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The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1912-09-05
THE HERALD

acquired after July l. 1912, even though
1t may form part of the operative
property OF any railroad, shall not be
considered a source of state revenue
except by constitutional amendment.
unless such property had been, prior
10 said date, part of a railroad termi-
nal, depot, yard, warehouse or shop.
4. All other property subject to tax
alton, except as herein specified. or
except as may hereafter be directed
by vote of two-thirds of all the mem
berS elected to each house Of the Cen
taxation.
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shall any such local license exceed one
tenth of one per cent of the gross re-
ceipts of the licensee, provided that
no license shall be less than $500, nor
snail the licenses provided for in this
section be levied unless the general
property tax OF each taxing locality,
when exercised to sixty per cent of its
limit. shall not be sufficient to pay the
expenses of its government. " hen
ever municipal license equals the Ii
cense levied by the parish, only the
municipal license shall be due and col
Iectible.
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Article w.

1. The General Assembly shall have
power to levy license taxes only on
persons, partnerships, associations and
corporations engaged in business OF
occupations that fall strictly under the
domain of the police power, and for
that purpose to classify all such bust
nesses and occupations. and to grad
uate the tax within each class.
2. Local subdivisions of the State
government shall have the power to
levy licenses on businesses and occu-
pations falling strictly within the do
main of the police power as provided
in the foregoing section for the State,
save that such local licenses as may be
levied on traffic in malt, vinous and
alcoholic liquors shall not be less than
those levied by the state nor less than
by the General Assembly as minimum
local licenses.
g. Such local subdivisions. as each
may determine for itself. shall also
have the right to levy license taxes,
classified and graduated with due re-
spect TO equality and uniformity with.
in each class. on all businesses and
occupations not covered by Section 2
CT this article: save and except licenses
On corporations. persons, firms and as
sociations whose property or business
is among The sources of revenue re-
served to the State. and save and ca
cept licenses on individuals engaged in
trades. occupations and callint;s involv-
ing the personal labor or skill of the
person to be taxed. and not falling
within the domain of the police power;
sociations. partnerships or individuals
engaged m manufacturing or indus
trial pursuits whose capital stock. Oi
capital in business, Is less than five
thousand dollars, and not falling with
in the domain Of the police power; and
save and except persons. firms and cor
porations enSaged in agricultural or
horticultural pursuits. In no event
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1912-09-05

approved: August oath, 1912.
L. E. HALL.
A true copy:
ALVIN L. HEBERT.
Secretary of State
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Article VII.

l. Every municipality shall have the
right to provide, at its discretion, by
ordinance of its governing authority,
the officer or officers. who shall collect
Its taxes. and to fix the compensation
to be paid such officer. or officers and
the mode of their election or appoint
ment; and every Parish shall elect by
vote or its qualified electors the Of
ticer. or officers, to assess its property
for taxation. the compensation of such
officer or officers to be fixed by the
Police Jury not less than ten months
before the election, and not subject to
change during the elected officers in
cumbency. This power shall not be
exercised in the Parishes, nor in the
Parish of Orleans as to assessors, I'M
til the terms of office of the present
incumbents expire. After January /,
1914. and until the expiration of the
terms OF said officers. all local assess
ments shall be made by the assessors
of each Parish and the assessors of
New Orleans at the present rate OF
compensation. All local taxes and Ii
censes except those levied by munich
palities, shall be collected by the Sher-
if of each Parish. except the Parish
pensation unless such compensation
shall be changed by the General As
sembly. After January !, 1914. Par
ish assessors shall be compensated by
Parish Of Orleans by the City of New
Orleans. If under the referendum
amendment submitted to the people at
the same time this amendment is sub
mttted providing a way to relieve mu-
inequalities from general parish taxes,
subject to an obligation to contribute
TO certain funds. is adopted, then each
municipality so relieved from such tax
alton. shall have the right by its gov
erning authority. to provide for the APP
pointment or election of it's own as
SCISSOR or assessors and to fix their
compensation.
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Article VIII.

