The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1919-09-25
Mr.. BARRETT WANTS
NPINIONS OF VOTERS
Gov. Bilbo Asks That He Pledge Him
self to Take Care of a Loan of
100000 for Support Of State In
stitutiOns.


Editor Reveille:
Enclosed please find letters from
Gov Bilbo, Lieutenant Gov. Russell
and rD. Mitchell.
/ will appreciate an expression
from you and others in your paper
next Thursday.
Please return letters to me soon
as you make copies of same.
II you have space, please publish
letters in full.
Very truly yours,
J. H. BARRETT.
September 18th, 1919
My Dear Sir:
Since the people of your county
have honored you by electi ngyou as
member of the State Legislature,
and it now becomes your duty to
make our laws andp rovide for the
support and maintenance of our state
Institutions, feel that / am justified
in making an appeal to you which be-
comes necessary under the present
conditions that now obtain in refer
ence to our state institutions.
know that you are determined, in
these days of high cost of living and
the tendency to extravagant expendi-
lures both in public and priavte life,
to do your utmost to protect the tax
payers of the State. Believing this
to be true | feel that my appeal to
you will not be in vain when / ask
you to save the taxpayers about
Thirty or Forty Thousand Dollars by
signing the enclosed pledge and thus
prevent the calling of an extraordi-
nary session of the legislature which
will be necessary, to maintain our
state institutions until the Legislature
meets in January, 1920.
AT the 1918 session Of the legis- |
lature few men could tell Just how |
much money was necessary to appro- |
pirate to maintain the states educa- |
tional and eleemosynary institutions |
for the reason that the prices of all |
materials and food products, as well |
as labor, were soaring sky high as the |
result of war conditions. On account
of these conditions several of our
state institutions, especially the In
sane Hospitals at jackson and Mer-
idian, The Blind, The Tubercular San
itorium and others, have spent all
their funds and, unless some relief
is given, it will be necessary to close
the doors OF these institutions or call
an extraordinary session fthe Legis-
lature which will cost the taxpayers
between Thirty and Forty Thousand
dollars.
have made tentative arrangements
to finance the institutions until Janu-
afy provided you will sign the at
taehed agreement authorizing me to
negotiate loan for "a sum not ex-
ceeding Two Hundred Thousand Dol
lars. This loan will be enough to
take care of the institutions until the
legislature meets in January The
institutions mentioned above are abso-
lutely stranded and cannot go on with
the work unless you give your CON
sent as requested. / know the people
Of Mississippi will approve Of this
course when it will save them about
Thirty or Forty Thousand Dollars.
Please answer by return mail as
must be done Immediately.
II you approve please sign the en-
closed pledge and if you do not kind
" give me your reasons or sugges-
lions as to how to save the situation.
Of course you understand that what
ever money is borrowed under this
authority will be expended by the
Board of Trustees Of the various in
ititutions according to law and prop
arly accounted for at the January (
Iession Of the Legislature.
Yours faithfully,
THEO. G. BILBO, Governor.
(Lieut Gov. Russell's letter is simp-
an endorsement of what Gov. Bill
% says, and Dr. Mitchell merely tells
u the imperative needs of the insane
lsylum)