Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-01-13
ANNUAL MESSAGE
 LENGTHY ONE Gov. Donaghey Made Many Recommendations to the
 Legislature.
WIFE WAS PRESENT
Tell General Assembly to Ascertain What People Want In Temper
 ance Issue.

Little Rock, Jan. 12.-This was a great day for Arkansas and it's new Capitol. All new state officers, to- gether with the reelected ones, were inducted into office, and this after noon Gov. Donaghey delivered his bi- ennial address. This morning the House and Senate met in joint session and canVaSsed the vote of the State officers. The new officers were then sworn in by Chief Justice McCulloch They are: Gov. G. w. Donaghey, At tOrney General Hal l.. Norwood, Sec retary of State Earle w. Hodges, Au- ditor John R. lobe, Treasurer J. w. Crockett.
 The House and Senate adjourned early this morning to prepare the House chamber for the joint session to take place this afternoon When the message is read. One section in the, gallery has been reserved for Mrs. Donaghey and "a few invited guests.
 Gov. Donaghey began to read his message promptly at o'clock. The House chamber was packed on all sides in anticipation of there being something drastic in the message. The message in part follows:
 To the Members of the Thirty Eighth
 General Assembly:
 When I was inaugurated as Chief Executive two years ago, I stated in my address to the General Assembly that I had had no previous training whatever in the art of statecraft, and that whatever fitness I possessed for the office of Governor must come from a rugged association with hu- man affairs That I believed state craft to be only an intensely prac tical matter, and that as all my life I had been accustomed to do the things I had to do with whatever ] had to do them with, I expected the forces of energy and common sense tol tide me over the difficulties which would no doubt encounter. In giv- ing to you an account of my stew ardship, candor compels me to state that I have found many things to do, s5 and, in most instances, but little to do them with.
 One of the greatest things with ,;r.t,. hampered has been the condition of the states finances. My term as Gov ernor began at time when our < treasury was greatly depleted. For several years the future had been borrowed from to meet the then pres ing exegencies of the State govern- ment. Year by year the threate ming deficit had been growing greater. Pay ! day was bound to come. We have it with us now. At the adjournment of 5 the last Legislature I thought it would overtake us much sooner. Our fin ances are several months short The day of settlement should have fallen on the shoulders of those who needed not the warning given them, but nee glected the opportunity to prevent it at a time when so little effort would have averted all danger. Our sys- tenn of collecting taxes made it possi ble to keep the trouble far in front Dur biennial Appropriations extend x only until April 1. Tax collections commence Jan. 1. But settlements with the Auditor and Treasurer are not compulsory until July l. Appro priations being made but once in two years and tax collections being made Z every year, gives us the opportunity of Borrowing from the future during period of six months every year. Other causes tcto numerous to men, lion here may enter, until we can get rlany months behind our income be- fore an actual shut down is forced At the meeting of the last Legisla- ture the future revenues of the state had been borrowed and used to the amount of about $200,000. The Gen eral Assembly appropriated for var ious purposes in the neighborhood of $750,0O0 more than the States income for general purposes for that bien- nial period. This, with the amount already borrowed ft'cm the future, < made the threatened deficit of the general revenue fund about $1 ,0O0, ,O00. After consulting the various officers. boards. heads of institutions, etc. Ve toed items in the appropriations that thought could be dispensed E With, thus greatly decreasing them.
 Under this plan we have worked The
 qfatutions of the shate have all been |< in nane. and. om m economical hasis