Arizona republican., 1921-07-30
ID ASSURE HIM SAVING TO STATE
 0R NJ SESSION
Departments Are To Make Material Cuts Or Gov ernor Will Not Call Spe- cial Legislative Meet

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 If departments of state can show a material reduction in administration, and members of the legislature give him the assurance that saving can be made, Gov. Thomas E. Campbell will call special session of the legis- lature to reduce appropriations.
 If departments. however, cannot see their way clear to make worth while cuts the governor sees no me- cessity of calling the session. he said yesterday.
 Personal recommendation of clos ing the schools of the state and ceas- ing road construction will not be given very serious weight in arriv- ing at a decision, the governor inti- hated.
 Acting on the requests to call special session, the governor yester- day asked the heads of the different departments to advise him at their earliest convenience what effect the proposed reduction suggested by the committee of taxpayers at Nogales would have on their departments.
 The letter to the state officials was sent out shortly after c. C. Green, representing the taxpayers, presented the governor with a petition asking him to summon the legislature in special session to consider the state budget with view of reducing the ex- penditures of the state government The petition bore the signatures of those who attended the tax confer ence as a taxpayers committee, and other petitions filed bore names of taxpayers of Cochise county. There were 60 items set forth by the committee. of present appropria- tions, proposed appropriations and the proposed saving, which was to- tailed at s1.500,000.
 The governors letter to the depart ments is as follows:
 Governors Letter I am in receipt of petitions signed by committees of taxpayers request l ing that a special session of the leg | islature be called for the purpose of reducing the state budget to be raised 1 this year by taxation. Embodied in l this petition is a schedule showing present appropriations, proposed ap- propriations and the saving which 1t is thereby proposed to effect. | That part of the petition pertain | ing to your department reads as fol- l lows:
 Present appropriation,
 Proposed appropriation, Proposed saving,
 | earliest convenience what effect the lreduction proposed above would have on the appropriations of your de- partment for the ensuing biennium bearing in mind of course the great desirability of practicing rigid econ orny at this time. In referring this matter to you I am doing so in the confident belief that you share wltn me a keen realization of the situation confronting the state and the ao- l visibility of summoning the legisla- 1 ture in special session to effect a re- duction in expenditures if it appears 1 that same can be done. l am enclosing copy of the supple mentary petition received by me III connection with this matter
 Thanking you for giving this youl immediate attention, remain,
 Sincerely yours, THOMAS E. CAMPBELL,
 Governor.
 Eo1,ouinp ;s the petition which wa. enclosed with the governors letter:
 Petition for Session
 Nogales ,Ariz.
 July 25. 1921. To Hon. Thomas E. Campbell,
 Governor. State of Arizona
 We citizens and taxpayers of th' state of Arizona, assembled in con :. ference at Nogales in view or tn' obvious condition of industrial de pression which exists in our state sl and which has been greatly accen tuated since the regular session Of tn Fifth legislature, have, after carefu consideration, decided to and nov petition you to call special sesslol of the legislature of the state of Ari zona at the earliest possible date . with the object of reducing appro priations already made, so that stat expenses shall be reduced in propor , tion with those reductions alread ! made necessary and now in effect | ' the general industries of the state , which re1uctions are approximatei , one-half as compared to expenses c last year. .,., , And we respectfully pray that tni action be taken by you in conform. with executive authority vested l you as governor of the state 1t is unnecessary for us to go int : detail as to the necessity for this pc :. s tition, as you. in your wisdom. nay . already doubtless seen the necessit . for this action.
 . Respectfully, (Sixty signatures) II