The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-09-02

to Georgia farmers.
Including calcium arsenate in the
bill which passed the senate last year
appropriating ten million dollars as a
revolving fund to buy nitrate Of soda
to sell to farmers at cost.
Appropriating $l25,O00 for market
news service so the farmers OF our
section could find, without expense,
markets for their products.
Appropriating funds for and locat-
ing in Georgia pecan and peach ex-
perimental stations, the only stations
OF the kind in the United States.
Reducing parcel post rates on farm
products, such as eggs butter, vege-
tables, etc. My bill has passed the
senate and is now on the house cal
endar.
Arranging with the secretary Of
agriculture to notify farmers daily by
radio of the price or cotton.
Appropriating 100000 additional for
boil weevil work $4,000 of which is
for experiments in developing cheap
er processes for the manufacture of
calcium arsenate and other poisons;
SIS, 900 for investigations by the U. S.
Geological Survey to determine the
various sources OF arsenic ores for
making calcium arsenate and $4,000
for experiments by the Chemical War
fare Service in poison gasses to kill
the boil weevil. Last year l secured
$4,000 for this purpose
Appropriating $4,000 additional for
tobacco Investigations by the Georgia
Coastal Plains Experiment Station at
Triton; $4,000 for study of storing
pecans and can syrup in bonded fed
eral warehouses under my amendment
broadening the warehouse law, and
$4,000 for study of more effective and
profitable utilization of the rapidly in
creasing production of peaches in
Georgia through packing and canning.
Appropriating $4,000 for a new
branch Office of the U. S. foreign and
domestic commerce bureau in Allan
i ia to find foreign markets for our
merchandise and agricultural products.
Preventing Oriental oils from flood
| ing our markets and competing with
Georgia peanuts and cotton seed oils.
l have worked and voted to place
| the burden of taxation on those most
able to bear it. l opposed that part
of Secretary Melons plan which re-
duced the taxes twice as much on
large incomes as on small incomes
Two years ago Secretary Mellon OPP
posed my amendment fixing a lower
tax rate on earned incomes or incomes
derived from wages, professional ser
vices, etc, than on incomes from
bonds and not from work. The re-
publicans at that time voted it down,
but this year Secretary Mellon rec
commended my plan and it became a
law. | favored lowering the taxes far
more than Secretary Mellon and
urged exempting married men whose
incomes were less than $4,000. I also
urged an amendment that would have
relieved from payment of any income
about rs per cent of all the people
of Georgia who now pay income tax
When the 10th amendment of the con-
stitution was passed it was intended
to collect taxes on large incomes only.
a majority of all Georgia banks are
small and under the original law could
not be members and secure cheap in
terest rates Of federal reserve system
banks. | made the fight to change the
! law for these country banks and now
they can get all advantages of large
! city banks
When gasoline was selling cheaper
/ in northern states than in Georgia
introduced measure, which passed
the senate, preventing discrimination
in prices of gasoline.
One of the first things | did after
my election to the senate was to urge
he oh Of he c4a n
quarters of the army, then at Charles
ton, S. C., to Atlanta, the logical place.
This brings to Georgia more than a
million dollars year.
l opposed the Esch-Cummins rail
road bill which advanced freight and
passenger fares, and have worked
hard for reduction of rates.
A bill of mine recently passed the
senate preventing wooden cars from
being placed between steel passenger
cars. 1t will save the lives of many
passengers.
An amendment of mine forced the
president to name three democrats,
one of whom is Judge Crisp, Geor-
gian, on the u. S. Debt Commission
to collect amounts due us by Euro
Ipean governments.
The federal government spends
more money in Georgia than in any
other southern state, which helps our
people While | believe in economy
in government expenditures and IN
keeping down taxes, l have done all
could to secure appropriations for
worthy measures in my state. Respect
| fully yours, VIM. ]. HARRIS.