The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-02

vAlue9 fncfeaoed fAfee M1J103 One gentle5nAn up0n tne 6ope t&e ~1I
 day sald that the sulkr1et ef111n1o4s
 adopted. would decrease t4o Dqof t@N szso.ooo Wen. all have to say l4 azs' swer to that is we only cciIect J1o9 rie only pay about Sss ,000 Of tkot ik W q well known fact. Mf. President th1t a great many of the boys who % t4y voting. do not pay any poll tex. xeg1 men. twenty-two to twenty.nxI years old, who are clerkint - stores, or engaged In other ~ cupations. but who have No' prorsrty that necessitsses ta1lk solf,x before the tax asSsssof. 70 h1< 70 and hunt him up to Five h 0ele .poIl tax, but now 1t means dt1ftAu@ chisement if they do not assess theix poll tax and pay 1t. and contend tnnt we will get greater yield from tn4k source for schools In the futurs tnen in the past. .s.s..s x.
 Just one minute on the figures axein. Mir. President and gentlemen cx tne* Convention. I hold ia my hands VI fsures as made by Judge Cook. and upon which this committee pfedicteQ the recommendation to reduce taxation No one has assailed these hEuree. II is admitted that they are correct. but they have gone to guessing against tnt actual figures. The gentleman rum Montgomery, MT. Watts, read pepdt that somebody said had come from the Auditors ofice in which he ehcWed that under certain contingencies 6t possibilities we would not have 1cl~, iected but S3,sl0,00o this year. M e matter of fact they had collected ny to the eighteenth day of Jons $AslAoQo. The collections will be from that datss to september thrtieth. if no larger thae last year, $l90,e00 Our esttmAte wns that they would be at lsast $iogo more, making the total this year
 7l3. .0oo. and all expenditures will be n 7S1.ooo. Deduct and we have . dif- Ference in round figures $5s.0oo. Add that to the actual cash balance In tns treasury October 1. 1901, of $62o.0o0. ana. you have $s7s,e in the treasury upon the first day of october against whion are charxeab!e like amount ok iieDiA- ities, but they are payable In October November and December. Now have another estiuate--
 Mr. Ashcraft--wil the xentisnaA1 permit me to ask him . oufstionl
 Mir. Browne--r,o sir. have not the time. The total amount rald Into thu treasury during last October. Novefia- Der. December and January was Sisxtss- oee. The total payments dnrtn9 Octo- Der. November. December and January last were &1.27. 900. showink that tn9 receipts during those months Wese about 50 ,o0O in excess of the dleburees ments. Did they decrease the 3sSo.oeo cash baiance9 By no n1eafas. DIT in that time they added about eSo.0oe n1o1S to 1t. Again, in 1895. upon the first cay of October, there was . cash baienna in the treasury of only $tl,O0e. On the first day Of october 1ya0. there wes n the treasury Ss30 0.oe0. A gath of keSte9vs
 Akain, on the first day of July, two years aso, there was fh the treasufys when inc July interest upon the bonds nad been paid, only sssaeo0. Toaay there is sso2. GOO in the treasury ana the July interest long since paid. We are not gaininge We cannot comply with our promises to the yeeole |" re- iace taxes. If practicable. when we are m gaining In July cash tn treasury Ssse.vVe a year upon an averagep
 No one has shown anything to cons trovert the figures or the esfsmates made by this committee say to xnus Mr. President and gentlemen on tha 51oor. if this reYort had been made " some other committee. and that stafe- fnent had been made. and had had doubts upon the subject. and had hearu the able men who have opposed tnis rneasufe make the kind Of spst.chtH they have made. and fail to piek any fiaw in these figures, that Aoubs would have been entirely removed.
 MT. waddeli-Aaay aek the Eensie- man a question.
 NJ. Bsowne--No sir. You have not keen able to show anything. Your feare are at the bottcsn of the whole thnss You fear you wtli not be able to Dulid A maGnificent Capitol. Goxnrnors mansion and buy these shacas south ox here You fear vour school teAShers. You are fr.eads of the schools. asl ars afraid you will not be able 10 stic ID a larse surplus anl Approprtate tt @ tSe public schools from the IerssAl fnhd of, Alabama, when t is a weN Known fact to every one. CT ou~ht 70 be. that for every dollar you takn From inc people you swiDe about afnea1 centx of before it goes back to .asm. ans then force them to divide 1t with a m. tax paying race. Tell me that we must relegate this matter to tae I,esisla :urc? !? Then why did the Demo. cratic party put it In it's platform for one do not aHIee with those news pa pers that say that was done only lor the purpose of winning votes. NO ma9 can pledge me for that purpose. h ! Ro upon q platform. and that platfoEma a has pledged those who stand upon " to q course of actiop. I will follow thar course of action or get down on e tne nlatform. The charge has been mace by able gentlemen. the charge nas oeen made by my personal friends. ana | know that they do not mean It, tnas w. vArA in the attitude Of sasn- bers of the Lcgislatute, wn
 wanted to cut down the taxes
 vo hack home and say "Ain't l . statesman, l saved you scme niohey, The gentlemen who said it dld nos mean 1t. We are simply nnslsss nnoer.an to Ao our duty, under the instructiona of this body, and the people, wno se"' us here. ..,. .,,r,,,ss to say this in conclusion. If any man nnon this floor who Is opposed to tns renort of the Committee could havs foiInd one figure wrong in this state nsnt: could have cast one doubt upon if. would have been the first man to say for Heavens sake don't let me. ar my Committee. be the instrument nv which the State of Alabama wou.o bseone a defaulter." As l knew that gentlemen after gentleman was going fo get up and attack these figures. ssbeiSf night after might, and day attsr dav going over them, all of them. the ones made by the Auditors office, ana ihe ones made by me. and never found but one mistake and that was v mistake of S20 made in the Auditor offlce. ..A..