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Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-02-08
GROSS

OAsoS
Section l76 of the constitution pro-
vides that
Laws shall be passed taxing by uniform
rule all property according to its true value
in money. But the legislative as
sembly may, by law. provide for the pay
ment of a percentum of gross earnings of
railroad companies, to be paid in lieu of all
state, county, township and school taxes,
on property exclusively used in and about
the prosecution of the business of such
companies as common carriers. .
And whenever and so long as such law
providing Tor the payment of a percentum
ON earnings shall be in force that part OF
Section 17a of this article relating to as
Sessment of railroad property shall cease
to be in force.
Section l79 provides that
The franchise, roadway, roadbed, rails
and rolling stock OF all railroads operated
III this state shall be assessed by the state
board OF equalization at their actual value.
Since the adoption of this constitution
two laws have been passed providing for
the assessment Of railroads.
Chapter 134 laws of 1890 provides for
the assessment of railroads by requiring
the payment of gross earnings under Sec
ton 176 of the constitution. Chapter
l35 session laws 1890 provides for their
assessment by the state board of equali-
cation under section l79 of the constitu-
ton.
1t will be observed by a careful read
ing of section l76 of the constitution,
that while laws passed for the taxation
of railroads under that section, are in
force, section 179 of the constitution is
abrogated and of no effect.
The passage Of a law under section 179
might by implication repeal laws passed
under section l76 if passed subsequent
to b law passed under said section,
Both of these acts were approved on the
same day.
The constitution providing for unifor-
nifty IN taxation laws simply means that
the manner OF taxation of any particular
kind Of property must be uniform. All
railroad property mentioned in the con-
stltution is of one kind; must it not then
be assessed by one uniform system, and
not by two? Cattle and horses are one
kind OF property Give stock) and must
be assessed and taxed by uniform laws.
The question naturally suggests itself.
Gan we afford to take any chances on the
constitutionality oftwo separate systems
under our present financial conditions?
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-02-08

THE Pioneer Press, in giving an &C
count of the imported teacher hired in
Walsh county, and since escorted to the
international boundary line, with a re-
quest ito git" makes the almost unpar.
donable mistake of saying it was MI.
Cochrane. Nothing could be farther from
the truth. The governors private secre-
tary is an American from away back.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-02-08

SENATOR MCG1LL1vRAY and Represen-
tatlve Simpson, of the Stark county dis
trlot, have reason to be joyful and gay.
The county boundary bill has been ap-
proved by the governor. Hereafter this
district will be known as the "shoestring"
district. The county will have an ave.
rage width of fifty miles and it's length
will be 135 miles.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-02-08

IHE mean temperature for the month
of January at Bismarck, for twenty years,
has been 5 degrees above zero. This year
the mean temperature was l degree be-
low zero. The thermometer did not re.
glster below freezing during the month,
and on the l4th it registered 3S degrees
below zero.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-02-08

HE bill that has passed the lower
house of congress places North Dakota
on the same fee system of Montana,
Idaho and the coast states. Larger fees
have always been paid in these states for
services rendered by marsha g, district
attorneys and clerks Than are paid in
states east of the Mississippi.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-02-08

has yet been heard from the
Minnesota legislature in response to the
action of the North Dakota solons in
favor of fxin' railroad rates.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-02-08

SENATOR CHANDLER, having just been
given a new SIX years. lease of life, Is
quite frlsky. In an interview he tells
all about how it is proposed to rid the
United States senate OF both Martin
and Roach,
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-02-08

THE bondsmen of the ahscondine
South Dakota treasurer now want to
compromise by not paying the loss.
They set up in justification of this de-
sire a lack of vigilance on the part of the
public examiner and other state officials.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-02-08

IHE Hillsboro Herald intimates that
Hon. frederick johnson is likely to sue
ceed Colonel Robinson on the peniten-
tiary board.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-02-08

1T is a cold day when Wyoming gets
lett' eveh by South Dakota. Her treas
urer, however, got ava with only
$4,000.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-02-08

HE session Of the legislature is nearly
halt over. The important business is
we'll IN hand and the prospects for good,
wholesome legislation are good.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-02-08

SECRETARY FA1LEY, of the senate,
although busy and prompt in ~leeisla-
tive duties, finds time to write mighty
interesting letters to his paper, the
Globe, of Wahpeton.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-02-08
FOREIGN INTERFERENCE IN OUR
SCHOOLS.

