New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-02-23

Taxes,


MEssRs. DEMONSTRATIONS intending nr WISHING IN ali;
turb in the slightest degree the pleasant reflections
gentlemen or to do aught that might change the buzza
,nat greeted their oratorca displays at the meeting al
'ne arcade on Monday evening into discordant sound
YET as they have set themselves up as the soons of the
dsy may not be inappropriate to refer them
the views opinions and actions Of the wise men of obsr
days BY reference the records of the ctv find tb
10 Gays past there was body Of wise men known as the
uenera COUNCIL who were charged with general super
VISION Oh the affairs of the city to them belonged the
any and prerogatve of fixing the rate of taxation on
sssons BY reference to the that body it will
oe seen that on the 4h of December 1851 an ordinance
was passed fixing the rate Of taxation on proassio ~
provision Of the present city ordinance which seems m
nave called forth the meeting at the Arcade does not ap
pear In that ordinance The vote on this ordinance
taken oy yeas and nays and it appears that Messrs Al
pusnte, Allen Lugenbuhl Tompkins voted for IT and
Messs ooens DeFeriet Harris and surgi voted against
IT. and the ordinance adopted by the casting vos NJ
the President Mr. Waterman After the adoption OF the
ordinance Mr. Lugenbuhl moved its reconsideration sta
ting that he had voted for 1t with the intention of moving
It's reconsideration reconsideration was refused and
the ordinance became law of the city
On the 18th December at meeting Of the General Conn
GIL MIR collens moved to refer the tax ordinance to
special committee and in his remarks in reference IN This
matter he is reported conendng that all trades all
professions ought to be placed on the same foong His
motion prevailed, and Messrs Colens Lugenbpbl and
Waterman were appointed committee AT a meeting of
the Council on the 9th December Mr. Colens as chair
man, reported an ordinance substitute for the one
ADOPTED on the 4th instant and the Sd of January
le52 it was adopted without division Messrs Collens
aud Lugenbuhl being present In the ordinance adopted
the 18th Of December the provisions of the 9th article
the present ordinance is not to be found to this or
nance Messrs Colens and Lugeubuh were opposed But
this 9th article of the present ordinance to which there
so much objection word for word the same AS that re-
ported by the Special Committee which Messrs Colens
and Lugenbnhl were majority Can you tell us Messrs
Editors which were the wiser the Coens and Lugenbuhs
OF 1852 or the Collens and Lugeubuhs Of 1858
But Messrs Editors, II the preamble repored At the
meeting on Monday night Represents the object 10
which the meeting was opposed then the meeting must
nave acted under some strange Authorization for there
no such tax as they report as being opposed to- The pre-
ambe represents the meeting being opposed to tax
on every baker barber" etc Now, il happens that
there is no such tax The ninth article of the presen
ordinance imposes tax on every master baker etc
and in this is there any tax labor In the preamble
oi the meeting, by some strange oversight the word
master omitted and thus the ordinance
'ntrely different from what 1t is lie who has sbop
Ees employment to others and receives the
avs should, as Mr. Coens views in 1852 require, have
lis fair portion of the burthens of government Tho On
finance does not impose tax the aborer but on The
hop and those who are so prodigal Of their lave
he dear people will And it difficult to assign reason b
he drayman or the merchant should pay a tax and gen
emen carrying on such extensive operations AS can b
cen at some OF the large cooperage or oundrey shSn
e exempt But this is an age OF progress and the oen
nd Lngenbuhls of this day will have to blush for tb
ignorance OF the Coens and Lugenbuhls Of 1852 o
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