The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-09
City News
TAXATION BASIS
IS A HARD KNOT
BOARD oF EQUALIZATION AND
AUDITORS WORRIED OVER IT.
Law Requires One Basis and Custom
Provides Another, and Two Bodies
Puzzle Over the Dilemma Auditors
Ask Board to Join Them and Board
Goes Into Secret Session. I.

Some lively lodging was done today
py county auditors and members Of the
state board Of equalization. The two
organizations met separately, and the
auditors got into a debate over what
ratio OF assessment should be used. It
was proposed to agree on a recommen-
datlon to the board Of equalization, but
disagreement was evident at once, and
hnally, without a vote, the whole propo-
slrlOn was passed up to the board of
equalization, with request for con:
ference. The board met this request by
going into executive session. The
boards secret deliberations began at
noon and lasted long time. The audi
tors got nervous waiting.
Everybody is afraid of the dilemma
that is presented. The state board IS
democratic, while the auditors are
nearly all republicans, SO there was a
political phase to the side-stepping to-
Auditors Disagreed on It.
The trouble is that the law requires
property to be listed at it's full value.
while the taxing authorities generally
use 5O per cent as the basis. The &C.
tual ratio Is often much below so per
cent. The auditors were divided.
Some wanted to recommend that as
sessments be made at full value, and
SAID no other recommendation could be
made. The objection to this was that
it would about double valuations, and
50 double taxes on all the fixed levies.
1t would also change salaries and
many other. things regulated by law
according to assessed valuation of
counties. One of the committees di-
vided on the proposition. The majority
refused to make any report, while J.. N.
Gayner of Meeker and W. L. Phelps of
Olmsted recommended that schedules
be unchanged. This report started the
trouble; odin H alden Of Duluth spoke
thing but full value A. L. Bolsta Of
Big Stone county offered a motion
stating to the state board that the au,
ditors could not recommend any other
basis of assessment than the law pro.
vides. J. N. sGayner offered as an
amendment that the board Of equaliza
tion be asked to join with them in
discussing the question. This was
adopted and Mr.. Gayner conveyed the
invitation to: the board, which, on mo
i ton Of w. A. Hardenbergh, went int
executive session to discuss it. w.
',''s Auditors Name Committees.
THE following committees Of county
! auditors were named to confer will
the proper committees Of the board o.
! equalization: >
Real Estate-George Robertson, Mower cour
ty; Louis G. yogsl BroTn F. D; Stocking d;a, NJ Z;
heas d1e9er steaTns bosta 81 81
Stone; j. p. Paulson, La Lake. A.. H sii'ar
PEE Personal Property, Items to 15-T. I
Phelps, olmsted; I. L. 1ngebritsen. Freeborn
A. g. Buck, sibley; b. G.. Kramer. Ramsey
! asyner, Meeber;~ a. Butler Morrison dS;n
P. B. Malberg, Marshall
prGRsr s K 9ael
s mne1, + 81 Connolly, Carver; Jens Arneso1
i Grant; Hugh L. Scott Hennepin; A. E. Kasnel
:! Benton; s. o. Tjosyald, Yellow Medicine;
i Peterson, Kanabec; John Whitman, Beltram1
= Equalization Board Committees.
I At the meeting today Chairman
Champlin announced the following com
) mittees Of the board Of equalization
I Livestock, Glasses /, 2, and An. Nachbal
chairman; II. L.. Shirley, Andrew French.
: Wagons. Carriages, Automobiles, Steamboat
etc.-W. r. Hodges chatrmani John Heine1
William Gausewitz. ~. LII Il.
Sewing Machines Clocks, Melodeons. Piano.
Glasses g. 7, 8, and 1o-Jason Weatherheat
Gold and silver Plated Ware, Diamonds
Glasses II and 80. 3. Vasaly, chairman
John Hainen, F. P: Brown.
|
. chairman; e.. J.. Mealy, s. B, Nelson, @. OBriel
L. B. Elwood.
Manufacturer Tools and Machinery Olasse
II and 1S-William Gausewitz, chairman; Henri
Nolte, Andrew French, Jason Weatherhead, f
: L.. Shirley. -. .... ,..-.f
: . Banks and Credits, Glasses 10, 20. p. 20 ar
oh. L. Shirley. chairman;, ". R. Hodge
! F. P. Brown. John Heinen. William Gausewitz.
Eating Houses, Etc. Glasses 26, n, % and ,
/, Fl z. Brown. chairman: G. O'Brien, G.
4 Vasaly.
Logs and Lumber. B. Eawood. chairman; /,
: Nachbar. r. T. DAILY. B. B. Brown, Jast
: Weatherhead., H. -. -. .,,.
Public Service Corporations-s. J.. Meal
q chairman; T. J. Meighen. W. A. Hardenberg
q. r. Champlin, G. b. Vasaly.---z~~
8 Real Estate-R. T. DAILY, chairman; L:
/ Elwood W. A. Hardenbergh, Henry Nolte T.
: Meighcn, E. T. Champlin. Andrew French, 8.
Nelson, NJ. Nachbac.
, Franchises-Thomas ]. Metghen, chairma
j R. T. DAILY, L. B. Elwood.
: The committees will hold meeting
q during the coming. summer at the ca
9 of their respective chairmen. The1
2 was some discussion today of emplo,
$ ing the "ferret' to look into valu,
3 Of corporations, but this was left
r. J. Merghen, chairman Of the ne
committee on franchises.
There is no legal warrant for tt
present meeting Of the board, and. Go
= ernor Johnson today paid the mileas
}. and hotel expenses Of the members OF
Of his contingent fund. It came
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