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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-03-13
POLL AND HIGHWAY TAX
A GERMAN RESIDENT OF SLEEPY
EYE WILL NOT SETTLE
Through the German Consul at Chi
cagO He Asks That He Be Re-
Iieved of the Tax ImpOsed-Ger-
man Authorities Say German Sub
jects Need Not Pay the Tax.

Minnesota state officials are again
confronted with the question as to
whether aliens are subject to poll tax
In towns operating under special laws
providing for such tax passed before
the adoption Of the charter law Of
1896.
Attorney General Childs yesterday
received a communication from the
imperial German consul at Chicago
asking that one Herman Salzburn, a
German subject living at Sleepy Eye,
Mimi, be relieved Of the poll and high
way tax imposed upon him by the city
council at Sleepy Eye in 1897.
The communication also requests
that the matter be presented to Gov.
Clough, and prays for relief at his
hands.
During the fall of 1897 Salzburn was
imposed with poll tax, which he re-
fused to pay. After the tax became
delinquent he formally registered a.
complaint with the county auditor set
ting forth that, according to the law
of this country, he, as a German sub
ject, was not subject to poll tax.
Later, he made a complaint to the
imperial consul at Chicago with the
request that the matter be taken up
with the home Office in Germany.
The German consul at Chicago re-
ferred the matter to the German au-
thorities as requested Ten days ago
advices were received from Germany
to the effect that German subjects
were not, in their opinion, subject to
poll tax, and advised the Chicago con-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-03-13
Hardly in Light Marching Order.

The veterans of the Civil war will
smile as they read the order issued
recently by the commander of Cleve-
lands crack company of cavalry.
After warning the members that
the present conditions were 50
threatening that duty demanded
that they hold themselves in
readiness to instantly respond to his
call, he told them that they should pre-
pare field kit in which comfort must
be disregarded," and closed with the
suggestion that, in addition to their ap-
parel Worn, they might pack the fo:-
lowing articles, to be carried ON the
saddle and in saddle-b bags:
One overcoat with cape. blanket, !
pair trousers. pair heavy shoes with extra
laces, pairs worsted or wooden socks. 1
suit underwear (silk preferably, 1 flannel
shirt, 3 pocket handkerchiefs, l WOODEN or
silk nightcap, ? towels. l hair brush, l
comb, tooth brush. l small cloth brush,
candles, 1 knife and fork and spoon 1
small sponge pair scissors. soap box and
soap"
The smile that will come to the face
of the veteran will find its source in
the recollection of how he had to learn
by experience what a soldier could car
ry in his kit whether the kit were his
knapsack or a ssddle-bag. He will re-
call how he numbered himself up with
all sorts Of impedmenta at the outset,
and how soon he began to disencum-
her. When he had acquired full wis
dom, his knapsack was gone with all
it's contents. and his blanket, instead
of repoSing in neat roll on top of the
knapsack, was then, with his poncho
IN, 1n,,r ,-N1I IL,
retained, with his canteen and haver-
sack, as things Indispensable. We ap-
prehend that before the sweIls of the
Cleveland company see much service
the various ard sundry articles which
their captain considers essential will
be strewn along their line of march,
rejected in the limperious need of get
ting into light marching order.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-03-13
A Sensible View of 1t.

