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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (July 4, 1919)
SETTLE CAFiTGL LOCATION ' BY VOTE, ONCEAND FOR ALL Even Those Opposed To Removal Are Anxious To See The Agitation Ended In The Only Way Possible— By A Vote Of The People. ATLANTA, GA.—There will be introduced in the Georgia Legis lature a bill to bring the “Cap itol Removal” trail * to a final con clusion by submitting the ques tion to a vote of the people at the next general election, as Is pro vided in an ordinance of the last constitutional convention. The measure has the support both of high officials of the state who are opposed to removal of the capitol from Aslanta and of those who are In favor of its removal. The purpose of the legislation Is to bring to a definite conclusion an Issue which has been growing over the state the past eight or ten years—to end it one way or the oil er, in <he only way It can be definitely ended. Advocates of the measure to submit the question to the peo ple for their verdict say that the support already backing the leg islation in both branches is in excess of the required two-thirds vote in each i branch of the as sembly, and that the bill will be passed and rotten out of the way of other big legislation somewhat before the middle of the session. Some of the strongest men in the state against moving the capitol from Atlanta are backing the bill to submit it to the people, while some of the strongest men for its removal to Macon are, .also, seek ing to end tho issue by popular vote. Atlanta, Ga. —The people of the state of Georgia will finally settle, one way or the other, at the next general election, the capltol removal issue. It is to bo definitely determined at that time whether the capitol is to remain in Atlanta and the necessary improve ments and enlargements are to be made here, or an adequate and fitting new capitol building and governor’s mansion are to be provided in Macon, in the cen ter of the state. The Georgia Legislature at this ses sion will pass a bill, not as a great many people have seemed to believe, to "move the capitol,'’ but to submit the question to a vote of the people for their determination. A canvass of the state, county by coun ty, has just been completed and it is found that, generally speaking, the people and the statesmen are of one mind on the subject; they are in accord with the opinion expressed by Governor Dor sey some months ago: That the contin ued unsettiement of the “capitol removal Issue" has become a bar and handicap on the state's business in more ways than one, and the time has come to "end the agitation” by putting it up to the peonl > to render a final verdict at the ballot box, and bring the thing to a close. There arc members of both houses who will subport the measure this year to submit the issue to a vote of the peo ple, and who, when it is submitted, will s:; nd firmly in opposition to removal of the capitol from the city of Atlanta. Among them are some who will return to their homes and, in the campaign be fore the people on the direct issue, wall seek to carry their county against it. but they'frankly occupy the position of desiring the' issue brought to its final er.d at the earlies' possible time, and itumit their completion that there is no other, as well as no more proper or conclusive, manner of ending it. Law Says People Must Vote In no few localities in the state it has been found the belief exists that the location of the slate capitol is fixed by the state constitution. In other locali ties though these have been found to be but few there is entertained some idea that the state legislature has the authority to fix the location of the capi tol. ami has passed upon the question. Neither idea is correct. The sole authority for future deter mination of the question of the capitol, after the adoption of the convention or dinance has been by a vote of the peo ple of the state. In the light of these facts, gentlemen of both branches of the 1919-20 Legis-' lature, representing both factions —those •desirous of placing the capitol In the center of the state, and those opposed to any change from the present location —have announced themselves in favor and support of the provision made by the constitutional convention last held. They recognize, as does the present state ad ministration, that the issue is one which must be speedily brought to a conclusion, and they stand for making the required legal arrangements to reach that con clusion this year. State-wide political issues ordinarily go dir.'otly to the people, without any necessity for meeting legal technicality. This issue, however, is not of the or dinary variety. Its final settlement can come through no other legal means than action on the part of the state legisla ture submitting it to a popular vote. That government founded on the con sent of those governed Is the only firm and substantial kind. Why the issue Needs to Be Settled For ten years there has been constant ly growing an agitation for removal of the state capitol to a location nearer the center of Georgia. At the time of its origin it was treated lightly, and ten years ago was probably not an is sue of state-wide importance. Devel opment in that space of time of the Wonderful wilderness and wild-land south ern portion of Georgia into the greatest farming, trucking and fruit growing sec tion of the southeast added such impe tus to the desire for central location of the state government that It attained the scope of a big and broad state Issue several years ago. Four years ago rep resentatives of a majority of the coun ties in the state committed themselves, not to a movement to remove the capi tol from Atlanta to Macon, but to the proposition that this issue is of such size and importance it must be passed upon and determined by the voting pop ulation of Georgia as a whole. The magnitude wnich it has, ot al ready had at that time, reached manifest ed itself several years ago In the Geor gia Legislature when efforts were made to make disposition of the old and di lapidated house used since 1872 as a -‘governor's mansion,” a piece of prop erty acquired by the state from Mr. .Tolin H. James of Atlante, at a cost in that day of JIOO.OOO worth of seven per cent Georgia bonds. “Capitol re moval" prevented action then on the ground