i\w & v* ■f ■ i ■■■ w i ' i ’'W' r^^i^ ■GLUME v. ■ _ ■ . ■ BRAVER. ,;|»ENj!^.. FRl|^ Tht yrin.fr Sattol. a^nskto^ttoM^b^Tcaii^j^b*^ ° f j &c. I also represent a manufacturing iIU- to pay five per cent, upbn all the interest ' , -*‘ l ‘*~ lt r' - — —— — ; trict to a considerable extent, and they they pay to their creditors Here are no ■ IC Kadical IS published every Friday morning are very anxious to haTC this Very UnjUSt leSSlhaU five taxefi imposed upon the ia||wAftp^-f»---B^qgBb-- : . v . louowmg rates. „ tax upon net earnings taken off, and I be* mining and, manufacturing tnteretta the x s vsi» '.P a y-‘ h!e i! J %dv *" j’qq lleve the Commonwealth is united upon very interests that should be fostered by tiiaiiam* months. M that matter, and that we should take off thfeCommon wealth. This ia “killinglhe ;‘ r * ( . ortE , 05 the tax upon net earnings. It is an unjust goose thatlayq tbe goldenegg.” , ’ Jii)er? discontinued to subscribers at the expire tax —a tax we have been recommended to i hesitated to relieve these corporations B ~f their terms of-aubacriptioa at the option of lake off by the financial officers of the until the hoar came when we could do it e?abH sher. unless agreed Commonwealth and the Governor. lam with safety to thefinances of the State, Prieiswnai ar a^nQn> Informed that this tax upon gross receipts although I fully recognized the necessity l°crtiiementB of’io Hues or less, |i,oo for one is similar to the tax upon net earnings ol for relief. s I believe the time has arrived ertion, and 5 cent# per line for each additional corporation#; or, as the Senator from Tio- when it can be safely done, and I am lertion. ga [Mr. Striho] says, it is a tax upon ready to vote to relieve them. ui advert isementa. whether of displayed or hian notbing It is taking, the gross receipts Upon the third proposition, I have this “^rtiTemett?by D the* or year °* a rallroadodmpany. whether Uis pay- to say: Under the act of ISfil. whichls . Iwed, and liberal deductions made in proportion ing dividends or not. known a# theact to create%loan to |»ifO* P f^ik *en-ih of advertiaement and length of time oi j do nO ,; p ropoBe to discuss this qaea- vide for arming the Stale.the Legislature ertion. tlO Uou. I merely mse tr» explain my posi- authorized what was known as the war pecia! Nolicw lion. The people I represent are very lo*n Of .three mililocs of dolfara ‘ By a* ttjjPlyjSltfh. the month, quarter or year. anxious to have the tax removed from statute passed on the day foUowiog the .dTertiseTnents of 5 lines or less, socents forone personal propertyand net earnings; and passage of that act, they levied a apciclfal ' Jrtion, and 5 cents per line for each additions jf (j ommonwea i t |, afford, as I tax Of One half mill Oh tbedolUr Upon ertlon .v « awianM nabUshed ire- have been informed by the financial real estate and all objects that were liable e charged as advertise- officers and the Governor she can, to to a State tax. By that statute this half .yote.in ms, and paytpe in advance. reduce the taxes one million of dollars, mill tax was specially pledged to the pay*] fjcsl news and matters of general Interest com. and.ijUJJL go <)JI paying OUt debt, at the ®eilt Of the W# ‘t loan. nt * 0|! ° Ter oBe m " lk>n » JW. 1“> : Tbel»w»od the Ui tbrt - . Local news solicited from every part ol willing to adopt this bill, because I am condition until 1886, the wf# loan being county. interested* as I say, in the first two see- still largely unreduced, when It was de- Publication office: In Tax Radical Brrumsa tj ona sired to relieve the.people from the fax ’ raor Diamond, Beaver, The law providing for a sinking fand upon their real estate. And what was ~~ * ~ kasty j. s. rutan. proprietor. proT i deB that the debt shall be reduced then done? In violation of this pledge \ i conimmications and should to amount of two hundred and fifty the people were relieved by the act of 23d ; fo-rufer sddrt#aeti to smith c , »vor, a. thousand dollars