The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-08-21
DORSEY TOOK THE
BULL BY THE HORNS
FIRM STAND SAVED THE STATE
ANOTHER EXTRA SESSION
OF LEGISLATURE.
SPECIAL MESSAGE MADE
A PROFOUND IMPRESSION
Largely Influenced the Reduction of
Lavish Appropriations to Some
where Near the States Income.
Hall Wants 1t Widely Published.

Wnefe wear the States Income.
Hall Wants 1t Widely Published.
ATLANTA, Ga.-Governor Dor
sey took the bull by the horns to-
day, and in an effort to avoid an ex-
ira session of the legislature, about
to be forced by reason of the fued
that exists between the parties of the
higher institutions of learning on the
one hand and the common schools on
the other, sent that body special
message which was read in both
houses and which indicated his pur-
pose to call an extra session unless
the house and senate got together
and made appropriations fit the
states income.
The governors message aroused
great interest in both houses and was
listened to most attentively. In the
house motion by Joe Hill Hall of
Bibb to have 800 copies printed for
the use of the house was carried.
Mr.. Hall also introduced a motion
to have the message published in at
least two newspapers in each con-
gressional district in the state. This,
| however, was not acted on at the
morning session.
Deficiency of $1,35s, 1880.
Gov. Dorsey called attention to the
fact that the present appropriations
bill carries $1,358,13 more than
the states prospective income, and
this estimate is based on the anticipa-
! ton of the passage of the new gen
eral tax bill which was tabled in the
senate and which may not be enact
ed at all. He started out by show
ing that the appropriations for 1917,
together with the deficiency appro-
priations by the present legislature
for this year and last, when balanced
against the states 1917 income will
leave a deficit in the treasury Of
$450,340.50. If the estimated in
crease in property returns should not
materialize, then the difference for
1917 would be still greater. For
| 1918 he showed, the legislature has
appropriated in the bill as it went
from the house to the senate $780,
| $3.50 with revenues for that year
of $6,747 400 This makes a differ
ence between expense and income of
81, 1858, 1850. In making this esti-
mate of revenue, the controller gen.
eral has counted on additional re-
ceipts under the new tax act. Con-
Guiding, Gov. Dorsey said:
A Word to the Taxpayer.
81 am apprehensive that the tax
payers of the state will be further
burdened with the expense incident
to an extraordinary session of your
body unless you should speedily COM
promise your difference and pass an
appropriation wherein the reasonably
anticipated revenues of the state will
not be exceeded. And the purpose
of this message is to impress upon
you the injustice you do the people
of the state, the institutions of whose
welfare you are the guardians and
the controller general, the treasurer
and your executive, who will be need
lessly embarrassed in the conduct of
the financial affairs of the state if
you should forget the principles APP
piled to every conservative business
man to his own affairs and which
should be a fundamental canon of
state financing that one should not
eXpend more money that he has in
hand or has any reasonable expecta-
ton of being able to get"