Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-01-19
GOVERNOR COOPERS
ANNUAL MESSAGE
RECOMMENDS APPROPRIATIONS
OF NEARLY SIX AND A HALF
MILLION DOLLARS.
PROPOSED REVENUE CHANGES
Message Dealt Almost Entirely With
Proposed New Revenue Measures
and Budget Recommendations.

Taxation, the word that stays con-
tinually on the tongues Of the people
of South Carolina, was the keynote OF
Governor Cooper's annual message to
the general assembly delivered to the
Joint assembly in the hall Of the house
of representatives.
Some change in the tax system Is
imperative and the change must come
at this session if a backward step is
to be warded of, the chief executive
said, in recommending new sources OF
revenue.
ANY tax system which is not based
on the principal of ability to pay is
fundamentally wrong" the governor
declared. Some paragraphs from the
governors message give an insight
to the need for additional tax meas
ures.
New revenue measures proposed by
the governor are: An income tax, an
inheritance tax, gasoline and petro-
leum products tax. an occupation and
privilege license tax, luxuries tax.
In addition he favors proposed amend
ments to the constitution to give the
state a just tax system.
In his message the governor gives
his recommendations for state appro-
priations for this year. These recon-
mendations have been taken from the
budget and the figures show that the
governor recommends a total appro-
priation for 1922 of S6.466,240.15. This
is a slight decrease from. the amount
appropriated by the 1921 legislature.
an 1921 the general assembly appro-
priated S6,767,13532 for all state pur-
poses.
Last year the governor recommend
ed that the legislature appropriate 81
111,6SS.S6 and this year his recon-
mendations show a reduction of $685.
ASH. AS compared with the appro-
priation bill last year his 1922 recon-
mendations are s3G,S95.17 below
what was appropriated, including the
extra 100000 for the citadel.
The message dealt almost entirely
with the proposed new revenue meas
ures and the budget recommends
tions. The governor took up every
phase Of the proposed new bills and
of his recommendation as to appro-
priations.
81 wish again to urge the passage Of
the proposed amendment to our state
constitution" the governor said'
which is necessary before you may
properly classify property for the pur-
pose of taxation. This matter is so
thoroughly discussed in the report
submitted one year ago on revenue
and taxation, that it is unnecessary
70 add anything further here.
"I have recommended the passage
OF these measures in order to raise
sufficient revenue to support the state
government and to provide for It's
different institutions and activities.
1T has occurred to me that some
exclamation of the budget recommen-
dations for 1922 is appropriate in con-
nection with the subject Of revenue
and taxation. The following summary
OF the budget recommendations for
the present year gives concise and
I think. intelligent statement OF the
purposes of expenditure.
u. For expenses Of legislative de-
partment, S105,372.
"2. For expenses Of judicial depart
ment, including the circuit courts
s157,69S.66.
"3. For educational purposes, In
cluding $1,66S,740 for administration
and aid for public schools, s96l,s5l.67
for the FIVE state colleges and 1884,
s42.o4 for the School for the Deaf and
Blind and the John de La Howe In
dustrial school, S2,765,6S3.71.
q. For the six charitable and cor
rectional institutions and for the sup
port Of the blind children and the
Catawba Indians, s1,067,l2S.36.
"5. For Confederate pensions, IN
cluding the infrmary and aid for the