The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-08
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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 the 'OriginaI Aundlsy Amsndmefit" introduced at the session of the Leg isiat9re of iSss.ss, ,yra;,c ny Mr osSar Ssrata. n; port of negro schools to taxes paid by that race. was not his work, put was was to his measure. The statement is made that the. measure as originally introduced by him was free from dis and that it was put into an amendment against his wishes. This does not square with the facts, There was q proposed amendment s5tors to tbs the GnndIey amendment was passed.
 Now the "Hundley Amendm ent as passed by the Legislature Is found n s3, on page 1915. and contains the ob. noxious feature discriminating against the negro. The introduction, progress shown ho sas on pages o @ ss, ios. ii4, is4. 4os, 462.5. of the Senate Journal (session 1ss2-es). and on each of these pages m n sig'y ywss ss S. Rr
 Journal is found the Governors spec ial message. returning the joint reso-
 
 constitution the Governor had no au- thorfty to approve or veto joint reso- lutions proposing amendments to the
 In addition to all this, MT. Hundley went upon the stump and advocated the adoption of this Amendment to the Ssa ths sh. ststs sscs and nation against the negro with respect to the sfbbeei tbIs fund Mr Hssdle ,lnpss and chagrin at the position taken by the Governo, in his inaugural address delivered on the first of December. . policy. This is well known as a part of the current political history Of
 This was not MT. HundIey's first eff fort at discrimination against the ne- anS 0egSSss9s & fS sf ss eS ss.s ss NOS so snd Article II of the Constitution of Ala 9ama See page la ef hsss the ssna,e ments relate to taxation for all -pur- poses, including taxation for educa- tion, and these joint resolutions so in- sion of 1Sso-sl by MT. Hundley con- asainst negro education. The eyi, resolutions themselves cannot be found Is shown by the Governors in augural address of December 1. 1890. taxing issue against 17sa, .,a anwise Sas ate Journalfi from which we quote the and now pending in the General As constitution authorizing local taxation for schools, coupled with the condition that such taxes paid by the whites schnnis for fine vuhfyea ara fhsf favaa paid by the blacks shall go exclu- siveiy to the support of schools for the blacks There was no amendment constitution except those introduced by Mir. Hundley. There was another amendment proposed by the Senator tion 5 of. Article 13 of the Constitu- tion which had nothing to do with taxation. These were all the constitu- ti9nal aadson amsrdments sn tbIa then pending to MT. Hnndisy's joint resolution was offered by Senator Skeggs. and adop- tsS dxsn,s.r EhIen Is found bn in Ths ss
 equal distribution of the taxes be- tween the races. proposed. to be raised the amendment. which MT. Hundiey claims was tackea on by somebody else which, as he says. put the vice of his measure. % o was of s contrary rsgt gnaturma m and in truth and in fact, the vice was already in the original joint resolutions duced,. and the cure was in Senator Skeggss amendmfnt to that resoiu- tioH Notwithstanding this, as we so bitter in opposition to the negro that he never let up until he got his joint resolution through the Legisla- ture. to discriminate against the negro so far as education is concerned So the effort is made in The Ledger arti- cle to claim credit for Mir. Hundley's doing something which is due. to am other man, and the effort is also pat ent to contradict the record and the known history of the State.