The members of the charter COM
mission, being largely clear-headed
! men of business, could not fail to
take the correct and business-like view
of the system of Issuing tax certifi-
Gates to meet running expenses. We
are glad to see that they are a unit
in advising that no more such GER
tificates be issued in the future but
that enough low-rate. long, time bonds
should be issued to provide a fund for
current expenses. This being done, the
whole evil and dangerous system of
running the municipal government
constantly one year behind, and levy
ing against tax receipts whose volume
cannot be calculated in advance, may
be done away with.
This is at present source of end
less confusion. Long ago, in the days
of prodigality. we spent all our income
and began this miserab system of IS
suing temporary evidence of debt
against next years revenues. To car
| ry out this plan. the charter provides
| that these tax certificates may be is
sued to the extent of so per cent of
the anticipated levy only This makes
it absolutely impossible to tell in ad-
vance what will be the contents of
any single city fund No one knows
how large a portion Of the levy will be
delinquent No one knows how much
will be paid In any year from the de-
linquent taxes of the year preceding.
No one knows actually whether there
will be cash enough to pay these Ger
| tificates at maturity, or whether any
| or all of the 20 per cent balance of the
| tax levy will be collectable or not The
| whole financial scheme of the city be-
| comes principally guesswork Instead
| of paying as we go, we are firing into
the air and taking constant chances
! of a surplus or a deficit. No business
concern would run on such principles,
and the system should have been done
away with in municipal affairs long
| ago.
! There Is no possible objection to the
! substitution of the bonds for city GER
tificates. In essence one is just as
much a debt as the other. The only
| difference is in the date Of payment.
1t is reasonably certain. however. that
something could be saved in a lower
| ing of the interest rate. While there
is a large demand for these tax GER
! tificates, and they are subscribed for
long in advance al a premium suf-
! ficient to reduce the actual interest
charge considerably below it's face, yet
a bond having twenty or thirty years
to run would bring a much higher
premium.
1t is not improbable that an amount
of bonds equal to the tax certificates
now out could be f1oated at from 21a to
3 per cent. This being done, our debt
would show for exactly what it is.
1t would be possible to adjust income
and expenditure to each other with
nicely, and we should be rid of the
temptation to extravaganza on the
one side, and the bitter disappoint-
ment and the Gripping Of departments
on the other that grow out of that
legacy of poor financiering, the sale
of tax certificates in anticipation of
| tax receiDtS
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-03-13

sui to take the matter up with the
Minnesota authorities.
He wrote Gen. Childs relative to the
matter, and Gen. Childs, after a re-
view OF the case, wrote Gov Clough
Yesterday afternoon, referring the
matter to him, and giving his opinion
upon the intent of the law.
The amount involved in the claim of
Salzburn for relief from the polI fax
together with an item for highway tax
is only $5.98, but involves a precedent
which Will mean considerable to the
state.
Gen. Childs, in his letter to Gov
Ciough, said that, in his opinion. the
law relating to the persons subject to
taxation was quite plain. The law
says That aliens are not exempt from
either poll tax or highway tax, and
hence, in his opinion, the matter should
receive careful consideration.
IN his letter to the governor Gen.
Chllds gives an extract from Chapter
80, of the special laws of 1879. under
which the city of Sleepy Eye is now
operating.
The law provides that any persons
living in the county, Of the right age
VINO have resided in the county two
months next preceding the general
election, shall be entitled to vote. IN
asmuch as the law allows such per-
sons to vote. they are also liable to
taxation.
In Salzburn's case, the county i'm
posed upon him the alternative, as it
did In the cases of all other of it's cit
1Zens, OF either performing labor upon
the public highway or paying a sum
equal to the value of such labor.
Salzburn refused to perform the labor
on the county road, and the highway
tax. together with the poll tax, be-
came delinquent, and now stands
against him.
Comparatively few of the counties of
the state are operating under a poll
tax. The case will, however, excite
considerable interest, because it had
been previously referred to the proper
authorities in Germany, and they have
given their opinion upon the right Of
this country to tax their subjects, per
head
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-03-13

Of movement is adjusted to the aver
age intelligence it is inevitable that
the brighter minds must be kept in
check and the duller ones prodded to
keep pace with the average. This adj
justment demands eight years for the
course from the primary to the eighth
grade. This brings the pupil to the
thirteenth or fourteenth year before
prepared to enter the four-year course
OF the high or preparatory school, and
to the eighteenth before conditioned
for entrance on the college or univer-
sity course.
1t may be impossible to reform the
grade system so as to give to it the
flexibility of the common school, but
there is no question that it can be
modified by the adoption of Supt
Scherer's plan so as to permit
the forward movement at a rate de-
pendent upon the mental powers of the
pupil. There is no reason why a boy
or girl of fair intelligence cannot GO
through the grade course of studies in
SIX years, and any system that de-
mands the sacrifice of two years is one
that should be modified if possible,
abolished if not Could the advantages
of long terms and permanency Of
teachers, enjoyed by our city schools,
be combined with the utilization of
that overflow Of instruction which is
the great advantage of the country
school, six years would be ample to
carry the classes through the course
that now demands eight This is a
matter of vital Importance, for the
earlier the young man or woman can
get into life work, get adjusted to it's
conditions, the better assurance he
will have of success in it.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-03-13
The "Made Special" Comedy.


