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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-03-30
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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-03-30
Taxation Of Deposits In Trust Companies

81. JoBNsBURY, March 28th, 1881
Mr.. Editor FL have but Just received your
letter Of the 26th inst. asking the intent Of the
trainers OF "secton twenty" Of the "aot 10
equalize taxation" approved December I'D, 1880
In reply will briefly say That section was Of
fered by myself in the senate as an amendment
TO the bill, with the intent and purpose that the
provisions OF the special law Of 1873 relative to
taxing the deposits in savings banks, savings in
stitutions and trust companies, should continue
in force and unchanged; and the words "other-
wise taxed ]" meant such institutions as were
taxed to the State Of Vermont, under the special
act OF 1873, one-half Of one per cent per
annum on account Of It's depositors, and TO
such only; and | then understood, and am Of
the opinion now, that depositors In all such ust-
tutons as do not pay into The treasury Of the State
Of Vermont the tax Of one-haf of one per cent
per annum on account Of Its depositors, in accord
ance with the provisions OF the act Of 1873, are
under the general laws, subject to be listed and
taxed to the depostor IN resident OF this state
the same as any other taxable personal property
and are not in any way affected by the special
law approved November %, 1873, but are subject
to the act approved December 90 1880, as not
being " otherwise taxed" And concur In the
opinions expressed in the wATcHMAS & JOURNAL
in an editorial March 10TH and also the communi-
cation from Deposition March sd, relative 10
the listing and taxation Of deposits in trust COM
panes to the depositors under the special law Of
1873 and the general law OF 1880.
am dear sir, very truly,
L. ID. BLoDGETT
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-03-30

BOGUS MEDICAL DPLoMAs.-Buchanan, who
did such thriving business selling bogus medical
diplomas. has made confession, which badly
duplicates wholesale druggists and the faculty of
several medical colleges. In one instance three
professors for So each, signed five hundred diplo-
mas for him, and for $3.50 the diplomas which
were to go abroad were certified to by the Span
sh consul. In all abont ten thousand names are
tangled up in his disclosures. lie has given the
names OF many professional abortionists and the
means whereby they destroy life. He tells OF the
tricks of his trade, quack-nostrums advertised to
cure all diseases and imposters who prey on pub
lie credulity He rectes incidents wherein he
robbed graves, and how one day he stole five
dead bodies from the Blackley almshouse. He
tells of twenty-five concerns in this country and
Europe by which degrees are sold lie figures
that fully twenty thousand bogus diplomas are
current in America and forty thousand more in
Europe. As a result, the charters OF several in
situations have been repealed
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-03-30
Notes and Notions.

|
"WAYNE MAcVEAeH," says the Burling
ton Hawteye, ais the Carl Schurz of tn,
Garfield cabinet"
ONCE more it is announced that legal pro
ceedings will soon be instituted against al
the parties identified with the Morey letter
forgery.
THE Wisconsin legislature has passed q
bill forbidding any one to treat another to q
drink of intoxicating liquor in a public
place under a penalty of from IS to $40.
PosTMAsTER.GE GENERAL JAMES has de
clined banquet rendered by leading mer
chants. He says he is yet untried in his
new position and cannot appropriate compli
ments not yet earned.
The great desire of the negro visitors to
Washington is to see Secretary Lincoln, and
they flock to see him in crowds, saying that
they want to shake hands with the son OF
the man who issued the emancipation proc
lamation.
IT is said that the fusion governor OF
Maine will not order an election to fill Mr.
Frye's seat in the house OF representatives
until Governor Cornell orders elections Ia
fill the two democratic vacancies in the New
York delegation.
THE people OF Indiana have overruled
the supreme court of that state, and its cleo.
tions will be held in November. The two
thirds majority in favor of it was obtained
this time without doubt, and an amend
ment providing for a registration was also
adopted.
Mr.. u. L. WHITE, after ten years spent in
Washington as correspondent, says ga
young man who will be content to sweep
the streets until he can get better employ
ment has twice as many chances of success
in life as he who enters a government de.
partment on salary of 81 200 year.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS says that all
the nominations made in New York thus
far show what he calls great political skill
upon the part of the president. They show
that he proposes to make his Garfield ad-
hiihiopioeioh III bhC ochoC Ouhb nC Will uOt
put himself into the hands of any body or
clique of politicians in the party.
THE question of indorsing or condemning
Malone for helping the republicans organize
the senate is entering into the canvass for
the county May elections in Virginia. The
readjusters are working like beavers and so
are the regular democrats, for the result of
these county elections will largely influence
the state election next fall, and Mahone's
hold upon Virginia politics is at stake.
THOSE who know Senator Edmunds can
imagine the sly twinkle in his eye when he
said to interviewers in Charleston, South
Carolina THE people of the north have
no dislike of the south. They simply have
distrust; and the only way to overcome
that distrust and induce an influx of CAPT.
tai and class of intelligent laborers is to
give every man the right to have and exer.
else his own opinion, and even to undergo
the inconvenience of allowing every man
one vote"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-03-30
No Extra Session.

