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Show PROPOSES CHANGE IN TAX PROVISION OF CONSTITUTION A communication was received by tha House thla afternoon from Gov. Cutler, Announcing that the amount of taxable property in. the Stale Is now 1160,000,000, and that before the' next session of the Legislature it probably will be $200,000.. 000, st which time, according to the Con. stltutlon. the taxes allowed the State will be onlv six ml.!, which will b lnade. filiate to meet the -eemanda of the fctate and school expenses. In compliance with the communication, Jensen presented a bill to amend the Constitution, so aa to make the tax seven - mills when the amotnt of taxable property reaches eo,Oi, six mille when-It reaches t.'.SO.. ftfl.ooo aM five mill when it rei.ho $VQ.OOO.CM. - - : i |