The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-24
GIVEN NO BETTERMENTS.
TIE LEASE COMPANY ALLOWED
100000 FOR TAxzS.


Tho Commission Asserts That it Had
No Jurisdiction TO Determine the
Claim for $a7 .oe3 for Permanent
Fixtures The Finding Received
With Satisfaction at Atlanta.
ATLANTA, Ca, May 23.-The Western
and Atlantic claims commission adjourned
this evening as soon as its finding had been
announced. Gossip has been running rios
here since the commission reconvened, and
it turns out that the guess most generally
credited was an accurated one. The old
lease company gets nearly 100000 for
taxes paid since 1870. but no betterments.
There was quite q crowd assembled in the
Senate chamber when Chairman Hammond
announced the decision at o'clock. Il
was very bulky document, from which he
read, in compliance with the law.
BULKY PAPER
The commissioners had drawn up a very
full schedule of the reasons which prompted
them in deciding as they did on the various
points In the controversy. Twenty columns
In the MORNING NEWS would be required
TO print the entire paper. The chairman
didnot attempt 70 read it, but confined
himself TO the finding, which was as fol-
lows:
l. The commission has no Jurisdiction TO de-
termine upon the plaintiffs claim of SS7, 1908 60
for certain alleged permanent and valuable I'm
provements which could not DO removed from
the road founded solely upon an allegation thaD
the claim Is due In "aQulty aud good con-
scence, " because the resolution under which
this commission Is organized limits its jurisdc-
ton to legal rights only.
x. We ind against the plaintiffs claim fop
the value of the alleged improvements put upoud
the road by the plaintiff.
8. We find against the plaintiffs claim for
trade fixtures or the value thereof.
4. We find that the state did not buy from
the plaintiff any OF said improvements nor any
Of said so.called trade nxtureA
.. We nnd against the PLAINTIFFS claim for
money expended in completing the passenger
depot at Atlanta, Ga, by putting tracks, etc.,
therein and payements. etc. about the same.
o. We find and GdIudge that the state Of Geor.
taxes on the property Of Georgia IN Tennessee
paid by the plaintiff during 1879 and since Tbo
remainder Of the plaintiffs claim for taxes is
est on any part OF said taxes.
Z. We allowed out OF the counter claim, for
taxes paid by IL In 1890, Si95 6A to the state,
which being deducted from the amount pai6
by said plaintiff on this states property In
Tennessee Tor taxes there for 1879 and since lefp
due to the plaiutiff from defendant said amount
of S99, ga ". as above stated.
g. All other claims pro and con not In the
above seven items are disalowed.
WHAT THE GOVERNOR WILL DO.
The governor, whose approval of the
finding viii make this decislon final, as the
leesees have not the right Of appeal, is not
yet ready to furnish any intimaJion OF
what course he will pursue In the matter.
The general guess here is that he will in
dorse the report, and the impression seems
almost universal that the people generally
will be satisfied.
A member Of the Senate, who took quite
prominent stand against the passage OF
she act which delegated the solution Of the
claim question TO a commission, said this
afternoon that he considered it most hap
PLY disposed Of. He felt perfectly satisfied,
and had no doubt that tho people of the
whole state would share In this feeling OF
contentment. The lease companys claims
aggregate considerably over 81 100000.