state educational IA.
stitutions preferred the plan BY which
the schools would reduce their expen-
ditures by 100000.
It was presented to the committee
by members Of the state board Of ID.
ministration, together with the vari-
Gus presidents Of the institutions.
Institution heads called attention.
to previous drastic cuts which had
been made in school appropriation
and suggested that the schools b al-
lowed to continue on their present
appropriation figure, arguing that II
the figure was left untouched they
would be enabled to maintain their
present standards.
Under the plan q budget would be
submitted to the administration board
for the first l2-month period Of the
new biennium. keeping below The fig-
ures appropriated by the legislature.
Should revenue exceed present ooti.
mates, the full appropriation may
then Be granted tor tho last llaH pe-