Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-08-21
F IIVANCING METHO
SCORED BY WALKER
IN VETO MESSAGE
Last Minute Appropriation
"Riders" Travesty on Leg
isIation, He Declares

mated at $6S7 Az. The largest sum
involved in the legislative veto was
an appropriation Of one-half the eX-
cess of the states revenue over pre-
vious estimates, which would rave
given the Common schools S4SO,9lf
above the $4,5O0,O00 already set
aside for them, it was said
The governor gave out state
ment Tuesday in which he expressed
regret at the necessity of Vetolng
appropriations that were seriously
needed by some of the institutions
deprived of them. but he insisted that
the meth DDS Of enactment were clear
ly unconstitutional, and would not
have been upheld by the courts. He
criticised sever ely the prctice of pass
ing appropriation bills during the
conimotion incident to last night SEES
sons of the legislature, when proba-
bly, two-tkirds of the legislators have
gone home.
Money Bills Signed
The appropria ton bills signed ky
Governor Walker follows:
TO Tenth district A. & M. school,
$4,000; to common schools of state,
$3.50, 900; to University Of Georgia,
$4,000; to match Shepard Towner bet
ter babies fund, $4,000; to state reVe-
nue. department for 1924 and 1925,
$4,000; to state veterans service bu-
reau, $4,000; to Academy for the
Bltnd at Macon, $4,000; to state en-
tomologist to fight insect pests in
orchards, $4,000; to Georgia Train
ing School for Girls, for water works,
$4,000; to Georgia Tech. $43,944.23;
to state sanitarium at Milledgeville,
$19S,50O deficiency and $S1 PAS TO
complete nurses home; to depart
ment of agriculture to test calcium
arsenate, $4,000; to State College of
Agriculture, $27, 500 deficiency tor
1924 and 1925, and $4,000 to match
Smith Lever fund; to School for the
Deaf at Cave Springs, $1,000; to
School for Mental Detectives at Au-
gusta. $1,911.54; to state department
of audits, for 1924 and 1925, $33,865;
to state building and grounds fund,
$4,000; to salaries for new judges
and solicitors in three circuits, S.
900; TO military department ,$1Q,776,
to State Normal School at Athens,
$4,000.
In addition to these Appropriation
bills, the governor signed the nego-
table instrument act, the anti-tip-
ping repeal bill, the amendments to
the general tax act and cigarette tax
law, and other measures Of general
interest.
TIE measures vetoed by Governor
Walker were all senate amendments
to house appropria ton bills, with the
exception of a $25 900 appropriation
tn he
Women at Milledgeville. This appro-
priation was a house amendment to
a bill appropriating $4,000 to the
State Normal School at Athens, and
received TIE requisite majority of
104 votes in the house. Governor
Walker vetoed the Milledgeville col
lege apprO priation on the grounds
that it violated the constitutional
provision that there shall not be two
separate appropriations in the same
bill. He regarded this mea sure as
different from the appropriation of
cigar and cigarette tax money TO
Confederate pensions and the Alto
sanitarium, in the same bill, recently
Upheld by the Georgia supreme court.
Summary of Bills Vetoed
The bills vetoed by Governor Walk
er follows:
One-half of the excess revenue Of
the state of Georgia, for the common
schools, estimated at $3.50 ,917; $25,-
600 for the Georgia State College for
Women, at Milledgeville; 200 for
the State Womens college, at Val
dosta; 500 500 for an ice plant at the
state sanitarium, in MilledgeVille:
$4,000 for the state board of entC-
mology to fight insect pests in peach,
pecan and apple orchards; $4,000 for
the Eleventh district; 81 500 for the
Fifth district; SO 900 for the Twelfth
district: $500 for the Seventh dis
trict: $4,000 for the Third district
agricultural and mechanical schools,
and $1,000 for testing calcium ar
senate.
The estimate of the amount in
I volved for the common schools is
based on a statement Of State Audi
tor Sam J. Slate Monday that the
revenues of the state will reach 49,,
961,S34 during 1924. The Commoa
schools have been appropriated $4,
500, 900, on an estimate that the total
revenues of the state would be So
600, 900. The senate amended a bill
appropriating $250,000 to the com
mon schools. so as to re-enaCt the
old law that the schools should re-
ceive one-half of any excess over
$4,000, 900. This would have given
the schools $4S0,917 additional, pro-
vided the total revenue reaches the
figure fixed by the state auditor.
Governors Statement
The statement issued by Governor
Walker follows:
THE significant feature of the
canvass of the state by the tax COM
mission last year was the unanim.
ity with which business men every
where accepted the suggestion of tax
reform involving material increases
in taxes on intangible property pro
Vided business methods were en-
ployed in the expenditure of the in
come of the state. In perfect aC-
cord personally with this sentiment
/ have eNerted every possible effort
to impress the general assembly and
the people with the conviction that
substantial progress in Georgia is de-
pendent upon 4 fair distribution of
tax burdens, and that such reform
will not be realized until the people
are convinced that the affairs of
state will be handled in an economic,
systematic and buSineSS-like man.
ner.
I'm my day. each succeeding SOW
ernor has called attention. to the
growing tendency of the general as
sembly to appropriate money from
the treasury without proper consid-
Grafton of the income Of the state.
Resting under the assumed safe
guard of the constitutional limita-
ton of five mills upon ad valorem
taxes little regard for the warning
% overdrafts and deficiencies has
been manifested.
Indeed we have developed into Il
sorry system Of operations on de
fiCiencies, with no checks or limita-
tions. Lump sum appropriations
are made with no detau, no program,
no budget. The system reached a
climax in the later development by
which riders are attached 70 per