The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-28
caption or title you would put to that

caption or title you would put to that bill?
 MT. White-I will attend to that when I get to the Committee on Har- mony and Consistency. l am not now d. casing it up. I am giving 1t to you in such language as you can take 1t in. Of course, it won't do to draw it too line at the start. The gentleman from Lee might not take it that strong.
 Mir. ONeal Gauderdale)-Will the gentleman permit a question?
 Mir. White-Yes, sir.
 Mir. O'Neal (Lauderdale)-I ask sim- ply for information. 1 did not under stand very fully your substitute, but does it contemplate prohibiting the Legislature from imposing any license tax on any article or commodity?
 Mir. White-Wait a moment, and I will give you the explanation as l un- derstand it. The first clause of that section provides that no tax shall be imposed or license required of the pro- ducer or manufacturer, while he is en- gagged in selling or exchanging hio products. That is the idea. My pur- pose was in that, to prevent tax or license being imposed, for instance, up- on the cotton mills of Alabama for sell ing or exchanging their products. l Dy IHdl Lo piOllLOlb lllC AACS loieS- ture from taxing the agriculturists of the State, while they were selling or exchanging the products of the farm. | meant by that that the coal operator should not be taxed while he was sell ing or exchanging his coal. l meant that Alabama has now become, or IS fast Aecoming, one of the greatest me nufaeturing States of the Union She Is already great in agriculture, and l mean to encourage her manufacturers and to encourage her agriculturists, ana to prevent the Legislature from dis- couraging her manufacturers and her agriculturists, by imposing tax upon them that is not imposed upon any other class.
 The next provision is that no tax for the inspection or analysing of any com modity of merchandise shall be imposed in excess of the reasonable cost of the inspection or analysis. By that, 1t is intended that no commodity or mer- chandise sold to the people of Alabama should bear an unequal burden or an unjust tax, but If the General Assem- bly, saw fit. it might impose an inspec- tibn tax on the article, in order that the people might be protected, and to that extent alone they could tax it.
 Mp. Long (Walker)-I will ask the gentleman, 10 llluSCTdleJ SupPOSC ShS farmers of Alabama. or majority Of the people thereof, including the farm CTS, wish to retain this 50-cent tax on guano, should they be entitled to that privilige?
 Mir. White-Well, I suppose so; yes.
 MT. Long (Walker)-Then your prop osition to prohibit it is wrong?
 MT. white-No, sir. l suppose, MT. President, that he is acting upon the doctrine that he who wears many stripes will receive great rewards. Some of the Apostles rather rejoiced and gloried in the stripes they received. because they saw in the land beyond joys that they would not have received but for them, and I say if
 The clock struck and the hour or adjournment had arrived.
 The President-The gentleman may conclude his sentence.
 MT. White--I say that if the farmers of Alabama are so anxious to bear these burdens, of which my friend from Walker speaks, they can bear them MT. President, without going through the form of taxation; they can send the 50 cents to the Treasurer for every ton of fertilizer they buy.
 After announcement of several come tnittee meetings, the Convention ad- fourned until o'clock p. m.