Morning journal and courier., 1882-11-28
EDITORIAL NOTES.

When Mr.. Seward paid $1,000, 900 for
Alaska there was great cutlery about the
waste of money, yet the government has al
ready received from the Alaska Fur company
revenues exceeding $40, 900, 900 and will get
all of 100000 more by the time the con-
tract with that company expires.
1t has been announced that Mr.. Blaine is
not In the field as candidate for the Repub.
l1can Presidential nomination in 1884 but
some of his friends in Pennsylvania are TAX
ing measures to bring forward his name. A
club has been formed in Philadelphia and its
membership numbers already $50. Other
clubs are to be started in the city and State.
In time past New Haven has been agitated
by questions of ''overshadowing import
ance," but it has managed to survive their
discussion and settlement. It is now doomed
to struggle with what appears to some to be
the most difficult and weighty problem of
this or any other age, namely, the State
House problem It is to be hoped that the
combined intellect of the city will not give
way under the awful strain.
When the Pope comes in contact with the
law of Italy he finds that it is no respecter of
persons. The tenants on certain estate in
Italy refused to pay taxes recently; where
upon execution was issued against the prop
erty, and the owner notified The owner
was the Pope himself, and one day he re-
celved formal notice beginning, ''To Citi-
zen Joachim Pecci, by trade or profession.
Pope; conducting business (also residing) at
the vatican palace, Rome" His holiness
paid the taxes, and in due time receipt was
returned, beginning Received of Citizen
Joachim Pecci"
Some of the Vermont legislators are dis
posed to ''pitch into" railroads vigorously
One bill which has been introduced provides
for taxing the railroads of the State about
$15O,0OO. Another prohibits a company
from charging freight rate from station to
station which is greater per ton per mile
than that charged from the same original
station to any other in the Same direction
Another calls for the creation of a
triple-headed board which shall regulate the
rate for freight and passengers. Another
provides that twenty or more freeholders
wanting railroad connections and facilities
may petition the Supreme court to compel
companies to provide it in the same way as
one railroad may now cite another for that
purpose. Still another requires companies
to redeem tickets when not used by the pur-
chaser, he being restricted from disposing of
them except by presentation for redemption
at the comPany's Office.
The proposition of the Pennsylvania board
of revenue commissioners to nearly quad
ripple the valuation of Philadelphia property
subject to the State taxation of four mills ON
the dollar is explained by the assertion that
it has been the rule in that State for a large
class to pay nothing, or only a small sum, as
taxes On money loaned, and on carriages and
watches, while furniture has been returned
at fraction of its market value. Less than
fourteen thousand Watches gold and silver
are returned from the whole city, when
single wards have at least that number. The
present State taxation in Philadelphia on the
articles above mentioned is about two hun
bred and fourteen thousand dollars. Under
the new valuation the tax on the same arti-
cles will be nearly eight hundred and thirty
five thousand dollars The State board of
commissioners is composed of the secretary,
the treasurer and the auditor general and
these officials have simply decided that the
burdens of taxation shall be borne equally,
SO far as they can impose them.
The King of Corea having come to the con-
clusion that he has bean q had r,,lar Y,,a Ra0