Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1893-12-01
M Extra Session Wanted

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demand that a stay law be enacted,
whereby execution can be stayed until
next fall, and that law extending the
time for the collection of takes, be also
enacted, would pause, stop long enough
to think, they would soon be convinced
that there is no necessity so pressing as
to entail the needless expense OF an ex-
ira session, unless it would be to pro-
vide some patriotic republican with
seat at the public crib and a senatorial
title, says the Pennington Journal.
By the revenue act Of 1898, taxes are
due January l, and become delinquent
April l following, when 5 per cent. pen
atty is added, and the total amount
thereafter bears interest at the usurlous
rate of 20 per cent. per annum
Personal property taxes, including
penalty and interest, are payable on de-
mand to the county treasurer, In the
month of April, in the same year follow
ing the date of delinquency the county
treasurer shall publish an advertisement
describing the property in which such
taxes are delinquent and giving notice
that he will apply to the superior court
of his county on the second Monday of
May next succeeding for a judgment
against said property for said taxes,
penalties, interest and costs, and for an
order to sell the same.
Now, first, taxes are due January l In
each year, and become delinquent April
l, thereby giving the taxpayer three
months in which to liquidate them; and
If he cannot meet the demand then, he
has until the second Monday in May OF
the year following-or more than thlr-
teen months after dellnquency-in which
to pay the taxes and added penalties on
his real estate, before judgment can be
had against his property and the same
sold.
Personal taxes become immediately
due after April |, and it is compulsory
on the treasurer to collect them; but,
even then, there is no great hardship
inflicted, for the taxpayer has three
months in which to pay them. II he
owns real estate he is allowed to pay his
personal tax and the state gives him
thirteen months after delinquency in
which to pay the tax against his real
property.
The demand for stay law applicable
to all obligations OF the people is equally
absurd,
Section Alb Of Volume 2, Hills code,
upon the defendant giving a bond in
double the amount Of the judgment and
costs, conditioned for the payment of
the Judgment and costs, *ltMtwo good
and sufficient sureties on said bond, to
be approved by the clerk of the court,
provides as follows:
Sec. 437. Stay of execution shall be
allowed on judgments rendered in the
supreme and superior courts as follows:
In the supreme court;
l. On all sums over $500, thirty
days.
.. On all sums over $500 and under
l,500, sixty days.
On Judgments rendered in the super
Tor court:
l. On all sums under $500, two
months.
2. On all sums over $500 and under
$1,000 five months.
3. On all sums over $1,000, six
months.
If debtor is sued by a creditor,
iudgm emit cannot, under any circum-
| stances, be rendered against him under
twenty days; even if he we're not to APP
pear and Judgment were taken against
him, he could, by giving bond as above,
stay execution from three to seven
months.
And again, by the act of 1898, judg-
ments can only draw interest at the
legal rate of s per cent. per annun.
The great trouble is that people get
frightened and lose their heads, when
little common sense would show them
the way out of their difficulties And in
case they are in doubt as to their rights
they should go to some reliable attor-
ney who can give them the desired in
formation. Taking the worst possible
view of the situation, there is nothing to
warrant an extra session Of the legisla-
ture unless it be the doubtful need of
second senator at Washington to draw
the salary that John b, Allen failed to
get