The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, January 15, 1904, Page 2, Image 3
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(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.
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W HEREAS. Toney Boyce hath
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[L.s.] of January. Anno Domini, 1904.:
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