The log cabin Democrat., 1910-02-26
DONACHEY WINS VOTES
 INSPEECH AT MORRILTON
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the facts with which the people are already familiar; that the legislature had appropri ated more than million dollars in excess of the total revenue of the state for the biennial period. 'To save the state from going on scrip basis" said Governor Donaghey, 'I was forced to do two things: Re duce the appropriations by veto and increase the revenue through the tax commission which the legislature ere ated. but which the senate attempted to kill by refusing to appropriate money for it's maintenance. l appoint ed three big, brainy men on the com mission-men who were willing to serve the state and take chances on the next legislature paying them for their labor. This commission has already uncovered fifty million dollars worth of railroad and corporation property which has never before been on the tax books, which will add $5O0,- 900 to the school funds of the state and a proportionate amount to all the other funds"
 In his explanation of reducing the appropriations, Governor Donaghey brought out a fact not generally known, which is an effectual answer to Kavanaugh' "cattle tick charge. The governor said that he called the board of trustees of the University to- gether after the close of the legisla- ture and told them that all appropria- tions must be reduced and that $50,- 900 must be taken from the Univer- sity appropriation. After at first de- murring, the board, when informed by the governor that he would sign no warrant for them to get any money until they consented, held a session and agreed to the items with which they could best dispense. "Included among the items which they would not consent to give up" said Governor Donaghey, twas an appropriation of SlU,UUU TOT IHe dSllC cI ment of the University to assist in the destruction of certain disease-breed ing parasites which infest the cattle of the state and infect them with what | is known as Texas fever The United States government added another $10,O00 to the amount appropriated by the state, and, although only a small portion of the fund has been used, the cattle quarantine has al ready been raised from 13 counties in northwest Arkansas. Whenever a county is placed above quarantine, continued the governor, 'it adds just S5 to the value of every head of cat tie in the county, because the packers pay just that much more for beef cattle coming from non-quarantine counties. As there are an average of 10000 cattle in each of the 13 coun- ties, an added value of 5 per head means $100,000 for each county, or considerably more than a million dol lars for the 13 counties. 1 call it pret- ty good business" said Governor Don aghey, when the state can spend less than $10.000 and make thereby more than $1,000,000 for it's people" And one of the loudest outbursts of ap- plause of the afternoon greeted this statement.
 The governor satisfactorily explain ed the Confederate pension bill, which his opponent had accused him of ve- toing. It was never passed said gov ernor Donaghey, and was never sign ed by either the speaker of the house of the house or the president of the senate. He stated that when it was found that the bill had not been pass ed he instructed Auditor lobe and Treasurer Yates to pay the warrants as usual and told them he would stand between them and any legal comphca- tions which might arise.
 The governor defended the appoint ment of H. L. Remmel as capitol com missioner by saying that he had pledged the people to take the capitol out of politics and could not do so except by appointing a non-partisan board. In making the appointment, he said, he was following a precedent of Senator James P. Clarke, who, on the same day appointed Remmel on the state charities board and Judge William Kavanaugh as sheriff of Pu- laski county. Judge Kavanaugh, the governor said, sent immediately to Kentucky for his brother, Coburn, whom he appointed his deputy and who began "eating from the Demo cratic pie counter before he had time to change his sox."
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