The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-11-23
One ONLY IS
SUCCESSFUL
Constitutional Amendment No.
3 Appears the Only Elec-
ton Survivor.

amendments voted on at the last cleo
ton it seems that only one has sur
vived and will become law. Notwith-
standing the fact that the second
highest vote in the history of the state
was cast at the election, a check-up
reveals that the amendments dropped
by the wayside, all but Amendment
No. which relates to taxation and
which read:
THE power of taxation shall never be
surrendered, suspended or contracted
away. Taxes shall be uniform upon
the same class of subjects, and shall be
levied and collected for public purposes,
but public burying grounds, public
school houses, public hospitals, acad-
enies, colleges, universities, and all
seminaries of learning, all churches,
church property and houses of worship.
institutions of purely public charity,
public property used exclusively for any
public purpose, shall be exempt from
taxation, and there may be exempted
from taxation personal property not ex-
ceeeding in value 500, for each house
hold, individual or head of a family,
and household goods and farm ma
chinery, as the legislature may deter
mine:
Provided, that the legislature may
authorize municipal corporations to levy
and collect assessments for local i'm
provements upon property benefited
thereby without regard to a cash valu-
alton, and provided further, that
nothing herein contained shall be con-
strued to affect, modify or repeal any
existing law providing for the taxation
of the gross earnings of railroads"
The purpose and effect Of this
amendment is to grant to the legis-
iature, in addition to the power now
granted by said section to exempt per-
sonal property, the authority to exempt
from taxation, such household goods
of each household, and such farm ma
chinery Of each farm, as 1t may see
fit. BY the present Section 1 of Article
9 the legislature is granted the AUTH
ority to exempt from taxation un-
specified personal property not exceed
ing in value 500 for each household,
individual, or head of a family.
The successful amendment received
a total of 626O26 votes for and 180628
against. Koochiching county had not
reported when these figures were given
out but enough votes had been cast for
the amendment to assure its passage
without the Koochiching county vote
changing the result.
The highway ratification proposal.
Amendment No. /, received sos, SIG votes
for and 279.123 against. This amend
ment was only designed to ratify the
action of the last legislature when the
highway system of the state was en-
larged to take in several thousand more
miles.
Other amendments which failed by
large margins to obtain the necessary
majority vote, were amendment No. 2
which would permit rural credit lands
to be taxed by the legislature and the
proceeds given to counties and political
subdivisions in which the lands are
located or to make an appropriation to
such communities now suffering loss;
amendment No. 4, which would permit
exchange of federal, state and privately
owned lands in order to consolidate
state and federal holdings. which had
received backing Of conservation auth
critics; and amendment No. S, which
would would specifically define the
property of academies, colleges, uni
versities and seminaries of learning
which should be exempt from taxation.
The highest vote ever recorded at a
general election was In 1928 when
1,070274 ballots were cast. In the
presidential election of two years ago,
1.O54.2 03 votes were counted. The vote
for this years election not only is Sec
ond highest in history but Is the
greatest vote ever cast in a nom
presidential campaign.
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