Proceedings of the Annual Conference (Volume 9) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SECOND SESSION Tuesday Evening, August 10, 1915 Chairman?Zenas W. Bliss, Rhode Island California Session 1. The Making Op A State Budget. John S. Chambers, Controller of the State of California. 2. Separation Of State And Local Revenues. Newton W. Thompson, President pro tem, of the California State Senate. 3. Results Op Separation In California. Carl C. Plehn, Professor of Finance, University of California. 4. Effect Of Separation Upon The Taxation Of Public Service Corporations. George G. Tunell, Commissioner of Taxes, Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway System. 5. Discussion?Separation Of State And Local Revenues. THE MAKING OF A STATE BUDGET John S. Chambers Controller of the State of California When it was suggested to me that I talk to you tonight on " The Making of a State Budget," I should have amended the title by inserting the word " California," since it is the California budget I wish to discuss rather than state budgets as a general proposition, or what a state budget should be from the strictly scientific point of view. I assume it will prove of more interest to you gentlemen to hear what we are doing in California, rather than that I should attempt to tell you what is done in England, Germany or France, or elsewhere, along the lines of budget making, all of which, I do not doubt, you know as well as I do, and probably a great deal better. Practical, Ip Not Highly Scientific Judged by such standards as have been set by Dr. Henry Carter Adams, Dr. Frederick A. Cleveland, and other eminent thinkers, the California budget cannot lay claim to being highly scientific. It by no means covers under centralized authority so broad a field as a fully developed budget should cover. But from a practical point of view...