Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-10
TAX EXONERArIONs.
the List Surprisingly Long.


| Yesterday A. X. Warfel, tax collector,
filed in the county commissioners Office a
list of persons exonerated from the pay
ment Of county tax for the year 1880. The
list contains not less than 1000 names,
not 4 few of whom are heavy property
owners, lawyers, doctors, merchants and
other business men. The vast number of
names on the list is we'll calculated to sur
prise anyone who is aware of the great
care taken last fall by the several political
committees, and indeed by almost every in
dividual voter to have the taxes of every
| taxable paid. 1t is known that
in a great many cases, both the Demo-
cratic and Republican committees paid
taxes for the same voters, and that the
voters in turn paid their own taxes It
| was confidently believed that there were
not dozen men in the city whose taxes
| were not paid either in 1879 or 1880, and
/ yet the enormous number of 1900 or
| more, appears on the collectors list of ex-
oneratiOns for 1880.
In brief interview had with Mr.. War
fcl he explained to a representative of the
INTELLIGENCER, that many of the names
on the annual registry lists of the
assessors, are Of persons dead
or removed from the wards,
and who not being liable to taxa
tiOn therein, must appear on the list of
cxoncrations After the annual assess
ment made in the winter, there are two
extra assessments made. The names on
these lists are composed largely Of per-
sons who have removed from ono ward to
another, and whose names therefore ap-
pear on the lists of both wards. As they
| cannot I've taxed in more than one Ward,
they must be mai ked as exOncrated in the
other and thus it often happens that men
who have paid their tax and hold receipts
arc marked exoncrated. Mr.. Warfel
| says, also, that in one Of the wards the as
SCISSOR assessed against many Of tho resi-
dents " state militia tax. A few of
these taxes were paid to Mr.. Warfel before
le became aware of the fact that this tax
had been abolished ; but the great bulk #
them were not collected and are returned
as cxonerated.' These and other
apparently unreasonable proportions but
the list, and avOws that his cash books and
records will prove it to be correct.
On the other hand, taxpayers who have
not removed and who were not assessed in
more than one ward, and who declare they
paid their taxes and hold receipts for the
same, are Indignant at finding their names
on the "cXOncrated list.' Mr.. Warfel
Iabors under the disadvantage of having
had this thing occur before.
Mr.. Warfel says that in many instances,
where political parties had paid tax and
the taxables afterwards insisted upon pay
ing it themselves and getting receipts, he
took their money, but made separate ac-
count of it and he holds that fund, some
$500, for the benefit of whoever may show
himself entitled to have his tax refunded.
Excursion to Europe.
The following persons will go on the
European excursion, under the manage
ment of B. Yccker and Father Kaul {:
Rev. Anthony F. Kaul, Lancaster, Pa. !;
Rev. j. J. O'Reilly, Leavenworth diocese,
Kansas Rev. John Paolin. Mortified,
Minnesota Rev. JOS. Huber. College Point,
Long Island, N. Y. Hon. Danl. Ermcn-
trout, Reading, Pa. VIM. D. Bollinger,
NJ. d., Lancaster, Pa. Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Strobel, Lancaster, Pa. Miss Liz
zie Strobel, Lancaster, Pa. Miss Mary
Kaul (sister Of Father KauD Lancaster,
Pa. Mrs. II. Travers, Glassboro, N. Y;
Miss Warrick, Oil City, Pa. MIR. Michael
Powers, Danville, Pa.
RtHcE Null lClC NC" 1OIA bO Nv
this afternoon. The other Lancasterians
will leave on Thursday morning at 5
o'clock. The party 60 on the steamer
"Nehraska which sail Oh Thursday
afternoon.
A second excursion under the Yecker-
kaul management will sail from New
York on the 7th of July, in the steamship
Georgia. 1t is expected that number of
Lancasterians will be among the excur,
siOnists.
Maurice ID. Wickersham.
We recently noticed some serious
charges made in the New York Times
against Postmaster Maurice ID. Wicker
sham, Of Mobile, Ala. The following
dispatch from there indicates that
"Wicky" is Oh the war path:
"In proceedings before the criminal
court for the republication Of a libel once
published in a New York paper against
Col Wickersham, Judge McCarfOn to-day
sentenced DR.. OrSon L. Champion, as the
instigator, to S1O0 fine and one hours i'm
prisonment, and the editor of the Necs to
S. fine and one hours imprisonment. The
cases will be appealed by these gentlemen.
DIR. Champion was a prominent candidate
for Wickersllam's place as postmaster of
Mobile"
ST. ANTHONT's PAROCHIAL SCHOOL.