Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-10-21
UNEQUAL Taxation.

New YORK, October 2)th.-The Investigating
Committee of the State Senate to-day looked up
the subject of taxation in this ciy. President
Coleman of the Department of Taxes and AS
sessments testified that he had no,doubt that
there was from Sf0O 900 900 to IS 0000, ODD worth
of goods in this city below Grand street which
were protected by the police ana enjoyed an ~
goods for SALE Some of these goods were man.
ufactured here and some imported. but none OF
which cou d be reached for the purpose OF tax
alton. Rich people succeed in evading the tax
alton of personal property and the poor people
pay the face value, as a rule. The same applies
to the rich banks. Chemical bank stock. worth
$1,000 per share. is ASSESSED at 81 100, while the
stock of the smaller uptown banks is assessed
at its face value.
Monument Funds.
New YORK, October 20th-The Euening Posi-
reviews the status OF the various funds here for
which the public has been asked to contribute
and finds that The total contributions TO the
Grant fund in five years have amounted to Sl42.-
1877 cash. The other subscriptions are 81, 0OO
for the Washington memorial arch, 81 500 for
the Audubon monument, So GOO for the Peter
Cooper monument. Sl1 900 for the Greeley mon
ument and SIS. 600 for the Free Circulating Ii
brary iund. All these funds were started in
the last ten years. Only one has b en- COM
pleted, that for the Cooper monument, The
Grant monument fund. SO far as the actual cash
receipts are concerned, is still over 100000.
Hennessy's Murderers.
NEW ORLEANS, October Goth Tony Matranga
and Vincento Carruso, arrested a few days ago
and released, were arrested again to day and
committed to the parish prison. charged with
being accessories to the assassination OF Chief OF
Police Hennessy. From what can be learned
there is hardly any doubt but that the five men
who committed the crime and the yilla1nous
brains that gave birth to the foul pot are among
those now 1 jail One or two more of the con-
spirators are still at large, but it is only q
question OF time before they too will be oehiud
the bars. and it is safe to say when the trial
comes up the police will be able to produce
sufficient information TO send the entire gang to
the gallows.
The forty Italians arrested...last night have
been released, it having been shown that they
came south to work on plantations.
Frederick Billings Bequests.
RUTLAND. October 20th.-The will of the late
Hon Frederick Billings of Woodstock makes
these bequests: Oliver P. Chandler of Wood
stock, $1,000 for every year of his life; George
w. Granniss of San Francisco, $4,000; Samuel
E. Kliner of New York, s5 900: Rev. Br. Henry
Van Dycke of New York. 81, 500; Mathew H
| Buckham, President of the University of Yer
mont 81 ,0o0; Edward Barstow of Oakland. Cal.
| 81 coo; the Congregational Church in Wood
stock and to the American Board for Foreign
Missions. $4,000 each; the Vermont Domesti'
| Missionary Society and American Home Mis-
sionary Association $4,000 each. Liberal be
quests are made to his brothers and sisters ant
| other members of his family.
Ohio Legislature.
COLUMBUS (Ohio), october 20th.-The lowe
branch OF the Legislature reconvened this aftel