Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1910-01-13

During the entire morning session
OF tae State Board of Assessors a bit
ter figat was waged between the ont
supporting Governor Dickerson in hi
fight for a Just and reasonable taxa
tion of the Central Pacific Railroad
Company and those who are alliet
with the corporation and look upor
the raise In the assessment OF thu
Hartman interests to a fair and jus
figure.
Every vote polled this morning re-
corded the same result, -four Tor the
desired raise and In support OF the
fight being waeed by the Governor
and e,even against the raise and hia
policy. The four who are standing
back of the Governor and the people
of the State OF Nevada are:
ED REGAIN, ormsby, o. p. RAN
DALI, Lyon; e. L. WYATT, Douglas;
r. 3. hEiNRlcHs, Storey.
These four men ar etae same ones
who voted to sustain the Chair in the
question as to whether the telephone,
telegraph and power lines should be
assessed by the Board of Assessors as
provided by law or whether 1t should
be let with the various assessors. On
that question they upheld the decision
Of the Governor in overruling the mo-
tion to leave this matter to the vari-
Gus assessors as in the past. They
were voted down by the eleven votes
against Them and since that time the
almost identical result OF IL to four
has been recorded.
The session started of this morn
ing by q motion of Owens to assess
the Central Pacific at the rate of $685..
900 per mile. Immediately the mo-
ton was amended to read $4,000. 1t
was seconded and upon final vote was
lost-11 to 4.
A motion was then made to place
the assessment down, sometimes 81,
900 per mile. which was seconded and
lost, with the same vote recorded as
In the former.
From this time on the session was
devoted to motions gradually working
the assessment down, sometime s$1
and then again 800 per mile. 1t was
simply a case OF the four stalwarts
fighting for as high an assessment as
was possible to secure AMI In order
TO get 1t were entering motions grad
ually diminishing The amout.
BY this means, and after nine re-
ductions had been offered and voted
down, a motion was made to adjourn
but was lost when vote was had.
BY this time the rate asked had
been reduced to $43,150. The next
motion was made to fix the assess
ment at $43, $50 and was lost by the Old
vote Of III. Then this wa sreduced
In s43. 600. then to $42,999, then to
s42.s9O, then $42,900 md so on down,
little by little, un1il at the time OF the
noon recess the amount asked hao
been reduced from the original motioh
OF $4,000 to $42.s7O.
During the morning session Asses
sor Regan asked Of the other asses
sors II any one of them would take
the floor and explain ms reason why
no objected to the raise in the assess
sed valuation Of the Central Pacinc
Railroad. He called attention to the
letters giving the amount assessed per
miie in bordering states and took MS
seat 10 hear an answer to his question.
But there was nothing doing. The
representatives OF the railroad COM
pany smiled broadly and the next mo-
tlon was made and seconded. ana
when the vote was read showed the
old result Of IA.
The morning session showed that
the fight is one waged by the four as
SCISSORS who are backing Governor
Dickerson In his just demands and
opposed by eleven other assessors
who favor the Hartman interests and
place those interests above the wei.
fare OF f1he state and her people. All
that Is being asked for is that the
board nx q just valuation for assess,