Show only thirty five for DEFEATED they wanted mortgages exeunt from taxation salaries a little longer in aba convention day alter the benal Bott raRe petitions the following article waa reported by the committee on mines and mining section 1 there shall be established and maintained the office of of coal minea the duties and salaried of which shall be prescribed by law when aard office shall be the governor chall the advice and consent of aba senate appoint thereto a ploren in aba manner provided by law to be competent and practical whose term of office shall be two bearc hec 2 the legislature shall provide by law for eafe development ventilation and borkine of all coal minea operated in this baat bee 3 the necessary ne of lands for of way for tunnels bips pips ditches roads or aamna for drainage or working of mines as a means to the development of the mineral of the state is hereby declared a use and subject to the control and tion of the on motion of evang of utah the convention reconsidered the motion setting the remaining nine portion of the for payment of officers and printing the members will be at the crib long aa the fodder flaata the convention then went into committee of the whole and evana of utah was called to the chair moved that lection 5 of the article on revenue and taxation be arcken out it haada aa follows A tax on mortgages on either real or property abail never be levied junices a reduction equal to the amount of each mortgage shall be raade in the recessed Ree essed value of the property covered thereby if thy motion had not been made by another he himself would hava ma io it he said if tha provision were allowed to RO into the constitution it would be as disastrous to the new state aa the of silver bad been to the no system of ia entirely juet the beat aye turn waa that which reached all erty except that which waa used for charitable no exception should be made to this rule in the new stats tb revenue lugt be at least aa much as it had been under territorial conditions in 1892 the farat waa mada by th mone broketa of thial territory when they had exempted ever ainia the of the government the money llanera loa nera the capitalists bad endeavored deavo red to shift burdens of govern ment from their shoulders onto of otheir the of exemption of mortgages meant the exemption of money from taxation goodwin said that there could be no duurt that tahitian taxi tian of mortea geB meant double taxation A dozen courts had idec idad the whole burden fell on the poor men who bad his home the system waa contrary to the whole aftem of our government chidester Chi deater aid that the rate of interest wan governed by the demand for it when timea were alnah and money was in break demand tho interest was high the question qu astion was not governed eo verned by the rate of taxation more than that the w biolo should be kept to the pierce said ho striking out the should have full power at one timo it might be desirable to exempt mortgaged mortgage a and at another to tax them avana of weber aid that tha alne italian baud of the banker noney broker and shylock was plainly blo in tb section under discussion it was baing arrogantly claimed that this class of men not only controlled the chamber of commerce but that eten abo of tha city were under their power by reabon of money advanced indignantly want to tell you mr that there is one newspaper newa paper in this city that is not controlled evans sarcastically ob I 1 have no doubt of the virtues of tha tribune it la a very consistent sheet and has always bad an extremely exi remely opinion of ita if james thought they might M well tax overdrafts at a bank as mortgages morte ages cannon closed and illustrated the doublas taxation when mort Kazes were taxed A vote waa than taken on the question md the section went out on a vote of 57 to 4 in the afternoon the alicie on revenue and taxation finally passed and then tha article on debt waa taken ap the article was amended to limit bbate indebtedness to municipal indebtedness not exceed 8 per cent of the assessed valuation an effort to make it 5 per cent tailed adopting the article the convention adjourned EQUAL bade special to THE ENQUIRES SALT LAKE april 18 Mr Variana motion lor reconsideration of the equal suffrage rage blanse of the made the order for today camo ap this forenoon and was quite for a tims when it came to a vote on the question there 35 for reconsideration and 60 it this etalea he t queston quest on 00 far an the Convent lw is concerned there will probably be co organized effort to the ficht beyond the convention and try to defeat the constitution ution at the polls |