Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-05-14
THE RAILROAD TAX DECISION.

The decision Low given probably releases
the railroads from the payment of all up
PAD taxes since 1881. and if il were not
mat the Attorney-General had accepted the
| above named amount of money for which
he has been severely censured by Controller
Dunn and many Others, the State would
noI now be in position to recover one
dollar.-[Grass Valley Union.
Had the Delmas faction had their wav
the money Mr.. Marshall now holds for the
State would be in the hands of the railroad
companies. The leadership of that clique
OF the Democratic party has been conspic-
uous for Its failures. The only thing it has
succeeded in doing is to wipe out the
splendid Democratic majority of 1852 and
pile up Republican majority of about
equal proportions.-[San Francisco Call.
The net result of the long-protracted con-
test proves that we gave the State good
advice when We recommended that it
should take the money rendered by the
company as payment on account Con-
| uoller Dunn has gained nothing by his i'll
! advised obstinacy. The money which the
Attorney-General has so long held might
! just as well have been in the State Treasury
all this time, serving to pay debts.-TSan
Francisco Chronicle.
1t now remains for the Legislature of this
state TO frame system of taxation for rail
roads that will be acceptable to the rail
roads and at the same time fair to the peo-
| ple-that is, system which the people will
be satisfied with and which the corporation
! will not fight. We believe such a system
can be devised without much difficulty.
| provided the rattle-brained extremists on
both sides are allowed to have nothing to
do with the making of it-[Napa Re-
porter.
With the propriety of that decision no
! citizen who values public order will take
issue After ample argument, which en-
! listed on each side the best available legal
talent IN the country, the issue is settled
and lis settlement is all the more signifi-
cant because it is made upon local ques-
tons alone, and it points, therefore, to the
inutllity of local, legislative or administra-
tive acts which are in contravention of the
Democratic principles of equality.-[S
Francisco Alta.
The railroad decision amounts to dis
appointment and a rebuke of certain am
! bltlous lawyers who fail to get large fees
and lose the prestige they sought by insti-
eating an opposition TO the Attorney Cen
eral. Governor SLOVENIAN and those under
whose advice he acted will be the worst
sufferers. Stripped of technicalities and
freed from the glamour with which politi-
Clans invested the ISSUE there is involved
IN this decision nothing that harms the
State.-tSan Jose Mercury.
The case has its ludicrous side. Attorney
General Marshall has in his hands 81 POO
600 that the railroad turned over to him,
that being the face value of the taxes levied.
For accepting this he was read out of the
| Stockton Convention, and consequently re-
tired disguised from the contest. LAWYER
Delmas, with an eye to business and a fat
fee, took up the fight, and worked all the
points to win but the result was disaster.
and the read-out Attorney General has
been proven much wiser than the self
asserting Stockton Convention. Justice
Field has the laugh this time.-[Valleio
Chronicle
1t is very clear that Attorney General
Marshall was very wise in accepting the
amounts rendered by the railroad company.
or our State would have had a good pros
pect to wait for many years before settle
ment could have been compelled by the
law of the land. The Att0rney-G General
may well feel jubilant at the turn affairs
have taken for his actions were criticised
very severely, ard those opposed to him
are said To feel very much mortified The
action of the railroad company in this con-
test has been certainly liberal, for had they
not wished to pay the taxes, not one dollar
could have been collected up TO this time.
Oakland Times.