The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-05-25

What the Governor and Others Have TO
Say OF the Situation.


Say OF the Situation.
An ISrELLIoEScER reporter met Governor
Jackson yesterday and asked him what the
Board Of Equalization was doing. He re-
piled that 1t was doing nothing; thst II had
been in session during the morning listening
to some speeches and arguments from the
visiting statesmen from Kanawha county.
"Governor," queried the man OF news, the
Board OF Public Works sitting as Board oil
Equalization raises the valuation OF one
county, say so per cent. the value OF another
IS and that OF another 70 and so on, and re.
duces the valuation OF 4 county here and
there for the purpose OF establishing fair
and equitable valuation all over the State
doeSentitH ....
"Yes SIR"
"Well, now, having done that, how can the
Board, after listening, say to the arguments
of the Kanawha gentlemen, reduce that coun.
TVS valuation having in the first place raised
It and be fair to the other counties OF the
Btate?'
"say that Kauawha county was assessed at
"a OCO,OOO and the Board thinking that too
low added 5, TO- Is or 20 per cent, and Ohio
county assessed at SIC, 1000, 900 was decided to
be too high and was reduced. The Kanawha
people believing an injustice TO be done them
BY this, avail themselves Of the opportunity
we otter, to come here aud present testimony
10 show that Kanawha should not be raised. :"
.'That would do we'll enough 10 case where
the Board had not definitely fixed the yalua.
tion,n continued the reporter, "but how In Q
case like Lewis county, where the Board fixed
the increase at so per cent; how could that be
reduced"
"In Lewis county they were notified that
the Board intended to increase the aggregate
valuation so per cent, and asked what they
had to cay about It, and by Joye they've had
heap to say"
40 understand you to say, Governor, that
the valuation Increase OF 80 per cent was
not definitely settled on In Lewis county or
In any OF the other countiet?"
None have been definitely settled as yet, -"
and His Excellency passed on.
State Superintendent Butcher returned
from Grafton Wednesday morning. where he
has been attending Peabody Institute, and
wss present at the session OF tha Board. Ia
conversation with him the question was also
asked, how the Board. having fixed an 10.
creise OF valuation 10 q county. could with
justice AID fairness to the other counties re-
luce It. His reply was, that the
was liable to make errors, and hsv-
ing made them, should correct them.
Surprising case, be raid: Now here Is coun-
" whose aggregate valuation is returned at
81 900, 900. An adj Iining county Is returned
at 81 600 900. The Board with It's knowledge
Of the Stale decides that the hrst couniy's
lands are fully as valuable as those Of the
secot d, and it raises the valuation so as to put
It's acres on a level with No. Now third
county adjoins these two and 1t ~ also re-
turned low. The Board raises II, and the peo.
pie from No. come In and offer testimony
10 show that they are still In the woods aud
that their lands are unimproved. Now In
that case the Board should reduce the yalua-
lion II had made, should II noi?