The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-28
Asses.ment. Vary.

at b4.43 as against 5s.57 in Rocking
- m.
Assessments Vary.
Rockingham land. he said, was as
sesscd at only 9.S7 per acre, but the
Legislature had last year appropriated
100000 for ten acres in that county,
paying thirty-fivc times the assessed
value. He charged this as grossly
eXtrayagant.
The Assembly had appropriated $685.
900 in all for a normal school at Har-
risonburg. He had thought it I'M
necessary and had voted against it.
He showed that the Board of Health
had spent in 1908. $9,sI2, nd IN 1902
s63.355; that in 1908 the Bureau of In
surance had cost tho state. S15.545. in
1909. s2s.265. The Fisheries Commits
sion he declared useless. stating that
1t took more than so per cent. of the
dustry to defray the commissions ex-
pepses.
Noel Charges ExtrHyaEance.
After crlticizing the expenditure for
good roads because IT paid out $4,000
in salaries, he thought 1t was inex-
cusable that the average school child
got 1851 OF the States money and
the student in the academic depart
Tnent OF the University OF Virginia
ss34.9o. The university appropriation
was $4,000 for the academic depart
ment OF only l26 students.
He took up the charge that his
county OF Lee did not wish cqualiza-
ton OF assessments. because 1t got
more from the State than 1t paid in.
He showed that the Auditors reports
left out certain items that ought to
have been counted in the resources
of county taxes. There were other
counties that got moro than they paid
back. and he saw no reason why his
county should have been singled out
AS to the Scott county assessment, 1t
was made by Democrats The mineral
taxes In his section were climbing
rapidly upward. He appealed to the
Democrats TO support his measure and
come out from the party lash.
Senator Strobe said he would make
no reply to the structures OF Senator
Noel. because his charges were unsup-
ported on sound principles of govern
ment. He was glad to get the Repub-
licans out In the open and have them
specify the shortcomings of the DEM
ocratic party. for during the campaign
they had refused SO to specify. He
raped the auditing system for not In
GLIDING certain items which the Sena-
tor from Lee had mentioned, and said
that ne ldI 1Culu- lHe EedSOu WHY
Amherst had seemed SO low in the re-
ports in the matter of taxable returns.
The rolling stock, among other things,
had been omitted.
Strobe Want. Bill Recnst.
He wanted the Fletcher bill recast
so that he might be able to vote for 1t.
The Noel amendment, he frankly saia,
would improve the bill. The present
complexion of the bill gave too great
a power to put in the hands of one
man. be he ever so honest and patri-
otto. Yet he thought the Noel amend
ment would prove Ineffective for 1t
would leave the law pretty much as 1t
now is. for now the judges appoint the
assessors. and they would simply BIO
passing upon the acts of their own
appointees. Again each Judge In each
county would havoc different stand
ard Of assessment, so that instead OF
having uniformity forty-tive different
standards would be brought about,
He objected to the Fletcher bill be-
cause It's real object Is elevation of as
easements and the elevation was chief.
~ to affect land. In the last analysis
only. farm land would be put under
the burden of higher taxation He
protested that it was unjust, when the
State was III a financial pinch. to bring
forward as tho main measure of re-
lief a, proposition to raise the taxes