a year. This, show# to February, 1866, from alf taxes upon real what extent the Commonwealth is pledged estate, and by the same statuie the source ■• "-i 11MAHKN of senators rutan jjy that act to reduce her indebtedness of revenue now to be repealed was point* and Wallace on the bill to After reducing taxation to the extent pro- ed out and specifically pledged to the pay* BEDi'CE taxation. posed in this bill we will still be able ment of the war loan in these words : Ccg.oii ~T . r M every year to pay more than five times sec. a. The revenue derived from the second We pubVifh be nw t e remar s o e this amount of debt every'year. If our sect ion of this act shall be applied to the payment ’ • ,r S R nan and Wallace, on the bill to revenueg on increasing every year Of the principal and interest of the debt, con- ■ ■educe taxation, delivered on the 18th . . . j- thaQ tracted under the act of fifteenth May, A.i>. one Tbc bill passed the Senate t y t S , thousand eight hundred and slxty-one^entitled, thC^yßjnugent three years we can pay two million ana a i "An act to create a loan and to provide for arm- BtOlßmß^ViS’b' 11M1S half of oar debt yearly, as we did last , ing the state." nhV^^Sn^'' MU. til TAN. Mr. Speaker, when yg a r and could this, but for this proposed Here was an appropriation of this tax Hus am ß .udmenl was offered yesterday redßClio j,. ’’ 'then fiwt enacted-and first .placed, upon, iNtuators were not prepared la vole upon We are assured that the InterestST-lbls corporations, to do the they did pot nnderstand the .... riTftmiMr** [jae-tion. I confess I Was not too® P^®* - to a believing law relieved. Upon the one hand there jared to vote. Since the adjournment this I shlfffvote for this bill and trust it was an enormous tax Imposed, and upon resterday I have examined the reports of w}u pagB . ; lhe other the people were relieved. Some V. >wt- Treasurer and Auditor General. MR _ WALLACE. Mr. Speaker, I did other source of revenue bad to be found, -r- how far this was to ect ou r j not i n t eD (j, upon the motion to refer, to and it was found in the imposition of a ■ rnues. I am informed that the repeal i , . . ... ~ . , , i state the position I may occupy upon the tax as well upon rich corporations as :hc tax upon personal property will ■ . r. rr, L . fioalvoteon this bill; but lam now to upon railroad companies that were pay »tae out, of the Treasury about two hun- 1 .l • .. , , , ~ .... .* . , r some extent forced to vindicate the posi- mg no dividends, and were struggling to :ui and cighti’seven thousand dollars a _ _ _ ...... ..... . , e .u ca. . L . . ..... . , tion I shall occupy, I do. not hesitate to make for the people of the State high er; there will he .that much reduction t . T i - j ‘ . . , , . . ”, , _ .. . . say in the outset—and I think my record ways to take ont of our mountains the tii- receipts of tue Treasury ; that the . ‘. T „ ... , . .. bears me out in the assertion—th#t lam riches that he buried there. All these env»vu! of the tax upon gross receipts , . ” t . - .. „ . . not one of those who arc. to be terrified corporations were taxed upon their gross '■•lac. earnings will run it up to over a . , , /. , - . . . .. , . . , .u . ■ by having the red rag ol rai road corpo- receipts—not upon their dividends; and ;!on oi dollars; that is the amount 3 . J 5 • , , . ... 4 . 4 . 4 .. 4 . . . . ’ . . , . rations flaunted in my face. If it be right thej are thus taxed to this hour for thv . !n-reduction of the revenues proposed ... .. . 4 , , . 4 .. ... . t,. 