1t may sometimes require stringent
measures to keep foreigners from inter
fering with our public schools as for in
stance IN Walsh county where Uncle
Sam was compelled to take a hand, but
it is better that it be done. No man
should be allowed to teach a public
school in this country who will not take
an oath to support the constitution of
the United States. By foreigners we
mean those persons who will not surren-
der allegiance to a foreign king, prince
or %potentate, and become citizens of this
country. America for Americans, and
an American is one who claims this as
his country either by birth or adoption.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-02-08

Of s4.ooo
Great Northern. 1,05l.2 $126 14s so
Northern racine. .......... Soy "a LOS, 1928 90
zoo 46o.36 55,843 ~
g NJ y e. la.2S .'7 7as 50 50
Total....."..""....... 2,5os1s 1901, o18 IS
Under the system of taxation of rail
roads now in vogue in this state the rail-
road companies paid for 1893 tax as fol-
lows:
Great Northern (gross earnings),...... $50, 1908 SO
300 ,lgrOss ea1nlngs) ..:..........:. 6.215 IA
=. M. d t. L (grJss earnings). ....... 1850 g.
northwestern (grusE ear ings)..... 1853 IS
Northern Pacific (mileage tax)........ 81, 437 -
$780, $50 rs
OF course the taxes of 1894, which are
paid in 1895, will AMOUNT to considerably
less than this sum on account of bust
ness depression, strikes, etc. It is safe
to saJ that upon the same rate of tax
alton on gross earnings and on mileage
the total tax for 1894 will not be more
than Sl65,O00. In other words, if the
present law is continued in force-that
is the gross earnings rate at 3 per cent
and the valuation of the Northern
Pacific at So 600 a mile for main line and
$4,000 a mile for branch lines, the rail-
road companies will payin 1896 for taxes
assessed this year about s165, 600.
This amount is not enough. Under a
gross earnings system the 500, the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & st. Paul and the
Northwestern pay an Insignificant sum-.
1t is therefore necessary to devise some
system of taxation that will exact from
all the companies an equitable and Just
amount.
If it is constitutional to have two sys.
TENS of taxation in vogue at the same
time, then the gross earnings law might
be amended so as to require the payment
of 4 per cent. on earnings Of both state
and interstate with the proviso that no
road shall take advantage of the gross
earnings system, unless the taxes it will
pay Hereunder will equal or exceed the
amount that would be paid on a valua-
ton of $4,000 a mile.
Under such a law the railroads of this
state would pay $301,O1S-86 divided
among the various companies as above
set forth in the table showing mileage
and amount Of tax each road would nav.
taxed as other property on a valuation
of $4,000 a mile.
If $4,000 a mile is considered too high
a rate for the standard, then the valua-
ton can be reduced, but in any event if
all the roads contemplate paying under
a gross earnings law, it is important that
some minimum figure he fixed below
which no corporation will be allowed to
pay.
With proviso as above mentioned and
rate of 4 per cent, or not less than 81. 0OO
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-02-08

In THE Grand Forks Plaindealer and
North Dakota Independent are to be
found various references to the peniten.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-02-08
The Bismarek TrihMne.
BY X. N. STEVENS.
THE DAILY TRIBUNE,

THE DAILY TRIBUNE,
Published every evening, except Sunday, at Bis,
uaGuk, Dakota, is delivered by carrier to all parts
Il he city at Is cents per week, or 81 per month.
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Daily three months, postage paid, 90
Daily six months, postage paid, 81
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WEEKLY TRIBUNE.
Hight pages, containing a summary of the news of
the week, both foreign and local pu hlished every
Friday, sent postage paid to any address, for one
yea ar g; six months, 81; three months, rs cents.
The advocate., 1895-10-30

