The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1906-01-05
NO LEVY MADE.
For City Purposes-No city Taxes
Co1lectib1e This Year-Was For.

gotten.
Because of the failure of the coun-
Gil to fix the city tax levy in time,
the city of Corvallis will have to be
conducted the ensuing year with
out an income from taxes. A law
passed by the last legislature re-
quires that all incorporated towns
school districts and like corpora
tions must report the amount of
their tax levy to the county clerk
on or before January first of each
year. The language of the act is
mandatory, and leaves no doubt as
to its meaning. Under this require
ment, the proper authorities of che
council should have fixed the levy
at the December meeting, or at
some adjourned meeting thereafter,
during the month, and have the po-
lice Judge report the amount of
such levy to the county clerk. This
however, was not done, and there
will not, in consequence. be any
taxes collected for municipal pur-
poses in the town this year. Of
course, as a result, the city's busi--
ness will have to be done on en-
tirely borrowed capital for a whole
year. Warrants will be issued as
usual, and in the course of a year
they will perhaps aggregate S., 900,
as that is about the amount of the
annual expense. In that amount
the city debt will be increased, be-
fore revenues from taxes will again
be available, which of course, will
be after the levy to be made in Jan
uary 1907, one year hence The
condition is due entirely to over
sight, made all the more unusual
qy reason of the fact that notice of
the city's total valuation of taxable
property was sent by Clerk Moses
to the proper city authorities for
use in fixing the levy.
The lapse of the levy and the tax
famine that will result has attract
ed some attention about town No
body connected with the city adj
minstration is particularly to blame
If there is blame in the matter at
all, the whole government is par
! ticeps crimi1lis. 1t was the practice
in the past for Police Judge Gref-
: foz TO cali attention to the levy,
and to have the proper resolution
= ready at the proper meeting fol
/ passage. This. however, was us
] ually done at the January meeting.
: by an act of the last legislature the
| law was changed so that the levy
Z had to be reported to the county
/ clerk by January 1st, which made
I 1t necessary for the city council t.
I: act earlier than usual, possibly hae
I something to do with the oversigh
I In any event, nobody in authority
: thought of it until after it was to-
| late. Two members of the counci
Z are members of the school board
and in that capacity helped to Fl:
the levy for school district numbe
nine, bit the fact that similar act
ion was necessary for the city
did not occur to them. These wer
Councilmen Charles Hout AM
George Lilly.
So Tar as the public will be con
2 cerned, the absence of the tax in
l come will not be observable. War
rants will be issued as usual, ant
1 will pass current as usual at par o
l a premium. At the end of th
! year, the city will be about $500
l deeper in debt, and everybody will
l have had a respite from city take
Z a year. That will be the onl,
I known conditions to result, Th
town will be out the interest on tn
] warrants, which interest will onl,
! aggregate about $50. The city
I debt is now $22 900, which will b
/ increased to $4,000. If desired
I the next legislature might pass
l special act authorizing the collect
ion next year of the taxes ESCAPED
this year. If that were done, AM
the lapsed taxes collected next yea
all would be as though nothing hat
happened, and everybody woule
have had the use of their none
= for year. With the city as DIR,
as now, the income from othe
sources aside from taxes, is only
few hundred dollars, derived fror
dray, hawkers and other license
and rents on certain. - city property
Common Colds are the Cause Of Man
~ Serious Diseases.
d Physicians who have gained a nations
r reputation as analysts of the cause of variou
l. diseases claim that if catching cold could b
D avoided long list of dangerous aiimen
u would never be heard of. Everyone know
that pneumonia and consumption original
from cold, and chronic catarrh, bronchiti
and all throat and lung trouble are aggr;
vated and rendered more serious by leac
fresh attack. Do not risk your life or tax
chances when you have cold. Chambe
lain's Cough Remedy will cure it befol
these diseases develop. This remedy col
tains no opium, morphine or other harmf'
drug, and has thirty years of reputation bae