i. In order to reimburse parishes
and municipalities now free from par
ish taxes for loss of revenue caused by
the withdrawal of the sources OF state
revenue from parish and municipal
| taxation. there is hereby granted to
each parish and to each such municipal
corporation the right to levy an addi-
tlonal tax of six mills on unsegragated
property.
2. In order to similarly reimburse
municipalities not now free from par
ish taxes each parish shall levy an
nually for eight years after January /,
1914. the six mill tax aforesaid, or so
much thereof as may be necessary,
and out of the proceeds of this tax
each parish shall. under the supervi-
sion of the Tax Commission, compen-
safe each such municipality within its
limits for loss of revenue caused by
such withdrawal. Such compensation
TO be made on the basis provided in
the following sentence for compensa-
ton by the state to parishes. If the
proceeds of such tax remaining to each
parish, added to the proceeds of the
m:tted to be levied. after making the
compensation aforesaid. shall not be
sufflclent to repay to said parish the
sum II would have received by the
mony tax on the basis OF the assess
ment rolls Of 1911, plus an increase
OF five per cent on the amount of said
tax; then the state shall compensate
cdSh pdi lHc dInOuHl OI SuCn ueU-
cheney as fixed and reported by the
Tax Commission
3. Any municipality now free, or
hereafter made free, from parish tax
alton which is not reimbursed by the
levy of the additional six mill tax the
power to levy which is hereby granted
to IL, shall be compensated by the Cen
eral Assembly on the basis above pro-
vided for compensation by the State to
the parishes, the amount of said COM
pensation to be fixed by the Tax Com
mission.
4. The obligation to make the COM
pensations herein provided for shall be
mandatory on the General Assembly,
but no such compensations shall be
made after the year 1921.
o. After the year 1921, no parish
shall levy any part of such six mills
within the limit Of any Incorporated
municipality and said municipalities
shall be entitled to levy and collect
such six mill tax for their own ac-
count.
6. The claims of each parish and
municipality for compensation shall be
presented to the Tax Commission.
which shall examine such claims and
report the facts and its conclusions to
the General Assembly on or before the
first day of each regular session.
Z. In reimbursement for the state
sources of revenue herein withdrawn
from her assessed values, and for the
joint benefit of her alimony and her
existing one per cent debt tax, the
city of New Orleans. after January
LIST. 1914. is hereby granted the right
to levy annually and shall levy annu-
! ally as long as said one per cent debt
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1ects contrary to or in conflict with
the provisions of this amendment be
and the same are hereby repealed.
SCHEDULE.
!. No part of this amendment to the
Constitution shall go into effect until
January LIST, 1914, except that the pro-
visions OF sections one. two, five, six
and seven OF Article III, as to special
taxes shall go into effect as soon as the
General Assembly shall pass laws car
rying them into effect, and the pro-
visions OF sections three and four OF
said article shall 90 into effect on jan
uary LIST, 1913. provided laws carrying
them into effect shall be passed on or
before March l. 1913; provided further.
that laws carrying them into effect
may be enacted at any later date.
2. on and after January LIST, 1914,
the office of the State Board of APP
praisers and the office of State Board
OF Equalization shall be abolished, but
the present incumbents shall hold their
offices at the present rate of compensa-
ton until their present terms shall ex-
pire and they shall aid the Tax Com
mission in putting the system provided
for in this amendment into operation,
and in that connection they shall per-
form such duties as the Tax Commits
sion and the General Assembly may
prescribe
3. The license tax authorized by the
present Constitution to be levied on the
severance or natural resources from the
SOIL shall be superseded by this amend
ment as to the severance OF minerals.
oil and gas. and shall be levied only
on the severance of forest products.
4. When this amendment goes into
effect on January !, 1914, the special
state taxes levied for good roads and
for Confederate Veterans as now es-
tablished or as may be established, by
the amendment to be submitted 10 the
people at the same time this amend
ment is submitted, shall cease, and the
General Assembly shall make provi-
sion out OF the General Fund for the
benefit of each of these special funds
as hereinabove provided.
collected on January l. 1914, for 1912
and previous years. shall be collected
and accounted for. under existing laws,
by the sheriffs in the parishes. and
the State Tax Collector in New Or
leans. but all such collections must be
completed by June 80, 1916. up to which
date the State Tax Collector OF New
Orleans shall remain i'm Office. He
shall also collect all State licenses lev
led in the Parish of Orleans until said
date and the General Assembly shall
provide for a reduction of his clerical
force to take place on June 80. 1914.
After June 80. 1916. any State licenses
and taxes then remaining unpaid, shall
be collected by the State Treasurer. The
General Assembly shall by appropriate
legislation provide compensation on an
equitable basis to the tax collectors
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l. All articles and parts OF articles
of the Constitution of 1898 on the sub
1ect OF assessment and taxation, and
all amendments thereto on said sub
tects contrary to or in conflict with
the provisions of this amendment be
and the same are hereby repealed.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-03-15
THREE-YEAR BILL MODIFIED.
Subcommittee Drafts New and Easy
Homestead Provisions.