4 . . .. to reheve railroad corporations from the purpose of paying this debt. > tn:s bill. The question is, can the ... mionwealth permit such a large reduc- taxe3 lbal preS9 he fy u P on them * 1 This is a most grievous oppression upon i n in i Still pay off the public debt at tabe tbe re3 P OQB^*^l y as a representative many cf the least powerful railway and rue at which we should pay it. of the people, and aid in relieving them transportation companies within the I rind, in looking at the annual message and throu g h lhem the P eo p!e- I f . on ‘ Commonwealth, and the sooner it is ex h- late Governor Geary, that he re- contrar y’ the burthen placed upon them tinguished in accordance with the pledge -r.meods a reduction of taxation, and in is a USt 0De ’ and the taX smposed one given in 1866, the better it is, in my view. ■'■Gri to the amount of that reduction | lhat ia necessary for the purpose of pay- Under the decisions of the Supreme - IV < ’ ing off the debt and defraying the current Court all of this class of corporations :•- n.nd.miy hoiMved that with these pro- ex P ense8 * 1 wHI vote to kcep 11 tbere * If be taxed or none can be. We must - -‘ .u an-, which amount to one million a conflict comes between the people upon continue to oppress the weak to reach the i ihu ’-and nine hundred and sixty-one the one side and the railroad corporations *strong^or we most redeem our pledge to ■" ‘ Ljlir:> cen,s - rhe st^te 0811 still P fl y ! upon tbe other > 1 sball be found . 9ir > upOD : extinguish the tax when the war debt was r :urr.ml th- interefet on the pub- , t h e side of the people. 1 nftid 1!l • ‘ il;1 ui.ike an annual redaction ol at least i ” ■ hundred thou.-and dollars upon the j I may say, in passing, that the Senator j Tbeactof 1868, which was a general cod* > ’ • | from Indiana [Mr. White] rarely approves | ideation of the tax laws, by section eight ( 'T- rnar llaririnfr, in his message, i any measure that is not his own bantling. | expressly re-enacted the same tax which T r:ui; iy endorses that rec iminendaiian, iHe commends with slow and halting the act Of 1860 provided ; and it also con '"■* die M ft t e Treasurer takes the same j speech the measure I had the honor to tained these words: r • L ist year the Slate paid two | introduce. This is but a small honor, yet Provided , That the revenue derived under this :u - in lour hundred and seventy six i I know the agricultural interests of this | section shall be applied to the payment of princi - '-n.J Joiiars of her debt \.>w it we I Commonwealth feel that this tax is a bur- pal and intereBtof th e debt contracted under the la 4 . „ j'.u . . the act of the fifteenth of May, a. d. 1861, entl- -*»..!"» dolhn fr..m lhe ton upon Uwn. Ul they are receiving ttea .. A „ .cUo creale a loan and to proviic (or -'• '■'■'vmior Geary says in bis message, i ! ess profit from their labor and money ex- arming the State.’* ’ r ; '’ : )A > >ne million five hundred I Pended than any olbe&juterett in this Here is the p]edge lo p^ y tbe war debt •—'Jimrs towards the liquidation j Commonwealth. Manufacturing, mining,; again> This tax is again appropriated es- T •■ -•d.L-.d lhe Slate Treasurer agrees i banking, broking and all the moneyed pe cially to the payment of the war debt. . '--vcrai.r. Then it seems from j interests of the Commonwealth receive That purpose has now been accomplish ' wv can aff.rd to reduce taxation, : ®ore profit from their investments than ed . the debt is paid ; and so far as the •n. un4!;on <.( dollars, and still the agricultural interests. Hence I corporations that are making no earnings ? v dl . bt al lhe rate of more , thought I was doing what was necessary and payio? BO dividendB are concerned That is as rapidly as any j in attempting to relieve them clearly they ought to be relieved from 1 to ieduce nur State debt, fr°ni even this slight load. i tb j g j oad "ur debt amounts to a little I In regard to the section that relieves So far as those corporations are con "n!" a million dollars, and by manufacturing and mining companies cerned that are paying dividends, they ' : n i!i 111 a year w« will have from the onerous load of triple, quadra- have been placing this tax upon the peo 'nyr. ! , discharged in less than j pie and quintuple taxation now imposed pie, and through this third section I desire v -rs i> nl the revenues of the I upon them under our laws, there seems to to relieve them from the tax thus imposed, - ,, V 11l fl a , r ’’ increa9in S t vt ‘ r - v y<*ar. .be no dissent from that proposition. Take and this is the purpose of the amendment l) ' n ;ess than three years wc up these taxes and examine them for a I have offered. Can any mao hesitate to ’ ■ p.y us much-as we did this moment. A mining or manufacturing 1 aay that this is a just proposition? For, ,| rive hundred thousand corporation of this Commonwealth, an | after all, it is the hard rock of labor Urn*. 