The age-herald., 1901-08-16
AFTERNOON SESSION.

~. AZ ERNoON SESSION.
 The convention reassembled at 3:s0 o'clock and MT. Jones continued his re- voted more time to this section than any other. and he thought the convention should adopt the majority report.
 MT. Williams of Barbour spoke in fa- vor of the minority report, presenting his views as delegate from a farming section.
 MT. Hodges of Jackson favored the mi- nority report He said 1t was just as apt to be constitutional as the majority report, and the unit of taxation was too large in the majority report. It would be difficult to persuade county to vote this tax upon themselves, but many dis tricts might do so. The smaller the dis trict the more apt the measure was to be adopted
 Judge Coleman of Greene spoke in fa- vor of the majority report and made le- gal argument to demonstrate that the Ashcraft plan was unconstitutional. He replied to the authorities cited by MT. Ashcraft, particularly the Cumming case from Georgia and the Pruett case from North Carolina which he said did not sustain his contentious.
 Mir Pettus of Limestone spoke In favor of the minority report. It Is true 1t was new idea, but it.would be a sad state of affairs if the convention could not or igfnate a new idea after sitting nearly three months. We should not be hide bound and cling too tenaciously to old ideas,
 MT. Brooks of Mobile favored the ma jority report. He said the negro was a producer and a consumer; that he spent everything he made and in this sense was tax payer and large tax payer. The time would come when education would have it's effect on him and he was here to stay
 pr. cunningham's Views.
 pr. Cunningham of Jefferson said he favored taxation for the common schools with the county as a basis, and of fair and equitable method of distributing the funds. He opposed. giving to the white race the money paid by them and similar ly with the colored race. What right have we to tax for education? Because it is a blessing and promotes the civilization of a country. The greater the civilization the greater the productive capacity This is the only excuse we have for tax ing anybody. x
 He thought the committees report was a wise one He wanted the county to tNOfo Oli iiC-QuSSlASilr, SO LIldt LuS districts of the county could get the ben eft of the taxes paid by the richer DOT tions. Te hoped the convention would adopt the county as unit.
 MT Hefling of Chambers said that next to the suffrage question the question 5f giving the white man his taxes for his schools and the negro his taxes for his schools was dearest to the heart of the people, The time was coming when it would be a question of the survival of the Attest, and he did not believe in educating the negro as much as the white man. He favored the minority report.
 Governor Jones spoke in favor of the majority report. He said we had shorn the negro of political rights which 1t was to his interest that he should not have, but that in return we should educate him as far as possible. If we did not lift them up they would drag us down.
 Every negro who works pays his share of taxes whether his name is on the tax books or not. He dwelt on the future of the State with a contented peasantry if the negro was treated right.
 Mir. Browne of Talladega spoke in favor of the majority report He said the minor ity report was clearly unconstitutional
 MT. Graham, chairman of the commit tee, said there were 723, 900 school children in the State. The amount the new law would give for school purposes was, in round numbers, sf,000000. which would give an average per capita of $1.33 for each child. This was not enough. and he agreed with the gentleman from Henry when he said that Alabama should not be at the foot of the list in educational mat ters.
 He explained why the county was bet ter taxation basis than a district. and said that every new school house en- hanced the value of surrounding land. The proposed tax was voluntary and was but one mill. Those counties that wished to levy it should have the right to do so. He asked that this right be given to the people as an experiment.
 He moved to table the minority report. The ayes and nays were demanded on this and the report was tabled by vote of g to 30
 Mr. Graham then moved to amend by adding to the end of the section and provided that the provisions of this sec tion shall not apply to the cities of De- catur and Cullman."
 Judge Cobb moved to amend by adding, provided. furth. that the legislature may authorize the levy of said tax in cities where 1t has not been authorized in coun- ties.e,s .s-E
 of property to vote. This latter amend by allowing single women owning s100O of property to vote. This latter amend ment was tabled amid laughter and ap- plause.
 Judge Coleman of Greene moved to amend Judge Cobb's amendment by pro. viding that the funds arising thereundel shah be distributed among the children of the county.
 General Harrison moved to table ths Cobb and Coleman amendments, whlcf was done,
 Section 12, as amended, was then adopt ed.
 The convention then adjourned In yesterdays Age-Herald Major Hand ley. of Randolph is made to say that tht time would soon come when Birmingham alone would pay one-half of the states taxes What he said was that Birming ham and the surrounding mineral distric would sometime pay almost half of tn, states taxes.
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