Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1901-05-14
READ The LAW.

The Silver State continues to assail
the new revenue law and tries to in
duce the people of Humboldt county
to believe that the bill is piece of
cinch legislation gotten up for the
purpose of "squeezing" certain coun-
ties. The only possible "squeeze'
that can be put on any county is in
the just process Of equalization, for it
will make counties who have been
lodging their taxes come to the CEN
ter and settle on the same basis as
counties who have been paying in
full. AS the 1oudest and main wall
Of distress comes from Humboldt
county. it must be that this particu-
lar county fears equal taxation 1t
is in the position of the man on trial
whose lawyer conso'ingly told him
that he would see that he got JUS
tice.''
"That's just what l don't want, I"
was the laconic and candid reply of
the accused.
The Silver State has over and over
again insisted that Humboldt is worth
twenty five millions. 1t is taxed for
less than four millions. The Silver
State has never denied this fact, and
this is the accusation on which Hum
boldt County stands indicted by the
taxpayers today.
For some reason the Appeal is
an earnest defender of that petty
''cinch" bill, by which 1t :is pro-
posed to throw the whole tax bur-
den of the State upon certain
counties and certain industries.
No such bill ever passed the Legis
1ature. It YVES bill to provide equal
taxation. 1t was passed to reduce the
old State rate and to enforce the old
revenue law which had so sadly taller
into disuse 1t was the practice O
the wealthy tax dodgers who paid or
about fifteen or twenty per cent o
their holdings, that forced the Legis
lature to pass the law and the provis
ions of the bill were broadly set forth
in the platform of the Silver party
and were adopted without dissent
ing vote.
If Humboldt county is unfairly
treated it will be because the Asses
sors of other counties neglect thei
duty. If this is done the plain rem
edv will be found in section l., as 70
lows:
Sec. 10. Should any Assessor in
the State neglect or refuse to as
sess property in accordance with
the provisions of this Act, or laws
now in force and effect, or place
less valuation on any property
than has been fixed at said meet
ing OF Assessors. the Governor
State Controller or Att Gen
eral shall, upon due notification.
instruct the District Attorney O.
said Assessors county to bring
suit against such Assessor and
his bondsmen for the full amount
of taxes liable to be lost to the
State and county by reson of such
failure or neglect to properly as
sess such property. The sui,
shall be tried in the District Cour,
having jurisdiction in the county
where the property is suituated
If the editor of the Silver ST.
knows of any county being impre
erly assessed at the expense. OF HUI
boldt, it has but to inform the Boz
and steps will be taken immediat,
to sue the bonds men of the Assess
who are 'cinching" Humboldt fol
benefit of their own counties. I'm
the new law Humboldt cannot
"cinched" a dollar if the people '
simply take the proper steps by n
flying the proper officers of any
tempts to cinch them. IF the ed
of the Silver State will give an act
perusal of the law little more
tention. he will gradually get b.
idea of its actual, and not its fame
provisions.