Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-07-09

Office | am perfectly satisfied to make a
balancing concession to the county. All
! ask for IS fair proportionste rate of
pay"
The question was deferred until next
meeting.
| Members allowances were passed as
follows;
|. N. Grubb.. ..........4 40 4i3 $l73.5S
Samuel killgore.. 3i2 1872
| raul Glllis......s.....B4 63S 229. 9S
X. q. buckingham. 40 643 1858
Andrew Eliason....... 1l75 22O.50
James II. Clark.......5 1923 229.3s
u. Hutchinson. go 1853 276.4S
| r. Simpler. ...........73 1877 30t. "A
J. W. Jolls............6l 1901 273.56
Messrs. Hickman and Sutton's ac-
counts were not sent IN.
The chairman of the finance commit
tee, John w. Jolls, requests all persons
who hold bills against the county for
| rent of rooms al the election of May
18th to send in their bills giving the
location, &c. The court is DESTROYS of
making lump appropriation for the AZ
precincts instead of paying each item
separately.
Adjournment was made until to-day.
The levy court has instructed its
| counsel, r. G. Bradford, to appear be-
fore Chancellor Salisbury at Dover to-
morrow and answer to the injunction
| issued restraining the court from plac-
ing tue names of the now famous 1000
poll taxables upon the tax lists of the
present year. Whether the counsel
Will resist the rule to show cause why
the injunction should not be made per
petual is not yet known, but the facts
Of the case are so plain and the partisan
object of the move SO apparent, that it
is doubtful if the Republican members
Of the court, through their attorney,
will have the eifrontery 10 attempt to
beat down the legal barrier that has
been interposed against their villainous
scheme of political rascality.
now THEY FELL INTO A TRAP.
Nothing could more fully reveal the
real intent of the Republican members
Of the court, or more completely expose
the hollow insincerity Of their claim
that the only object in striving to place
these 1000 names on the tax lists is to
secure money for the county, than the
eagerness and unanimity with which
they voted, Tuesday, for the following
| preamble and resolution, offered by Mr..
Sutton, a Democratic member:
| WHEREAS, II is alleged and currently re-
| ported that certain collectors Of taxes here
| tofore appointed have collected from yari-
GUS taSables Of this county large sum of
money and have unlawfully withheld and
| retained the same and appropriated it to
| their own use, and
WHEREAS, No subsequent action OF said
collectors can absolve them from their
obligations in paying to the county any
money unlawfully withheld by them and
| due the county therefore, be it
hesof.ed, That committee of five be APP
pointed to investigate said charges and
proceed without delay to take such action
as shall be necessary to recover from said
collectors all money by them collected
and unlawfully and fraudulently retained
Not Republican member of the
court voted In the negative when the
question was put 70 that body, and
yet their acqulcscence in the assertions
made in the preamble and resolutions
places them In most ridiculous atti-
tude of ignorance and inconsistency,
The preamble, 1t will be noticed, states
that ut is alleged and currently re.
ported that taxes have been collected
and withheld from the county; that "no
absolve them from their obligations in
paying to the county any money I'm
lawfully withheld by them;" and finally,
the resolution provides for Q committee
TO Investigate said charges" and take
whatever steps may be necessary to re-
cover any money unlawfully held by
the collectors.
Such were the declarations gravely
| Nd AT \ 49,. Al. -
the levy court Tuesday, and yet the
Republicans who constitute the majority
Of that body, until they were halted BY
an injunction issued by the chancellor,
We're assuming that what they now
designate as ALLEGATIONS" and "current
reports" were actual facts, and had
started upon the work Of restoring to
the lists the names Of those men whose
taxes, they now declare sit is alleged
and currently reportedn were not paid
over to the county. They also officially
declare that mo subsequent action Of
said collectors" can absolye them from
their liability, while only week ago il
was vociferously insisted that only by
rushing these names upon the assess
ment could the collectors be made
legally responsible for the taxes in
volved. And finally, these virtuous and
patriotic officials appointed acommittee
to investigate" certain ALLEGATIONS and
charges" which, up to Monday last,
they had accepted as solemn facts, and
were engaged in applying their own
idea OF the remedy, by padding the as
sessment with the names in dispute,
until the chancellor's injunction put
stop to the unlawful proceedings.
1t might as well be admitted that the
real object and intent Of the preamble
and resolution offered by Mr.. Sutton
was to lead the Republican members
into trap, and the gudgeons swallowed
the bait with the utmost avidity. They
have, therefore, by their own act, belied
their former assertions, admitted the in
defensible nature of their previous posi-
ton, and declared that the premises
upon which they justified their bold
and illegal attempt TO ''monkeyn with
the assessment list were only 'allega-
tions" and current reports" which they
now agree to investigate by commit
tee of the court.
Such an instance of ignorance and
stupid inconsistency is unparalleled in
this community. 1t is enough to tickle
the risibilities and excite the contempt
Of blind street car mule.
WHAT THE SCHEME INVOLVED.
Stripped Of all its pretexts, plausible
and otherwise, this levy court move to
manipulate the tax duplicates for
partisan advantage stands forth as one
Of the most outrageous attempts at
political robbery every known in this
State. Il was simply scheme to
qualify between 5000 and 1000 illegal
Rpnnhlican Yntes for the o1irnnsa 80