1t is authoritatively announced that $685.
sion of congress will not be called this spring.
The reasons given seem to be the fear that
congress is not politically strong enough to
enact the principal legislation which would
come before an extra session, and that it is
unwise to disturb the business interests of
the country by attempting at the present
time to pass a refunding measure. Practi-
cally this means the abandonment of investi.
CATION, for any practical good during the
present congress, into the alleged abuses of
the suffrage in the south, and throwing the
subject over into the last two years of the
administration, when it may again become
an element in the next presidential election.
This contest over the refunding of the debt
must come, sooner or later. The republ-
cans in congress will be no stronger in De-
cember than now, and, unless in the inter-
val between the present time and December
public discussion of the question shall have
toned down the inimical feeling that con-
ceived and sustained the fifth section of the
refunding measure passed by the forty-sixth
congress, the evil day will have been only
postponed for brief season, to come, perhaps,
when the country will be less able TO resist
unwise legislation or to negotiate loan at
low rate. In the present state of the mar
ket three per cent loan with fair con
ditions Of time, such, for instance, as Gen
eral Grants proposal TO issue one thousand
millions OF three per cent bonds on the same
plan as the British consols, as a permanent
basis for banking or for private investment,
could be negotiated. That the same ad-
vantage will exist six months hence, or that
three and one-half per cent loan can then
be placed, no one can tell. The business
interest" will undoubtedly, and very natur-
ally, rest quietly under the soothing effect
of continuance of five and six per cent in
terest, when the government need be paying
but three or at the most three and one-half
per cent. The assembling of congress at
the commencement of new administration
to give effect by legislative action to the gem
eral views of national policy aud to specific
measures advocated by the new executive,
would seem to be as wise and reasonable az
the assembling of state legislatures at the
commencement of gubernatorial terms to
give effect to recommendations relating to
state policy. The first few weeks of an ad.
ministration could be far more proftably
devoted to launching the measures which
shall form its distinguishing features than in
giving up its time to the opportunities of
hordes OF ofiice-seekers. Whether the de-
cision will prove wise one the future
will disclose.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-03-30

The SENATE OFFIcERs.-The democratic
senators have embarked upon filibuster-
ing contest to prevent the election of the
senate officers. No business of any conse-
quence has been transacted during the
week. The entire session of the United
States senate on Monday was occupied by
Senator Malone of Virginia in response to
recent criticisms of his course from several of
his colleagues His speech was brilliant
effort and packed the senate chamber to its
utmost capacity-the judges OF the supreme
court forming portion of his vast audience.
Eloquence, wit, sarcasm and ridcule were
rained like hail upon the assaulting column
OF the Bourbon democracy. He has evil
IDENTIFY burnt all the bridges which connected
him with that wing Of his party, and taken
position on the subject of the material
prosperity of the south and the rights OF
colored citizens that should command repub-
lican sympathy and support.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-03-30

TERRIBLE HoLooAUsT,-Last week Wednes-
day just after the curtain had risen in theater
in Nice, Italy, the gas exploded and set all the
scenery and infammable material on fire, and
before the audience recovered from their first
horror the entire building was in flames, Some
one turned off the gas in the effort to stop the
fire. The effect may easily be imagined, the
usual one-a panic In which the weak were
trampled upon by the strong The reports of loss
of life are undoubtedly exaggerated, but it is en-
tirely safe to say that not less than one hundred
persons lost their lives 1t is said that the director
OF the theater discovered a strong smell of gas
and wished to postpone the opera until examina-
ton could be made, but the authorities directed
him to give the opera as advertised Large
amounts are being subscribed for the benefit of
the friends of the sufferers. The theater was
very old 1t was rebuilt by the government fifty
years ago. The stage fittings were OF the light
est material. The scenery was painted on paper.
There were only two doors, one leading to the pit
and boxes, the other to the galleries. the latter
only four feet wide,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-03-30