1 T ' J *■' r,, » reason, then, why oil or iron'corporation, is taxed upon its t pays all these taxes, and wc must, through ■ r , r ‘ r ’’ c '' jd the suggestion of real estate just as individuals are; it is our legislative power, seek to compel cor ”Mrv ‘ lli 'vernor Hartranfl, taxed a bonus ol one-fourth of one per poratc power to relieve the people there ; uXlll 'n. : cent, upon its capital stock; this goes into from. It seems to me this proposition is 1 T-5 :in ar.ses, where shall tbe coffers of the Commonwealth, and is a just one, and I have made up my mind y ; ,; i n? What interest the price it pays for exercising the privi- that I shall support it. Certainly I shall Tl I represtiit a large leges of ao artificial person* Then we support it if my amendment to the amend ! :n; rM! . v Afe w years tax them one-half mill on each one per ment .be adopted. It is simple justice, . , ' 1 r " ! "“d the fax from cent, of their dividend?; then upon their common equity, and plain honesty. Let 1 / lM ‘ f’.unmouwealth can net earnings or income three per cent.: us maintain our contract with these cor ’ “ !11A ’ to take <.ff the tax aur perty, and I heartily en-; them tivborrow money, and place upon people were relieved from, tbe necessity "t m r * foni ('i ear . | r PCor( j their mortgage on their lands and for it# imposition has passed away through w ' of tbU case which #pp - et consistent with tlte CopfUitotion iteelf aod ;lt r b : tp my mlndlhe JaterioglbefinMioea % This ia my ylpw, »bd additional reason the opportunity i§ ( fctror of JU|I» pill.; |t‘ lhat what oyer flew »I rahject-;it worthy ; of cwefal cppfWeratlpn.; i tion lo send this bl|| order that it may t be >lned and digested, legislation. Jwant >% and Ujeteffitta i theblllto tbe-Qommil- WASnmeroir. «» Radical.} r- v ;; D. C.v March 25,1878. ;oopd of war, anthorized by ' will be coDstractcd by In the Philadelphia, ijleatch Portsihouth ‘WPOPfa WIM fooa hd Navyfor the • imC islanding legal tenders were far ther increased on Friday by payments made from the reserve funds of the Treas ory amounting to upwards of one million of dollars. The following is an official exhibit of the amounts called for by the various gen eral appropriation bills passed at the late session of Congress : Preliminary Defi ciency, $1,699,833 83 ; Texan Border Commission, $18,490 00; Pension, $30,- 480,000 00; American and British Com mi/vsion, $613,500 00; Indian, $5,512,218 90 ; Fortification. $1,899,000 00; Consu lar and Diplomatic, $1,311,359 00 ; Mili tary Academy, $344,317 56; Legislative, Executive and Judicial, $19,500,000 00; Naval, $32,275.757 65; Army, $31,796,- 008 81; Postofflce, $-33,529,167 00; River and Harbor, $6,112,900 00; Sundry Civil, $33,175,415 09; Deficiency, $9,343,871 65. Total, $195,510,839 48. The Lower Hause in the late Congress contained 132 Republicans, 106 Democrats and 5 Liberals. In the next Congress it will have 196 Republicans, 89 Democrats and 3 Liberals. In the latter list two Republicans and one Democrat are count ed as chosen in the recent New Hamp shire election, and four members, forming the Connecticut delegation, are omitted, as they are yet to be elected. The Re publicans will thus have nearly 200 voles in the House against less than 100 in op position. Senators Cameron and Howe,with sever al prbminent gentlemen and their wives, are preparing for an extended Southern tour immediately after the adjournment of the Senate, which is expected to