Subcommittee Drafts New and Easy
Homestead Provisions.
Washington, D. C.-The sub-com-
mittee of the public lands committee
having in charge the Borah-J Jones
three-year homestead bill has agreed
tentatively to several amendments
which will be laid before full commit
tee for adoption. Instead of granting
six months leave of absence, the bill
will provide that the ''settler or his
family" shall reside upon the land at
least seven months in each year, and
before final proof is made will require
that habitable house shall be erected
upon the land, as evidence of intention
to make it home.
No provision has yet been adopted
requiring any specific amount Of culti-
walton, this subject being still open,
but an amendment has been agreed
upon making the bill applicable to all
pending unprotected homesteaders en-
tries, SO that, if it is passed, home
steaders now striving to comply with
the law may secure title after three
instead of five years residence.
The amendments adopted will not
meet the opposition raised by the In
terror department and further protest
from that quarter is expected.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-03-15
APPLE BOXES LEFT OUT.
SuIzer Bill Is Amended to Regulate
Barrels Only.

Washington, D. C.-The house COM
mittee on coinage, weights and meas
ures after hearing arguments on the
Sulzer apple-box bill, will abandon the
original measure and report substi-
tute bill which Undertakes merely to
regulate the size of apple barrels and
fixes standards for apples packed in
barrels. This is in conformity with
an agreement reached between West
ern growers and Eastern commission
men.
The bill that will be reported does
not in any way apply to Western ap-
pies packed in boxes. There is one
clause of the bill, however, which later
on many be extended to Western ap-
pies. This clause imposes fine of 81
for each package of apples mis-brand-
ed and provides for confscation of
each barrel that is short. The COM
mittee decided that heavy fines and
Jail sentences for failure to meet re-
quired standards was unduiy harsh and
Sulzer agreed to modify this provision.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-03-15
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND
PROGRESS OF OUR HOME STATE
COUNTY WORTH MILLIONS.
Assessor Starts Work on Propert,
in Red Apple District.

Assessor Starts Work on Property
in Red Apple District.
Wenatchee- County Assessor r. C..
Osborne has started on the assessment
of the property in Chelan county for
taxation. The valuation placed upon
the real and personal property COM
bined two years ago in the county
totaled approximately $751; 600, 900,
and it is expected that the new valua-
ton will run close to $4,000, 900, as
the valuation Of real estate has re-
manned the same on the assessors
books for the last two years, and since
the last fixture of valuations much i'm
provement has been done and many
new orchards have come into bearing.
Tax Commissioner Frost visited the
Wenatchee valley during the last
week and asserted that fruit trees
must be assessed directly or the state
board would assess them indirectly
raising the valuation to meet the ne.
cessary amount. County Assessor Os.
borne will act upon the opinion rem.
dered by Prosecuting Attorney N. M.
Sorenson to the effect that trees
should not be assessed.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-03-15
FOR BETTER HIGHWAYS
County Commissioners Decide to g
Ahead With Street Extensions.

