The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-08-20

REPUBLICAN COUNTY CONVEN-
TION.
From the published proceedings of the
Black Republican County Convention,
held in this place on the 18th inst, which
will be found in last weeks Times, we
clip the following:
Mr.. Shilling offered the following, which
was unanimously adopted:
RESOLVED, That this Convention approves
the course of Hon. Jos. Musgrave, our Senator
in the Ohio Legislature.
This resolution, it will be seen, makes
no exceptions-its terms are broad and
the endorsement of Mr.. MUsGRAvE's
course full and complete. We are there
fore authorized, by this resolution, to
charge home upon the entire Republican
party all the errors committed by Mr..
MUsGRAvE. Our readers will recollect
that we took exception to the course of
Mr.. MUsGRAvE on several occasions
while the Legislature was in sessi n, and
called upon our neighbor of the Times
to come to the defence of the Republi-
| can EQUATOR, u LO ODSIlu6bOlO NhooSO
to do SO, and declared that the acts of
the present Legislature were moi in issue
during the present campaign. This res
o~lution, however, boldly repudiates the
time-serving policy of the Times, and
declares that the Republicans of this
County stand ready to defend all the
acts of the last Legislature, and the
votes of their Senator in particular.
1t will be,recollcctcd that both branch
es of the Legislature last winter m
ployed a reporter, at the rate of four
dollars a dag to report their proceedings.
These official reports were published in
the Ohio State Journal, the Black Re-
publican State organ. In the Journals
proceedings of the 10th February, we
find the following proceedings:
"The Senate went into Committee of the
Whole, and considered the bill to amend the
general tax law. TIL Committee rose and re-
ported back the bill with amendments, which
were agreed to. The question being shall the
, bill be engrossed, Mr.. Phelps moved to add to
section 5 the following proviso:
) "PRoviDED, That ifany person shall not have
nm amount of credits equal to his debts, such
person may deduct the same from his personal
property and moneys, and if such person shall
not have credits, moneys and personal proper
ty equal to his debts, the excess of such debts
over his personal property, moneys and credits,
may be deducted from his real estate.
1.-THE amendment was lost-yeas 3, nays29.
"YEAs-Messrs. Lewis, Phelps and MILFORD.
"NAYs-Messrs. Baird, Beatty, Brand. Bra
zee, Brown, auckland, Bundy, Burnet, Cattell,
Converse, Gardner, Griswold, Hamilton, Har-
u I-A- 1N1~N 1I-4- II
Kirk, Lawder, Lunt. Marsh, Matthews. MUS
GRAVE, Rueh, Taylor, of Geauga Taylor,
of Mahoning, and Warfcl.
"Mr. Phelps then moved to amend section
eleven, so as to provide that banks should be
taxed as other property. Lost-yeas 7, nays
25.
"YEAs-Messrs. Converse, Gardner, Holmes,
Hyer, Lewis, Phelps and MILFORD.
"NAYs-Messrs. Baird, Beatty, Brand, Bra
zee, Brown, auckland, Bundy, Burnett, Cattell,
Kelley, Kirk, Lawder, Lunt. Marsh, Matthews,
MUSGRAVE, Rush, Taylor, of Geauga Tay-
Tor, of Mahoning, and Wnrfel.
The bill was ~re-committed to the Commit
tee on Finance.
We ask every tax payer in the County
to carefully Peruse these proceedings
AS the tax law now stands, deductions
are allowed from credits only. This
clause was inserted for the benefit of
Bankers, Brokers, and business men who
are operating on a fictitious capital. AS
the law now stands, the farmer is taxed
upon his live stock, his field crops, his
lands, in short, upon verydollar's worth
of property he has in poss 9%ssion, no mat
ter qchethcr lie oaOcs for the qchOIe Of 1t or
not. Now, if our readers will carefully
peruse the amendment offered by MIR.
PHELPS, they will see that he only pro-
posed to extend the same privileges to
) the farmers and mechanics of the State
that the bankers claimed for themselves,
vet Mr.. MusGRAvE voted against The
amendment. And it will also be seen
that he uoted against the second amend
ment of Mr.. PHELPS, to TIA banks Just
as other property as taxed! Mr.. Mus
GRAVE also voted for the present tax law
on its final passage. AS the law now
stands, ta0enty millions of State Stocks
are exempted from taxation, wi ich the
law of last year brought upon the dupli-
cate, and the farmers and laborers of the
State are compelled to mako up the de-
fciency. In our own case, we were al
lowed by the assessor last spring, in ac-
cordance with the present law, to deduct
the snug little sum of eight hundred dol
lars of subscriptions and charges for ad-
vertising and job work, which the law
of last year would have compelled US
to list. 1t would seem that We ought
not to complain of the injustice of the
present law, but let it also be remember
ed that we were compelled to list a
much larger amount of property which
we happened to have in our possession,
for which we owed every dollar-thus
allowing US to deduct that which we
were actually worth, and taxing us up
on a much larger amount on which we
had not paid a cent, aud which in reali-
ty belonged to another person. Where
is the justice in allowing us to deduct
our debts from our book accounts, a
large portion of which are perfectly
good, while the mechanic is compelled
to pay tax upon the tools he has bought
upon credit, and the farmer upon his