Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-08-02

days, the war department authorities
decided that he would be the proper
man to command n of the divisions
under Gen. Chaffee that would be sent
to the land of Ii Hung Chang from
this country. When informed Of the
departments decision, Gen. Wilson
promptly accepted the appointment by
cable and sailed for New York on the
first steamer. Lieut.. j. Il. Reeves and
Lieut. Turner, his aides, were the only
persons who accompanied him. Lieut..
Turner is a we'll known young St.
Louisan. He is a son of the late Gen.
John w. Turner and his mother resides
at III North Garrison e He is
only about "a years of age and is q
graduate of Western Military Academy
at Upper Alton. During the war with
Spain he was appointed to a second
lieutenancy in the regular army and
assigned to the Eighth Infantry. He
has spent little time with that regi-
ment, having been detailed on staff
duty during the greater part of his ar
my career. AS aide to Gen. Wilson,
he will be at the front of his brigade
when it is ordered into service. Owing
to the limited time allowed for him to
reach San Francisco, Lieut.. Turner
will not be able to visit his family here
on his trip across the continent. His
train is going via Chicago and his
mother left for that place Sunday night
to meet him as he passes through"
A. Dittlinger, deputy internal rev.
emu collector of Cape Girardeau, spent
several days of last week in Ironton
examining the deeds and other papers
filed with the county recorder, to as
certain if they had the proper revenue
stamps affixed. While here, Mr.. Dit
tlinger insisted that all deeds. no mat
ter what date they were made, filed
with the recorder after the war rev.
enue tax went into effect, required
venue stamps the same as an instru-
ment written after that date. OF
course, such a contention is an absurd
one, and would mean hat the war
revenue tax is retroactive. Mr.. Dit
tlinger recently visited Doniphan. This
is what the Pr0Spect-N esOS has to say in |
regard to hat official and the ruling |
above referred to:
One A. Dittlinger, OF Cape Girar-
deau, deputy collector of U. S. Internal
Revenue, vas here last week looking
after the "a tax. The most of those |
internal ven deputies who happen
around here seem to know about
enough to draw their salary, but they |
know but mighty little about
the stamp law, of the workings of
which they are supposed to look after.
Mr.. Dittlinger is no exception to the
general rule. He argued that all deeds,
regardless of the date when they were
made, must be stamped before they
could be filed for record, and even had
the gall to cite in proof of his position
the following ruling of the Commits
sioner which point blank disproves the
of the argument:
"a deed or mortgage executed and
delivered prior to July l, 1898, is sub
ject to stamp tax when offered for
after hat date only in
States where by State law r~egistratra-
ton is necessary to pass title or estab-
Iish valid lien. When instruments
executed and delivered prior to July
[, 1898, pass title or establish a valid
len, without registration, they do not
a stamp"
Of curse the above ruling bases the
requirements of the law upon a contin-
yency-that of whether or not the
State law makes registration necessary
% pass title-but what business on
has a man to be drawing a salary
Is a revenue officer who doesn't know
hat in Missouri registration or filing
or record of a deed is not necessary to
pass title, and that, therefore, 1 n this
State deed made prior to July /, 1898,
iced not be stamped to make it admis-
'ible to the record?
We favor a civil service examination
or applicants for deputy collectors.
We are in favor of all persons pay
ng every cent of tax that they are en-
titled to pay, but we certainly are op-
posed to illegal duties extorted from
he people by ignorant or designing
deputies.