St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-01
AMOUNTS COLLECTED ;
each year is given to show how tie
amounts increased as additional exa,
tensions wara Ia i'll. III
Total
$685.. 81

Deducting the total amount re-
funded, $2,146.22, leaves $685., 45O.69
me grand total of frontage tax
collected and to be collected-includ-
ing arrears of $49,107.63 - on mains
lald up to Dec. /, 1894, is 1854, 917.O4.
I. In case the bill, which has lust
passed the senate, providing that the
frontage tax on all property shall
be abolished after it has paid the tax
for ten years, becomes a. law. then
the estimate of the amount
to be collected on all the mains Ibid
up TO the present time, on the ten
year basis, is $3.50, $50. Sc. ADDING This
amount to the foregoing sum: SSH
9I'.of' gives grand total collected and
estimated to be collected on ton
Year basis of 81, 405, S67. go
AS before stated, the total COS. of
all the mains laid amounts to 50 OPT
of.of mus IL Will be seen that. even
IN ten years from now the fronta or,
.aA WIN not nave yielded over 20 per
cent Oh the cost of the mains already
laid. Ne'Ay
me following statement will indi-
cate the number Of miles of pipe.
when VIII drop out each year. in case
tue teh-year basis is adopted.
forty-four miles, which have Welded
d TAX Tor ten years, will cease doinp
lows: ds Aol-
zo1s miles in one year
lo12 miles in two years
2o12 miles il three wears
Io72 miles IN four years.
50 miles in five years.
Eozs miles in six years.
ol2 miles in seven years
II miles in eight years.
miles in nine years.
ooJect OF the ten year bill is +o
eqoailze this matter of the fron+oo
tax. III is commended by the sunno,.t0
CHS Oh the measure that to ahoIisI, 49,
trontase tax at once would he maui
iesly unfair to those citizens L.
nave neen paying the tax for eisbt
Hiiie' ten and even eleven vaI-
moreover, the water rates ten "a
we've years ago were much biobar
man they are now. Secretary C1u1'
heio furnishes the following exaunIe
as far Illustration of H.
successive reductions that have baen,
Hiaoe IN, the water rates since 1000
"hen the city purchased the wa Tar
works 'eti
Inc case is that of a seven room,
mouse with one bath, one closet ana.
one Washbasin. The rate from h,,er
H. lSS2, to Oct. 10, 1885. was s9n %
year. From Oct. 10, 1885. to March q
1885, 1t was S14 year. Then II -
reduced to $1,000 year, and remained
so until April 6. 1889, when it was aola in.
reduced 20 $3.50. Meter and otba, ,Jt TO-
were also reduced in the same H.
portion
Two representative and pioneer Gift
Zens, Judge John b. Sanborn. and ev-
Gov. Ramsey, were seen Yesterday
ana asked to express their opinions of
the water frontage tax and the hin
relating to it,
GEN. sANBORN's OPINION
Judge Sanborn felt convinced tba+
the community would have to do again
as 1t did in the years of depression fol-
lowing the panic of 1857. Alexander
Ramsey, then governor, was among
the first to propose reduction in tba
salaries of the state officials. and he
emphasized his position by RECON-
mending that his own salary be re-
duced fifty per cent Afterwards as
mayor of the city, Governor RAMSEY
made similar suggestion and Sc
cured 2, similar economy in the public
service.
Il favor the BILL" said Judge San
born, that is now before the legis-
lature, II that is all our delegation