Many worthy applicant for a PEN
sion, with meritorious case, has mar
veled at the delays attending it's con-
sheraton, and cases have been fire.
quent where the soldier had received
his final muster-out before his certif-
cate of pension was issued. Again one
has wondered at the celebrity with
which others, with claims of doubtful
merit, filed long after his. have
had them pushed through to final
action. We referred recently to let
ter from an ex soldier, who had been
an examiner and a member of the
board of pension appeals, to another
who asked his aid in getting his case
considered. We refer to it again to
inform those who have marveled why
their cases slept in the files while that
of some more favored one went thu ough
the red tape routine at headlong speed.
He aptly calls it the official comedy.
He advises his friend to get pull on
his representative and senator, the
stronger the better; post them with the
facts; load them up with them. Get
them to go to the commissioner to-
gether.
HcIl lIS SoiiCuS OCSli
which he thus describes: THE senator
and representative call on the commits
sioner personally Senator to the front,
on the right. The senator will present
the representative, If necessary, and
will say that it will crafty him (the
senator) if the honorable commissioner
will give his immediate attention to
the meritorious and long neglected
claim of his friend, Capt. John Blank,
ETC., etc. Then the representative will
chip in some of his CUFF about his con-
stituent, Capt. B., and his neglected
claim, etc, and the commissioner will
express his establishment at the delay
and promise an early consideration.
Then the representative, if he knows
anything about the. gentle game of
bluff, will get in his work by handing
the commissioner card on which will
be written your name and regiment,
and, in big, plain figures, the number
Of your claim, and request him to send
at once for the papers. Then the COM
missioner, seeing no line of retreat,
taps his bell hands the card to the
messenger, and says: "Give my COM
| pliments to the chief of the Eastern
division and ask him to draw that case
| from the files and bring it here
Then the three humbugs look big,
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-03-13
At THE HOTELS.

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Anna Luger, Fargo; f. F. Luger. Fargo; NJ.
S. Collins. Hnckley: John R. Waller, Mason
City; W. w. Eastman. Hedwick. To-; E. w.
West Superior; E. n. Welsh. Boston: R. NJ.
Holcombe. Fargo; Fred Coffin, Minneapolis;
A. H. Larson. Chicago; Jacob Shall, Eureka.
S. D.; ". E. Hunter, Kansas City; W. May.
Wash; S. G. Powell Storm Lake. To-. E. w.
Foster. Storm Lake. To-; S. E. Lemon. Storm
Lake, To-; r. b. Steffen, Storm Lake To-;
Guy L. Rice, Storm Lake, 10.
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Naylor, Saltwater. Mimi; Mr. and Mrs G.
H. Chester. Chicago; L. Hockess. city; R. w.
Hubbell city; E. B. Sims. Kansas City, Mo-;
John c. Herndon. Omaha, Neb.; b. A Camp
bell, jamestown. N. D.; S. o. Schultz. Joliet,
Ill; B. S. Russell. jamestown; B. D. Rus
Philadelphia, Pa: R. S. Bladon. Duluth
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W. T. Chapman. Chicago; S. NJ. Eng st.
Louis; H. w. Grimmer. st. Cloud; Elmer
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Dudley, Chicago: n. Venze, Moorhead; d. L..
Newcomb, Garrett, Mimi: S. G. Nail D.
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and swell and smoke and blow, and
the commissioner tells them what q
deucedly fine commissioner he Is, and
how they all did everything wrong un-
til he got there. and how he Is going to
give every soldier d pension, and, at
the same time, save the United States
numerous millions, etc., until the chief
of the division arrives with your case
under his arm and looking as wise as
SolomOn-though, as a matter Of fact.
he doesn't know anything about your
case, or any other for that matter; for
he. the division chief, Is a political
figurehead and holds sinecure. Then
the chief opens the case and spreads
the papers before the commissioner, and
the three big humbugs and the one lit
tie one make a pretense Of going over
them. The commissioner-who knows
nothing at all about the details-gath-
ers the papers up, asks the chief who
the examiner is. directs the chief to
direct the examiner to give the matter
immediate attention, and the chief
humbly bows himself out of the awful
presence Of the three mighty ones, and
straightway betakes himself to his own
dominions. where he is the big dog, and
bangs a big rubber stamp on the case
Jacket of your case, printing the
words congressional Special on it,
and sends it to the examiner for "im-
mediate and prompt action. Do you
hear, sir? Immediate, sir" And that
officer, knowing what Congressional
Special means, rushes the case
through regardless of the state Of the
proofs. If ne should be conscientious
and report to the commissioner that the
proofs are insufficient, that officer, re-
membering the visitation of the two
other humbugs. CURLY says: "Claim
allowed. issue certificate. d-n the evil
dence." And your certificate is issued.
The comedy, that one, is ended.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-03-13

