Nebraska advertiser., 1866-03-15

tiOns, which q BE easily Soo 81 &AO per
acre, making Sl92 900; again. within
ten miles Of the river here are 80 sec
lions Of school land. tie half Of which,
Is sections, will readily bring s. per
acre, making $4,000. Grand total,
available on school lands alone e443, 600 :
ten per cent. on which would produce a
revenue Of s44 800 annually: or enough
70 pay our Territorial School tax, $685.
Q9S, and Sls 007, enough 10 run State
government. +
The nexI point made BY the speaker
was the necessity Of assuming State gov
eminent Immediately so as to select the
land grants offered rs by the general
government as soon as Nebraska becomes
a State. He said the lands we're being
IOca;ed BY spectators with Agricultural
College Script, Al the tate Of 500 acres
per day lel any one figure ibis sum by
the number Of days in the year, and the
los by delay in this matter can be east
ly estimated At hundreds Of thousands Of
dollars. Soon our selections will have
10 be made 20 far out on the plains that
they wall hardly pay for laying The
foundations for good substantial State
buildings; every day Of delay increases
this loss, which musl be maze up IN fu.
turs taxes.
The speaker called attention to the
amount Of taxes which we would receive
from the Pacific Railroad upon becoming
a State, which We could no, receive as a
Territory. He had, while 4 member Of
our last Leg islature, intended to intro
duce a bill into that body to tax that in
sti.uuon ; and to that end had spoken TO
The Attorney Of the road ; the Attorney
fatty denied the right Of the Territory TO
TAX, claiming that as the q. S. Govern
ment held the right Of eminent domain
in the Territory, that the road acquired
that right from, and this right would only
cease lwhen the United States gave up
that rigEG in this Territory by admitting
il as a State. He also applied to Chief
Justice Kellogg, who. after examining
authorizes. gave his opinion, agreeing
with the Attorney Of the U. P. r. R.
Il is plain to be seen, then, that no rev.
enue can be derived from this source as
a Territory, and-now les US see what we
will lose the first year on this one item
by refusing 10 become a State. ehun-
dred miles of the q. P. r. r. west from
Omaha will be completed by the 4th of
July, next; taking this at $4,000 per
mile would make So, 1000 .OO0-which we
could tax as a State bur no, as q Terri
lOry-which st4 mills IN the dollar would
make Sl2, 900 ; the land the U. PR. RI
acquires from Government to build the
rOad-ihe odd sections for ten miles each
side the rCad-can be taxed at $50, 900
per mile, making IS, 900 900; the whole
amount now levied, 6 mills (lhs School
tax of 2 mills is left out on the road lax
above would make $50, 600; or a total
gain on this a item by becoming a State
of $40 600. This and amount Of inte-
rest derived on the sale Of available
schOOl lands make $4,000 /; or 1881
more than we now pay for General Fund.
Sinking Fund and Territorial School
Tax. The amount which we now re.
ceive from the general Government is
about $50 900 annually, SO that either of
the above items. which we will receive
as 4 State but not as a Territory, would
more than cover the sum we relinquish
on becoming a State. Again. by becom-
ing a State we have but one session of
the Legislature every two years, redac-
ing that item paid for by Govern
ment-one half; the Governor and Sec
retary's salaries-the only officers paid
for by Government, which would be as
sumed BY State-wOuld be, under State,
but 81, 800; the Judiciary are made self
sustaining ; 50 that al the outside $20,-
600 viii pay all the expenses now paid
for US by Government Then we have a
loss Of what will cost us sc, 1000 BY be.
coming a State, and TO offset this a gain
Of $50. 800 which we cannot touch until
we do becomes State. Balance in ia vOr
Of becoming a State, $66,3O0! <
The speaker alluded to the inestima-
bic advantage Of having Representatives
in Congress with a voice in the affairs of
the nation who could demand for US a
liberal share Of the care, protection and
bOunties for internal improvement al the
hands of the Governme nj, and back such
demand BY their Votss!! He took, for ex.
ample, Kansas, organized at the same
time with Nebraska. What has made
the difference so great in our relative
positions to-day? The farmers Of Kan.