The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-05-03
nearly all without representation the
speaker said:

The tax for 1868 waS.-...----... l,SoS ,OU "
The taxable value of the prop
crty of the state in lS6U..-.--. 490, 100, 900 90
TaXab value in lS1l"---..--- ISL ,O0O,OU W
1t will be perceived that in 1850 the
taxes were not quite S400. 900, on a tax
able basis OF about $500, coo, 900, where
as the taxes of 1865 amoun to 81 1885,
GOO, on a basis of only SlS4, 900 900, so
that while the property of the State
was reduced to e-thnd its former
value. the taxes are increased nearly
five hundred per cent
1t is true that this enormous increase
is composed, in part, of money spent
in reconstruction expenses, and per-
haps some additional interest on the
public debt. l find other items
striking in the year:
lS5S-Expenses of the Legislatures 81 600
lS6s-EXpenses of the Legislature. 10000
lS5S-EXecutive eXpenses..-..---- 5000
1S6S-EXecutive expenses -------- 40,W0
lS1S-CINll eNpenSeS------.--..-.--.- SI.tNu
lS6S-CiVil eXpenses-----.----.---- 2lS,UV
And the Legislative appropriations
Tor the four months session, which
closed last month. amount to the enor
nous sun of 1928 600.
Thus you perceive that each item of
expense is enormously increased, not
w~ithstanding the great decrease of the
property on which it is levied; and to
make this still more oppressive, all
this property is over valued enor-
mously. | have known of many cases
in which they valued far over double
what the property would sell for.
~[Sensation.l
The following remarks from the
Hon. George \. Trenholm, who fol-
lowed Colonel Lathers, appeal directly
to the understanding, sympathy and
honesty of every American citizen:
1t is one of the evils of II condition
that even signso of suffering and cries of
despair are converted into expressions
of political discomfort. In this not
only is a great injustice done to u
people, but a great imposition prac-
ticed upon our country. l do not be-
lieve that it is of the deliberate pur-
pose of the American people, of whom
we are flesh of their flesh and bone of
their bone, that we should suffer the
evils we endure. On the contrary, l
am sure of their sympathy and sup
port, in every manly, open and
straightforward effort we make for
our relief. Such, l think. is the one
embraced i'll these resolutions. Re
viewing II circumstances with calm
ness, and i'll a spirit OF candor, l a yer
without fear of contradiction, that
there is no hostility to the government
mo motives of opposition either to
the laws or the policy of Congress
mingled with tie feeling of disquiet-
ude that agitate the sat-. There are
political agitatOrS exciting the people
To discomfort in respect to n queS-
! tinnS al with tho federal srnN-
eminent. Our troubles are local;
they arise out of the administration of
our own affairs. 1t is one of the re-
suits of our new cOnstiiution-unfor-
tunate but inevitable-that the legiS-
lative power of the State has passed
into the hands of men unprepared by
education and experience i'll public
affairs to make the laws and manage
the finances of the State. Pressed on
all sides by designing men, who are
intent upon e%nriching themselves,
exposed tothe temptations incident to
the possession of power, the acts
passed by them from time to time,
under such influences, have contri-
buted to bring the State to the verge
of bankruptcy, and have augmented
the taxes to a sum which the income
Ofthe people is inadequate to detray.
lHtSe are the cduStS Ol TIC tAisiliIS
disquietude. As long as capitalists
continue to supply money in exchange
for or upon the hypothecation Of the
bonds of the State, no limit can be
perceived tO the debt for which the
property of its citizens shall be pledg-
ed. Neither is there any security felt
against the ruin in which taxes 81
enormous as the present must lnev-
itablv result. In such circumstances
the simple remedy with every free
people is to change their representa-
tiveS; but in Il case, as Is well un-
derstood by the whole country, this
is at present impossible. They who
| make the laws and levy the taxes;
have no property and pay no taxes
those who possess property and pay
taxes have no representation; and this
condition of things admits of no inn
mediate change. In these painful
and trying circumstances, the suffer
ing people of the State are driven to
despair. They dread the approach of
the tax collector, to whose demands
their poverty denies compliance that
no merciful ruler would enforce. Their
alarm and agitation is fully justified,
and merit the sympathy of wise and
good men in all parts Of our common
country. That sympathy they are
sure to receive. Ihave a we'll estab-
lished confidence in the justice and
magnanimity OF the American people.
l am persuaded that they will sus-
tain us in the attitude we propose to
assume; that all further credit will
be refused to those whose wasteful
administration threatens the ruin of
the State. l believe, too, that they
will sustain us in the effort to relieve
ourselves from the enormous taxes
that threaten our property with con-
fiscation. [Applause.l 1t ma we'll
be doubted if the entire gross annual
income of the people from all sources
amounts to 500 900. OF this sum,
what is expended in the payment of