MUSICAL FEsTivAL.-In the first week of
May, New York is to have musical festival
which will resemble those musical occasions
which are familiar to European capitals.
The festival is to be held in the Seventh
Regiment Armory, which will accommodate
ten thousand people. The chorus will be
composed of twelve hundred singers selected
and trained by the famous leader, DIR. Dam
rosch; and in addition, fifteen hundred
young ladies from the schools and three
hundred boys from church chors. The
orchestra will comprise two hundred and
fifty picked and drilled musicians, and
among the solo singers are Gerster, Cary,
Campanini, Whitney, Remmertz and others.
The organ built by Hilborne l.. Roosevelt
for the church of st. Vincent Ferrer will be
set up in the armory and used on the occa-
sion. Among the great works to be given
are the Messiah" The Tower of Babel"
and the "Ninth Symphony" The festival
will mark musical era in New York, and
the fact that it is TO be under the direction
of DIR. Damrosch and supported by the Sym
phony Society assures its character and
success.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-03-30

DIPHTHERIA.-In the closing quarter OF
the eighteenth century Jenner, young
English physician, acting upon popular
knowledge that person having had the
cow-pox, was thereby protected from the
smallpox, commenced a series of investiga.
lions which, after years of patient study,
eliminated in the effective application of
his theory of incubation. Thenceforth
smallpox, the scourge of those days, was
disarmed of its fatal terrors, and Jenner's
name was immortalized. Honors and boun
ties were profusely heaped upon him. Equal
honor and fame awaits the man Of medicine
who shall discover and effectively apply the
remedy for that modern scourge, diphtheria.
1t is little singular that with all the aid
and light of modern science no approach
has yet been made to an understanding of
this insidious disease or its successful treat
ment.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-03-30
Savings Banks and Trust Companies.

As showing the purpose of the Trainer of
section 20 of the act to equalize taxation, the
letter from Senator Blodgett in another col
umn will be read with interest in connection
with the discussion of the question of the
taxation of deposits in trust companies. The
Montpelier Savings Bank and Trust Com
pany has voted to pay to the state the tax
of one-half of one per cent on its deposits,
which by this means will become non-taxable
property under the provisions of the act of
1880 to equalize taxation. By reference to
the inspector of finances late report it ap-
pears that the trust companies of the state
paid to the United States for the year ending
July /, 1850, taxes amounting to S9,305.92.
Those companies, as far as it is possible for
them to do so, will doubtless take the same
action as the Burlington and Montpelier
companies have taken with reference to the
tax on theirdeposits. 1t is therefore prob
able that the revenues of the state will re-
ceive a large accession in the year to come
from this source.
Apprehension has been expressed that
these provident institutions of our state will
be put to an illegitimate use during this
period of disquietude among taxpayers
that property will be converted into money
and be deposited in the savings banks and
trust companies for the express purpose Of
placing it beyond the reach of the listers !;
and that after the first of April when the
danger is past, the money will be withdrawn.
1t is needless to say that if these institu,
lions should allow themselves to be misused
as a lurking place for tax-dodgers," il
would be gross perversion of the object
for which they were chartered, and would be
likely to bring down upon them the summary
chastisement of the legislature. These COM
panies should jealously guard themselves
against the suspicion even of lending them
selves to assist INSCRIPTIONS taxpayers to
evade the tax and listing laws. We have
no reason to believe that they have received
deposits that do not come within the legiti-
mate scope of their charters. We have the
strongest reason to believe that the Mont
pelier institution has scrupulousy regarded
the provident character Of its charter and
rejected offers of deposits that were outside
of its legitimate business, and we trust each
one OF its twenty-one fellow institutions in
the state is equally clear.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-03-30

LATE news from Lima, Peru, is to the effect
that the Gillian general there pays no attention
to the late President Perola, who is at Jauja and
initial steps were being taken to form proyis-
oDal government. In Salayerry and Trujlo the
mob commenced pundering the same as they did
in Lima The foreigners and respectable natives
turned out and restored order, and were about to
shoot a number OF the leaders when Montero ar
rived and pardoned them. Then plumber again
commenced and order had to be restored for a
second time. On this occasion twenty or thirty
of the rioters were killed, and now temporar5
peace reins in Trujillo. Similar scenes have been
enacted all over the country.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-03-30

EVERY evening Tor six consecutive days Madrid
has been kept in state OF alarm by explosions OF
petards Some were fired In the busiest streets,
others in the doors of churches and thea.
tiers, causing breakage OF glass and some burns
No offenders have a. yet been caught, though the
police and detectives trebled after dark II il
supposed that keepers Of gambling houses have
created this scare rs mark OF their displeasure
against the civil governor, who continues his ac.
tive repression OF gambling, SELLING house OF
two every day. ladies hardly dare go out ON foot
In the evening.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-03-30

