The San Francisco call., 1899-11-16
Attorney Dickinson So
Decides. i.
WELLS HOLDS SAME OPINION
TEACHERS MAY SOON BE PAID
BACK SALARIES.
Mass Meeting To-Day at Girls High
School at Which All Phases Of
the Question viii BE
Discussed.

Auditor Wells VIII have good news for
the school teachers when they come to-
gether AT the Girls High school this
afternoon 80 devise ways aud means for
collecting their numerous arrearages IN
salary. The Auditors attorney, General
John II. Dickinson goi back from Saora-
mento yesterday and brought with him an
opinion which means nothing less than
good hard dollars for the pedagogues.
Between him. Controller GoiGgn. State
Superintendent Instruction kirk. Frank
Powers. attorney iur The merchant cre'i-
itors of The Scn2ol Department. and
Harry T. Cneswen, counsel Tor the teach
ers. the many taugles lnto which the laN
of collateral inheritance taxation has got
itself have been straightened ont, and
city s share OF that tax may pe aPp,lrQ
10 the salaries v which wer. held up In Mo-
Nember and December, lsaN..
The one all-lmpprtaHt question that re-
mu!npd 10 be settled when be Inheritance
tax was first suggested was whether or
not the cltN's share ot H. could he appned
tax upon the Stanford estate WIS hrought
uD as an example Leland Stanford died
June 2l 1883. but the TAX upon his bequests
was not paid until two weeks ago. Au-
ditor Wells was as "A loss 20 lIHow whether
the funds paid in were 10 be considered
as belonging 20 the present fiscal year OF
10 the fiscal year of lN33-St ~ 20 the pres
ent year The payment Would not be oNtil-
able for the liquidation of claims arte-
dating July I. 1893. but N 10 the year 1888
IN would nave appeared Ms "A haiance on
hand al the end Of the wear and according
10 law carried over from year 20 year as
an available balance until such {irne as
there should be use Tor 81. u was this
point Mr.. Wells dispatched Attorney Dick
lnson TO Sacramento 20 look into.
We went oVer the question thorough
iy.' said General Dickinson. yesterday.
''and discovered that the law states spe-
officially that such funds shall be consid-
cred as belonging 10 the year in which
the tax becomes due by the death of the
testator. Consequently this Stanford es-
tate payment belongs 10 the year 1885
and n paid an that time would have been
carried over from year 10 year until 81
bumped into those November and Decenl-
her salaries. I consider the NATTER set-
tied 50 far as The inheritance tax IS. con-
cerned. and have SO advised THE Auditor
when 81 comes time for Controller Col
gan 10 make his settlement With the city
he VIII send with the cash a statement OF
Just how much of II IS taken from the
State inheritance tax. SO that the Au-
ditOr and Treasurer may know how much
they have 10 figure upon Tor the partic-
ular purpose IN question. The teachers
viii have the whole matter up for discus
sion an their meeting this afternoon. also
the $1,000 remaining in the hands of the
Union Trust Company, and the fact that
Frank Powers. attorney Cor the merchant
creditors. is claiming $1,000 OF that amount
rs his Zee ana expenses In the litigation.
All 81 the attorneys and all 81 the Drinci-
pads in the business viii be on hand and
as the teachers are pretty much divided
on certain points a red hot session IS eX-
pected.