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The per diem of the members and officers of the General Assembly
therein mentioned, aggregates but $79,605, the difference between
this sum and the amount of $150,000 passed by the General
Assembly representing the sum necessary, in the judgment of the
Legislature of 1906, to pay the "postage, stationery, mileage and
miscellaneous expenses" of your present session.

His Excellency, Edwin Warfield, exercising the authority vested
in him by law, approved said Act with the following qualification:
"Approved except as to the item in the expenses for the Legislature
for 1908, reading as follows: And for the above expenses of the
Legislature the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or
so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated. This
item is disapproved."

There is, therefore, no appropriation for the present session cover-
ing "postage, stationery, mileage and miscellaneous expenses," not
even for the members and officers therein mentioned, nor can this
Department honor any orders of the Committee on Claims for any
sums save and except the per diem of the members and officers
therein specifically designated, unless your Honorable Bodies shall
have first passed an Act providing therefor, which Act must receive
the Governor's approval.

CONCLUSION.

As before noted in these remarks the demands upon the Treasury
have increased greater proportionately than its revenues. The
maintenance of the State Government is largely in excess of a few
years ago, and necessarily so. The advanced position taken by the
State in erecting new buildings of the most modern type for the
care of its insane and feeble-minded, with their increased cost of
maintenance, its liberal policy towards hospitals and institutions
of learning, its policy of good roads, have of necessity increased the
State's burden, which is now being felt, so that at the time of the
writing of these remarks, there is to the credit of the State, exclusive
of dedicated funds, less than f200,000, with demands in excess of
this amount. I am sure you do not desire the State to recede from
this position of justice and liberality in caring for its own. How,
therefore, can all this be accomplished if the appropriations to
other interests'shall be too liberal? We have advanced sufficiently