The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-08-27
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Yes, it must be so, and we will tell tie
reason why. Yesterday was Wednesday
The state board of equalization held its
session in Montpelier and adjourned sine
die on Friday. That is on Friday of last
week, and early enough in the day, We
presume, for its several members to reach
home the same night, as the member from
this county was in town at an hour early
enough for him to arrive at home the same
evening, although residing in remote part
OF the county and distant from railroad IA
cilitics. Now THE GLOBE and the Bur-
lington Free Press were able to announce
the fact of the adjournment Saturday
morning, and as another Vermont daily
newspaper ascertained the fact in season to
announce 1t yesterday, Wednesday,, we are
inclined to think that it must be so. 1t is,
lvrro~or, bet,s. ~ IMAM never
This reminds us,as Mr.. Lincoln would say,
of a neat little bit of enterprise. which is
worth telling because it will form an ex-
celent precedent to follow for other am
bilious newspaper men. This meeting of
the state board of equalization was the first
one of the kind in the state, and its pro-
ceedings were, therefore, looked to
with considerable interest by the people
of all parts of the state. To crafty this
interest, and to furnish the earliest posi-
bic intelligence of its proceedings, we dis
patched reporter to attend the meeting,
the Free Press doing the same, so that each
morning we were able to, and did present
our readers with complete report of the
proceedings the day before. We may,
also, here take occasion to remark that
THE GLOBE has been the only daily news
paper in the state to publish the
tables in full and the statistics
presented 10 the board as well
as their proceedings. We take no credit
to ourself, our excellent reporter or our
paper tor so doing, because it is our prov
ince, and we were, one and all, doing that
which we set out to do-have newspaper.
So that this is not the enterprise we are
speaking about, because anyone with lit
tie forethought, energy and expenditure of
little money could have accomplished the
same thing, The enterprise, which we so
heartily commend, is the saving of the
forethought, the energy. the money, the
time, services and expenses of reporter,
Cutting the proceedings out of another
paper-with due credit of course-and pub
fishing them, without the important tables,
from one to three days after the other daily
ne,cspapers had. This was the enterprise
of Vermont daily paper, and we COM
mend (?) 1t as a safe, economical precedent.
This reminds us of another little thing-we
do not know what else to call it but thing.
That is, this same paper raises a question
of yeraclty with Mr.. Abel, the most eff.
Gent representative from Rutland county
on the board. This paper, Wednesday,
states that " the valuation of Rutland
county, as established by the county
equalzing convention, was taken as a
basis and the valuation of other counties
changed to correspond herewith" Now
this may be so, but Mr.. Abel, who ought
to know if any one knows, stated most
distinctly to the board, Friday, that such
,caS not tie case; that although such was
the understanding at the outset, it had not
been carried out AMI Appealed to the
board if his statement was not true. But
we will leave them to settle this little ques-
ton of veracity.