count Of irksomeness, inability to perform
clerical work or other obstacles equally SS
grest, and they have been, removed for cause
or have been forced TO resign, and in other
cases whore old soldiers have been supplied
with extra duty, It is invariably the case that
they stand opposite one who is not an ex-
soldier and who always gets the major portion
Of the extra work to do.
This is followed by a number of reso-
lutiOns, of which the following are the
most pointed:
Resolved, That the action Of the present
Board is now, and has been throughout, an
insult to the ex-soldisrs Of the late war, be
they members Of the Grand Army Of the Re.
public or not
Resolved, That we characterize the statement
that the old soldiers indorse the present CON.
dition Of affairs ss utterly without Sounds-
ton, but on the other hand we believe IL our
duty to place our seVerest condemnation on
the proposition as well as the action Of the
Board.
The resolutions call on the Cover
nor to enforce the law and sec to It
that they get proper treatment.
This reminds the reader, no doubt,
Of the time when 1t was necessary for
the veterans to speak in unmistsksble
tones to Morrill, when he deserted the
fight for a service pension bill to take
up the dependent bill. 1t ought to be
humiliating spectacle to the veter-
ans to see a man whom they by their
votes have placed in responsible posi-
tions so careless and insttentive to
their welfare that it is necessary for
them to almost take up arms to get
fair treatment. 1t ought to convince
them fully that this ex-dispenser of
hsrdtsck has no use for them except
to work them for support on election
day.
The advocate., 1895-10-30
Sympathy for Ware.


At the meeting of the Womsn's Pro;
gressive Political League, held Oc-
tober %, the following resolutions were
adopted:
WHEREAS, Hon. Eugene Ware, in his attempt
in last Sundays Capital to defend his war
speech and "answer the Populist papers and
female suffrage women" (ss he terms thsm),
has decidedly proven by his resort to ridicule
to defend his position on so important . sub
ject as the war question that he Is standing
on Almsy foundation and is driven into very
narrow straits; therefore be II
RESOLVED, That the members Of the Wom9n's
Progressive Political League extend to him
our heartfelt sympathy in his sad dilemma
and advise him hereafter when addressing
High school pupils to hold out the olive
branch Of the peaceful poet rather than sound
the wild tocsin Of cruel war and that the Sec
retary be instructed to furnish the honorable
gentleman copy Of this resolution, duly
moistened with the imaginary tears falsely
reported to have been shed by the members OF
this body at Its last regular meeting.
The advocate., 1895-10-30
Old soldiers After Morrill,.

Morrill, has now got trouble on his
hands at Atchlson. 1t is not, however,
q prohibition fight. 1t is the old SOL
diers that are after him now. On Oc-
tober 2l E. G. johnson Post, No. 1856,
G, A. r., located at AtChison, passed
q series Of resolutions relating to the
treatment of the soldier received at
the hands of the administration. In
the preamble it is set forth that in
1885 law was passed by a Republican
Legislature providing that old soldiers
should be recognized in filling appoint
i've offices and that a Republican
Governor now has it in his power to en-
force the law by compelling the Atchi.
son Police Commissioners to abide by
it. The fifth section details the trouble
complained of and ip as follows:
WHEREAS. The said Board have, on all occa-
sions, in the matter Of appointment given
preference to only those whose influence IS
ward politicians would be likely TO be Of bene-
fit to the individuals composing the Board Of
Police Commissioners, some of the appointees
being cripples to that extent that they are
conveyed TO and from work at the public ex-
pense, and that whore old soldiers have ap-
piled for situations under the Board. with
one OK two exceptions the said Board has
studiously appolnled che said old noldisf ap.
''fsni, IS TnI t'ey an't ,1b 'il ~ Hn'
The advocate., 1895-10-30
PERSONAL.

j. H. Mshan, Of Abilene, Populist
candidate for Judge in that district,
was Topeka visitor Tuesday.
Ex-Attorney General John 7. Lit
tie, Of Olsthe, was in the city Thurs
day attending to legal business. He
feels quite confident over political con-
ditions in Johnson county.
John Madden. the well-knoWn and
successful attorney of Emporis, was in
the city Monday. Mr.. Madden feels
very much encouraged over the out
look for the ultimate success Of the
great fight in the interest of the COM
mon people.
The advocate., 1895-10-30

Wichita Beacon: "EVen Shawnee
county Republicans are afraid Of pub
lie sentiment, so they are threatening
the voters with free trade, the re-en-
Slavement Of the negro and the pay
ment of the rebel debt, if they defeat
Dave Burdge, the prohibition candi-
date for Sheriff"
The advocate., 1895-10-30

