The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-02-07
TIE Baltimore and ohio Railroad


Company propose to pay hereafter 10
the state one mill Per mile on each pas
senger, If by so doing they will be re-
leased from all additional taxation or,
in other words, in lieu of the regular
tax of 10 cents on the hundred dollars
valuation OF their property, they pro-
pose TO lump the whole business and
compromise it by paying the mill per
mile aforesaid, which, they estimate
viii yield the State revenue ofsao'ooo
per annum.
In order TO realize their estimate 1t
would be necessary that they should
carry nearly six hundred passengers
per day, (eyery day in the year, one
hundred miles over their road, or three
hundred passengers two hundred miles,
"A thing that everybody knows they do
not do. So that evenif the State should
agree 10 thus compound its claims upon
them, there would be no absolute GER
tainty that anything like go, coo an
nual revenue would accrue. We look
upon the Company's estimate as ex-
travagant and altogether improbable.
But, admitting all that they claim
for their estimate, what sensible man,
having the interest of the State at
heart, or even having his own interest
as n Taxpayer in view, would be willing
to see a compromise effected by
which we should relinquish our yearly
claims upon the Company for the pit
tanse OF so, 900? Mr.. King, the Auditor
of the Company, has estimated their
property in this State as worth over
twenty millions of dollars, including
the Parkersburg branch. At the regu-
lsr rate of forty cents on the hundred
dollars, the tax would amount TO up.
wards of $4,000 per annum, for the
State alone, leaving out Of the account
altogether the taxes due the counties
through which the road passes. And,
bear in mind, this estimate OF ours
covers only the valuation of the proper.
" as it stood at the time of Mr.. King:
statement II is worth more to-day, ",
presume, and will continue increasing
In value from year to year, until oui
estimate would fail far short of whar
in the way OF taxes. And yet ali this
present and prospective advantage is to
be traded away and sacrificed for the
nominal and wholly uncertain sum Of
$4,000. Not S2O, 900, recoliect, for this
year simply, but for all time to come
no odds what may be the value of the
company's property. and no odds wha
may be the rate of taxation. Our as
easements in times past have been a.
high as ffty and sixty cents on tn,
hundred dollars, and may be again
No one can tell what may
be the necessities of the State. But
while the people may groan under the
burden of their assessments, the BaIti.
more and Ohio Company can say, ait
els all one to us, now and forever,
what your taxes are. We have IA nice
thing of it, come what may"
This is the view to take of this mo,
mentous subject We must not lose
sight of its far reaching consequences.
1t is to affect us throughout all the years
TO come. How careful then every man
who is called to settle the question,
should be to weigh well the results oil
his action. We appeal to every men,
go - eAV AN EAaA@AhtAt ~ NDli5lhtE lnoE-
Oughly the vital interests of the State
as involved in the bill before them.
some enterprising chap at Washing.
ton has been showing up the geneaIog.
ical extraction of the members OF the
United States Senate. OF course they
are all we'll descended. Most OF them
have distinguished fountain head.
He also gives their age, height, size OF
their heads and chest. For instance,
Senator Wiley was born on the 18th OF
October, 1911: stands feet 1 inch
weighs 1921 pounds: measures 22I4
inches around the head, and IS around
the chest. The following note is made
in regard to his genealogy:
Wiiley.-From Old Morse FTli, (nnd
the corresponding Old Saxon triljo.
Anglo-Saxou lCilEd, and Old High GER
man lritto:l the Personification OF the
Will in the first trinity OF the Scandi-
navlan mythology, or deuoting, ac-
cordinR to Grimm, not only inclina-
ton, "voluntas ct votum," but also
impetus ct spiritus," the power that
sets will in motion. tSee Ferguson
Mr.. Wiley gives his ancestry as one
half Irish and One-half English.
Senator Van Wrinkle was born on the
9Th OF September, lsOs: is feet ~ in
ches in height: weighs "a pounds, and
is the heaviest man in the Senate :
measures Is inches around the chest.
and ~ around the head. The following
ancestral note Is made concerning him (:
Van WUikie.-Local, from the town
OF Wrinkle, in Holland.-Irkhuy-, Mr..
Van Wrinkle gives his ancestry as three:
fourths Dutsh and one-fourth English
lthaS been suggested that the famous
Rip Van Wrinkle belongs to the same
family. Be this Rs It NAV, the Senator
from Virginia certainly belongs 10 "A
Mide-awake branch.
Nor BAD RElIEDY.-A capitoI idea
has just been started by n recent lee
turer. on the subject of the means of
getting peacefully rid of the abomina-
BILE practice of polygamy among the
Mormans. He proposes, as all the
young girls in Utah prefer whole
GENTLE for husband to fraction of a
Mormon, to send out an army COM
posed entirely ofsingle men, each pre-
pared to wed the Mormon girl that may
fall in love with him, and all prepared
To sustain each other by arms against
any force the Mormons may bring into