Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-06-26

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lne state military department The con-
sesuon in the capitol had to be relieved
~ .ueIe was no other way to relieve
mo AT me time it was said this build
,I IA would afford ample room for the
nliItary department and several COM
uittee rooms for the Legislature. (By
rre way there is no such thing in the
present capitol as a legislative commit
zee room of any kind) When the mill
oaIy establishment moved in it required,
a amu is now using, the entire residence
More recently, when the legislature Gre
are9 the state department of archives.
anu aI the time came to classify and re-
fH n',ne t ne records of the state, it was
a0uila 5he department had nowhere to
80 ana there has had to be erected
h m ne lobby on the top floor of the
pGllulhS a series of stalls and shelves
Wmere these records are stored in the
In the past few months the unsani-
| lary and congested condition of the
rs. under the capitol became such
b Lna' me state health department, which
,IaS peeh housed there for years, had to
| move. 10 provide a place for them
governor Dorsey on his own RESPONSE
unity rented another residence building
tine jackson property which the Legis-
lature had twice refused to buv~7nd
one department.
"A portion of the state agricultural de-
partment has had to be transferred from
the first floor into the basement of the
cdpIlol building because of lack of other
a0ColIlnelouatons and, when the state bu-
EAU OF markets was created and offices
were required it became necessary to
eliminate and tear out one of the tot
letS on the frst floor, overhaul that space
ana ana make of it an office for the state
And still there is not one legislative
COMMITTEES room in the entire building,
nor suInc1ent 70 IN for the appellate
courts since in at least one instance
no had l.
way down from the ceiling in one of the
rooms, in order to make it into two
rooms.
Why the Governor Says Settle 1t
Inese are the conditions at the capitol
as they stand today.
AT the mansion there is an even worse
state OF affairs. During the admins
tratlon of Governor Harris, and his &C.
e cup dGia 6 Of the mansion its unsanitary
anu ullap1dated condition caused him to
make complaint to the Legislature, and
Effort then was made to make other pro
VISIONS, but the effort was stalled by
caEpltol removal as an issue to be
Last winter, during Governor Dorsey's
occupancy of the mansion-he is still liv-
lnS there because the state provides no
s MnG4e else for him to live-physical and
sanitary conditions at the mansion grew
sun worse. The plastering fell from the
vans the water pipes froze and burst;
u, me mouse was uncomfortable and wholly
Toward the. end of last year Governor
dorsey made the flat statement
mat the point was reached when this
capltol removal issue must be settled
mas since repeated that it has become
a handicap, and will remain so until
II IS voted on by the people and gotten
out of the way; that it is standing in
the way of development, repair and ex-
pansion of the states properties to meet
th f,,i actual pressing demands
WINE tnese are probably not his exact
words, this is the substance of his COM
ment on the situation at that time, and
as II has been printed and repeated by
MN since: 1T is an issue that must
II VIII keep coming. up and getting in
the way of every effort to do ANYTHING
ABOUT the mansion or an annex to the
GTat l until the people have ended it,
the people as quickly as possible, and
II they are. going to move the capitol
TO Macon, let's know it and go ahead
and build adequate facilities down there
If they are not going to move it. then
let them unite our hands and let's 90
ahead and do the things that are neces
sary here"
1t is not by any means to be taken for
granted, either, that the governor hasn't
a future interest in what the peonIe
OF the state do on that score for in his
conversation on the subject, he has left
no room for mistake as to his sentiment
ana intention. He is an Albanian and
quite naturally is opposed to removal of
me me capitol from Atlanta; so much SO
ehat ne mas made it known when the vote
on 1t comes he will go to the ballot box
end register by his vote his desire that
It remain here-but he has been SUI
IicIently broad not to sidestep the is
sue; ne mas been big enough to say clear
~ that he wants to see it settled; set
tied now.
Here Is What Is Needle.
AS an outline of what the future CON
templates. Inere 10
sion somewhere in or ne r Atlanta If
the people vote that way. 1t will likely
be somewhere in the Druid Hills, and
Will be a building COMFORTING with the
dignity of governors mansion There
must be an annex building sufficientiv
large to house the entire department Of
state board of health; the state nnilitarv
department; the state geological DEPART
ment; the state department of archives
and and possibly some Of the other smaller
will have to be bought adjoining the pres.
ent capitol, on the opposite side Of fbo
street street; the he buildings now thereon will
must go up. When this is done the nrase
ent capitol needs and will have TO have
no little rubbing up and repairing,
These are the necessities. They are
cratic view he holds in respect to Ter
mination of the issue.
On the other hand, if the people vote
" ulONS lue CdpltOl 10 macon, then nrO-
vision must be made down there, in a
manner satisfactory to the people of the
state, for the erection of a handsorne
Georgia marble state building sufficientIv
large to meet all those requirements the
present capitol doesn't meet now and for
the future, and a suitable mansion for
the governor will have to be provided
Those, however are the things which
the two factions will have to present
to the satisfaction of the people of the
state when the question is submitted
for a popular vote. 1t will be then thai
will have to be drawn and the business
trade with the people of Georgia will
have to be made wa
In middle and north Georgia there arc
state officials who have been consult
ed, men familiar with the situation as
it exists and with the status of +be
states property here and the hopeless
ness of improving it until there is a
popular vote, who view the situation in
the identical light as does the governor
that the issue must be settled and the
handicap removed, one way or the other
so that the state may move forward
Only One Legislative Point
Insofar as the state legislature is CON
cerned, there is but one point to be Gov
cred: Is there an issue involved?
The highest constituted body in state
government has fixed the manner of
disposing of such an issue, when the
convention said by ordi
nance it must be settled by the peonIe
If in future latter the sitting of thai
the location of the canito
should be brought into issue. The con