The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-07-18

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These flights of oratory all tool
place between April l and June 80
at a time when, for the most part
the tariff was before the Senate a.
the unfinished business. Some
hirty-eight other Senators con.
tributed their several parts to the
ensemble of speech making during
that period, twenty of them being
of the Democratic persuasion. And
at that sometimes the folks back
home wonder why the tariff bill
is dragging such snail-like pace
across the legislative map.
With rate of $500 per $1,000 OF
assessed valuation, Vermont stood
fifth in the descending scale list
ing all of the forty-eight states
with repect to the general tax on
real and personal property for the
year ending June 80, 1921, accord
ing to Census Bureau report Just
issued. At the same time the Green
Mountain commonwealth was sur
passed by only three other states
IN the percapita BURDEN of special
property and other taxes; while
as third mark of distinction Yer
mont was one of the six states to
report of poll tax levied for state
/ purposes.
Especial property taxes and
other special taxes" recites the
Census bulletin, care direct taxes
which are assessed, levied and
collected by methods that are not
generally applied in the case of
privately owned real property.
Among such taxes are included all
taxes upon the property of corpor-
tons levied upon the basis of the
amount of corporates stock, cor
palate Indebtedness, taxes upon
savings banks and kindred corpor-
ationS which are levied in pro
portions to a certain specified por-
ton of deposits, as their excess
above the value of specified invest
mentS; and taxes upon life inSur-
ancc corporations assessed upon
the basis of the valuation of their
/ policies. In special taxes there are
included the inheritance tax and
| income tax, the mortgage registry
! tax, and incorporation taxes"
I The rate per $1,000 of assessed
valuation ran as high as $14,6S in
the state of Washington; $10.94 in
South Carolina; and S10.43 in Ne
braska. Alabama was the only
other state to exceed the Vermont
rate, with $3.50 ror the New Eng
land Sisterhood the nearest APP
proach to the Vermont rate was in
New Hampshire, with $500 Mass
achuSetts stood t $2.79; Rhode
Island at $1.20; Connecticut at
$lO6; and Maine made no report.
These figures are in respect to the
levy Of general property tax on
real estate and personal property.
Reduced to a per capita basis
this general property tax yields
the following figures for New Eng
land: Vermont, $5.45; Maine no
report; New Hampshire, S6.61;
Massachusetts, 1851 Rhode Is
land, $I95; and Connecticut, STAG.
In the special tax classification,
the highest capita rate obtains in
Rhode Island, which is $500. Next
down the scale comes Connecticut.
with 1921, followed by California
with 1891, and Vermont fourth,
with $500, Other New England
states are thus listed: Massach-
usetts, ST.; New Hampshire. 65
cents; and no report from Maine.
The five other states besides
Vermont to report poll taxes lev
led for state purposes are Mas
achuSetts, Georgia, Indiana, Texas
and West Virginia. 4
Col. George H. Bond. of Brattle-
boro, long one of the door-keepers
of the Senate, has gone to Yer
mont for the summer. Alonzo
Emery of Randolph, who has been
Col. Bonds running mate at his
home in Vermont.
David F. Hunt, of White River
Junction, who was until recently
chief clerk of the railway mail ser
vice stationed there, was a recent
Washington visitor. He conferred
with Congressman Dale, who paid
a visit to the Post Master General
with him.
Major r. E. Beebe. of the Reg
ular army, stationed in Washing
ton, went back to U. V. NJ. of
which institution he is an alumnus,
to attend Commencement exercis-
cs.
Mrs. Fred J. Bailey. wife of the
assistant to the director of the
Bureau of Mines, and three chill
dren are spending the summer at
Marshfeld, Vt.