The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-07-16

devise means to attend 10 that form Of
taxation as well.
Assemblyman ]. Wahl Queen was next
contained in the Bal he Introduced last
session of the Legislature for the equal
ization of taxation.
Corporation Counsel Blair said the city
would furnish data Of the matters refer
red to in Mr.. Edwards presentment.
MI. HenFy ~ Condict, for the Board Of
Trade, WAS the next speaker. He COM
plirnented Mr.. Edwards for his brilliant
marshalling of facts and figures.
He repeated what Mr.. Edwards had
already pointed out, that the property of
railroad or private property should be as
sessed on equal terms and there should
be no more taking out of the tax levy
railroad property. Pointing to the assess
ments of railroad property Mr.. Condict
claimed that these companies were not
the property. should be taxed up to its
fun value. Out Of the $3a. 900. 900 of rail-
road property Jersey City bnsy gets
s926,o00 from them and the rest goes to
the State. If the railroad property thinks,
he said, thai they are taxed too highly
they should appeal to the State Board.
Mr.. Condict complained that every piece
of land taken out of the tax levy for
burden on the taxpayer. He jumped on
the local assessors, whom he said did not
do their duty.
VIVA would you advocate. their APP
~denburgh.
Mi. condict thought mat he would
prefer appointment. and If the assessor
did not do his duty fire him. Represent
ing the Board of Trade. he, Mr.. Con
dict, hoped the board would remedy these
evils of unequal taxation.
VIVA plan do 0 recommends" asked
General Russling, hut Mr.. Condicf had
no definite plan.
Mr., Joseph A. Dear told the Commits.
sloners that Jersey City, whilst increas
ing IN size, popularity and valuation has
not prospered. Thai is owing to the value
or land and the rate of taxation. A mum
Der or business enterprises in Mr.. Bears
experience had left Jersey City because
OF the high taxes. Since a great number
of years there has only been one large
place added. the Lorillards, to Jersey City
True, the city has been In some measure
to blame for the extraordinary taxation
IN Jersey City; but for many years the
government has been good and economi.
cal. and the city looks to the Board fol
relief. On the one hand, the city is highly
taxed, and on the other hand railroad pro.
perty Is not assessed at the same rate
as private property, or in the same pro
portion.
do you want the repeal of the act Of
1SS42' asked Commissioner ~yredenburgh.
amendment. We havs never asked that
wouldn't object e repeating the act. He
would prefer in a measure going back
TO the constitutional uniform rate
Mr.. Dear complained that the railroads
were not taxed enough. and cited the tax
of the New York Central Railroad
| which paid a sum equal to the whole
amount of railroads in the State.
of the Erie Railroad, a young man with
a neglige shirt and a neglige air, inter-
rupted Mr.. Dear, who, however, ignored
corporations in other States pay more
than those in New Jersey. The rail.
roads in the State, he said, paid only
valuation. New Jersey ought by the
very nature of things. to be the most
heavily taxed in railroad property, bur
said, should be taxed to its full value be.
cause of the peculiarities ef Its value. one
of which was contiguity.Z
All the statistics and other data were
for two weeks.