| Show THOSE amendments salt lake city oct 28 1898 in your issue of the dinst I 1 find an editorial headed do not fall fail to vote on this in the course of which reference to Is made to five proposed amendments to the state constitution ind and in which you say among these is one to the effect that country districts may be required to contribute to the support of city schools without giving them any voice in the control of those schools etc I 1 feel that unintentionally you have erroneously stated the results which will follow the adoption of the amendment to which you refer the same impression is also conveyed unintentionally I 1 believe in your editorial of friday oct if the proposed amendment to section 6 of article 10 of the th e state constitution is carried the result will be that all of the taxable property in a county will be assessed for county school purposes and me amount so collected will he be distributed to both city and county schools according to the school population just as the taxes are now collected and distributed for state school purposes and just as same were collected and distributed in the territory of utah prior to statehood the purpose of our lawmakers law makers maag seems always to have been to have the tax both state and county for school purposes so ao levied that the wealthy and populous counties and cities should to support the weak and poor sparsely populated districts li L aware that objection has been made cometo some to this method from the beggun but there has never been a lawm law M body in utah from the time the schools were inaugurated until the thear ent that has not after dellbe on an the matter decided that the good the commonwealth demands thaia ea system spoken of and by which it strong and wealthy cities and c count ou help the weaker districts and coun cou shall prevail in section 6 of the article on edit edt tion in our state constitution art 10 the following provision occurs cities of the first and second class public school system shall maintained and controlled by board of education of such citi cities S i a rate arate and apart from the counci counties es w which ach said cities are located afi word vord maintain as used in this s aeeti was not understood in the constitute al convention to mean suppo supporter separate taxation A fight been made upon the J school in the con convention fight which was opposed by the au ity of the convention and ghiott suited in the adoption of section the article referred to as it now std section 6 was not debated in the bention see page 1289 vol II 11 proc ings ingo of constitutional convention after being read was passed wi thought that the section bontem that the county schools hutsi cities of the first and see second should not share in the county tax fae hessed on all properties in counti counties ag kalning such cities had it known that such a change waa templates tem plated the section could nevii never 3 been passed the question is at th this I 1 s Is the system heretofore ore i the territorial laws of utah a co one if so then the proposed axx ment to the constitution should made the fact that the corsuti conot was recently adopted should not vent a correction of a defect n was never intended and which sh shan the school year of every district sc a in those counties having cities of first and second class the first fk legislature attempted to correct co law the evil complained of and 3 failing because of the decision of of supreme court that the conati would not allow the tax collected way the next legislature prop propose amendment to the constitution 1 mit right to prevail and on this people should vote and if the sec is injurious to the public schools school not too early to correct the wrong yours truly GEORGE M CANNO CANN |
