Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1917-03-09
ANNUAL MEETING OF
COUNTY TAX LEAGUE
VIII BE Held i'm Court House AT Col
fax Wednesday, March IL
Officers TO BE Chosen

nv ioiioNAhB 10 ldheH @ from the
current issue of the Tax Bulletin
published by the Whitman County
Tax league:
The second annual meeting of the
taxpayers in Whitman county will be
held at the court house in CoIfax on
Wednesday, March 14th. All tax
payers in the county are invited to
be present. The business of the
meeting will be the election of Of
Ulcers for the ensuing year, reports
OF committees, and all other business
as may properly come up at that
time. All who have been members
for the past year, or are interested
in the work of this association. are
especially urged to be present.
Your attention is called to the
fact that the interest and enthusiasm
shown in attending this meeting and
approving the work done during the
past year will have its proper effect.
The officers of the association. ex-
cepting the secretary, and all COM
mitteemen have served you during
the past year without compensation
They have paid their expenses to and
from committee meetings without re-
Endorsement They have given free
ly and cheerfully of their time and
experience and you have been bene-
fitted in many ways.
The work is just begun. Legisla-
ton is needed to correct many of the
present expensive methods of doing
business, but what is NEEDED more is
the unanimous expression of the tax
payers, as body, that they are de-
handing full value in return for
every dollar paid in taxes and that
they believe they have not hereto
fore been getting it. If you believe
this come to the meeting on March
] 18th. This Tax Bulletin will reach
only paid members of the association
and you are requested to inform
your neighbOrs and friends, who are
not members, of what we have done
during the past year and ask them to
be present at the meeting.
r. f. Bigelow, a member of the
finance conf ittee of the league,
summarizes its work during the past
year, as follows:
1t is very fitting that at this time
we consider briefly what has been
accomplished by the taxpayers asso-
cation during the past year.
The reason for the existence of
this organization was the constantly
increasing amount of taxes asked of
all classes of property owners each
year, While the taxpayers realized
that more was being demanded in
the way of public conveniences and
advantages, yet there was a feeling
that Wasteful practices and ineffici-
encies were responsible in a certain
degree for the increasing taxes, and
that full value for tax money ex-
pended was not being received
1t is not the desire or intention of
the association to claim credit for
all the savings made during the wear
1916. but it is believed that the pub
lie sentiment insisting on greater
economy and efficiency. and which
expressed itself in the organization
OF this association, is the chief reason
Tor the economies that have been eff
fected during the past year. It is
believed that the taxpayers associa-
ton has assisted in obtaining this re-
suit by cooperating in many matters
that might otherwise have been
overlooked
| The county auditors annual re-
port shows the following COMPARE
son between the taxes collected in
the years of 1915 and 1916: Total
tax collected in 1915, $1,313.343.61:
in 1916, 1891, 091.35. COMPARISONS
show additional savings to the tax
payers in miscellaneous receipts,
current expense accounts. interest
paid on current expense warrants
and interest paid on school warrants.
1t is worthy of note that the cur
rent expense account for 1916
against which is charged all the
items of operating the county gov
eminent, will be further reduced in
1917 if the county officials do not
exceed the budget allowed them for
the year. The secretary of the asso-
citation places his services and ex-
perience at the disposal of the county
officials in all matters where he can
render assistance in the working out
of new systems or ideas that will
better enable the county officers to
keep within the amounts allowed in
the budget for the year. The reduc-
ton in the amounts asked by the
county officials for incidental office
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