County Commissioners Decide to Go
Ahead With Street Extensions.
Walla Walla-Out of an all-day ses-
sion Of the county commissioners at
which State Highway Commissioners
w. ]. Roberts and State Engineer w.
J. r. Simpson were present came the
decision to 60 ahead with the Melon
aid and the Park street extension
roads according to the terms OF the old
contracts entered into before the pres
ent road administration began.
According to these the two state
highways will be composed Of Dixie
rock finished with an oil bound sur
face, 80 per cent asphaltum oil being
used, and costing about $4,000 per
mile. There are three and one-half
miles of these two roads.
H. L. Wilson, to whom was given
the old contract for the Mcdonald
road, will be ready to begin grading
in few days, and by that time the
state engineer will be on the ground
to supervise construction. The other
contract, given originally to F. A.
Empey, of Spokane, will probably be
turned over to the county commission
ers, if it is found that no legal techni-
calities will prevent. The question
will be presented to the attorney gen.
eral at once.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-03-15
ADIUNDSEN'S SOUTH POLE
EXPEDITION SUCCESSFUL

London-Analyzipg the somewhat
brief cable to hand, announcing Cap
tain Amundsen's attainment Of the
South Pole, one, from previous ex-
perience, would assume that the jour-
new was done with extreme rapidity
and under very favorable conditions as
regards the weather.
Captain Amundsen has attained the
geographical South Pole, the long
sought-for spot, and that finishes
record breaking SO far as the ends Of
the earth are concerned.
Assuming that the latitude OF
Amundsen's winter quarters was "A
degrees "A minutes, that is only GIG
geographical miles from the South
Pole. This place was named Bay OF
Whales by a former expedition and
was formerly known as Balloon Blight.
If Amundsen did Is miles day and
reached the South Pole on Decmebel
ID, he would have started south about
the beginning of November, but it is
more likely that he did not travel al
that rate, especially for the first loo
or 200-odd miles, so we may assume
that he started for the pole about the
beginning of October.
There is no indication in the cable
whether Amundsen followed the route
of other expeditions in reaching the
mountains that guard the approach to
the Pole. It may be possible that he
found new route and an easier one
up to the plateau which lies about g.
900 to IL, 900 feet above sea level.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-03-15
HORSES FALL INTO WELL.
Animals Attached to Harrow Slip on
Brink of Unprotected Hole.

Animals Attached to Harrow Slip on
Brink of Unprotected Hole.
Sprague- While driving an eight
horse team attached to disk harrow,
Roxie Fry, son of Councilman J. B.
Fry, drove too near an unprotected
we'll and cave-in followed, with the
result that four of his horses are now
buried 60 feet underground.
According to young Fry the dust of
another harrow in his advance pre-
vented him from seeing the well until
the ground gave way under the feet of
the outside wheel horse, which plung-
ed headlong out of sight, dragging
the other three wheel horses after it
to the bottom.
The four horses in the lead broke
loose and escaped. The disk harrow,
with the driver aboard, came to a
stop squarely across the well, which
was five feet in diameter.
A man who was later lowered to the
bottom of the shaft found the horses
dead and only succeeded in obtaining
bride and halter from one of the
animals.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-03-15
WOMEN AND CHILDREN LEAVE
Americans Left in MADEIRA Are Armed
and Capable.

and Capable.
Ell Paso - One hundred and fifty
Americans, mostly women and child
rem from the American numbering
town of MADEIRA, were brought into Ell
Paso, by the Mexico Northwestern
railway from Pearson, their first stop
ping place after leaving MADEIRA.
Another train bringing refugees from
Chihuahua is expected over the Mexi-
can Central.
With the exception Of small hos
pital staff at Pearson, every American
woman and child in the towns of
MADEIRA and Pearson, Mexico, is on
United States soil.
These assert that for weeks they
virtually have been isolated and liv-
ing in a state Of terror. With neither
wire nor train communication and
mails demoralized, they have been cut
off completely from the outside world
and almost constantly have been
by marauding bands. Bust
ness at MADEIRA, they say, is nom
existent. It was reported by refugees,
the mills Of the MADEIRA Lumber COM
pany were closed, hundreds of work.
men being thrown out Of employment.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-03-15
Free Fares Not Legal.

