Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-09
How LAW IS EVADGD.
The Comptroller in Search Of Means
to Prevent the Escaps Of Property
From Taxation.
One Banks Deposits are Three Times
Larger Than the CASH on Hand Rem
dered by the Whole County.
Why State Superintendent Cooper Opposes
the Blair Bin-A Lasr Warning TO
Free GrRsssrs.
Special to the Gazette.

Special TO the Gazette.
AUSTIN, TEX, Feb. s.-A rumor here
that Colonel Abner Taylor of the Chicago
capital syndicate, Is to marry a young
Austin widow lady prominent 10 society
here, is emphaticslly denied by her
friends. She is at present visiting Hous-
ton.
Comptroller Mccall is casting shout
for means to prevent the escape of prop
erty from taxation all over the state. An
instance CT how taxable values escape
may be given. In a certain town in Cen
trail Texas the sworn statement
of a certain bank shows due
depositors $500 900, but the rolls of the
county in the ComptrolIer's office, here
shows the cash in hand rendered by the
whole county amounts to but $4,000
and this is ell the state gets any tax on.
The Comptroller says q prodigious
amount of property escapes tax
alton in this way, being sn
Injustice to . the poorer taxpayer.
In the instance above single bank
swesrs its deposits are three times larger
than the total cash on hand rendered oy
the people OF the whole county in which
there are several banks.
The charter OF the Cotton Patch
Bitters Company OF Terrell
WAS field here yesterday, capital SIS, 900;
incorporators, J. T. Walker, George W,
Clark, R. C. Dsnsby and Mrs. s. E.
Dansby.
The treasury deposits amounted to
$50 geo.
In an interview with Hon. O. II. Coo
per, State Superintendent Of Instruction,
that gentleman states that his principal
objection to the Blair educational bill is
that it would require increased
state tsxstion TO maintain the
schools st the present standard
Of fl ;iency. It would increase the state
school apportio lment by one.sixth, while
it would increase the scholastic age about
fl -eighths. 1t would be almost impos-
sible to secure the increase in taxation
and the effect would De to
impair the efficiency Of the
schools. He says; have no doubt that
the Blair bill, il it becomes law, would
BE the beginning of trs ess!t00ii rom
state c5ntrui to national control
of education. At least ten
years would be necessary to
complete the transition. During that
period our schools would be impaired by
sntsgonisms OF the dual system. The
national system, however admirable it
may be in Germany, is neither necessary
nor desirable in the United States"
State Land Commissioner Hall notified
the free grassers on the school aid uni
Versity lands in West Texas that If they
persisuin occupying them without leas-
ing from the state the penal
statutes will be vigorously enforced
against them. He has already given
them ample time to lease the lands and
will now test their power to DEFY the
authority Of the state.
The State Comptroller is after another
bank for discrepancy shown By It's s.ste-
ment to the Comptroller and that Of the
county assessor.
Martin Duvall, state agent, reports
from Auson his classification Of 2l5 sur
veys in Jones county, number of which
have reverted to the state for non-pay-
ment of interest. The land is described
as all sorts, with only q very few BHtered
tracts, about half and half agricultural
and grazing.