New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-10-05

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taxable and what : not
Editorially The Press says:
These calculations have been made. strict inter
probation OF the law requires on the entire business anu
capital OF the company, 1t being Pennsy wanna cor
ton chartered by and doing business under tne tws
this and having altogether l99 miles Oh
road in Pennsylvania, TO bur sc miles In Maryland But
I'm order that no possible injustice SHALL DO done, we est
mate here only the propOrOnatc part OF tho taxes que
for the 100 miles reduces te tocai
dedciency during Hartrans two TO S34s524 II,
something over third OF Million instead OF Sio)5g9 OIL,
as given by correspondent. This large amount Is
certainly due from Camerons IallIqal even d
10 the exceedingly loose and unsatisfactory anu uOuo
less dishonest reports which nave Deoh accepeH rum m
Influential President by Auditor, an M @
reports had been exacted We cannot even guess since
the judiciary Committee OF the House, whose report on
this subject Is also included In this same correspondence
does not exempt even approximate estimate OF inc
losses which the State has sustained from tine eAee
aIty which Of late obtained In the Auditing Depart
meut with reference to such returns, eapeeldiy IN
tine case OF the Northern Central ana Dela-
ware Lackawanna and Western Railroads.
We are aware these corporations and one or TWO
others have tried TO squirm out OF good portion OF
their axas by appealing TO tho courts, but In no case
has there yet been hnal decision against the Common
wealth unless IL be in tho case OF the taxes on loans 80
far as IL affects foreign holders.
Yet IL Is seen by the statement elsewhere puDsheu
that absolutely at all loans has been PAID Dy
Cameron's railroad during the six years that Hartrant
has In office, and everybody knows that Dut snau
proportion OF the bODdhOlders are foreigners.
With regard the tunnage tax the supreme Court OF
has Overruled the decision OF Judge rear
son. aud affirmed the cOnsututionaltty OF tho law An
appeal taken by the companies TO the Unted
States Supreme Court But the protest OF the companies
as we understand it, refers only to through tunnag or
tupnage carried state 10 another NOW, 50 Iar
m concerns the Northern Central Railroad the Auditor
Generals report for 1868 shows tpago 2fO that tDe
through freight for that year was but lGI0 whle the
gross amount OF tunnage 1905 745 tuns The tunnage
taxable therefore, according 10 tue claim OF me
companies, would 10 be about W per cent Oh inc
whole, yet only about per cent OF the gross uhage
of this railroad has the tax been pald ON an average
during the last six years.