Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1919 — LEGISLATURE COST LESS [ARTICLE]

LEGISLATURE COST LESS

LEGISLATURE JUST CLOSED; SHOWS BIG DECLINE IN OPERATING EXPENSE. L. S. Bowman deputy auditor of state, has'announced that the Sev-enty-first genera? assembly of Indiana, which just closed, was the most economical in point of expenses of any legislature in the last twentyfour years, or since the legislature of 1895. The ' legislature which just closed kept its expenses $22,132.12 below the average for the last twenty years. The average of the ten legislatures beginning with the one in 1899 and ending with the one in 1917 was $124,799.55, said Mr. Bowman, while the cost of the 1919 session was $102,667.43. The costs of the last eleven legislatures, which covered a period of twenty years, follow: 1899 ....$114,768 25 1901 . 114,999 50 1903 < . 119,697 47 7 —v.;; : . : 1907 r; 130,016 87 1909 . 141,344 86 1911 129,854 97 1913 162,507 67 •1915 112,470 01 1917 103,522 19 1919 102,667 43 The Republicans especially are proud of the record of the last two legislatures as to expenditures, both of which were nearly $25,000 below the twenty year average.