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THE PENSACOLA JOURNAL, SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 31JL919,
I 10
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and Spanish War Veterans.
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iounty court house at nine o'clock
,-tnd the march to the bayshore cars
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PHOSPI
1ATETAX
DILL IS KILLED
1 Til SEMTE
SENATOR STOKES TAKES PROMI
NENT PART IN LONG DEBATE
IN FAVOR OF PASSAGE OF
MEASURE. .
(BY HERBERT FELKEL.)
Tallahassee, May .30. After a debate
that consumed practically all of a
omrning's session of the senate, the
King- bill 'to tax the output of phos
phate mines as personal property was
killed, a motion to indefinitely post
pone, made by Senator Eaton, pre
vailing by a roll-call vote of 16 to 14.
The amendment by the author, which
has ben previously published in full
in this correspondence and which Sen
ator King had hoped would make the
bill satisfactory to all parties con
cerned, was offered and adopted, after
which the motion to indefinitely post-
none the bill was made. An exten
sive discussion foUowed, concluding
with the vote on the Eaton motion
which was as follows:' ;
Avesr Senators Andrews, Anderson,
Eaton, Hulley, Igou. Johnson, Lowry.
Mathis, McLeod, Moore. Oliver, Plymp
ton, Itowe, Russell,- Singletary and
Turnbull (16).
iNays: Senators Calkins, Baker,
Rradshaw. Cash. Crawford. Crosby,
Hughlett, King. MacWilliams, Malone,
Roland, Stokes, Turner and Wilson,
(14.)
The bill provided that each mine
should make a return of the phos-
nhate as it was taken from the ground
and that it be assessed as other per
sonal property, but stipulated that
phosphate lands be assessed no Tnore
than other "Vild lands or lands in the
neighboring country. '..
Senator King called the motion to
indefinitely postphone his bill cold
blooded and declared it was not , freak
measure. He said this valuable prop
erty and growing industry of the
state would escape taxation if the bill
were not passed. He said the argu
ment that the phosphate miners had
lost money recently was not well taken
because all 1 mining operations were
more or less in the nature of specu
lations. That was not reason why
they should escape taxation, said Sen
ator King, for farmers and all other
business men occasionally failed ; to
msko monev. He did not think the
law would impose a burden on any
body." The senator took a position in
the center of the senate chamber and
snnkR at leneth on the bill, making
a hard but unsuccessful fight for the
bill.: "', - .
Senator Crosby said he had never
been disposed to assail the corpora
tions, but that this was a fair bill
and the committee having it under
consideration had given all the par
ties interested ample hearing. It
would not be a double assessment, he
said, and would work no hardship
upon the people of his country, in
his opinion. .
Senator Singletary opposed the bill
on the ground that the tax would
come out of the farmer who bought
the phosphate and in the end the User
of the fertilizer would have the freight
to pay.
Senator Johnson stated that he be
lieved in the phosphate mining com
panies paying a just share of tne
taxes, but he feared this , bill would
hot result in an equitable solution
of the problem.
Replying, Senator King said that
the supreme court recently had de
cided in a test case appealed from
his county that lands could not be
heavily assessed just because it was
believed that they contained phosphate
and that the tax assessors of the state
could iio longer impose the former
blanket tax which has been declared to
be unconstitutional.
Senator Eaton did not believe the
companies would take advantage of
the supreme court's ruling. He said
he favored an income tax for all in
dustries but he did not think it just
and right to single out one class of
business for this kind of taxation.
Senator Stokes declared the . bill
was similar to the laws of states .in
which much mining was done, that
Washington county was boring for oil,
that Escambia soon would begin drill
ing, that Santa Rosa county was min
ing a material for the manufacture of
tyes, and that the King measure cov
ered aU kinds of mining operations. He
said the law might as well exempt
from taxation railroads and banks and
lawyers, because some of them did
not make a living. -
Answering the argument of Senator
Singletary, Senator Stokes declared
that the farmers also usea learner
shoes and woolen clothing and harness
tf wnnid be Just as reason-
able to exempt these manufactories
from taxation on the ground that tne
farmers used their products as to ex
empt phosphate miners. 'The ulti
mate consumer always pays m w
wind-up he said, "and the man who
finally buys the cabbage to eat will
pay for the phosphatei and the tax
upon it, not the farms. I have voted
tnr- an nftnronriation tO protect One
of. your South Florida industries, but
when you now ask me to vote to ex
empt from taxation another large In
dustry, you ,are asking too much."
Senator Eaton said the bill was un
just and unfair and declare that, "you
might as well attempt to tax a farm
er's crop after , he harvests it after
having already taxed his land, or tax
naval stores as personal property after
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the land from which it Is taken has
been justly assessed and taxes collect
ed for it." He said it was class leg
islation directed at his people, who
had been here and found that no
amendment would keep the bill from
workine a hardship upon them. Each
company, he declared, would have to
employ an additional man at at least
$1,800 a year to keep the records and
make the returns required by this
proposed law.
Stokes spoke again, saying there
was nothing unfair in the measure
and that a failure to . pass it would
work a hardship upon the small tax
payers of this state, who already re
burdened, while this large Industry
would be excepted. He made the point
that turpentine and farm lands are
visible and their value can be apprais
ed, but that as long as the phosphate
was sealed under the ground and tr.e
mine not worked lt was impossible for
tne value of'the land to be estimated
For that reason this . bill had been
drawn, he said, to tax the products of
the mines, as mineral was taken from
the earth, on the same basis as other
personal property.
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