Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-08-14

Expenditures in Controllers Of
fee for three and one-half years un-
der Green's Republican admins
tration:
Salary IA Con roller and Mem
b" = If Equalization,
etc., during tn zee and one-half
g76 03
salary oil Deputy Controller...... 10 500 90
Salary OF Clerks and Book
8s 500 90
Pay OF porter r........................... 030 90
Postage and expires .age............. | $50 80
Contingent enses.............. 7o7 SO
Printing and Engraving Con-
troller's arrants................... 7l9 SO
Prosecution OF delinQuents...... 5000 Oh
Total...................... 1872 II
Expenditures I'm Controllers Of
flee for three and one-half years
under Browh~ (Democratic) ad-
ministration
Salary of Controller and Mem
Der of the Board of EquaIiza-
ton during tn ee and one half
..."5l4BlZ 10
Sa airy OF uepu during three
and one. hall years ......... -. $500 90
Sala'y of Clerks and BUok-
keeper........... . ................... 1920 90
Pay of ......... 1870 %
Postage and expires sage............ 49j Us
Contingent expenses oil rs
Total. ....................sGl.l .l29 rs
Difference in favor of Browns ad-
ministration for three and one half
years, $15,672.73. In addition to
to this saving on the part of the
Controller, that officer, by chang
ing the manner of making SETTLE
ments with County Treasurers,
whereby Tax Collectors and Assess
eors are dependent upon the Con-
troller's office for the allowance
under the law of their percentage
for the collection of the State prop
erty tax, Instead of allowing them
to take out any amount to which
they considered themselves en-.
titled, without the Controller know
ing anything about 1t (Which his
predecessor did, has saved to the
State annually (as can be shown
by the records In the Controllers
office) at least $13 900. AS conse-
quenoe of this and other reforms by
the Controller, the cost of assessing
and collecting State taxes is much
reduced. 1t was, according to Con
trOller Green's report for the twen-
ty fifth fi-cal year, seven and one
fourth per cent, and for the twen-
ty-siXth fiscal year six and one
fourth per cent; while, under the
present administration, 1t is, for
the twenty. ninth fiscal year, five
and forty-seven- n-one-hundredths per
cent, and for the thirtieth fiscal
year a little less than five and six
tenths per cent. Besides this, the
present Controller, who thoroughly
Understands the revenue laws and
their practical workings, has by
the most untiriug energy aud per-
severance. pressed to determina
tion in the supreme Court Court a
test case in reference to the delin-
qurnt State taxes OF 1928 and
1874, obtained u decision IN favor
Of, the validity of the taxes; and
has, in the last year, in conse-
qurnce thereof, collected OF the said
taxes over $9U, 900, and will proba
bly, collect fifteen or twenty thOus-
and dollars more, all of which
would have been lost to the State
had not the Controller been not
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the mode aud means of treating
subjects, but also willing to spend
many weary days unraveling the
web of difficulty which surrounded
the collection of these delinquent
taxes when he came into office
Now, then, if the people want
faithful and competent officers they
have all opportunity to get them
by re-electin Messrs. Brown, Minis
and WooIf, who, In the last thee
and a half years, have given the
best assurances that they can be
trusted in the future; and by voting
for the nominees of the Democratic
party party that has given them
the best State administration they
ever had.