The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-03-04

will work until ten or eleven o'clock
at night and 'only charges for aday's
work in each instance" Now, estima-
ting that in February and March, of
last year, there were FIVE manufacture
ing establishments, that had to pay
Stamp Duties on the articles of their
manufacture, in Morgan county /; and
estimating that it would take FIVE min
utes to mail a blank to each of these
establishments, and FIVE minutes to
make the entry on his books of the
sworn statement of each manufacture
when returned, and we have an hour
and forty minutes of the Assistant As
SCISSORS time consumed in two months,
for which he would be entitled to re-
ceive the sum of sixty-six and two
thirds cents. Also, estimating that it
would take three days labor for the
Assistant Assessor to make the entire
Annual Assessment, which we are told
by a responsible Republican of this
village, who understands the entire In
ternal Revenue business, is ample time
for an ordinary business man to com
plete it in and, accepting Mr.. Kahler's
statement to be true that two-thirds of
it was made during said months of Feb
ruary and March, and we find hat two
days wages, or the sum of ten dollars,
must be deducted for his labor on the
Annual Assessment. The total of this
deduction for what he calls STAMP
Duty Assessments" and for making
the Annual Assessment. will be ten
dollars and sixty-six and two-thirds
cents for the two months, or FIVE dol
lars and thirty three and one-third
cents each month. Deducting this
$l0.66 % from the total wages for the
said two months and we find that Mr..
Kahler charged and received, accord
ing to his own admission, S2l1.4l l-3
for assessing $2l9 Is in the months in
question. While this does not bear us
out in our assertion that he charged
$2.36 more for his assessments in these
months, taken together, than his as
sessments amounted to /; yet, it will be
seen by ~deducting 1888 l-3 from his
admitted wages for March, which am
ounted to Sl23.32, that he charged a.
bout $llS.0O for making the assess
ments which appear on the Deputy
Collectors book for that month; and,
when it is remembered that these as
sessments only amount to STOP. &c, it
will be evident to any one that he
charged $500 more for that months
work than his assessments were.
Now, we ask the gentleman how he
likes the appearance of matters when
computed in accordance with his own
statement of the facts 2 Further, we
ask the people of Morgan county to
give the matter a thorough investiga-
ton, and see who is attempting to de-
ceiye them, Andrew Kahler or our
selves We cite the people to the
proofs ofwhat we say, and tell them
that they al be found in the Deputy
Collectors office. We have called on
Mr.. Kahler, himself, and solicited in,
formation of him individually, and we
have published his statements as he
gave them to us and we have shown
that he has charged $500 more for
his services in the month of March,
1869, according to his published and
private admissions, than his services
amounted to in that MONTH
Had we the space, we might respond
to several other paragraphs in the gen.
tleman's communication, for instance,
that "the Herald has nothing to do
with this matter" and an intimation
that Andrew Kahler is and has been a
supporter" of the Government. and
that we have not. However we will
not 60 into detail relative to such mat
tiers, as it will suffice to say that the
Herald never had anything to do with
the exposure of corruption, but would
rather be the supporter and defender
of it; and that the idea of Andrew
Kahler figuring largely as a Supports
er of the Government" is a little
laughable when it is remembered that
he has obtained his daily bread, for
the past ten Dr. fifteen years, by filing
the Governments offices. 1t looks 10
us as though the Government had been
the supporter" not KahIerI
We had intended to give an exhibit.
this week, of the immense expense of
assessing and collecting the Internal
Revenue Tax in this Congressional
District ; but this article has, of neces-
sity, strung out to such great length,
that We are forced to lay it Y e for
next week.