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Savmings Bank Newberry (Note) - Due 12-15-o3 18 per cent.).... joo oc 424033 50 (3) What amotnt is it estimated that the present license ordinance recently passed will bring into the tveasury? Council's estimate is............ 3500 00 (4) To what purposes is it proposed to apply the amounts -ealized under the present recently passed license ordinance? To supply tIXe present deficiency be twe'en receipts and disbursements and the balance, if any is leftto the most pressing debts. AN EXPLANATION. Col. Johnstone, by request of the city clerk stated that the amount of street duty collected showed an increase of about $3oo, that the present administration had nearly double- 'he license as collected un der the old system, that the fines in the mayor's court had been nearly doubled, that $zoo was still due on rents, and that the dispen sary'profits showed a slight decrease due, the city clerk thought, to the establishment of the Prosperity dis pensary. Mr. F. H. Dominick stated that the city clerk asked him to state to the meeting that the financial state ment of the town had not been made public on account of the fact that the sheriff had delayed report ing on certain tax executions. The report 6f the commi"tee was received as information and the thans of the meeting were exten ded council for its prompt and full report. The report of the committee imade at the previous meeting sub mitting that a license tax such as was in q.uestion was desirable and giving a schedule of licenses wXs then before the house. Mr. F. H. Dominick moved the ado.ion of the first pat'of the committee report submitting that the license tax was desired and desiable. ALL THE Y.ORE CO.iVINECED. Col. Johnstone was all the more convinced, since seeing the state ment of council, that the motion ought not to prevail. He believed in improving the condition of the town and in the improvement that had been made, but he believed the taxes now being paid were sufficient to carry on the government and were all that ought to be paid. Newberry, he said, was a country community, of about 6,ooo inhab itants, with little disordier. Couldn't its gove-nmont be maintained with $25,ooo. He belEeved it ought to be maintained with this amount and still make progress. The cour teous clerk had given information that $25 ooo was not all the reve nue now now in accordance with the explanation he had already -made. Not all those who lived in the- city were yet paying street duty. Why not rigidly enforce the laws we have? The income from license had not all been col lected previously. Why not go on and collect the balance of it? Re turns had not been made from all tax executions turned oAer to the sheriff. these executions would no doubt be collected. The fines tf -the mayor's court had been mate rially increased, why not go fur ther? Why not double the burdens of the criminals insted of licensing Sthe rigqlteouis and industrious? That was another source from which $x,ooo or more could be derived. The fines should be sufficient to drive the criminials out of business. The license ordinance was a move ment towards driving honest ment out of business. Double the burden of the criminal instead of the bur den of the honest man. A rigid administratiod of the government would increase the revenues as much as the estimated income from the license tax. But the license tax was a mere shadow. At $3,500 a year it would take a long time to lift a debt drawing an annual in - s of $2,00. But council did not even propose to apply this 5,;, ;oo especially to the floating debt. but it was to go for generai pnr POSS. and the debt would simply pile up. Let ns have a miore ccon omical. not parsinionious, adminis tration. and it will furnish this $3, 500. * Mr. Alan Johnstone said the troublesome floating debt must be I dealt with heroically. * It was patent that $3.500 a year, part of which was to be applied to some thing else, would do little towards liquidating a debt of $24,000 with intereat running at the rate of $2, ooo a year. He moved as a substi tute for the motion before the house that a committee, composed of the seven gentlemen heretofore appoint ed by the citizens meeting to obtain information in regard to the floating indebtedness and the current expenses, with the addition of the chairman of the meeting, he apointed to confer with council and, afte r due deliberation, to report some measure for funding the floating indebtedness of the town also a measure other than a license system by which the cnr rent expenses of the town, reduced to an economical basis. may be met out of the present revenues o! the town. Mr. F. H. Dominick thought that to adopt the substitute would be practically to go back to the starting point. A comnittee had been appointed to look into the town's finances and had reported. Why should not the matter be taken up and settled right here? It might take a long time to pay the debt of the town with $3,500 a year, but a start must be made. He though.I the best thing for the meeting to do was to take up any inequalities which might be in the ordinance and adjust them. He didn't un derstand how any real estate owner could object to the license tax. If it did not help the real estate owner, he would like to know whom it did help. The 6 mill tax brought in about $9,ooo. The license tax, as estimated would bring in about $3,5oo. When this income paid the debt it was obliged to reduce the property tax if the government was economically administered. Dr. W. E. Pelham spoke in favor of Mr. Alan Johnstone's substitute. The government had to be sup ported, but he thought an econo mical administration was most to be desired. He did not think the meeting in possession of adequate1 information to vote on the question whether a license was desired and desirable. Mr. Dominick wanted to know if Dr. Pelham wanted to withdraw the majo.ity report of the commit tee, of which he was chairman, submitted at the last meeting. Dr. Pelhamn said he had no s&u thority to withdraw the report. He spoke here simply as an individ ual and as a man who always paid his taxes. Col. George Johnstone supported Mr. Alan Johnstone's motion. The license tax was nothing but a tax on the laboring man. It a man ame here and prospered he would buy property and pay a property tax. He earnestly believed the committee could be productive of further good. Mr. Alan Johnstone's idea was mature some plan by which the town's obligations could beme when they come due. the interest re duced, and the town's current expenses paid. Mr. M. A. Carlisle agreed with Mr. Alan Johnstone. The town should meet its obligations when they come due and should get its indebtedness cared for at a less rate: of interest. Mr W. H. Wallace thought if the meetings were continued they would fritter away. An interest could no be kept up among the citizens.' The meeting had enough informa tion odore it. Why :ot act? All th,t could be accomplished by w"-iting would be-- to get possibly exact figures. The result wt,uld be the same. The expe.ditures exceeded the revenues. The float ing debt amounted to about $25-000 and it would take 161 mills to pay it at once. It was his idea to fund it and let it run through a period of, say, ten years The bonded indebtedness was plain. Any body could understand that. The meeting had gone far beyond its scope. It was called at first to consider the lice.'se ordinance and had then gone into these other matters. He moved as an amend ment to the substitute that the committee meet with the town council and memorialize the legis lature to authorize a special tax to meet this floating debt. Col. George Johnstone wanted to know what they were going to do with the deficit--let it go on piling up? Dr. E. B. Setzler favored Mr. Alan Johnstont's motion. Another eeting was need1ed and the citizens should be wiing to come here another time to accomplish some thing. An intelligent note could not be taken unless it was known whether or not there could be found a better method than the license tax. He would vote for a license tax only as a last resort. Mr. Alan Johnstone replied tp Mr. Wallace. The first meeting had no information, the second had a little more information, the third a little more, and the next meeting would have still more information. -e hoped no one would lose interest but if they did it was their own fault. The question ought to be settled. Mr. W. H. Wallace thought six mills enough to run the town. He and Col. Johnstone were not old men and they remembered when the town was run on two mills. Six miils would run the town if the floating indebtedness was out of the way. Mr. Alan Johnstone's substitute was adopted and the meeting ad journed subject to the cali of the chairman. Threshing Cotton Bols. Houston, Texas, Jan. 1i.-The method recently disevered where by partly opened boils of cotton may be run through a thresher and the lint obtained has proved' such a success that it is being adopted generally in Northern Texas. It is now too late for many farmers to take advantage of it, but in future years the cotton crop of the State will be materially increased by the process. Abut So per cent of the boils open through the action of the sun after they reach maturity, and the lint is obtained by picking. 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