for 1892, after giving the present Re-
publican administration the benefit Of
all unusual or extraordinary expenses,
were 81, 1886. 81 less than those Of 1894.
That showing ought to convince every
taxpayer In that county that his inter
est will be best subserved by voting a
Populist ticket this fall.
Lawrence Journal (rep.): "Mr. In
gals announces bis candidacy for the
United States Senate, and promises to
run on Q free coinage plank Of 16 to /,
subject to the decision Of the Repub-
licsn national convention In other
words, Mr.. ingalls, Is for free coinage
according to the Populist platform,
but reserves his right to change his be-
lief without notice to his supporters In
case he finds that free coinage is not
so popular as he now thinks it to be-"
There are seven cities in Kansas hsV-
ing population over 10000, seventeen
over 5000, fifty over 1900 and ninety
Eve over 1000. In 1894 103 cities had
over 1000 people. st, Msrys gets into
the thousand list and Goodlsnd, Pleas
anton, Hays City, Frontensc, Phillips
burg, Enterprise, Osborne, Alma,
Russell and Norton drop ont. Argen-
tine shows the greatest increase, it
being 1,945, and Kansas City q decrease
of 1878, heading the list in that re-
spect.
Four years of Republican sdministra-
tion in Smith county cost the people on
the item of county printing $8, 1896. .05.
During four years of Populist admins
tration the same item Of expense
amounted to $6,457.6O, a balance in
favor of the Populists of $2,5S2.45, and
all this Notwithstanding the fact that
all the extra expense under the Austria
lian ballot law was incurred during the
four Populist years. There is not one
year in the four Republican years In
which the cost of printing was as low
as the highest Populist year.
J. Barnes, whom Governor Level
ling appointed on the Board of Direct
ors of the Penitentisry and whom
Governor Morrill, removed for purely
imaginary offenses, will be elected
County Clerk of Pratt county. Barnes
is a good fellow, a hard political
worker, and will make a good County
Clerk. AS Director of the Penitentisry
everybody, including Governor Morrill,
knows he was careful, faithful and
efficient officer. Pratt county people
always know what to do when thai
kind of men are nominated for office
The advocate., 1895-10-30

VIM water at Herington.
Every Populist exchange contains
nsOuraging reports Of political Condi-
pns,
Cherry trees were reported to be in
bloom In various parts Of the State last
week.
The Northeast Kansas Medical So.
elsty had a meeting at Whiting Octo-
ter ~.
Dr. Mabel Spencer has been sp-
pointed county physician of Riley
county.
The gold-bug crowd regard Calder.
head as an available candidate for
Senator.
The Topeka Capital says there are
tan joints running on Kansas avenue
III Topeka.
It Is said that work on the Hutchin-
a0n, Oklahoma & Gulf extension will
begin at once.
q. w. Mitchell, an insurance man,
has been appointed receiver Of the
Fort Scott bank,
The Atchison Champion believes
Chief Justice Martin will have $50, 1000
majority this fall.
The Little Arkansas is being stocked
with fish near Halstead by the State
s Fish Commissioner.
The Wichita Beacon wants the peo-
pls 70 quit putting corporation sttor-
neys In public positions.
Governor Morrill, has appointed dele
gates to the Travelling Mems Congress
Rt Atlanta November 1S.
j. w. Sponsble, Miami county
banker, offers to give 81, 900 to county
high school If the county viii do some
thing.
The Massachusetts Agricultural Col
laRe win make Secretary Coburn's re
port on alfalfa q textbook on tn,
subject.
The First National bank at yelling
Ton, capital $4,000, closed It's door
October ~. The deposits amount +
st 900.
The I.eavenworth Times says tina
ths boom for Morrill, for Vice Presl
dent Il the ''sorriest bosh ever perpe
tEated."
The Wichita Eagle observes that
u time the prohibition and whiBk
snks Of Kansas we're giving reason
sole people rest.
b. n. Carr, Of Leavenworth, wa
lsoked Lieutenant Grand Commando
M the Supreme Council of Scottish Rit
Nelson's at Washington.
Roy. Richard COrdley has written
oc.page history Of Lawrence. He
ia lifted for such work and the hil
Il doubtless sll right.
Ihe Goodland Military band, unde
\ sis leadership Of J. M. Jordan, wo
banner offered at the Denver Cal
WA Tor the best marching band.
II. Jewell county it costs SS55.S7
Ar less FOR county printing under
phlist administration than unde
yions Republican administration
x Secretary of State E. B. ALE
IA t1. dala,otion NJ Wichita hus
The advocate., 1895-10-30

