Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-03-01

that we are Ia favor OF taxing corporations, anu III
under-breath that will exempt rich ccrpor atoms
that we will exempt millions OF property from tax
alton ? which Will be the inevitable result OF that
provision OF the minority bill, as suggested by e
Senator iron Marin. | heard the Senator fr m
Santa Clara Mr. Zuck give his Illustration pup icly
and openly heard him declare upon this floor
that he believed they would escape taxation under
that bill He asked the senator from Sonoma ana
the Senator from Solano TO answer 1t ana explain,
but their lips were dumb and their ears uuheeded
his appeal presume the real reason that they
cou d not sltisfac, orily explain it, know cannot
| believe that the statement gave ought to con-
vince the Senate that the minority report Is unjust
and should not be adopted.
THE CONSTITUTION,
As have said, in my Judgment provides for double
taxation at least permits us to have double taxa
ton The question for Us to decide is, how shall we
avoid double taxation? | do not understand any
Senator upon this floor, one, to favor double
taxation, and under the circumstances, as We all
agree that matter, We should all agree that the
question for US TO decide is, how best to avoid
double taxti n? How best shall we distribute the
burdens Of government that they may fall equally
upon the shoulders of zll, the rich and the poor
alike? | believe in equal aud uni form taxation
differ from the Senator from Los Angeles. DeneVe
it is right to have equal and uniform taxation and
/ surprised at the Constitutions Convention
voting down that wise and just provision o. the
old Constitution which SAID taxation shail DC
equal and uniform throughout the State. DeieVe
that taxation can be made equal believe that tax
alton be made uniform; and so beievilg' anu
Wishing to cast my vote, favor the majority pii
more nearly approaching equality and ul ernsy
OF taxation as more clearly escaping the dangers OF
double taxation Inasmuch as the Senator has seen
fit to quote from the inaugural address OF MS Excel
ency, Governor Perkins, i TOO, will quote from ths
source. In that address, after saying that all prop
erty should be take the Governor says, Not, now,
ever in such Is to result in double taxation
to which am most emphaticaly and unaiteraDly
opposed" l ind6rse that expression IN Governor
Perkins inaugural. | am, like him, emphati-
cally and unaiterably opposed TO double TAXA
ton and therefore, | favor The maj nty Dill.
The Senators say that they will vote against II
because il contained provision that no proper ~
subject to double taxation. They are opposed 70
this bill because it expressly that it is against
double taxation. They opposed TO this Dill pe-
cause it is legislative declaration that double laN-
alton shall not obtain in this State. why read IN
the newspapers that were published, friendly 70 tne
adoption Of the new Constitution, and heard their
chief leaders and speakers say in Sacramento, that
the Constitution did not permit double taxation ,
that if it did permit double taxation the Legislature
never would allow double taxation. heard them
say that the principles OF the party called the New
Constitu,io party were unalterably opposed in
every way, form and manner TO double taxation.
and now when we, in this Legislature, are con-
fronted for the first time with the question OF double
taxation, an honored member of the New Constltu-
ton party, man selected by his people
representative OF that party, a man whose name
mentioned in connection with the high posi-
iion ri Governor and Lieutenant Governor, the
Senator from Los Angeles says that he votes against
this majority bill because contains the declaration
against double taxation In the language of the
eloquent Senator from the Eleventh" Oh, consist
ency, where art thou 2? as applied to your position
The new Constitution party have their represents
tiveS on this floor and ask every man who be
longed to toat party in the past who favored the
adoption of the new Constitution, who stood upor
the stump saying that the Legislature could pre-
vent double taxation, ask him TO record his vote
and in nArf1aV
with his speeches, against double taxation. Al
that is contained here is fair, square, unmistaka
ble direct legislative declaration that double taxa
ton shall not prevail in this State.
ARE YOU IN FAVOR OF DOUBLE TAXATION
Do you wish property to be taxed twice2 do not
admit the doctrine of the Senator from Sonoma.