BANK COMMISSIONER LYMAN, having concluded
the work OF examination Of the Ashuelot Savings
Bank at Keene, New Hampshire, makes the fol-
lowing report to the governor Bank liabilities,
deposits, s2lO,4S3 30; surplus, etc, S5553 &c,
making total liabilities S2l6. O37 o. and the bank
assets S2lG,0T %. But examination shows the
deposits to be 1922 7267s assets, s2l5 7s9 81; de-
felt sl06,9i7 %; adding treasurers reported sur
plus, s5,b5366, makes total deficiency SIP 400 81
The ledgers are very correct up to the time of the
recent one hundred and thirty whine false entries
The deficiency was discovered and the false en-.
tries detected only by careful examination of the
iedgers, the cash book and the receipt book OF
the bank.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-03-30

The KAILooH-DE YOUNG CAsE,-After being
out twenty-four hours, the jury brought in a YER
dict OF not guilty When Kalloch got into his car
riage to go home an immense crowd took the
horses from the vehicle and pulled him to his
house, some three miles away, 1t is believed the
end Is not yet for DE Young's sister threatens to
ayenge her brothers death, and II this is Califor-
mia justice, II would seem that she can do so with
IMMUNITY. The result Of the trial ID an assault
upon the foundation OF social order
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-03-30

JoHs and Michael Sullivan, laborers on the
Baltimore 4 Ohio railroad, Thursday afternoon
discovered crooked rail on the track near Nc.
Keesport. While they were endeavoring to
straighten 1t, 10 order to prevent train from be-
ing wrecked, passenger train came around the
curve. They irantically worked With a crowbar
to get the rail replaced, to save the train and sue.
ceeded just in time, but both men we're struck by
the engine and killed The act Was ons Of great
heroism and saved many lives.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-03-30

The president has nominated William Walter
Phelps, minister to Austria; William E Chandler,
solicitor general; Edmund S Merritt OF New York,
consul general at London; Adam Badeau, charge
d affairs to Denmark; Samuel T. Phillips, judge
OF the court of claims M. b, Cramer, minister to
Switzerland; General Lew Wallace, minister to
Paraguay William H. Robertson, collector Of
customs at New York. Lionel A. Sheldon, COVER
nor OF New Mexico; Stewart L. Woodford, at
torney for the southern district OF New York
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-03-30

The late Senator Carpenter left an estate est.
mated at one hundred and fifty thousand dollars
He left no will, and Hon, jeremiah Black has been
retained to manage the affairs OF the estate. Mrs
Carpenter has given up her residence in this city
and will remain here with friends until her hus-
bands remains are forwarded to Milwaukee, when
she will take up her residence in that city.
Another srow-storm visited our city this morn
ing, but 1t was of short DURATION and the sun
soon uroVe the clouds away. Sol.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-03-30

The read listers state convention of
Virginia warmly endorses Mahones course
in the senate.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-04-11
IN IDEAL WORK.
A Roman Girl, as Painted by Young
Lady of st. Paul.

A Roman Girl, as Painted by Young
Lady of St Paul.
There is to be seen in the window of
Hough's book store, on Wabashaw street.
a painting of rare delicacy and merit
delicacy, because of its tone and harmo-
nious commingling of color, and merit,
because it idealizes the thought of an ar
tist. The work is from the easel of a
home, or St. Paul artist, Miss Julia c.
Gauthier, lady whose art has hitherto
been too little known. The subject is
that of a Roman girl, the daughter of a
well-to-do professional man or merchant,
and it illustrates peculiar and lovely
type of beauty. The dress is picturesque
and appropriate to girl whose youth is
in its perfect hey day. She is dressed in
a Jacket of dark stuff with red sleeves
and skirt and blue overskirt; encircling
her waist is the Roman apron of old gold
and diagonal stripes; tunic and snow
white kerchief complete the costume.
The dress is simple enough, but is still
rich in its glow of perfect color. This is
pleasing and delights the eye, but the
real charm is in the expression. The
sleepy eye that tells the dreamy soul, Is
here to perfection; the girl is IN brown
study; a pair of large, luminous mid
night eyes look into space and wonder.
She is evidently indulging day dream,
pastime which young ladies delight in
under Italian skies as well as, here. Her
cheeks are tinged deep carnation,
warm and ruddy as flesh and blood. The
contour of the face is finished oval, as
sentrasted with the chubby round faces
Of a majority of her people. The elbow
of the left arm rests in her right hand,
while the other hand seems to be idly
telling a string of pink beads which en-,
circle the neck Resting on the inclined
part of the right arm at the breast is a
bunch of Forget-me-nots. No amount
of description can give an adequate idea
of the study. 1t will be on exhibition
several days.