list successor, ~. Mills, GREW ~1S0Sl'S4
during l894.5.
Last Friday was set apart as Com
memoration Day at the State UniVer-
sity and was devoted to the memory Of
Charles Robinson, Judge Thscher and
Prof. d. H. Robinson.
Banker Colesn, Of Fort Scott, has
been released on q $1,000 bond. He
has not been in confinement but was
constantly attended at his home, where
he lies sick, by deputy sheriff.
The cities Of Kansas having over TO-.
600 population, according to the 1895
census, are as follows: Kansas City,
4O,67S; Topeka, O,15l; Wichita, 20,84l;
Lesvenworth, 2O,822; Atchison, 1880;
Fort Scott, II, 1,lO8; Lawrence, 10,084.
The Girard World says that the aver
age declaration Of either old party con-
tains about as much principle as a
yellow-back dime novel, and calls the
Republican leaders of that county q
frszzled,out remnant of political fakirs.
There are thirteen linotypes In use
in Kansas. They are commonly known
as type-setting machines. Five are
used by the Capital, four by the State
Printing Office, two by the Wichita
Eagle and two by the Wichita Beacon.
Two patients escaped from the To.
peks Insane Asylum October 20. The
headlines In Republican papers an
nouncing the fact differ somewhat
from those run over similar announce
ments during the Populist regime
Atchison Champion, October 9, 1895:
"There is no longer an $4,000 Republi-
can majority in Kansas; nor is there a
$4,000 or a 5000 majority over united
opposition. Indeed, if things keep on
going as they are now, there will be nc
majority at all" +"
The redeemer Superintendent OF the
Topeka Asylum stlll holds his job not.
Withstanding the fact that he Sent
Gus Msuer's body home with his moss
Q broken, his neck broken and his eyes
blacked, accompanied by q certificate
;. of death from apoplexy.
8 The Glrard World says that there.sr,
o a good many Republicans in Crawford
county who will vote the Populis
4 ticket to slap the State administration
for its free rum, high license, bootleg
!. prohibition, tipping, teetOtal, half ant
half, joint and total abstinence polio!
= on the liquor question.
v In writing the following the edito
!. Of the Capital must have been think
ing of that unavailable Pitcher supple
ment: "Mr. Greer belongs to thai
class Of smsll.bore political shyster
: who gain what little prominence the.
= ever have in politics by doing the dirt.
work for larger scoundrels."
!. In CoWley county, when o. S. Glib
son tPopulist) was Sheriff in 1891, h,
received from the county In fees TO
the last quarter of that year 81, ,566.65
Il Skinner, the present Republican in
a cumbent, drew in the same quarter o
+ 1894, "a, ,SS2.20. Who says it don't pa,
to elect Popullst officersp
a Sumner county had $40, ,37S.66 in tn
a First National bank of Wellington
# which recently failed, The bank wa
The advocate., 1895-10-30

WANTED-People to get up clubs for
che Advocate Write ths once fpg
iaEpn
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1895-05-30
TABLE damask Towels and Nap
kins. All kinds of linen goods
you can get from us cheap.
MOORE Il RITTENHoUsE.
Lodging, Not BOARDING.

In ono of tho few letters that have
been preserved written by Luttrell
there arc some amusing lines which
may 5e thus explained. The letter
was written from Dropmore to Rog.
ers. Their, had been some joke be.
tween them about n stingy friend,
one of their coterie, and a Greek cpl.
gram appeared to illustrate his mis-.
erly characteristic. Luttrell had
translated the Greek, and, as he
says, 1.-The following is as close fit
as l can make it in English"
Cries -, i'll his closet, once spying mouse,
Pray, what business have you. little friend,
in my house,"
Says the mouse, with Il smile, to the lover of
boarding,
Don't be friGhtcncd it's lodging look for,
not boarding."
To which might be added in the
way of retort courteous:
Since that's all" replies -, "'twould be
hard 10 deny you.
You may lodge how You can, but to board ]
defy YOU"
Temple Bar.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1895-05-30
THE GRAND TOURNAMENT.

One of the special attractions
at the Fair will be the Grand
Tournament. New and novel in
its features. The Association
commends this attraction to the
young horsemen of the district
The control of the Tournament,
and its arrangement have been
reposed in H. 7. Bell, Esq, of the
" Greenbrier Clothing House.
who will devote his attention to
making it interesting, and will
furnish all necessary information
in regard to it. Sir knights, wo-
mans love you win by courage,
gallantry and deeds of valor."-
From the grand stand many a fair
and lovely Rowena and beautiful
and handsome Rebecca will watch
with joyful waiting the success of
her knight as his fiery charger
leaps from ring to ring. So, pre-
pare your lance and steed for the
coming contest. Two horsemen
at full speed at the same time
will be new and interesting.