Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-05-03

TENDING IN the SJ3te senate Is DILL
intended to secure the return to the West
ern Union Telegraph Company of GER
tain sum of money collected by the state
as tax upon the companys property
DT. Norvin Green's statements before the
Senate Judiciary Committee, statements
which are not. we believe, disputed, make
it appear that this money does not proper
ly belong to the State. Under the law tax
ing corporations, the company was com
PEELED to pay taxes upon the whole of its
capital stock, instead of upon that pro-
portion which is represented by its pro-
perty held and used within this State
Subsequently the Legislature. recOgniZ-
ing the impropriety of taxing property
outside of its Jurisdiction, passed law
limiting such taxes in accordance with its
limited authOrity.-Ne5C York Tribune.
This is a matter that should not es-
cape the attention of our Legislative
committee, appointed at the last session
to examine and report upon the question
of taxation. In Ohio the agents of the
telegraph company are required to re-
port to the Auditors of counties simply
the business done at their respective of
fees, and upon that only the company
pays taxes. Capital stock of that COM
pany held in OHIO is not listed, nor are
the lines and instruments and other
property of the company.
The manner of appraising railroad
property is lame and impotent, and some
better method should be devised. This
is a matter, likewise, deserving the con-
siderate attention of the committee
Possibly the railroads might be able to
reach any one else chosen, as they do the
Auditors. The best remedy we can
think of in that respect is to make it
penal offense for any public officer to
accept a free pass over railroad. C0un-
ty Auditors in Ohio are well paid for
their services, and it is small business in
them to accept of anything SO small that
may have even the semblance of bribe
but they do it, nevertheless. Make it
cause for summary removal from office,
at all events. People pay them well, and
the railroads should not be permitted to
step between them and the public when
they assess railroad property.
Put An end to the dead-head business.
1t is degrading, look at it any way You
can.
OHIo's forty-six votes will be announced for
John sherman in the Chicago Convention with the
electrifying voice of Foraker until the Convention
comes TO him. While Ohio stands in solid phalanN
a break-away from Ohios candidate viii be inlpOS
Sibe.-DdytOn Journal
The editor of the Journal knows how
it was in the case of Hayes, when half the
delegates were Squirming to break the
unit rule, and were held to it hard and
solid to the end This is stronger dele
gation.-C Cincinlldti COmHegcidL-GGzette.
Yes; and the unit rule was knocked
out at Chicago four years afterward, and
it is safe to assert will never again be
tolerated in a Republican Convention.
1t will be the business of the delegates
from Ohio who meet at Chicago to Sc
lect spokesman, not of the Dayton and
Cincinnati editors, and that spokesman
will announce the vote as directed by
each individual delegate.
Careful readers of the Commercial Ga
zette have for long time believed its
apparent advocacy of the nomination of
Senator Sherman is not sincere. Ger
tainly, If it is, the lines quoted above are
very inOpportune and ill-advised. The
Senator is a splendid Presidential figure,
but no one knows better than the Gin
cinnati editors that the Republicans of
Ohio are not in temper to be bossed and
ridden over by Mr.. Foraker, nor any one
else.
Each Congress District will select its
own delegates. 1t is presumed they will
fairly represent the opinions of those who
choose them, and their votes must be so
recorded.