TIE property paws taxes twice. 1t is double taxation
whether it is owned or represented by cash oi
whether it is represented by certificates of stock
He says il a horse is taxed to John and also to
James, who complain? Why, the people car
complain outraged honesty can complain outraged
decepcy can complain the Constitution of the
state can complain God can complain, because
His people not carrying out His laws and are not
obeying His laws. Because double taxation il
wrong; double taxation is wicked /; double taxation
exist in this any other country, and never shall
with my vote be permitted to be engrafted upon the
statute books of this State. And yet the opposition
to the majority bill is because il says squarely and
Senators prepared to say by their votes that they
favor double taxation? Are they prepared to follow
the lead of the Senator from Sonoma and favor
double taxation Ii they are msjudge them, and
| mistake the tendencies Of the times | am aware
that there is great distress in the land or at least
that the statement is made that there is. l am
aware that the statement has been made that there
is trouble at hand. | am aware that there have
been efforts made to excite mob TO rise in San
Francisco. As TO the amount OF distress that
exists in San francisco, and the necessity for legs
latIOn tending to its relief, am not aware but fol
one will go far any other man to relieve the
distresses of the people either OF San Francisco
or of any other portion of this State. Let the
Senat from the Eleventh District introduce bill
to provide employment for the in San Francisco
and he will find me side by side with him. as l
side by side last session with the members of the
San Francisco delegation voting in favor of every
honorable appropriation that would give employ
ment to the starving poor OF San Francisco. pro
pose vote for the bill introduced by the Senator
from the Twelfth, Mr.. Kelly, giving the State BoarC
of Harbor Commissioners the power to put $50, 00t
into circulation to give employment to the peop,
there, and ask the Senator, and | ask any gentle
man upon this floor, how this minority bin or how
double taxation will help the poor people? How
| double taxation will help any to buy bread TO
himself or his children? VIII double taxation Civ
! you Leaf OF breau3 Will double taxation give MI
| a loaf of bread? Double taxation will simply result
in driving capital from the State. Double taxation
| will simply impose onerous and oppressive bur
den upon the property, upon the corporations, Upo
| the wealthy men of the State and the poor men q
the State. Double taxation will surely result il
running and destroying the energies of the State c
! the people; that the thousands OF poor who nov
walk the streets will be doubled and trebled in
ber Let laws be introduced which viii act to thei
benefit let not the red flag lie viewed here to bull
! doze us into voting for tn measure because the
say the people want this and the people want that
and that it is going to assist the starving poor. An
let us remember that
THE PEOPLE MAKE MISTAKES
| Frequently; and IS instance that the peopl
make mistakes let me call attention to the las
election. The Senator from SOlano says that the dc
| CiSiOn of the Supreme Court in the Hib rnia Ban
case, that mortgages were not property, was tn
| cause that led to Convention to frame the nel
Constitution that the decision OF the Suprem
Court in the Hibernia Bank case was the cause tina
led to the adoption of the new Constitution that
was adopted larg " by the farmers who had bee
| injured by that decision. He described them a
conservative people, who only moved when the
we're injured That element, he says, adopted tn
4 new Constitution. The Senator knows, and ever
lawyer on this floor knows, that the decision of tn
! HIbernia Bank case rendered by majority
three against two. Z. W. McKinstry wrote the ma
| jority report. L. W. Mckinstry was the man VIII
turned the scale and said that mortgages should nc
| be taxed, and E. W. MeKinstry has been elected
judge OF the Supreme Court of this State by tn
people of this State, after they have adopted TIN
new Constitution, which Senator Wendell says wa
made necessary by that decision. submit that {
you as an instance showing that the people do max
| mist ,kes A. L. Rhodes member OF the sam
Supreme Court and wrote the dissenting opinion
and the people of this State refused {
| elect him Chief Justice of this State
| notwithstanding his record upon that prOpC
| sition, aud he behind in the agricultural couI
| ties of the Sta e. and Mr.. McKiDstry ran ahead i
the rcultural counties of the State, showing tina
these farmers, who are so slow to move, are liabl
to m Ike mistakes Just as well as city people. l a
ude to this, simply to show that the people max
mistakes. and thet the man who rendered this de
cison, which the gentleman says called for the ne
Constitution was elevated to power for II years b
the people and they relegated to private life til
Judge who voted against that decision.
SAVINGS BANKS.
There is another proposition which think ougf
to impe every man TO vote against the minorit
bill, entirety, and that is its proviaior
in regard to taxing savings banks and the
depositors. Now let us examine what
savings bank is. | grant the Senator from Lc
Angeles that savings banks have been abusec
grant that savings banks, as they have been cor
damage Ia some instances to the people II m
the Thirteenth and | stood shoulder TO shouide
from savings banks the Senator from Los Angelo
have been abuses IN the conduct of the business
savings banks, regard them as something whic
has been of great value to the State and ask Ser
| a ors to thiBk for themselves what saving
bank is savings bank, as properly cor
| ductei, is merely place where people ca
deposit their money in order that il may be loane
o,,t nfl,ar ,,srsons The from % AnOeis