Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1906-11-05

4
they will handle millions. This pro-
posed amendment, il adopted, cannot
be repealed or modified by an act OF
the Legislature, because Il will be the
organic constitutional law OF the
State. 1t will take the whole matter
away from the. Legislature and the
people. They can let the contracts as
they please and to whom they please.
They WON'T have to advertise for bids
for work or material. Its quite diff
ferent with other boards operating un.
der our laws
"At the same time this amendment
was proposed by resolution OF the
Legislature. the same body enacted a
law which was the same as this pro.
posed amendment and these commits.
sioners have been operating under
this law. Let US see what they have
done and we can do II we adopt this
amendment: They laid off drainage
district embracing the greater part Of
several counties and they taxed the
whole OF the lands 10 this district,
whether wet or dry, Eve cents per
acre. Hdndreds Of people owned high,
dry pine lands and not foot Of the
swamp and overfowed lands. yet their
lands we're taxed to drain lands they
did not own. People who had lands
fifty to a hundred miles from the lands
that were being drained, and that
could never be drained, were taxed
IL the people adopt this amend.
ment, this board will be authorized to
put>Alachua county In the drainage
district and tax every foot OF land in
II. The proposed amendment pro-
vides that they may tax not only the
swamp and overhowed lands in the
but also 'alluviG lands All !
lands embraced in the pensnsula Of
Florida are allEvlal. (For the deflni-
ton Of the word "alluvial." the speak
er referred his hearers to Blacks Law
THE Governor says 10 the people
outside Of the drainage district that
lhe cost OF the drainage will not fall
On the State or the counties out OF the
drainage district, bot how do know
where he will add more territory to
he district or make new districts, and
furthermore they have spent owes
.hree hundred thousand dollars Of Tho
States money belonging to the ln-
ernal improvement Fund II that
and lie ever replaced it Will be by tax
ition aud Alachua county will pay he
,art, aud they are still operating at
he expense OF the people. We have
IN abundance OF good land that needs
10 drainage. We need more people,
nd there will be no necessity 10 drain
hese lands until the people use the
God lands already drained, We need
God roads to bring people, TO create a .
emand for lands. Why not build a :
ood hard surface road across each 3
Ounty IN place Of sinking these funds O
D the EverglRdesS
Governor BrowArd says the Legls- :
lture has granted to the railroads u
YER IL 900, 600 acres OF the 5000 600
ores granted to the State 10 1850 by
he United States, aud that only TO-.
1000 acres remain, and he abuses
he Legislature for doing ihisi Jet he
Omitted that when hV was In the Leg
latuFe he voted 10 grant these lands
, the railroad companies, and she n
'urnAls Of the House show that he q
lted for eight OF these land grants. n
"a he admitted, when he spoke &C n
alatka, that he never voted against
he OF these land grants, He also adj b
tilted that he recently sold 5000 1,
,res OF these lands at al cents an 1d
ire az private sale. The party who "
lrctased sold the mex, day or 30 for y,
q protis OF $4,000 u
''It is clear that Governor Browar "a Al
u only voted 20 give these lands 10 a
e railroads. bus he e now trying 90
ain them TOE The roads az the ex.
.nse Of stockmen and other people
ming high lands In the drainage Dis.
Ics. The Esst Coast Railway Il Hght.
: the proposed amendment aud The b
4 n, Railway Company Il assisting ri
vernon RFoward 90 the hght TO drain N
I'm. "