The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-10-06


equipment and in the expenses {
military encampments $1,074,150.2
while the state has appropriated t
its military forces during the sam
period $426,754.S7, according to
statement prepared by Quartermas
Ter General W. G. Obear at the re
Guest of Governor Brown.
From comparatively small be
ginning the assistance rendered tn
state troops by the general govern
ment has increased from year t.
year, until it has grown from $11,
1886 in 1899 to $204,729 in 1908
From 1890 through 1900, fedora
appropriations to the Georgia troops
chiefly in the shape of military sup.
plies and equipment, stood at prac-
tlGally the same figure with the sin
gle exception that in 1897 there was
an extra appropriation under which
the troops were furnished with 1,13S
rifles of 45-calibre. valued at ST.
$40.
In 1901 these federal appropria-
oons began to bound upward, the
amount given Georgia for that year
being $27,614.37, or two and one
half times what it had previously
been.
In 1903 the amount went up to
s160,572, but that included in ad-
clifton to the regular appropriation,
S78,786.54 worth of Krag-Jorgensen
rifles, and $55,22S.74 worth of ex-
ira equipment, replacing much of
that which was practically worn out
and worthless.
1908 the Banner Year.
N 1904 the total was $90,932, of
which $4,000 went to meet the ex-
penses of the Georgia troops which
took part in the military maneuvers
Of that year. In 1906 the appro-
priation to Georgia was $51, O40.44,
al of which went into equipment.
In 1906 the total was $77,34O, of
which $4,000 went to encampment
purposes.
There was another increase in
1907 when a four-gun light artillery
battery furnished to the Chatham
Artillery of Savannah, valued at
S57,80O, and $4,000 given to en-
campment purposes, brought the to-
tal up to $128,840
The banner year so far has been
1903, when the federal government
gave the Georgia troops $51, O4O.44
tor usual equipment, $54,827.18 for
extra equipment, $4,000 for en-
campment purposes, and $7S,862.12
worth of new 3O-calibre Springfield
rifles, the kind now in use in the
regular army. This latter item
brought the total up to an unusually
high figure.
For 1903 the Georgia troops have
been given s165, 667, of which $54,-
827.18 is for extra supplies and $751;
500 the cost of a second light ar
1illery battery furnished to the Gov
ernor's Light Artillery of Atlanta.
State appropriations to the troops
during the same period have been
less than half as much. For 1890
the amount was only $1,000; for the
next two years $4,000, for the next
TWO $4,000 each, and the two fol
lowing $4,000 each. For 1897 and
1898 it was $4,000 each, but fol
1899 and 1900 it dropped to $4,000
though in 1900 there was made a de-
hciency appropriation of $4,000.
What the State Has Done.
In 1901 the state gave nothing tt
the troops, the usual expenses being
paid from an unexpended balance
For the next three years it gave
$4,000 each, and in 1904 had t,
make deficiency appropriation
again of $5,94O.81. In 1905 tn,
state gave $4,000, and 1906 an,
1907 each $4,000, half of which
was devoted to extra equipment t
get the troops in shape for compli
ance with the requirements of tn
Dick law. This, however, was foun,
10 be insufficient, and the legislator
subsequently had to give S42,211.0
additional for equipment besides IS,
900 to meet deficiencies in the mil
itary department. All of this, how
ever, was not used, and in July
1908, $57,597 lapsed into the genera
fund in the treasury, under the ruI
ing of the attorney general that tn
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