Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-11-03
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East Tennessee ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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Correspondence of the Chronicle.l
| ..-t ii NASHVILLE, Nov. l.
| The excitement seems to be on the in
erease here, and things are getting more
| lively.
| The East Tennessee University is again
engaging the attention of Middle and
| west tennessee in the Legislature, and
Joint Committee has been appointed Os-
| tensibly to investigate whether the Agri-
cultural fund is safe, but really to find out
| some pretext for taking this fund away
| from the University, and dividing it be-
| tween Middle and West Tennessee. The
power of East Tennessee is gone, and
nothing now remains but to strip her of
what she has left. -.-
The Committee on rpinting frauds re-
ported to-day. The majority report says
| in substance that Jones, Purvis & Co. are
honorable gentlemen, that they have
made no overcharges worth considering,
| that they have only followed custom, and
| that if they had charged for everything
they might have charged for, the State
would be brought in debt to them.
The minority report, signed by Gibson
and Freeman, bristles with facts and fig
ures specifies items and gives details, and
winds up by showing that Jones, Purvis
& Co. have oyercharged the State more
than twelve thousand dollars in portion
of their accounts, and that the balance of
their accounts are believed to be full of like
Overcharges. All of the Democrats sign
the majority report, and all of the Repub-
licans sign the minority report. Jones,
Purvis & Co. were present in the Senate
to-day while the question of printing the
reports was being discussed. The Senate
refused to print either of the reports or the
evidence. This refusal to let the people
know the facts, and the refusal to allow
the committee to investigate all of Jones,
Purvis d Co.'s accounts, evidently show
that there is something rotten in Den
mark"
Senators Mcconnell and Gibson advoca-
ted the printing of the testimony. 1t is
evident that Jones, Purvis & Co. don't
want all the testimony published. There
is no wonder taxpayers grow restless when
their hard earned money gOes-no one
knows where, and it seems no one cares.
The bill to repeal the law allowing par
ties to testify was defeated in the House by
q small majority; and so the law stands.
The conventional interest law will not
be repealed this session, although various
attempts have been made to effect its re-
peal sa 49,.
THE TAX QUESTION
Begins to engage the more serious atten-
ton of the Legislature, as the session
draws to close. L predlcC LnaC Ine TAX
will be about forty-fve cents. West Ten
nessee is rather for reputation, and there
fore favors very low taxes.
4 NEW ISSUE.
Let not the people believe that when the
old issue of Tennessee money is gone the
State viii be relieved financially. The new
issue still remains. A number OF prom1- !
nent State officials are committed in favor
of receiving the new issue for taxes. When |
the question goes to the Supreme Court of
the State, the taxpayers and the State are
no better off, because Heiskell, the Attor-
ney General, is in favor of the new issue
And what is the use of the people trying
any longer? The new Constitution open
ed the door. Tennessee is drifting to
bankruptcy under Democratic rule. The
new issue will soon be pouring into the
treasury. Capitalists have bought it all
up for few cents in the dollar, and will
make millions, while the people grind and
work and sweat to get together their hard
earned taxes The taxpayers are bound
hand and foot, and are going ''like sheep
to the slaughter" Capital is king! Labor
is slavery! Honesty is poverty! COrrup-
ton is wealth! e. yours"