Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1935-02-28
Farmers Vote To End
Excessive Expenditures
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by introducing the salary-cutting and
job-abolishing bills, but denied that
he had entered into any political
deals"
81 ran on a platform that had
economy in it from the first plank
to the last plank, and my every act
will be IN the interest of each citizen
and each taxpayer" he said.
He Endorsed measure in which
theconvention advocated the appoint
ment of non-salaried commission to
study the financial set-up of each
county in the State and attempt to
arrive at some new source Of revenue
that would relieve the burden imposed
on real estate.
]. E. Muncaster of Gaithersburg ap-
pointed Roger B. Farquhar of Sandy
Spring and Carson w. Pope of Gath
ersburg to study the feasibility of
adopting county manager form of
government in an effort to economic
on expenses.
The convention protested against
the excessive school expenditures
in the metropolitan area of the county
and passed a measure appealing to
the commissioners to impose special
school tax in that section to take care
of the excessive development"
The following resolution regarding
the issue of county bonds was unani-
mously adopted:
Whereas; at the Farmers Conven-
ton of 1888 a resolution was adopt
ed by unanimous vote opposing the
further issue of Montgomery County
bonds for any purpose whatever, and
Whereas; in spite of this resolution
and the opposition of a very large
body of the taxpayers of the county,
all the spare time of the General
Assembly for the session of 1888 and
the special session also was apparent
ly spent in passing bills to authorize
further bond issues for the county, to
such an extent that payment dates
overlap and full payment is impossi-
BILE without confiscatory tax rate and
Whereas; the Board of Education
and a number of organizations active
in the schools are asking for fur
Their bond issue of three-quarters of a
million dollars for more school build
ings,
Be it Resolved, by the 63rd Annual
Farmers Convention that we still op-
pose the issue Of bonds for any pur-
pose except such as. is necessary to
refund those now falling due to an
extent that will keep the tax rate no
more than is needful.
And be it further Resolved, that a
copy of these resolutions be sent to
our county delegation in the House at
Annapolis, to our State Cenator, to
The Maryland News, to The Mont
gomery County Sentinel, to the Mont
gomery Press, to the Montgomery
Independent, and the Takoma Journal.
The convention also adopted reso-
luton opposing the ratification of the
22nd, or Child Labor Amendment, by
the Maryland Legislature. A third
resolution favored the repeal of the
law passed in 1888 effecting the trap
ping of animals with steel traps on
the grounds that the law is both I'M
enforceable and not in accord with
public sentiment.
Luncheon was served by COM
mittee of women including the fol-
lowing:
Mrs. Maurice ]. Cissel, chairman;
Mrs. Andrew ]. Boyd, Mrs. Robert H
Miller, Jr., Mrs. Mahlon Kirk, 4th
Mrs. G. Rust Candy, Mrs. Thomas
Hyde, 4th, Mrs. Charles E. Bond
Mrs. L. C. Burns, Mrs. Charles A.
Conner, Mrs. William John Thomas
Mrs. Herman Ladson, Mrs. T. A.
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