The Rice belt journal., 1906-05-18
WELSH CAInAsIEU PARISH, LOUISIANA, MAY 49, ENo


essment, as they had on the larger
ate and the smaller assessment but
you reduce the maximum limit by law
md it will be seen in every case thaV
hey do get along, and thattoo quite
as well on the smaller rate. Geheral
Grant told the treasury oficlalS III
the seventies, who were halting and
hesitating and expressing doubts aS
TO their ability to resume specie pay
ments, that the way to resume was 10
resume. And it was done.
The constitution of 1879 placed q
vast power of patronage in the hands
of the governor. The constitution OF
1898 continued in his hands, but thaU
there might be no inducement Tor MN
to use it to secure his own reelection,
the latter constitution declared hlm
ineligible to a second consecutive term
Notwithstanding this, public Senu-
ment gradually developed in the oi-
rection that offices appointive be mace
offices elective.
And when we shall have gone slIil
further at this session and made as
SCISSORS and parish school board men,
bers and other officials elective, we
will have reasonably met, it is be-
lieved, the popular demand.
With regard to assessors, recon-
mend three things, and they should
be linked together:
|, The election of assessors by the
people of the parishes respectively III
which their duties are to be performed
including the parish of Orleans one
assessor for each municipal district OF
the city.
, . that the police juries of the par
,shes and the city council of New Or'
r leans, be given authority to sit as
+ boards of reviewers to equa!lze as
sessments as between individual prop
l.. erty holders. or taxpayers, in theli
/. respective Jurisdictions.
!. 3 That state board of equaliza
u ton of assessments be provided for
it 70 the end of equalizing assessment
d as between the parishes paris'
5. with another parish, or one group o
d marshes with another group, or othe
E. groups.
"a These three things or proposltloh
m should constitute the system, ana "
y the ideal system as the experience
other states and countries show. The
ID should be adopted together-no OF
e. or two of them without the third.
u, The great disparity between rates
VI assessments of the same character al
as value OF lands in different parts OF 7
II III state, indeed, often between the SAL
W lands in adjoining parishes, not on
causes unfairness and inequality
~ the distribution of the burden OF ia
Wv alton. bnt has ALWAYS wrought disco
tent and has been the cause OF uner
n"' inc controversy and just complaint.
,ss While Louisiana has made gr
Won progress in industrial and ma'e'
ar. development and on other lines,
Won is in the rut of the centuries in tax
r,o fairs. AS matters now stand, real
oo5 tate and the homes are paying nea
=, ALI the taxes. No tax is paid on pr
ABLY 80 per cent. of personal prope
IN money and credits are not listed;
.h,e SCISSORS fail to find either. and IN
.ars respect of reaching corporations
nro- the proper methods OF taxation W
,and. used in other states and countrlesl
10 g. are wandering in the wilderness.
rden The assessors are now the reglst
of voters in their respective paris
until While you are making assessors
ct to i've. you should consider the al
ction bility and desirability of separ'
nents the Office of registrar OF voters
enues that of assessor. | need not say Z
e. de. The reasons for this separation
that readily occur to you.
With regard to parish school o'
before I recommend the members there'
~. 1t elected by the people OF the pal
spayer wherein their duties, respectlVel.
xation to be performed. The popular
r 1904 ment of the state seems to favor
change, and in Difference to THIS
!. mu- ment | make the recommendation
on re- It is the popular wish that al
on the cials having to do with the asse
en- the of property be made elective l.
1t is fore recommend that you pass a
islative resolution submitting an amel
be re- to the constitution, making
the po- members of the state board OF a
nd lev ers chosen from the congresslo