Daily Republican., 1890-01-11
COLLECTOR NIKE VERY ANGRY
And the Republican IL Very Sorry
He should Get Angry.

The following local appeared in the
REpuBLfcAS last evening.
REV. s. Bantam 10 . very respectable
colored minister residing on the South
side, Second ward. He paid his tax and
got his receipt before the city election
last June aud voted upon it, By some
misfortune he lost his receipt, and yes
terday he took two cents. as required by
law, and went before Collector Mckee
and asked for duplicate receipt. laying
his two cents on MIR. McKee's desk. The
collector, instead OF complying with Mr..
Bautsm's request grew angry aud said
some very ungentlemanly things, wind.
ing up with a positive refusal 10 give the
duplicate asked for. Mr.. Bantam, glad
to escape the fury Of the traits man, lett
his two cents and the Office at the same
| time
The penalty for refusal to give du-
pllcste receipt when asked lot alter the
proiier OF two cents is 800"
This morning about 8 o'clock the tele-
phone of the REPUBLICAN, office rang,
and tile reporter who wrote the above
article Was called to answer lie soon
found thst there WAS a very mad man at
the other end. Mr.. Mckee went on to
say that the article was totally untrue,
and unless it was denied redress At law
would be imme 'iaiely sought. We re-
piled that the article had been written up
exactly as it had been given, only that
we hal looked up aud found the peualt y
for such violated law and had appended
that to ii. We further said that II we
found out that an Incorrect report had
been published we would gladly correct
| al. IN, NJ. "a. MRE a. -
office and get his statement of the affair
but he said We needn't come ior he would
not make any.
BY thls time there were two mad men
at the phone, one at each end. We init
mated that all the truth had not been
told, and no injustice had been done 10
Mr.. Mckee. and that II he would tie.i
people Willy aud honestly collect tbs
taxes nothing would be said anyhow
Mr.. Mckee accused us OF melting to Hot,
of getting a crowd To mob him, and a
great many other unreasonable things
which the REPUBLICAN never did. About
the last thing Mr.. Mckee said, however,
was TO take the lie we published back,
and alter telling him we would gladly do
so, and he needn't think he was going
TO scare anybody, the telephone wa:
CLOSED.
Ia order to do strict justice to Mr..
Mckee, we drew on our uvercoat aud
went over on the South side to interview
Mr. Bantam. lie was found III Public
School, No. -, of which he is jani:or
Asking him IN reference to the mstter he
gave the following statement. "ln June
asst paid my tax, got my receipt ald
voted ut the city election. But somehnr
, lost that receipt. went over to thl
Republican headquarters and asked there
what Ia do. As directed | went to u,
tax Office, saw Mr.. Mckee, laid two ceut,
down on his desk aud asked for ddpll.
cate receipt.
lie grew excited and said he conl not
help iae losing my receipt, no ha,i roih
, lug to do with that and then he went out
! OF the Office. remained there min
= ute or two and then lett the office Mr.
Mckee positively refused to give me 4
duplicate"
TN, is the exact statement that Mr.
| Bantam male. BY comparing 1t Will
tie Article published yesterday and re
produced 10 day, eur readers Will see
. that there is not much to take back.
! A Mr.. Mckee accused rs this morning
: Of publishing that the penalty was Si0
1 for refusing 10 give u duplicate when ap
a lIlEu wi, We give tut lbIlDNllP Iull lea
=. of The paragraph found On page -, Re
: vised Code:
And it shall be tie duty OF each col
lectar sioresail TO give duplicate receipt
fol Lis her or their TAX, 20 any person o
persons Whole tax has been paid AMI TO
each such duplicate receipt demanded
each such cole or shall 0u paid the SUI
OF two cents, - be pad by "a,
person ematdlng the s4me. an,
shall mark every such receipt with tn
wofl Duplicate, and If any such col
/ hector shall wiiully fail to give sucl
duplicate pit upon tie tender 10 lin
u two cents, us aforesaid, he shall upo
! conviction thereof, by Indictment, b.
fined one tftInir 4 dollsr.,
:; This IL the Law as found in the digest
Ne DO not see whefe We have auythinl
{ To take back iOr saying that MIR Neke
wss isble 10 tine OF fiuo We 40 10
Waat TO 10 Mr.. Nj ke, any lutustir
Whatever. our only lcs.gn lie TO publi.l
r. facts as they take place.
The whole thing is coinptchendel ia
lew words. Did Mr. Mckee refuse
, duplicate to Mr. bantam The latte
says he did. That we published, |
+ there anything wong about thai The
Is we published the penalty for refusal t
give DUPLICATE. The penalty is Si0C
We Published that. Is there anytll IA
m sroag about that 1t tie krrlHIIcA
u has published ANYTHING incorrect 81 u,
~ true IN this whole matter We beg tho
v sand Ia,deus from Mr.. Mckee