take place soon. While this is to be a pleasure trip, it will give these distinguished rep resentatives of the North an excellent opportunity to observe the temper of the Soujbern people for themselves, and will enable them to collect many valuable facs, which will doubtless be used by them judiciously. deneral Blount, of Kansas, ex-Indian agent, was arrested on a warrant issued from the Supreme Court of this district Saturday, in answer to a requisition issu ed; by the Governor of North Carolina, charging the General with a defalcation of over thirty thousand dollars, accruing to the Cherokee Indians of that State. Bfonnt defies his own complicity, but al leges that his clerk was responsible for tbe defalcation. The following telegram concerning the Modocs has just been received at the War Department, dated Headquarters U. S. Army, Washington, March 32 : A telegram dated from Van Brunners Raoche, Cal., to Gen. T, W. Sherman, says the squaw who was sent into the M‘doc camp, returned yesterday, and safe the excuse made by the Modocs for nrtl keeping their appointment, is that at the last moment their hearts failed them, . . ■- -'.v - ■■ . y. rr ;- „■■ v-;. ■.-■ T SP’S^iiiihMte ■ „*;. -'A'“.-•••--• s' i th+‘ v i -.•• •■ ■• .* ~-V ; ■. - -• ‘- -"' 7 J "i i t ,'T ' 1 - - . / The developments in the Caldwell dis cussion in the Senate since last Saturday suddenly convinced that much talked of Senator that he was a gone case, and the .sooner be got out oi the way the better. A count of the Senate indicated almost to a certainty that the vote would go against him. Accordingly this morning about ten o’clock, in consultation with the Gov ernor of Kansas, Thomas A. Osborne, who is in the city, the Senator determined to hand in his resignation. He sat down and penned the document at once. The interest manifested in this case by Kansas politicians may be judged by the fact that the Governor of the State, about a half dozen members of the State Legislature and the three Representatives in Congress have been in the city awaiting the action of the Senate. As the Legislatrue is not in session, and will not be regularly until next January, it will be necessary to de termine whether the Governor shall ap point a successor during the interim. A meeting of the Kansas delegation in Con gress, at the request of the Governor, was to have been held this evening, but failed, owing to the non-attendance of two of the membpfs. It was proposed to determine whether an appointment should be made immediately or not. Governor Osborne is an aspirant for theV vacancy. and it was stated that If he can arrange matters wilb the Lieutenant Governor he will resign and get the appointment from him. An effort will be made to reach action on the Clayton case, now before the Sen ate. With the precedent of the Caldwell decision.it will occasion surprise if a result is reached by the ecd of the present week. The notification of the Postmaster Gen eral by the Presidents of the leading rail roads'centering in New York that they would running postal cars if they did not receive increased compensation, if homes and go to a dl«tontconotry r Tbey. w-j**w *Mte. p^V 4j**W9' thatcanbe'asecl the Mo- } lf again »%\9fr them $f jhfc hopelessuean. oil fjar lN safielent strength to control the whole., importance as the melting pf;. wiH enable the Indians to i the difficulties we have to oontemd.frith, ’>**?#*!** up tot^s^i j»»r tk» *hd can readily .make escape from .V.. ,;\T"- H * ~ .; .belief tbstfanher hloodahedwill, be. 2t&5!S ea.rtsrf, n o’» ■**W ,^jJW v -w movements up. the control ofOeneral Canby.wboia a *lse; discreet and patient officer, and will gWe all possible assistance ’]& tbe Peace commissioners in effecting ajjeace fnl Settlement of the troubles. General Sherman dofes not hesitate in saying ihar inhisopinion the Modocs have been un justly treated in some respects, especially in moving them toa reservation where It .was impossible for them to ' obtain the kind offbod to whicfa tbey bad beehac cnstomed,such as fishi rddts, tibrri&i &j.