The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1919-02-14
LAND May BECOME
STATE PROPERTY
ROYLANCE, NONPARTISAN TAX
ADVISER, MAKES START
80
LING ADMISSION
Us QUESTIONED BY eoslTzKY
MUST HAVE MUCH MORE TAXES
> AND THESE LAWS MUST
GO IN;FORCE"

GO IN FORCE
~ Bismarck, N. D., Feb. 10.-'If your
program goes through the people
will pay the taxes or the state will
own the land at the end of three
years."
So declared w. G. Roylance, tax
expert of Nonpartisan league legis-
lative bureau, in joint committee on
taxes this morning in responding to
inquiries by league members on that
committee as to the effect of the
taxation program which has assum-
ed such gigintic proportions. The
state. he further declares, is under
no obligations to protect spectators
in land.
mot nearly enough taxes are col
lected under the old laws to carry
out this program, and we must have
much more taxes and these laws
must go in force" Roylance declared
In further calculating the Nonparti-
son bureaus plans for forcing the
overthrow of the present taxation
system and establishment Of new
basis of taxation.
The points made by Rcylance re-
suited from Carl Kositzky's appear
ance before the committee in objec.
ton to provisions of the reclassifi-
cation act, which was before the COM
mittee for consideration.
ss.s5 ssss5S5 Sees Confiscation
Confication Of property is seen by
.Kositzky at. the Ultimate aim and m
result of the bureaus taxation. pro-
gram, and his declaration that ''if
this ship goes down by poor laws,
Til go down with It," is Indicative of
Kositzky's Interpretation of the turn
that has been taken in the Townley
and Mills program for forcing their
bills
Kositzky charged further that leg
islative appropriation bills called
now for $6O,OOO,oOo which the people
will have to raise. He found fault
with the system of assessment, too
pointing out that the annual assess
ment instead of biennial assessment
provided for in so meclasses would
reaching nature.
+. Roylance responded with the charge
that Kostizky was, in fact, attempting
to defeat the whole taxation program
by raising a mass of objections.
''Kositsky,". he said doesn't want to
cure defects in bills, but defeat the
whole purpose
g. Ist 'sNfie" Open''
Following up his assertion that
more taxes must be raised that peo-
pie must pay those taxes or the state
will own the land at the end of three
years and that the state is under no
obligation to protect men specializing
in land, Roylance said this program
sof taxation would leave the state gov
ernment "wide open" for two years.
: 1.-THE state government will be wide
open for two years in raising taxes,
but you have selected state officials
with great care. and they will move
carefully" said Roylance. "You must
step carefully for two years" he ad-
2vised leagures.' ut is going to cost
"a good deal to collect these taxes and
may seem alarming, but must be met.
The treasurer needs in addition Of
s$35, 900 to carry out these laws
Thirty one thousand more will be
needed by the auditor, and the tax
commission prob bably will spend one
Thousand dollars more to get
the taxes provided under these laws.
& appropriation bills for six million
dollars now in, are double those Of
last year. '' 5:<s
Senator Fred Meessof Morton coun.
ssty Fl chairman Of senate committee
sinsisted, that the classification act,
sby which values Of farm lands arc
ssbfaooos,ted from 100 to 800 O>per teentsove1
present valuations, may tend to the.
sconfscation of farm landse,s g. ..;.;. ~
81 ixty-seVen per cent Of taxes are
COLLECTED on real estate in North aDa
skota. based on valnati on: Of thirty
per cent" !" said Senator Mees. The
total tax collected last year for als
sspurposes was about eighteen million
ssf which the state received q bout tw,:
million. II the levy is the same By;
ssthgs state under these laws, the STATE:
can raise abont eight million dollar
.bys staxation on properties alone VIZ
must have more revenue, but It must must