Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1886-05-20

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making the supposed assessment " said
roadway Of defendant, did knowingly
and designedly include in the valuation
of said roadway the value Of fences
erected upon said roadway and the land
OF coterminOus proprietors. Said fences
we're valued at $500 per mile.
There is considerable doubt as to
whether there WAS any positive testi
mony adduced before the court substan.
tiating the truth Of this finding. /
learn that Warren Dutton aud James L.
King, two Of the members of the Board
OF Equalization Mt that time, mere Of The
opinion that the values Of fences were
included in estimating the assessment to
the roadway; and that Moses Drew, also
a member before he became United
States Marshal. was called in and said
he thought tue fences were included. 1u
the official records of the proceedings OF
the Board not a word occurs about in-
GLIDING fences in the assessment. How
ever that may be, the party capital the
Republicans are now trying to make ON
account of this discussion assumes Il
very 1imsy character when the fact is
stated that the decision has gone against
the State because a Republican Board
Of Equalization transcribed the author
ity OF the Constitution and made an as
sessment which was not authorized by
the terms OF that instrument or any law
on the statute book The decision,
however, only affects the taxes of 1881
and 1882. for since the Democrats came
into power the value of fences has not
been included in the assessment. In
this respect the present State Board OF
Equalization have adhered to the time.
hOnored doctrine OF the Democratic
party, strict construction oil the Constl-
tuition,
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own eboosinvl Hut / cannot rcDress nv
astonishment ut the timidity ct the Su-
preme Court as evidenced by this decis'
ION. They had before them findings
upon all the high constitutional points
raised by the railroads in this case.
Their dscision upon these points would
have settled principles and given rest to
the disturbing controversies that have
grown up under the novel features OF
taxation provided for in the new Consti.
tuition in dealing with railroad corpora
tons. Inste.d of doing this they have
CROPPED around for some excuse to avoid
giving a manly decision upon a great
principle in which not only this State
but the whole country is deeply inter
ested, aud settled the momentous tact
that an assessment not authorized by
the State Constitution is invalid We
can say this much for Justice Field;
that when he rendered his decision as
Judge oil the Circuit Court for this dis
trict he took the bull squarely by the
horns and decided that there could not
be one mode OF assessment and taxation
for railroad property and another for
other property, Notwithstanding the
State Constitution.
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=, pi'"e % pa~n%,;nan sorrrcss Iaroelv
aa,'',,..od - th, samc nombsrs who had
enacted the law. indirectly confessed
two years later that it could not be main.
tanned. Regarded only in the light OF
expedienuy at the time, it could readily
be demonstrated las was afterwards adj
mitted by candid men among those who
supported III to be blunder, "A blunder
ali the more censurable because the act
was not needed to uphold the rsconstruc,
ton policy of Congress, in aid of which it
was devised. That policy relied for its
vindioation upon the Judgment and con-
science of the loyal people, and it was an
imneacbment of their GOOD faith to say
that either could he affected by the re.
moval of one man. or Of many men, from
ofl;cial nosition under the Federal gov
ernmeni The reconstruction policy
stood mon a strong and enduring prin.
cinle-as strong and enduring as the
onestion of human right-and was sus-
famed with yipor and enthusiasm by the
creat marty which was responsible for
9he var goasnres that had saved the
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