MI A w. Mortenson will mandamus
the board of public works to compel
that body to take him on as a deputy
clerk. Chiefly, Mortenson relies upon
his service in the army during the civil
war for his right of action and his
claim to the clerkship; incidentally, he
AYERS that he knows all about the work
a deputy clerk has to do. We trust
that his knowledge Of the work is more
extensive than was his army service
That, he states in his petition, was in
a New York regiment in the years 1854
5. There were several kinds of men
who enlisted as late as 1864. There
were a few youngsters, just reaching
an admissible age, who volunteered.
There were others, quite a number of
them, who were yanked in by the COL
lar on which a provost marshal had
his grip, under warrant Of the draft
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-03-13
f0-DAY'S BULLETIN.

Page.
1-Church Notices.
Armour al Letter Talk Wheat.
Sensational Rumors in Madrid.
Small Chance for Peace.
Maine Deliberately Blown Up.
2-Snelling Prepared for War.
3-Plymouth Church Anniversary.
Home Manufacturers Show.
Aberdeen Liquor License.
4-Editorial
Alien German Resists Poll Tax.
6-Spain May Be Wiped Out.
Court Still at Havana.
Necessities of the Navy.
War Preparations Scare Europe.
6-Banks Safe Against Money Drain
Spain Not Bankrupt.
Political Gossip.
Twin City News.
Moshik's Last Week.
News of the Northwest.
T Army Being Moved East.
S-Close of the Bench Show.
Yacht Club Annual.
! 9-Sports.
Cycle Path Repairs
st. Paul in the L. A w. Circuit.
No Practice Games for Saints.
1O-Music
Coming Pure Food Show.
Downfall of Mrs Minnie Smith.
Fruit Dealers Banquet
New Market Site Discussed.
11-From New York to Panama.
12-Our Friends, the Books.
Plot Of The Silver Crescent"
Z The Literature of Today
The Countess of Warwick.
1S-Business Mans Announcement.
list. Paul Social News
Suburban Social Events.
15-Bewitching Spring Styles.
New Things in Hats.
Parasols of the Day.
16-The st. Paul Humane Society.
Uncle Sam Can Whip Spain.
1.-THE Mayors of st. Paul.
Dramatic News of the Week.
1S-COngressman James T. McCleary
Flag of the Red Cross.
Bar Silver, sac.
Cash Wheat in Chicago, $1.O41s.
19-Girls Go Armed ON Wheels.
Wants.
2O-Lost Mans Lane (Story)
The Yukon Mosquito.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-03-13