| but that, on ihe other hand, Captain Jack ‘and some'of his friends were jih*. doubtedly great rasca]9, and it waanebes sary that they should they could do tbe'least harm" TluTSenV eral further said that should the efforts of the Peace Commissiohers prove abortive General Canby would then take steps to insure the capture of the entire party, and remove them to such a place as the Gov ernment may determine. General Sickles by telegraph informs the Stale Department that the Immediate emancipation law for Porto Rico passed the Spanish Assembly Sunday night with great enthusiasm. Slavery in all the Spanish Colonies in the West Indies is doomed and the dawn of freedom in Porto Rico will bo hailed by all as the harbinger of a better era for the West India Island* ers. The Commissioner of Patents, General Leggett, has just Issued the following in structions in regard to fees in patent extension cases: Hereafter, unless the final fees in extension cases are paid in time to admit of the certificates of exten sion being signed and attached to the original patents before expiration, the extensions will be refused. J -., - t. f .*, "JVJ - V . 1 "Si v. v/- t».; [;i: -.;: • ? V-j- ' ; ’ -power to accste to tJic demand *of tfee- . %&$.. (fcef• &pmm*. mm *&%&, tw The foiruirtnjr bill In Ibe LsgWatar©: i >A» the r , more high schools, within the Hunts, it shall be,his duty to do so, as soon thereafter as may he possible at tom convenient and accessible place ffitbin the county limits. djsr oriels, in any county, by vote of not less than two thirds of the number present, shall at a meeting thus convened, deem it necessary or expedient to establish on© or more high schools within the county lim its, they shall elect from their number, a board ofj control for such schools, which shall consist of one member from each separate school district, and which shall be entitled "the board of control of county high schools.” Section 3. That said boards of control shaM immediately after its first organiza tion, divide the members thereof by lot into three classes, one of which shall re from office at the end of one year from the first day of (he following July, and one at the end of two years, and one at the end of three years from the same date. The directors and controllers of the school districts represented by the retiring members, shall elect on or before the second Monday in June of each year, new members for three years, from the first day of the following July, to fill the va cancies thus occurring, and should there occur a vacancy by death, resignation or removal, the directors or controllers of the districts whose representation is thu,i impaired, shall immediately thereafter proceed to elect a suitable person to fill said vacancy. Section 4. That said .board of control shall be and hereby is empowered to sodc it and receive contributions in money and grants of land from private citizens, and from townships, borough and State • authorities for the purpose of erecting and maintaining as many high schools as the wants of the county may require, and if the whole amount needed for such pur poses, cannot be obtained in this manner, then they shall collect such additional sum by taxation in the following manner, to wit; They shall annually and by vote of not less than a majority of their number, determine what additional amount will be required for the high school or school® in operation, or to be erected during the ensuing school year, and transmit a de tailed statement of the same to the Com missioners of the county, who shall proceed to levy and collect the same in the same manner; as they are now authorized by law to do other taxes for school purpose*, and pay the same over to the pfa P-<-fv •}•:■'. v '■X i‘\l i l ’r l' ; ; ;a rs ; | f ; •->1 ’klZ' ]■' '-'■T-V; T t h*.i'r- ff'i :« %fc.i*jf- • j ♦ * -it' -■ *•> *•? 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