Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-03-20

their bin through the house under any
conditions, and they haven't got that
yet.
Senator Searls is far more interested |
IN the inheritance tax that he is in the
straight state tax. He Is most earnest |
in the feeling that the federal govern |
ment hasn't the first thing in the world |
to do with protecting estates. pays not
a cent nor takes the slightest care for
the maintenance of the machinery by
which this tax is levied, the probate
machinery of the state, and can only
collect an inheritance tax by the more
or less confiscatory method of coming
and getting it under a federal law
which is passed regardless of the wish
es of the several states. To collect a
federal Inheritance tax would mean a
double Inheritance tax. for the Stats
certainly the state of Connecticut, any
way-would not agree to give up their
state Inheritance tax and those who
Inherited would be mulcted
The judiciary committee reported the
Searls resolution yesterday and the
senate at once passed 1t under sus-
pension Of the rules and the house will
do this Just as readily as soon as 1t
gets II, for the inheritance tax is de-
cidedly popular in the lower body. 1t
is an Indirect tax, for it takes some OF
the money Of a deceased person, who
WOl ait dry ulOT6 anu QOCbh I
feel the loss. To be sure, 1t takes
money which the legatee expected to
get, but the money isn't his when the
tax is paid. Connecticut has never re-
ceived its proper due In inheritance
taxes and the bill which is now before
the legislature proposes to change all
that. Nor is there any thought Of
waiting to see what congress does on
this. subject. Whatever congress does
will have to be done on top OF what
Connecticut has done, for by the time
there is passed an inheritance tax law
| to raise federal revenue Connecticut
will have passed her law and done with
the subject.
At the same time nobody can get
exemption from taxation this session
unless they slip 1t by with sugar or
| chocolate coating such as would dis
! guise a dose of castor oil. The incor-
porations committee has decided
against this and is sticking to its guns.
| The st. John Industrial school Ii a
Catholic institution for boys from to
| 81 years Of age which Is fathered by
some of the most prominent priests In
| the diocese, but the house wouldn't
listen to the idea of exempting II from
taxation as per the D'Esopo amend
ment, and 1t went the way OF the Low
| thorpe company OF Norwich and other
similar propositions on this point
not permitted to say anything more
specific on this point--a tax exemp-
! ton measure which Is going to pass
| the house, unless / am very much mis-
taken, and which will have behind Il
influence such as will make some mem
bers open their eyes. The institution
affected is OF different character from
those affected by the measures which
have fallen down and the people be-
hind it are, too.
Incidentally, the old question OF Civ
ing Catholic institutions the same RICH
to commit their inmates possessed b.
state and county institutions Of tn
same general class came up once NOR
in this st. John Industrial school mat
ter and was received with the sam
refusal which has been its fate before
This class of Institutions are not pub
lie institutions and are not under tn
Supervision of the state or the count
or the municipality or any other au
thority which is responsible to the PEG
pie. They are private affairs and
they had the same legal rights owe
their inmates as do public institution
of the same character the result
might be very unfortunate. The ten
dency is to 60 farther away from tn
,, frame Of mind In which this rigt
, would be granted rather than towar
it.
figured that getting the Taylor souve
mir resolution back into the senate an
then sending 1t to the committee o
appropriations would kill It are reck
, oning without their host. 1t won't q
! anything Of the kind, for the reaso
that the appropriations committee ha
for its chairman one Of the squares
whitest men, Senator Blakeslee, VIII
: ever sat in a senate chair, a keel
(. straightforward business man. with
{ liberal amount Of brain matter an
, horse sense. but without a mean
= parsimonious hair in his head. Ser
t ator Blakeslee wants the state to q
5 good business value for its dollar an
is out to see that it does, but he ca
see the good points n a good propos
y ton without any lengthy explanation
{ The majority OF the members in eac
o house believe in Mr.. Taylor and in h
s book, realize perfectly well that neith'
= graft game nor grab game is behiI
= the matter and are very ready to vo
e him a reasonable amount Of money 4
a its publication. which Is $4,000 for u
copies, which has already been pass'
by two OF three legislatures before TIL
\ legislatures in which cheese parir
), was notable by its absence, withol
| any fuss at all.