Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-01-12
Difficulty Of Deviising
Laws to Suit EV:
erybody.
Tax Reformels Make Con-
vertS.
Representative Buffalo Business
Men Interested.
A Worker I'm Buffalo.

A Worker I'm Buffalo.
The idea seems to be gaining ground
exist in the present tax laws of the
stase of New York are matter of seri-
Gus import The operation of law
providing for the taxation Of corpora
lions has driven many New York manu-
factories out of the state. some Of which
have transferred their business to the
stats of New Jersey. Many of the
more recent New York corporations
have Incorporated under the more
friendly laws of Pennsylvania. Vir-
ginia, West Virginia and other state2
Under resolution Of the last legisla-
ture Senators McClelland, Ahearn and
Coggeshan and Assemblymen Quigley,
Guenther, Cassin, Stranahan and Gif-
ford were appointed q commission to
examine into the present tax laws and
report to the next legislature either
proposed new laws or notifications of
existing statutes to equalize the bur
dens of taxation.
Under the laws Of 1892, Hon. j. New
ton Fiero, president of the state bar
association, and Prot. Charles A. Collin,
of Cornell university law school were
appointed counsel to investigate the
tax laws of this and other states and
report to the next legislature with rec
concentrations for the improvement of
the tax laws. They have been busily
engaged in their work during the vaca-
ton season. The commission will meet
as soon as election is over and PROPOSE
tions for the remedy of existing tax
laws will be submitted. The commits
sion will give hearings on various prop
ositions before drafting the bills All
this is the result of the work of the
New York Tax Reform association.
It may appear somewhat strange that
Mr.. George, the famous writer and adj
vocate of a single tax on land values,
has received and accepted an invitation
from the National Real Estate associa-
ton, to deliver an address before the
second congress of that body in Music
Hall, October 5. Mr.. George will GER
tainly run counter to ideas which can
not be expected to give way upon one
assault
Few people have time or opportunity
to keep track of the ''tax reform bills
that are introduced in the legislature
at each session. At the last session the
compromise Listing Bilr'-Assembly
bill No. 56-which was designed to make
the taxation of personal property effect
i've, was introduced by country menu
Der. The provisions of this bill at once
aroused a storm of indignation, and the
New York Tax Reform association COM
batted it The Brooklyn Review and
Record of February Is, 1892, and other
prominent papers published leading ed
itorials denouncing the bill as linguistic
rial and promotive of perjury.
The Compromise Listing bill failed of
passage. but the New York Tax Reform
association expects that another at
tempt will be made to pass that or
similar measure, and is prepared to
fight such attempts The officers of the
are: Bolton Hall, secre-
tary; and John Claflin, the. great
dry goods merchant. treasurer. The
way. In the list of about thirty names
of wellknown individuals and firms
that are supporters of the association,
among many others. are found Cooper,
Hewitt & Co, Dood. Mead & Co, F. Il.
Thurber, George A. Scott, formerly
president of the real estate exchange,
George r. Read, now president of the
real estate exchange, e. 81. L. Town
send, Spencer Aldrich, Henry A. Huri
but, Henry E. Rowland, Smith Ely,
William Steinway. Thomas g. Shear
man and Hugh N. Camp. The platform
of the association is well known: liter
allure will be sent to those applying to
the secretary.
The association is not content with
fighting what it deems bad legislation
when it comes up, but is busily engaged
In the interior counties of the state. It
Is making proselytes to its faith and
setting farmers and business men think
ing over the proper solution of the
question of just and equitable taxation.
..Who Pays Your Taxes?" by David A.
Wells. George II. Andrews, Thomas G.
Julien +. Davies, Bolton
Hall and others. Opposite the title
page is q cut representing several men
engaged in boring into the limbs Of .
maple tree and hanging buckets to
catch the sap therefrom, although the
trunk of the tree has been tapped near
The ground. The sap obtained from the
Tree is revenue. The trunk Is real
estate" The limbs are called ''wages,'
polls" personal property" '.in-
comes" mortgages, business capt.
tai" and two particularly large
branches are production" and manu-
lectures"