| Show w WilL SPEAK si UPON FIVE AMENDMENTS State Senator Marks to Talk at Republican Headquarters State Senator C E Marks larks will speak penk at Republican head headquarters headquarters quarters this afternoon on the five amendments to the state slate constitution which will wilt be voted on tomorrow These amendments were wore pasSed ed by bythe bythe the tue last la t session of the legislature in order to provide for the high schools of ot the state and inasmuch as there is no politics in them there is no opposition opposition opposition tion to their passage The first amendment to be voted on proposes to amend section 7 of article 13 of ot the state constitution fixing the rate of ot taxation for tor state purposes and apportioning these taxes and cre creating creating a high school fund of mill on each dollar ollar The amendment provides that the rate of state taxa taxation taxation taxation tion shall never exceed 8 S mills on the dollar for all purposes and whenever the tho taxable property of the Ule state shall exceed the rate shall be automatically reduced and shall not exceed 5 mills The second and third amendments propose to amend section erection 2 of article 10 lOot of the state constitution defining what shall constitute the public school system Batem and relating to the apportion apportionment ment meat of ot high school funds The fourth amendment proposes to o amend section 1 of article 14 of the state constitution changing the fixing of ot the limit of state indebtedness from froman an arbitrary amount now fixed at 51 1 to a flexible scale not to ex cx exceed exceed coed one and one half halt per of ot the value of the tho taxable property in inthe Inthe Inthe the state The fifth amendment proposes to amend section 4 of article 14 of ot the state constitution by b fixing the limit of ot county indebtedness at 2 per cent um urn and of ot cities towns school dis ills districts districts or other municipal corporations in excess of the of ot the taxa taxable taxable taxable ble property in such county for sup supplying supplying supplying plying water electric light or sewers sowers for municipalities when the indebted indebtedness ness shall not exceed 8 per cent |