that “the 7 jple must settle the issue by vote first.” Subsequently, cr about three years ago, efforts were made In the Legislature to have the state purchase from the Jack son estate real estate In Juxtaposition to the present capitol property, for the ■cjirpose of ereclinfl _ajnpx bulletins in three figures—a residence building opposite the capitol In which to house the state military department. The con gestion in the capitol had to be relieved and there was no other way to relieve it. At the time it was said this build ing would afford ample room for the military department and several com mittee rooms for the Legislature. (By the way, there is no such thing in the present capitol as a legislative commit tee room of any kind.) When the mili tary establishment moved in it required, and is now using, the entire residence building. More recently, when the legislature cre ated the state department of archives, and the time came to classify and re move the records of the state, it was found the department had nowhere to go, and there has had to be erected in the lobby on the top floor of the building a series of stalls and shelves where these records are stored In the open. In the past few months the unsani tary and congested condition of the basement under the capitol became such that the state health department, which has been housed there for years, had to .move. To provide a place for them Governor Dorsey, on his own responsi bility, rented another residence building —the Jackson property which the Legis lature had twice refused to buy—and that is wholly devoted to the use of this one department. A portion of the state agricultural de partment has had to be transferred from the first floor into the basement of the capitol building because of lack of other accommodations and, when the state bu reau of markets was created and offices were required, it became necessary to eliminate and tear out one of the toi lets on the first floor, overhaul that space and make of it an office for the state director. And still there is not one legislative committee room in the entire building, nor sufficient room for the appelate courts, since in at least one instance a blind flooring has had to be run in half way down from the ceiling in one of the rooms, In order to make it into two rooms. Why the Governor Says Settle It These are the conditions at the capitol as they stand today. At the mansion there is an even worse state of affairs. During the adminis tration of Governor Harris, and his oc cupancy of the mansion, its unsanitary and dilapidated condition caused him to make complaint to the Legislature, and effort then was made to make other pro visions, but the effort was stalled by “capitol removal” as an issue to be settled first. Last winter, during Governor Dorsey’s occupancy of the mansion—he is still liv ing there because the state provides no where else for him to live—physical and sanitary conditions at the mansion grew still worse. The plastering fell from the walls, the water pipes froze and burst; the house was uncomfortable and wholly unsatisfactory. Toward the end of last year Governor Dorsey made the flat statement that the point was reached when “this capitol removal issue must be settled one way or the other.” He said, as he has since repeated, that it has become a handicap, and will remain so until it is voted on by the people and,gotten out of the way; that it is standing in the way of development, repair and ex pansion of the state's properties to meet the actual pressing demands. While these are probably not his exact words, this is the substance of his com ment on the situation at that time, and as it has been printed and repeated by him since; "It is an issue that must oe brought to an end. It appears that it will keep coming up ami getting in the way of every effort to do anything about the mansion or an annex to the capitol until the people have ended Therefore, it ought to be submitted to the people as quickly as possible, and if they are going to move the capitol to Macon, let’s know it and go ahead and build adequate facilities down there. If they are not going to move it, then let them untie our hands and let’s go ahead and do the things that are neces sary here.” It is not by any means to be taken for granted, either, that the governor hasn’t a future Interest in what the people' of the state do on that score for in his conversation on the subject, he has left no room for mistake as to his sentiment and intention. He is an Atlantan and quite naturally is opposed to removal of the capitol from Atlanta; so much so that he has made it known when the vote on it comes he will go to the ballot box and register by his vote his desire that it remain here—but he has been suf ficiently broad not to side-step the is sue; he has been big enough to say clear ly that he wants to see it settled; set tled now. Here Is What Is Needed As an outline of what the future con templates: There is to be a new man sion somewhere in or near Atlanta. If the people vote that way. It will likely be somewhere in the Druid Hills, and' will be a building comporting with the dignity of a governor's mansion. There must be an annex building sufficiently large to house the entire department of agriculture and its sub-branches; the state board of health; the state military department; the state geological depart ment; the state department of archives, and possibly some of the other smaller departments. To provide that property will have to be bought adjoining the pres ent capitol. on the opposite side of the street, the buildings now thereon will have to be wrecked and a new structure must go up. When this is done the pres ent capitol needs and will have to have no little rubbing up and repairing. These are the necessities. They are why the governor nas taken the demo cratic view he holds in respect to ter mination of the issue. On the other hand, if the people vote to move the capitol to Macon, then pro vision must be made down there, in a manner satisfactory to the people of the state, for the erection of a handsome Georgia marble state building sufficiently large to meet all those requirements the present capitol doesn’t meet now and for the future, and a suitable mansion for the governor will have to be provided. 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