Movement For Budgetary Reform PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV BUDGETARY LEGISLATION BY THE INDIVIDUAL STATES: ILLINOIS, IOWA, KANSAS, MINNESOTA, NEBRASKA, NEW JERSEY, OHIO Illinois. In Illinois substantial progress has been made during recent years in the direction of budgetary reform. This movement may be said to date from 1913, when, for the first time, the attempt was made to compile in a single document all requests for appropriations. Conditions existing prior to the inauguration of this movement as regards all phases of the problem--administrative organization, the preparation and submission of estimates of revenues and expenditures and action upon such estimates by the legislature-- could scarcely have been worse. Over the officers, boards, and commissions created by statute the General Assembly has full authority. In practice, in the confusion of legislative sessions, new boards and offices have usually been created with little reference to previously existing authorities, either as to form of organization or to the scope of their powers. Most of them are substantially independent of each other, and are subject to no control, except the nominal supervision of the Governor, through his powers of appointment and removal. The constitutional officers and some of those created by statute are not even subject to this nominal supervision. As a result of these conditions the executive authorities of the State lack any semblance of systematic organization.1 Though the constitution of Illinois provides that the Governor shall, at each session of the legislature present "esti 1 Report of Efficiency and Economy Committee, Illinois, 1915, p. 11. mates of the amount of money required to be raised by taxation for all purposes" no Governor appears to have ever complied with this provision.1...