The Leavenworth weekly times., 1879-03-13
THE NATIONALS.
Proceedings OF the Gre senback Cea-
| trail Committee OF Icayenwortn. l. :

Proceedings OF the Grsenback Cel-
trail Committee OF Leavenworth. :
Ths National Greenback convention me;
the nh of March, pursuant 10 the call
The members of several clubs and other or.
ganizations were present and were invited
TO take part in the discussions of the var.
ious questions before the committee. The
following enbodies the views Of the meet
ing:
/, The Greenback party is alive and well
and will preserve its health and increase Its
strength, until the financial policy of the
Nation shall be in the interest Of the labor.
ing man and until the election Of its Pre-.
sidentIal nominee IN 1850.
2, Greenbackers everywhere should make
nominations for all local offices nominate
the most capable and honorable-tried men
if they can be found place their ticket
early in the field and publish an intelligble
statement OF the course they are to pursue
in regard to all local matters, ii their can
didates should be elected.
3, The county and city central CON-
mittees are instructed TO propose ticket
for all elective city officers and submit the
same to called meeting for approval.
4, No great confidence to be had in any
OF the proposed measures pending in the
iegislature-the people themselves will
have to devise and adopt some plan OF re-
lief and unite upon il, and our Candidates
must be pledged to Use every possible effort
to carry out the will Of the people when
they find out what it ia.
D, With regard to the debt which we owe
for the money improvidently borrowed and
foolishly expended in the past, they think
the following is proximate, il not basIs
on which it can be settled; 90 per cent on
railroad indebtness on which We are liable
at all and 30 per cent on all other debts,
mature and call, on all outstanding bonds,
issue funding bonds at per cent, uutaxa-
bic by the city, in sums of SlG0 each with
twenty cupons attached, each to
include one-twentith of principle and
interest due and receivable for all city
taxes, fines or assessments for each Of the
designated or subsequent years-frst, for
$500 for taxes account for 1880; second,
for SIS so, for 1881, or any succeeding year,
and last for $500 in 1900.
6, Exempt from taxation for five years
the capital stock and materials of cotton
woolen, flax and sugar manufactures. agri-
cultural implement factories, and fruit and
vegetable canning and starch factories, be.
lieving the benefits to all property and
| other business from such enterprises will
far exceed all the money they would pay
| for taxes.
Z, Delinquent taxes. Each case should
be settled on Its own merits, and the prop
erty all placed at once on a new tax list nc
additional burdens and cos.s, or expensive
and useless law suits and sales; council
could appoint commissioner to hear and
determine the facts in each case, and report
TO council and wipe out this old list.
| s. Other communities, in these pinchinG
times, feel the absolute NJ cessity of retrench.
ment and economy, and have by acts oi
their legislatures abolished their High
Schools" for the coming year. This city
should follow that example for one year al
least. and if they know little less, they
might breathe . great deal easier.
| 9, All citizens, without regard to party
are invited to support this measure until
better ones are suggested.
The meeting then adjourned, subject to
| hcall Of the committee.
G. w GARDNER, Chairman.
P. B. CASTLE, Secretary.