Arizona republican., 1921-08-07
SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 7. 1921
This feeling Of distrust IS olaoaus the last a0ilich q great mind acquires; ne as deceived tor e long time.
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No Special Session and Why

No Special Session and Why
 There was never. we feel sure any likelihood tnae Governor Campbell would call special session of the legislature in compliance with the request of committee of taxpayers for the reduction of the eppropr atons made by the Fifth legislature No doubt the governor was in full sympathy with them as to the ultimate objectthe relief of the taxpayers cf some part of the great burden they bear even # Y could have been accomplished at some temporary sacrifice of efficiency in Of the departments and institutions. We sure that if the governor could have believed that the legislature would act promptly to that end would have issued the call
 The governor did natural and a wise thing He sounded the members of the legislature before calling them into session which would have cost the state from $so,ooo to ssoooo He laid before the members in detail the proposition of the con- mittee- The responses in one way were Illuminating h that they indicated that the legislature would RroDaDiy accomplish nothing. Some few of the members favored extra session for purposes of retrenchnent All of them we believe were from two of the mining counties. Others said they were favorable to session not commit themselves to any course of action Privately some of them said they hoped the not issue the call
 Still others indifferent to the session but said they would not reduce this that appropria- uon Others were strongly opposed to the session as useless and hopeless of any accomplishment for good
 Tn the meantime the governor had also addressed letters o the heads of departments and insttu- Hons whose appropriations the committee had pro- posed to osreduce In that governor was probably not seeking information He was merely indulrne in act of courtesy. there could have been no doubt what the replies would be-
 the legislature had been called immediately upon the request from the taxpayers committee ya do not think the legislature could have taken any effective action in time to prevent will take place not later than tomorrow fixing of the tax rate based the present appropriations. by the state board of equalization or else the automatic attachment of the 75-cent provided for by the statutes in the board any reason negects to name the levy before the second Monday of August Certainly the legislature not have had time to avert the rate the if it had been called after the receipt of the responses
 And then. neither the governor nor any other well-informed person could where any consider able reduction could be effected The largest item proposed by the committee was the road fund of about $sooooo The committee had not taken into account that all or practically all of that had been spent or it's expenditure been contracted for so that 1t was beyond the reach of the legislature.
 The governor knew. everyone else did that tne legislature would not subtract considerable amount amount from the state school fund the next largest item It have been known too that it would difficult If not impossible to
 
 There would then have been left as sources for saving only appropriations for offices and departments from which hardly enough could have been salvaged to cover the expenses of the session.
 In all these circumstances the governor has done wisely to reject the special session which could only have added to the already heavy weight on the taxpayers
 Some have thought that the proposal for a frara for We do. not think We believe the pro- ponents sincere in their reduce appro- priatons. but that they had informed themselves of the difficulties and the npossiblity of accom- plishng anything that would benefit themselves or other taxpayers.
 We discovered outside the committee little sentiment in favor of special session On the contrary there has been widespread sentiment among Democrats well Republicans against it. We think that act of the can elicit more nearly unanimous approval than his to issue a call at this time for extraordinary session of the legislature
 The governor offers what believe to be a practical plan relief, though any pan as we have pointed out, must be late for immediate relief. The governor would put uB to the heads of depart ents and institutions the responsibility savings aggregatine a half million dollars. That would be a relief to taxpayers next year We do think the head of department would refuse to cooperate. If appointee of the governor, he would tive displeasure. If elective official, he might fear displeasure of the people at his co-operate. then there is the club the gover- nor holds-hs power to call special session early enough next year act before the meeting the state board of equalization.
 It seems almost certain therefore that the payers will be granted relief next year either by voluntary or enforced reduction of state expenses
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