New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-08-23

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| feature which authorizes the purchaser al
the sale, after the expiration of two years
| TO Call upon the party or parties having ad
| verse interest in the same, or who he may
| suppose to have such Interest, to come for.
| ward and prove and substantiate their
claim or be forever precluded from so doing.
| 1t is of the utmost Importance that the title
to oil property should be fixed and settled,
and this is the object and will be the effect
Of this provision it 1t become law. This
provision will enable every one to know,
within q reasonable length Of time, whether
| he has good title or not. And this, sir, is
most important matter for every pr ape rty
| holder to know at the earliest possible
moment.
l really think, Mr.. President that this
provision, and indeed every provision of
| this proposed law, will prove good, and
| can therefore see no reason why it should be
| rejected. ! am therefore in favor of the
| bill.
Mr.. Todd: Mr.. PRESIDENT have the
single objection to this bill that | urged the
other day, and it is this. 1t will frequently
happen, that the owners of property, liable
under this bill, to be sold for taxes will be
residents of the State, and in many
cases non-resdents of the United States,
and that they may have no agents here to
look after their interests. Aud, therefore,
as they could not expect to get any notice
property here, under the provisions of this
bill their property might be most unjustly
| 81 ificed.
So in the case of infant and orphan heirs,
living here and owning properly. This bill
would provide means by which the great
est injustice will frequently be done them
| i'll the sale of their property without any
timely notice. l, therefore, hope this bill
may be rejected.
| Mr.. Poindexter: Mr.. President, am no
| lawyer, and have no smooth and oily tongue
| to speak my objections to this bill. But,
| sir, believe this is rich mans bill--a bill
intended to provide means that rich men
can more effectually impose upon the poor
| man; and as am poor man, and | am
| more particularly on this floor the repre-.
sentative of the poor, | want to speak az
well as / Can for them when ! think their
interests and rights are in danger. III should
| fail to do so, could never look them in the
eyes when go home to them.
| believe this bill is intended TO let the
| rich men eat up the property of the poor,
| am poor man, and might have my prop.
| erty sold for taxes under this law.
| oelong to the class who heed to have
laws made to help and not to oppress them
| in their need.
The rich men have little need of laws fol
their protection. They can take care oi
themselves very well without. They com
mand capital; capital commands assistance
and respect in every emergency.
| But assistance and respect for the poor Is
pretty much done in these days. Tulss:
they are taken care Of by law they will fare
hard. They will be eaten up by the rich.
Look at this matter Mr.. President.
| don't agree with MIR. Todd that under
this bill the property Of rich land owner,
wholiye out of the State, will be tn property
likely to be sold for taxes. Such meI
always have friends around to look after
their interests in case of emergency of thi;
kind. 1t is not necessary they should have
appointed agents. for, if almost any mar
who has money sees the land OF q rich mai
going at a sale of this kind, he will say
NOW the owner of this land is good-h
has got money, or, any way, he has thi
hue plantation and l am in no danger Q
losing money if pay his taxes for him.
He will pay them back to me and pay m
good interest besides. And SO the ric
mans tax will always be paid. But hi
+ President how is it with the poor Man
who has only a little piece of land in God
, big world, which may be only worth
: hundred dollars, though yet as dear to hin
, and to his wife aud children, as the bi
plantation of thousands of acres can be t
the rich man.
Who will come forward and pa
the tax of such poor man. Wher
in this selfish world is the man who will AZ
poiat himself the agent of such a man
man who has big tani Y on his hands, an
rot a dollar in money-nut single horse c
/ mule or COW or even pg-nothing but b
little piece Of land, worth, perhaps, only
hundred dollars, yet all that the homes
labor of his life, directed by the little taller
his God and circumstances have given hin
I has enabled him to save? Where, | say,
the man who will step forward withoI
] being asked-or with being asked-and pa
, | his taxes
, Sir, this kind of men ere not very thic
in New Orleans or Louisiana. They seel
:. to have petty much all left the country, an
+. | don't think they will come back if we max
+. this bill law.
r No, sir, there are No men to step forwar
. and pay the poor mans taxes, but there al
i always plenty to step forward and buy it s
1 this kind of sale. Aud it is always the poo
: mans property that these men who make
: habit of buying property at this kin
3 why this is so, sir. 1t is becau
!. the kind of men who buy at tn
\ kind of sale know that poor men do not hav
and are not likely to get the means TO !
L deem their property back or fight for
!. through the law. and so they have good c
;. pectation of getting the whole of the po
!. mans property almost for nothing.
4 They know it is different if they buy
i. -ich mans property. They know that Il
q chance of big speculation is great deal Il
t biggest if they buy the poor mans lit
home.
" Therefore, sir, l believe this bill is to bui
i up the rich man, and tear down the po
a man.
i. Again, sir, under this bill, the difficulty
n the poor man to raise money to refund Il
taxes after his land shall be sold, might not
n SO great, but the other expenses, the penalt
= the printers bill, aud God knows what a
h outside and beyond the tax, is what W
:, make the shoe pinch
- Under this bill, as l understand it, Il
: printer can charge pretty much whatev
a his conscience will let him, aud the co
q | science of the printers of this country "
n know, sir, will let them do pretty much
n they please.
4 Aud SO with the other expenses outside
3 the tax. They will Nuke the big end of Il
poor mans trouble in this kind of cases.
q Look at this ma ter again, sir. Sn
a pose l am poor man, as / al
r Sir, aud in my parish own teu acres Of lant
o. and ii Is all have got in the world. NoH
q though the tax on this little piece of lat
= may be only few dollars, 1t will be as big
/. sum for me to raise as IA big sum of taxes
y to the rich man. For, sir, | believe it
D generally harder for the poor man to raj
+ his taxes than for the rich ones to raj
il theirs. Well. then, sir, suppose that abo
\. the time my few dollars tax becomes due,
q get sick, or meet with an accident, so thAt
Y cannot possibly raise these tew dollars, "
r. then, my land must be sold for taxes, No
h if this was a.i--if could get my land 5aS
q again after got well, and out Of my pine
>. by paying the amount of the tax, | mig
!. be able to do so, aud it would not be
Il hard. But, sir, this is not the way this b
a intends to have the business work. B
n while | am getting out of my pinch, the
If will be the big prihter's bill, and all the
n other expenses outside, that may amou
= up 70 ten times as much as my tAX-to O