act. Then there were another thrifty
set who agreed, for satisfactory COM
penSation, to substitute for some draft
victim and take his chances of getting
plugged-and a pension. We trust that,
in the course of the proceedings Nor
tenson has instituted, his classification
in these groups will be determined.
The veterans of 1S61-62 will hardly ad-
nit that any '64-5 recruit, except one
of the first class was a soldier Least
ways, they did not so regard them at
the time But the statutes of limita-
ton have run against that discrimina-
ton, and nowadays every one Is a SOL
dier-the substitutes, draftites, hun
dredday and nine-month men. Con-
gress is even making them out of the
deserters.
While the states in the arid and sub
arid belt of this country are arranging
schemes to utilize the waters of their
rivers, now running to waste, under
the provisions of the Carey law, Egypt
is embarking on a scheme whose eX-
tent of expenditure and purpose
eciipses anything that has been even
dreamed of in this country. When we
consider the relative wealth of the two
countries our efforts are ridiculously
meager, if. indeed, our government is
functioned for such purposes at ALL The
scale of expenditure involved in the
Egyptian enterprise is the more re-
markable when we contrast the bank
ruptcy of that country twenty odd
years ago, with it's present financial
condition under English financing. The
contrast is let for the construction of
two dams across the Nile, one, the
main one. at the first cataract This
will be 5000 feet long and impound
1.O65, 900 cubic meters of water with
canal and locks to permit the pas
sage of boats above the falls. The
second dam is at Assiout. midway be-
tween Assouan and Cairo. The AS
souan dam will be 76 feet above the
river at its lowest, laid upon the gran
ite reefs of the cataract, and will be
built of granite ashlar. The lower dam
is designed to raise the river level in
the summer, thus supplying the water
needed by the irrigation canals for
sugar-cane and cotton fields in the low
er valley. The contract price for the
entire work is 1,250000, to be paid in
thirty annual installments, which be-
gin upon the completion of the dams
The inspector general of irrigation
estimates that the dams will add So, 900
acres to the arabic land of one small
province, Gisseh, that now has but
5000, increasing it's productiveness 81
275,0O0 annually, the average acre value
of product being $50 yearly
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-03-13

The Republican attack upon the civil
service reform is petering out Grosve-
nor led a fiery host into the big end
of the horn. and the sole result is the
exit from the small end of the whole
movement in the adverse report of the
committee on the Evans bill. This
measure masked the assault upon the
entire system under the hypocritical
pretense of modifying, as too sweeping
the orders of President Cleveland. 1t
proposed to do by act of congress what
We have been told from time to time
that the president was going to do
next week" 1t would remove from
the operation Of the law all places now
in the classified service below the 5000
and above the 81 800 grade with some
.other restrictions 1t occurred to some
enc that it would be well to learn what
the effect of the bill would be. The
civil service commission, in response
to a request for such data, replied that
there are now 1920 employees included
in the classified service, of whom 54.253
would be taken out by the Evans bill.
OF the 6S8 postoffices, with $4,000 en-
ployes, 636, with $4,000 employees, would
be restored to the spoils, while but six
customs offices of the 1903 would be re-
tanned This revelation of the destruc-
ton which the bill would work, I'M
der it's pretense of merely modifying
Cleveland's ORDERS wiping out Harri-
sons as well as Cleveland's, was too
much for the subcommittee which
has been engaged in hearing the
foes and friends of the reform for sew
eral months, and it decided to return
the bill to the full committee with an
adverse report. Thus ends the last as
sault that will be made upon the re-
form
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-03-13
THE HUMOR OF THE NORTHWEST,
From Bede's Budget.

From Bede's Budget
Some of the Twin City daily papers would
like to spell the Winona mans name Van
Shant
We stand corrected. Southern Minnesota
mas had two governors, but they were back
before the crime of 10 and are therefore
outlaws.
The command to rest on the seventh day is
no more binding that the command to work
the other six. And of all preventves of
crime. work is the chief. God will never go
into partnership with a loafer, be sure of
that.
No real Christian will be found in prayer
meeting when his party primaries are being
held. He'll never waste the Lords time ask
ing help when he can do it himself. In a
free country like this, where there is no one
to modest or make us afraid, we ought
TO ind ourselves in green pastures and be-
side the still waters, without much worry
or ado Remember the Lord has his busy
days. and don't poster him.