The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-02-02

linquent tax lists amounted to ,oo.o g..
double the parish debt. The asseSsn,ant
"a the country parishes was ridiculouslv
NV. Inc lands on Tue Teche were
assessed az - an acre, which would Ia ss
sSssed at nve time that amount in TIinoIs
anu the product OF these lands vera 6vs
.Imes as valuable as the products of the COR,
responding lands iu Illinois II vas go
.ne taxes before the war were about FIVE
.niis anu now were fourteen mills. but
Inc assessed valuation had been redpca5 40
corolngly. He instanced AsSumption.n n.riSh
mhefe; before the war, the valuation includ,
ing Slaves was nine millions and now
was one million. In the city of New
Urleahs Ine assessments were high and
me system was bad. He had streruously
-. .Iieu ~ cnange IL, and came within six votes
ID Ine legislature last year OF doing so. IN
any SIX OF the democrats who refused 70
saks tneir seats had come to his assisfanca
tHe Whole OF the present oppressive system
OF TAX assessments in New Orleans couId
nave peen changed. He asserted that the
connerce ~ on the city Of New Orleans was
The 'ee" ioI ~ years.
IMPORT TRADE
had fallen oh,owing to the riots and political
troubles, distractions a. the bar and mora
'han all to the railroads tapping the COM
merce. But the Western produce and steam
boat trade had largely increased. In replv
10 Mr.. Hoar he said that the rich Dlsnters
complained that all their plantations had
been mortgaged before the war and tbev had
never peen able to redeem them. The for
merry rich men were daily becoming poorgr
anu anu me Formerly poor men were be-
coming richer. He said that nunnhe-s
OF eolored men were acquiring property.
ana large plantations were being divided mn
into small holdings. In answer To Mr. Frva
ne SAID that the assertion that the funding
10aru nad FUNDED eight or ten millions OF
nsegai oohgations was absolutely false.
only one million and half had tbus far
Deen funded, and they were all legal.
he would furnish list Of them. The eouTts
az the instance Of himself had passed Y,non
Two mliilons and half of the bonds Issued
Dy Warmoth to the Chattanooga railroad. as
was aheged, without consideration, and had
declared them null and void. He defied am
one TO prove single corrupt act sra;nst
nlih. de was poorer to-day than when he
became governor. ID. J. NJ A. Jevyett the
u. >. commissioner in North Louisiana. WIN
ISSUED the warrants upon which several
arrests were rnade in that section, was ex-
amined, and gave a list of a large number
OF murders alleged to have been corn
mltted since 1855. He could not
say what proportion were x,oliticat
Allen Greene, state senator from that par
lsh, took the stand and denied the report
of the sub committee that there were ak
9reenes In office in Lincoln parish. he said
mat ne had only one SON now in Office in
hat parish, and one at West Point. BE was.
nearly the largest property owner in Lin
coin. He owned a tannery and shoe manu-
factory, the machinery in which bad cost
him $1,000 His business was stopped be-
eause the workmen be brought from Mas
sachusetts would not remain on account of
me ostracism. Greene was still under az
animation when the committee adjourned
ill Monday.