The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1898-08-25

OF the state attached, shall be FIVE dol
lars, payable TO the Secretary of State.
for the use of the state. upon application
therefor
There shall be no folio charge for re-
cording articles of Incorporation, or tor
fees herein prescribed covering all charges
for filing and recording articles of incor.
poration, Issuing a certificate thereof. and
same: Provided. however, That where the
articles to be recorded. or copied or ceru-
fed to, shall exceed twenty folios. there
shall be a further charge OF fifteen cents
per folio for all such excess.
Every corporation incorporated under
the laws Of this state, and every foreign
poration on file in the office OF the Secre-
tary of State shall, on or before the first
70 the Secretary of State, for the use of
the state. the following license fees. Ev-
cry corporation having a, capital stock
$40. Every corporation failing to pay the
said annual license fee. on or before the
first day of July of each and every year.
and 6 desiring to pay ,he ssme thereafter,
following. shall pay to the Secretary OF
State, for 1he use OF the state, in addition
to the said license fee, the following fur
Their fee, as penalty for, such failure
Every corporation two dollars and nifty
cents. Every corporation failing to pay
the said license fees and penalties on or
year shall forfeit the sum of s. for every
day which it shall continue to do business
as corporation hINtT Shiu udlt, W Dt
recovered in an action in any court of
competent Jurisdiction"
Good Results.
BY the provisions OF this statute largo
volume OF extra work was imposed on
the Secretary Of State but the people have
been rewarded by an increase of revenue
from source abundantly able to contrib
ute II as a consequence.
These results are forCibly set forth in
the following comparative tahulated state
taken from tho records of the de-
partment:
Receipts Insurance Department..
Last IS mos OF Rep. Adm. .,.......s Els 90
First IS mos of Fusion Adm.....l 1884 %
Increase ............. .............s 1888 90
Or lO2 per cent.
Receipts -General Department.
Last IS mos of Rep Adm.........s $50 10
Excerpt from Supreme Court
First is mos of Fusion Adm......7l, 200 90
Total Receipts.
Last 10 mos Rep. Adm...........s 15,2SS 90
Except from Supreme Court
First is mos Fusion Adm. ...... S2,sss %
Increase ........... .............$S7. 553 90
Or 4i2 per cent.
Total Expenses.
First IS months Fusion Adm. &c. 90
Decrease ........ ................slo.03 5 90
1t should be stated for purposes OF fair
comparison that the amount given above
as the receipts of the office during tho
last eighteen months of theARepubican
Administration does not inclNe s2026 re-
ceived from Bancroft. Whitney Company
umns 5, d L and 0 Of waRs hins Re- Re-
ports sold them by the state.
Striking Example.
and substantial examples of Fusion Lcgis-
laion and administration to be found
in the whole records. It amounts to
ing 1t on a practical, useful, paying basis,
from which no Administrations that sue
ceeds the present one can AFFORD, for a
When the revenue OF a department OF the
sat, government is raised from a paltry
$4,000. to close up to tho 100000 mark. at
an expense of fully $4,000 less. without
imposing a single burden. however light,
upon the poor, in view Of the fact that
revenues are so badly needed to pay Oft
the enormous state debt needlessly and
extravagantly. contracted by a wicked Re-
publican Administration, 1t amounts to an
improvement in the public service that de-
mands more than passing notice from
the voters.
The Government that does this with
similar results In all departments Is not
accidental. There must be some very sub
stantial public virtue in the political party
which gave 1t existence, and the voters
who called II into being cannot afford to
rebuke its grand achievement on their be-
half by electinR representatives of a party
that brought forth only extravagance and
misrule in every county of the state.
It should be said in this connection that
all the state officials are over-worked for
want OF sufficient appropriations for ade-
quate clerk hire. Perhaps no state gov
eminent in the Union with az much work
to perform has so few employees. This an
piles to every office from that of Governor
down to the smallest, and peculiarly 20
the state department. one is impressed
with the Idea. when observing these strik-
ing facts, that the Legislature carried the
policy OF economy little beyond the point
of usefulness in this respect.