The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1879-03-13
JUSTICE DONE AT LAST.
Harvey County Must Pay Her Pro-
portion Of the Railroad
Bonds.
g, 500 Interest Annually Saved
to Sedgwick and the Pay
ment Of CSC, 900 in
Bonds.

After six years of demurring and Of
expensive litigation in the inferior and
superior courts, the highest power in
the State has again decreed that Harvey
county should pay her proportion OF
the railroad borded indebtedness orig
inally assumed by that part of her ter
ritory formerly constituting part of
Sedgwick county. The bill passed the
House last Friday evening after every
dilatory cxpcdient and motion had been
exhausted by the Representative and
lobby from that county. That it was a
most righteous and just act the Supreme
Court not only intimated, but two jul
dietary committees uncquivocally de-
clared, and SO, too, the people Of Har-
vey know. Without any inclination to
read Harvey moral lecture, we will say
that honesty in this case, as in all 9TH
ers, would have proved not only the
best policy, but the most economical.
The bill, after reciting in whereas a
succinct history of the matter in con-
troversy, provides, in substance, that
Harvey county shall pay just that pro-
portion of the debt that she would have
paid, had her territory never been de-
tached from this county, which will, in
effect, cause Harvey to pay annually the
sum of three thousand five hundred dol
lars into the treasury of Sedgwick
county until after the expiration Of
thirty years from the issue of the bonds
when Harvey shall redeem her proper
ton, or about one-fourth, or $780, 900, al
lowing Harvey her proportion of the
stock.
The second or principal section Of the
bill reads:
Sec. 2. 1t shall be the duty of the
clerk Of the county of Harvey, yearly,
as soon as the returns of the township
assessors are made, and the board Of
equalization of said county of Harvey
shall have equalized the assessments
made in said county, to certify to the
county clerk of the county of Sedgwick
the total assessed value of that portion
of the real estate and railroad property
lying within the territory SO detached as
aforesaid, from the county Of Scdgwick,
and made part Of the county of Har-
vey, by said act; and it shall be the du-
~ of the county clerk of the county of
Sedgwick. as soon as the same shall be
received, to certify yearly to the county
clerk of the county of Harvey. the per
centum of the tax to be levied for the
payment of the bonds referred TO in
said act, and the interest thereon, or Ell
Their: and such tax shall be levied and
collected by the said county of Harvey
from the real estate and railroad prop
erty within the limits of the territory so
detached from Sedgwick county, and
made part of the county of Harvey
by said act, in the same manner rs other
taxes are levied and collected; and when
collected, such tax be paid over by the
treasurer of the county Of Harvey to
the treasurer of the county OF Sedg-
wick.
Much parise is due our Senator, Hon.
II. c. Sluss, and Representatives Hon.
VIM. Grciflensfcin and Hon. 5. M.Tuck-
or, for their unwearying work and es
pecially 10 John NJ. Steele, the chairman
OF the county board, and the other COM
missioners and officers and gentlemen
who assisted Mr.. Steele in explaining
the true status of the question to indi-
vidual members and the arduous duty
of urging upon the Legislature the jus
tice of the demand of Sedgwick coun-
ty. Every community is cursed with
its quota of inconsistent yclpers and sell
fish howlers who criticise and hound
down all men not owned by them and
every interest not under their control,
but we feel confident that the great body
of our taxpayers will in this instance,
at least award with praise the men who
have so successfully and unseliishly as
sisted to obtain our rights and protected
our interests as county.