Olympia State laws will not per-
NIT railroads to grant free Transports
tion to 80 or 40 boys who will come
from various counties in Eastern
Washington to attend the Interstate
Fair school at Spokane.
In an official opinion George A.
Lee, of the public service commission,
so ruled in letter to Manager Cos
grove Of the Spokane fair. Commits
sioner Lee points out that free or re-
duced transportation under the law is
permitted only to certain specified
person. He adds:
"This commission may only con-
strue the law as it is, and, while the
purposes mentioned in your letter are
no doubt to certain extent charita-
BILE and laudable, yet there is nothing
in this section of the law which would
authorize free or reduced Transports
ton in such case"
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-03-15
RAsID DOG BITES CATTLE
Farmers Kill Cows and Hogs Afflicted
With Hydrophobia.

Farmers Kill Cows and Hogs Afflicted
With Hydrophobia.
Clark-The same dog, afflicted with
rabies, that caused trouble near Da-
venport, visited D. A. Canfeld's
place, about 10 miles northwest of
Wilbur, and fought with one of his
cows. The COW became i'll, and the
case developed into hydrophobia. The
cow was Immediately killed. Soon a
heifer became afflicted and had to be
killed. Then one Of his hogs develop
ed similar symptoms and was immedia-
tely despatched.
A neighbor two miles west Of him,
lost a COW with rabies a few days
later, and another neighbor has been
compelled to kill two young horses
since then. They evidently all were
bitten by the same dog.
Inquiry showed that the dog travelled
from near Wilson Creek to Wilbur,
thence north and west to Coffman can
yon, on the Columbia river; thence
back and through Wilbur and east
toward Creston. Farmers and or
chardists are keeping a sharp lookout
for symptoms of their stock since the
destructive raid made by the rabid
canine.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-03-15
Suffrage Up in Ohio.

Columbus, O.-The fourth constitu-
tional convention of Ohio, in session
here, adopted proposal to amend the
present state constitution so as to per-
NIT women to participate in all cleo
tions. This action will be submitted
to the men voters, together with other
proposed amendments for ratification.
Of the 100 delegates voting, rs cast
ballots for the equal suffrage amend
ment. There are 119 delegates in the
convention.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-03-15
APPLE FOES WATERING.
Eastern Commission Men OfFsr Com.
promise to Westerners.

Eastern Commission Men Offer Com
promise to Wssterners.
Washington, D.. C.-The Eastern
commission men who are backing the
Sulzer apple box bill, on which hear
ing will be held Thursday, are propos-
ing to compromise with the Western
members Of congress and the Western
apple growers who have prepared to
attack the measure, and have suggest.
ed their willingness to strike from
the bill all reference to the apple box
bill if the Western men would then
withdraw their opposition.
The suggestion was not entirely
satisfactory to the Western men here,
for they said that if all reference t.
the box were eliminated from the Sui.
ger bill it would be brought up agar
next year as separate measure, and
it was preferable to settle the issue al
this session and be done with it.
Oregon and other Western growers
are strongly opposed to that provision
of the Sulzer bill which establishes
the grades of apples. They hold that
this section is clearly discriminatory
against Oregon and Washington apples
and would not enable Western growers
to have their best apples marked Al
grade A. At the hearing Thursday
nrovisions IF the Sulzer hill will BIZ
assaulted by the Western men present
and an effort will be made to have thu
bill amended to adopt the Oregon DO,
as the standard and to readjust thu
grades so that the finest Oregon apples
may go into the market as grade A
with other grades for inferior fruit
If these changes can be made, West
ern apple growers will support thu
bill.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-03-15
WOULD ANNEX PORTUGAL.
Spain Would Avoid Anarchy in Neigh
boring Republic.

Paris-In connection with the news
Of deadlock in the Franco-Spanlsn
Moroccan negotiations, strange ru'
NOR is circulated in French diplomatic
circles. It is said that Spain is con.
templating intervening in Portugal
and finally annexing the smaller ma
ton. Some of the thoughtful students
of diplomacy believe that this is the
only plausible explanation Of the cog
ged obstinacy with which Spain Is
holding out in the negotiations VIII
France on the Moroccan question.