Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-06-17
SENATOR HARRIS ANNOUNCING
CANDIDACY FOR REELECTION
CALLS ATTENTION TO RECORD

lars as a revolving fund to buy nj
trate of soda to sell to farmers at
cost
"Appropriating $125 900 for market
news service so the farmers of our
section could find, without expense,
markets for their products.
'Appropriating funds for and To-
eating in Georgia pecan and peach
experimental stations, the only sta
tons of the kind in the United States.
Reducing parcel post rates on
farm products, such as eggs. butter.
vegetables, etc. My bill has passed
the senate and is now on the house
calendar.
ARRANGING with the secretary of
agriculture to notify farmers daily
by radio of the price of cotton.
"Appropriating 100000 additional
for boil weevil work, $4,000 of which
is for experiments in developing
cheaper processes for the manufac
ture of calcium arsenate and other
poisons: SIS 900 for Investigations by
the u. S. Geological survey to deter
mine the various sources of arsenic
ores for making calcium arsenate
and 1000 for experiments by the
gases to kill the boil weevil. Last
year 1 secured $4,000 for this pur
pose.
"Appropriating $4,000 additional
for tobacco Investigations by the
Georgia Coastal Plain Experiment
Station at Triton; $4,000 for study
of storing pecans and cane syrup in
bonded federal warehouses under my
amendment broadening the ware
house law, and $4,000 for study of
more effective and profitable utiliza-
ton of the rapidly increasing pro-
duction of peaches in Georgia
through packing and canning.
"ApprOpriating $4,000 for a new
branch office of the United States
foreign and domestic commerce bu-
reau in Atlanta to find foreign mar
kets for our merchandise and agricul-
tural products.
preventing Oriental oils from
flooding our markets and compel
ing with Georgia peanuts and cotton
seed oils
II have worked and voted to place
the burden of taxation on those mos;
able to bear it. I 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 in
comes derived from wages, profess
slonal services etc, than on incomes
from bonds and not from work. The
Republicans at that time voted it
down. but this year Secretary Mel
Ion recommended my plan and it be-
came law. I favored lowering the
taxes far more than Secreatry Mel
lon and I urged exempting married
men whose incomes were less than
$4,000. / also urged an amendment
that would have relieved from pay
ment of any income about IS per
cent of all the people of Georgia who
now pay income tax. When the 18th
amendment of the constitution 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 interest rates of federal re-
serve system banks. I 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 cheap
er in northern states than in Geor.
gia L introduced measure, which
pasesd the senate, preventing dis
elimination in price of gasoline.
"One of the first things [ did aft
er my election to the senate was to
urge the changing of the southeast
ern headquarters of the army, then
at Charleston, S. c., to Atlanta, the
logical place. This brings to Geor-
gia more than a million dollars a
year.
II 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 passen.
ger cars. 1t will save the lives of
many passengers.
An amendment Of mine forced the
president to name three Democrats
one of whin is Judge Crisp, a Geor.
gian, on the United States debt com
mission to collect amounts due us by
European governments.
The federal government spends
more money in Georgia than in any
other southern state, which helps our
peole. While I believe in economy
in government expenditures and in
keeping down taxes, | have done all
| could to secure appropriations for
worthy measures in my state.
Respectfully yours,
"WM J. HARRIS"