The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-09-01

for the amount of taxes ass
sessed during the remaining
nine years BY the coun'1sS
Tor county purposes aud with
which the State admfntstra-
tion mad no more 20 ID tnan
It had In liking or disouTSiug
the taxes In any county la
taxes 81 "A .2Gs 81
a1cs ss.sls. 7Os go
hope IL viii not oe immodest
LOclalm on the part or the
Republican state admtais-
tratIOn q credit for the
amount OF road tax asse
ed In the different To Rnsdfps
and road districts or the stale
dunng said ulns years for
road tax amounts Go...-.-........ s.7E.5sI Oh
Take this ITO "A sue balance os-
fore stated and we have the
balance reduced 10 .,.... ......-. 32,77l, l52 08
From this We ask to be deduct
ed as a crsuit the TOwusnIp
Gax4s ASSESSED for tde same
nine years fOr TOwnsntp pul-
poses ...s....B Ib1S,oSf "
This leaves the balance. s 81, 7sI, 55S 81
From this we mink 1t quite
reasonable to claim on be-
half Of the State admtntstra-
tiOn a deduction of tue sps-
cIAl school tax, as we do .sOt
exac.iy ~e how tue slate OF
ficlals can be Dlam cd for not
Applying the axes raised by
the 5cnOOl Districts of the
BeveraI counties of the STATE
TO butla senoOl hou ses to the
payment or the state debt.
This special school TAX
amounts to............ as 6.O76,575 81
BaIance......:..........-.........s I,7l4,9s1 "a
beg that the d g tax which
Is appiIt by tue local au-
tnOriLles OF the several cum
ties for paying for Sne=p IN Il
ma, De k ied ny dog, may
also b. deducted. IL amounts
for the nine years to the sum
Of.....' ..'..S b41S9O Oi
Balance DOT, y04 IL
I hops InaL the Democracy wim
not fusiss that the era el
road tax ought 10 have been
applied To Tue payment of
tns 5tz,e uebI, and, therefore.
I humoIy neg hat 10 may Oe
deducted, am uniting tons SNl,579 OF
Balance ...... los zS5 Os
From this deduct railroad tax
Is assessed by sOuaLles aud
townships o aid Ia tue cou-
strnctIun OF railroads run
ming through their bord srs.. 302, 765 IA
Baiance...; ...... g.. ,4o7 "A
From this bala CO deuuct
OJner 10 al taxss--.. 1881 30 10
Balance 81 ~
From this deduct Delinquent
taxes not coLe.ted but car
rted forward Ola the duPtt-
cate from year 10 year, and
footing up Tor the nine years. IL O05, 400 IL
= Balance .............. ........s ,S3s, S57 IS
From this deduct bounty taxes
assessed Oy dIE= renG cOunti.s
ia nAy local DounLles dudng
tue WsaF..'.......- .8 o,5l4soo4 ~
--
Bslance.....-.................. ....s w. 95 50
From this deduct soldiers re-
lief fund tax, assessed TOR re-
lief OF sOldisis' famules. anO
which remained IN county
tFeasut les aud was disburse0
by county autnOrlties...-...-.-...Sl,o Sl,4l0 10
Balance ............. sy42CsO %
From this deduct library tax
Ties ......... 956ss "A
BaIance............... ............s 2,9I6,883 ~
From this deduct local corpo-
ration taxes CARRIE on 10 me
grand les y as rep irted In tue
reports OF the Auditors of
stat for said nine ears.
amounting so....-......-........-..-.. S6,27i 50
B1lance..---.-.- ESQ llS SO
This leaves only $3.50. 118 SO Of
the excess or increa. el taxation with
winch the SsntIReL charged us andStO
meet and overcome this we have the
school tax proper amounting to 81.
250, 100 10, which, although a State
tax aud paid into the State Treasury,
WIS Immediately distributed back to
the counties according TO the number
of school children In each. for the
purpose OF carrying on the free
schools of tie State.
hope the ID sm0craey will excuse
us for not having initiated their ex-
ample in applyleg these school taxes
TO purpose different from that for
Rhav maze oOti.asaA
Thus you see have effectually dis
posed of the SeatinsEs sham tabular
statements, as to the increase of taxa.
ton under Republican as compared
with Democratic rule.
AGENTS OF STATE.
Now let us give a little more at
tsntion TO the financial lame ducks OF
the Indiana Democracy. Look for q
moment at some of their agents of
Safe.
Our wealthy townsm1n. Capt. j. Nj.
ICED, retired from that Office in the
beginning of 1859, l believe. If
Colonel Norman Edoy. the present
Democratic candidate tor Secretary Of
State, may be believed, Mr.. Lord,
upon his retirement from office, for
got to pay over a balance of funds in
his hands belonging TO the State,
amounting to $40 359 IS. BY a joint
resolution passed by he Legislature
in 1859, Norman Eddy, Jenu I. Ell
liots aud William T. Otto were ap-
pointed a committee to Investigate
aud report as to divers claims sup
posed 20 be due the State from sun
dry persons. 10 the report of these
Hgvva hraA mil r. I'D IN
the Documentary journal of 1861, on
page 2O6. it. Is said that, upon their
calling Mr.. LJrd's attention to the
fact that the books of the Auditor of
State showed that be owed this
amount, he expressed the confident
belief that the sum charged to him
was too much, and asked for time to
make an examinations, which he said
would have to be made In New York.
Tue Commissioners gave him time
without objection; but when the Com
mission met again months afterwards
Mr.. Lord had made no Investigation
and concluded TO settle 3 the figures
shown by the Auditors books, pro-
vi6ed he could get time, and this be-
ing granted, be executed to the State
his three notes with security, each for
1855, payable at one, two and three
years with interest; and it is due to
Dir. Lord to say that he paid these
notes at maturity. But the complaint
j. that Mr. Lord, by wrongfully ap-
Ilging the States money to his own
use, coerced the STATE to grant him a
loug loan at lew rate OF interest al
a time when the State officials were
selling the redeemed bonds of the
STATE at two-thirds of their par value
20 get money with which to pay the
interest on the foreign debt Of the
State and to carry on the State Gov.
ernment. If the credit Of the State