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He concluded with the statement that if the school were moved. the other property In Tuskegee and its cicinase would not be worth much.
 Mayor Lewis, advocating the aoop- tion of the bill, opened the arguments before the committee. He pleaded Tor a limitation of the amount Of exemp- tion allowed the school. Speaking or the growth of the institute, he said IL now looked as if 1t were only ques- ton of time before the school would absorb the whole county and Macon County would be no more than the Tus- kegee Normal and Industrial Institute. The people of Tuskegee and Macon County had no wish to hinder the prog ress of the school, but he thought that so much property should not be ex- empted.
 Seventy five per cent. of the criminal classes in Macon County, argued MT Lewis. are negroes. yet the burden of administering justice is upon the white people.
 would Exempt s25O,O00.
 The limitations of exemptions for the school should be as high as $250,0O0 MT. Lewis thought. Tuskegee and Ma con County wished to be fair to the school and would be willing to allow that amount of exemptions, even if the bill allowed none at all. The institute, he concluded, should pay something to
  many privileges.
 Following MT. Lewis MT. Hare spoke for the school. He gave in brief out lines the history of the school, which, he said. had started from very small beginning. The appropriation from the State was not made at the first, and when it was made 1t was small. The other normal schools of the State get much more from the State than Tus- kegee, and he argued that at least the State should permit the Tuskegee school to retain its privilege of exemp- tions.
 Captain White, speaking for the school and against the adoption of the bill, began his argument by the state ment that the Tuskegee Normal and ln- dustrial Institute was the only insti- tuition of its kind in the State and that the present movement against 1t was impolitic. The people of the State had not come here, he continued. ask ing that the lands of the University of the Alabama Girls Industrial School and of the other State schools should be taxed; nor had 1t been shown, Cap tain White asserted, that the Tuskegee school had too much, but merely that it might get more, or get too much.
 The State contributes to the school and it would not be right to permit the county to take from it as much or more than it receives from the State
 
 from the negro and he now lay pros- trate at the feet of the white men; with the power the white men have they can drive the negro's institutions, the negro himself, from the State.
 Bias Against the Negro.
 The speaker designated the move- ment against the Institute as merely the result of antagonistic feeling against the negro. If the school Is not doing what it should, he argued, the committee and the Legislature ought to have the manhood to strike it down at blow. The State, he said, could get rid of Tuskegee, but 1t could not keep the great heart of a sympathetic people from contributing to the uplift of & needy race. Concluding Captain White claimed that the school had the sympathy of the State in the work 1t is doing.
 The State started from the first to help the Tuskegee Normal and Indus trial Institute" said Mir. Stallings, who followed Captain White. after that the Yankees took 1t up" MT. Stallings then traced the progress of the school in a commercial. as well as in a schol- astic way. Little by little, he said, the school became a trading corpora tion. receiving privilege after privilege from the State, yet 1t had been relieved of the duty of supporting the civil gov
 
 Mir. Stallings read articles from the Constitution and statute from the general laws bearing upon the exemp- ton of properties of schools from tax ation and discussed them at length. He held that schools under the acts ne cited were privileged to exempt from taxation one acre inside the corporate limits of town. or five acres outside the corporate limits.
 Some of the statistics introduced Tn argument against the adoption of the bill, MT. Stallings said. were not con- vincing. Valuations all over Alabama had increased and he cited Jefferson County, where valuations had increased from $1,000.000 to $6,00,000 within a few years. as an example.
 He decried the statement that the action against the exemption of the lands of the Tuskegee Normal and In- dustrial Institute would frighten of Yankee capital. He argued farther that the South was no longer entirely dependent upon Northern capital.
 The committee then resolved itself into executive session and began the discussion of this and other bills. No decision was reached regarding the Tuskegee bill, however.