The age-herald., 1901-06-15
88 Votes Were Cast Against the Proposed Increase
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STATE TAX LIMIT 65 CENTS
The Governor Authorized to Make Temporary Loans Not to Exceed o,ooc-Limited Local Taxa
 ton for Schools.
BY FRANK HARVEY MILLER.

BY FRANK HARVEY MILLER.
 Montgomery, June 14-(Special.) .)-The convention today exhibited niggardly and parsemonious spirit in refusing to give the Governor of Alabama a living salary. The executive committee had in-' serted in it's article a clause giving him 5000, which was an increase of only $2000 over what the state has paid in the days of its greatest distress and poverty.
 Governor Jones made an earnest, feel ing appeal to the convention. and with tears In his eyes begged that they honor themselves and their Governor by not forcing him to live in cheap boarding houses, saying that he was forced to live thus, more charity was expected of the Governor than any public man in the state
 Governor Oates also made a strong ap- peal for giving a decent salary to the Governor, saying that in 1861, when there were less than half million white people in the state, they gave him $4O0o end even when the state was three times as rich they only proposed to give him s5OOO
 The convention, however, voted this proposition down. The combination of the backwoods statesmen who live in fear of the Hill Bilies." and those who were opposed to any increase in expenses being in large majority. They decided to leave the Governors compensation to be fixed 1 by the Legislature, which has not seen
 fit in the last twenty-five years to in-s l crease 1t.
 | One section of the executive commit 1 tees report was adopted unanimously It | provided that the Governor should en- | force the law at his own expense, as Tom Long remarked.
 The convention adopted several sections of the article on executive, which are given in full below.
 A report was made today by the com mittee taxation of proposed ordin- ance It provided that the Governor could make temporary loans not exceeding S3O0,- GOO, fixes the general tax limit at 65 cents, with the Birmingham amendment: au- thorizes local taxation for schools to a certain extent, limits the bonded indebt- edness of cities to per cent. with an ad- dtional per cent for sewage, etc., and provides for refunding the state debt
 Conventions Opens.
 The nineteenth days session of the con- vention was called to order by President Knox at 2:s0 ?. m., the convention having adjourned yesterday until this hour so as to enable such delegates as wished to attend the funeral of Governor Sanford today at Opelixa- A special train which left here at 730 a. m. carried a number of the delegates who returned immediately after the funeral, reaching here at 40.
 Roll call showed eighty delegates pres- ent, being two more than is necessary for a quorum, and being the same number as answered the roll call yesterday.
 A number of leaves of absence for to- morrow were then asked for and granted.
 The biblical axium, Ask and ye shall receive" is fully carried out and exem- plified in the matter of leaves of ab- sence.
 The committee on journal reported it was correct and its report was then adopted.
 MT. Browne, chairman of the commit tee on taxation. then by consent reported an article on taxation as follows:
 Committee on Taxation.
 MT. President-The committee on tax ation has instructed me to make the fol- lowing report, viz:
 All of the ordinances referred to it have been carefully examined and considered by the committed, and the substance of some of them have been incorporated in the herewith submitted article on taxa tion, which is recommended to be adopted in lieu of article XXI. of the constitution of 1875. Those suggestions, presented in such ordinances which have been incor- porated in the proposed article, will be made manifest by the reading thereof.
 All ordinances referred to the commit tee are herewith returned The changes in the article on taxation are as follows:
 Section 1 has been so amended as to exclude from taxation debts for the rent or hire of real or personal property for the current year of rental or hire, in the hands of the landlord or hirer. when the real or personal property has been assess ed for taxation at its full value.
 Section has been amended so as to authorize the Governor to negotiate tenn porary 1oans not to exceed three hundred thousand dollars whereas under the con- stitution of 1875 such loans are limited to one hundred thousand dollars and so as to provide for refunding the bonded in- debtedness of the State.
 Section 4 is amended by limiting the amount of State tax to sixty-f1ve one hundredths of one per centum instead of three fourths of one per centum.
 Section is amended so as to provide for the construction and maintainance of public roads by special taxation, as is now provided for public buildings and bridges. but such special tax is limited to one-fourth of one per centum. whereas the special tax for such buildings and bridges is now without constitutional limitation. This section is further so amended as to provide that counties may levy and collect such special taxes as may be authorized by law for public schools, provided the extent of such tax, the time it is to continue, and the purpose thereof, shall be first submitted to a vote of the qualified electors of the county who are property tax payers. and voted for by q majority in numbers. and in taxable value of property, voting at such election: and provided also that no such tax shall in crease the total amount of taxation for all state and county purposes. except public buildings. roads and bridgeA to z