The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-10-18
EXTENSION OF LIMITS
WILL BE CONSIDERED BIZ COUNCIL
THIS AFTERNOON.
LEGISLATORS WILL ATTEND
REPORT OF THE SPECIAL COMMIT
TEE WILL BE AT HAND.


and Representative Harden VIII
Attend n Special Meeting of Coun-
Gil at 4,3O This AfternOOn-Meet-
ing Was to Have Been Held Next
Week, but 1t Was Decided to Hold
one To-day, as the Legislators
Leave EARLY Next Week for the
CaDftaI-SenatOr Cam Wants
Term of Tax ExemptiOn-Repre-
sentative Hitch Rather Favors
Taxation From the Time the Ter
ritory Is Taken in.
A meeting Of the Committee of the
Whole Of the City Council will be held
this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock for the
discussion of the proposed extension of
the city limits. 1t was expected night
before last that the meeting would take
place next week, but yesterday 1t was
ascertained that the representatives
and the senator from Chatham county
would leave early next week for At
lanta, as the Legislature is to convene
next Wednesday.
1t was desired that the members OF
the Legislature from Chatham attend
the meeting, as an opportunity would
thereby be offered for the interchange
of views. Mayor Myers accordingly
determined upon this afternoon as the
time, and it is expected that the ques-
ton will be considered exclusively.
The report of the special committee
upon the proposed extension has been
submitted to the Committee of the
Whole. On one of the city maps has
been indicated just where the new lines
will fall, and all who attend the meet
ing will have opportunity to see just
what is to be taken in if the report is
adopted by Council and becomes a lew
through action of the Legislature.
Only the members of the board and
the legislators will be admitted. Those
who object to their property being in
corporated with Savannah, will not
! have a chance to make their objections
known at this time. Besides the May
or and Aldermen, Senator Cam and
Representatives Harden and Hitch are
expected to be present. Representative
| Wells is not in the city. He has been
| in Philadelphia, whence he expected
to go direct to Atlanta for the Legisla-
| lures opening.
| Senator Cam was asked yesterday if
| there had been very much opposition
| to the proposed extension manifested
by those whose property is to be in
| cluded within the city limits. He an
swered that he had been approached
by many who had expressed themselves
! as opposed to the plan, but that their
| objections had been principally on the
| score of taxes. They want to be eX-
empted from taxation for a term of
years. AS has been stated by the
! Morning News, Senator Cam Sustains
the property owners in this objection.
He says he is opposed to the proposed
extension unless the property to be
taken in is exempted for a period of
| not less than three years.
Property owners have objected to the
taxes upon their realty. They do not
think that they should have to pay the
city taxes without getting benefits.
They hold that they will not get as
satisfactory police or fire protection
upon what would be the very remote
outskirts of the city as those living
nearer its center Lighting, too. is a
municipal advantage that they do not
think would extend to all the wide ter
ritory that is to be taken in, and there
in lies an additional objection they Of
fer. and that is upheld by Senator
| Cam. The senator said that he had
heard no objections upon the score OF
specific taxes or business licenses from
those who seem likely to be affected.
| representative hltcn IdVoFS Ine eA-
tension of the limits. He believes the
city should have reached out some
time ago. The extension should have
ante-dated the last census, he holds
in order that the city might have had
the benefit of the increased population
it will give. Immediate taxation, he
thinks, would be no great hardship
and he rather favors it for the new
territory. He says that it may be d
little hard to tax property that gets
few of the benefits of incorporation, but
that, in a less degree, perhaps, the
same trouble is found within the pres
ent city limits. The property nearer the
limits does not have all the improve
ments that are to be seen in the bust
ness section, yet there are no differen-
ceS in the tax rate