Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-19
0'Conor Calls
For 1,284,6O6
Cut in Budget
Requests Reduction
Of One-Third in
Income Tax
BY the Associated Press.

ANNAPOLIS, Jan. 19.-While
committees of the Maryland General
Assembly considered today the
Governors request for 500, 425, 033
biennial budget for 19445, many in
dividual members of the House and
Senate were thinking just as much
about a smaller Sum-$250.
Legislators had expected passage
last night of the relief pay bill,
which would have given them one
quarter of their 81 900 annual salary
as soon as Gov. O'Conor signed it.
Then they could have drawn $3.50
from the State treasury.
The pay bill, however, was lost in
the shuttle, and many financially
embarrassed legislators will have to
wait at least until tonight before
they draw their checks.
Rationing Felt.
The budget which Gov O'Conor
submitted calls for an appropriation
of S11 ,284 606 less in the next bien-
mum than was provided for expen-
ditures for 1923.
The effects of gasoline, automobile
and tire rationing-and the reduced
income tax-were mirrored in the
decrease.
An estimated s11,897,1 1872 in gaso-
line and motor vehicle taxes will not
be available to help MAINTAIN the
State police and State Roads Com
in the next two fiscal years.
Gov. O'Conor announced also that
during the next two years 238 State
jobs would be eliminated because of
wartime effects on State agencies
and departments. These elimina-
tons, he said, would be made in de-
partments where operating costs
had been hit hardest by war trends
and rising costs.
OF appropriations requested by
Gov. O'Conor for the next biennium,
S51 lis, 191 would come from general
fund receipts, while the dedicated
special funds" charted for specific
State departments operating ex-
penses only, would total S44 ,709, BAL
or s16,321 1881 less than the State will
spend from special funds during the
current biennium.
For the 1914 fiscal year, to begin
july l, Gov. O'Conor asked SOS, $685.
Dol from general appropriations.
He said the State surplus June 80,
1914, would be s4,595 $50, while the
following year it would be about
81, 100000.
He asked the Legislature to cut
Income taxes by one-third.
The Governor asked 100000 in
surplus funds be set aside for post
war capital construction projects.
University Gets Increase.
The University of Maryland would
get $3,857,60 as compared with
$3,816,709 provided in the present
budget, an increase of $40,898.
Of the amount which the univer-
sity will receive, one-third will come
from the general fund and two
thirds from the special fund.
The increase was entirely in spe-
cial funds, which is composed Of
student fees, hospital fees, Federal
funds and miscellaneous receipts.
Other budget recommendations
included the following increases for
State institutions:
tuberculosis sanatoria, $180,813:
mental disease hospitals, $271.743:
training schools. 1884; penal in.
situations, S140,800, and School fol-
the Deaf, $6,005. Total, s635,185
Police Request Denied.
Gov. OConor denied the State
police request for 1863 additional
policemen and also declared that the
commissioner of motor vehicles,
faced with 25 per cent revenue de-
crease by the end of 1914, must oper-
ate at an expense ratio in proper
ton to the drop in receipts.
The State Roads Commission. de.
irving its entire revenue from specia,
funds, will be the hardest hit of all
State agencies, Gov. O'Conor re.
ported. He said that its revenues
would fall off AZ per cent in 1914 and
81 per cent in 1945.
The roads commission in the last
hscal year operated on S14811
and next year is expected to net only
S8,663,535 for operating expenses ir
1894 and $9,415, 287 in 1945.
state institutions, however prob.
ABLY Will be well protected durins
the next biennium, Gov. O'Conol
SAID, since many increases were
granted because of rising Wartime
costs. Likewise, the general emer.
gency fund would cushion" the in.
stitutlons against adverses which
might present themselves unex-
pectedly.
The total appropriation asked
from general funds to public school
was s8,O91, 842. which represented 2,
per cent OF the total estimated gen.
eral funds revenue.
Miles Reelected.
immediately after the House ron.
vened IN separate session, Speake,
Thomas E. Conlon introduced 8
Dill which would fix the State Ia,
rate at 1872 cents for 1914 ane
II cents for 1945 on each 500 wortr
OF assessable property.
This was in line with Gov
O'Conor's recommendation in his
oudget message. The bill was re.
TERED to the Ways and Means
Committee, which met today.
Just before Gov. O'Conor deliv.
cred his message, the Legislature
reelected Hooper S. Miles State
treasurer.
When the Senate convened, SEN
ator j. Wilmer Cronin of Hartford
introduced bill which would make
the office of State treasurer an cleo
tive one.
The bill called for an amend
ment to the State constitution. II
the amendment is to be voted on in
the next general election, it must
pass both houses by a three-fifths
majority.
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