Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 29, 1882, Page 4

i :‘, { S i - 4 THE DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 29 —— V:I"he Orfiaha Bee. RAILROAD ASSESSMENTS, Taxation is the premiom paid auditor of railroad accounts at $116,- 000 per mile, but it pays taxes in Ne- Published every morning, except Sun. (DY Property for its protection braska only on 811,358 per mile. ay. The only }Wond.y morning daily. and the safs enjoyment of its|Take fta market value of over £80,000 . The only way in which d add to it the mortgage of TERMS BY MATL— age. e only y per mile and add to i gog! taxes oan bo equitably lovied is to ap- portion them upon all classes in pro- people pay dividends and interest, portion to its valae. and its value will be found The constitution of Nebrasks, Art. |t be something over $125,000 1X , entitled ‘‘Revenue and Finance,” per mile, Now supposing the rail- provides that ‘‘the legislature shall | ;oads were assessed in the same provide such revenue as may be need- | manner as all other property in this ful by levying a tax by valuation 80| state, say one-third of its real value, that every person and corporation |which would be over $40,000 per shall pay a tax in proportion to the mile, and its 4556 miles in Nebraska value of his, her or its property and|would be assessed for over §8,000,000 franchises, the value to be ascer-|where now it pays taxes on a fraction tained in such manner as the legis- [ over $5,000,000. lature shall direct.” What is true of the Union Pacific Under this msection the legislature | jy moasurably true of the B, & M. has directed that tho value of the| railroad system. While their main property of all individuals and cor-[Jine between Plattsmouth and Hast- porations, excepting railroads, tele-|ings is assessed at $10,669.00 per graph and express companies, shall| mile, their Denver extension is only be assessed in each county wherever |assessed at $5,350 00 per mile, 363 1t is located, by the precinot assessor, | miles, when everybody knows that it subject to revision by the board of |js mortgaged for over $10,000 per county commissionors or manieipal | mile, and in the market is stocked the cduncil. The property of railroads, | same as the rest of the road. telegraph lines and oxpress companies, | Take the other roads and the samo contrary to the epirit if not the letter | disorimination prevails, The Mis. of the constitution, is assessed by a[gouri Pacific is only assessed at special board, consisting of the gov- $3,494 per mile, and tho Omaha, ernor, atato auditor and seate treas- | Niobrara & Black Hills extension at urer. This board, known as the state $3,335. Computed on the basis of board of equalization, exerclses its|the cash valuo given by the roads, Bravy, Dorsey & Co. have all ‘rhi"".’.P"""- without appeal to|this is only ton per cent, while all along had serious doubts whether the any revising '-‘5“'1?"‘.“‘1 upon it rests | gther property is assessed at from 30 government meant business. The the sole ""P"“"h'm_y !Ul’ the out- | to 40 per cent. Incidentally it is well sign was put out Saturday so that |Fagecus evasion ot "fh"“' just share of [ worth noting that in every other state every afar route thief who runs may | taxation by the railrond corporations | in the union every railroad pays taxes vead. of Nebraska, Mark the mandate of [on switches and side tracks, while — the constitution, ‘‘Every corporation|here in Nebraska not a mile is re- Trr echoes of the woman suffrage | shall pay a tax in proportion to the | ported. campalgn have died away in Nebras- | value of its property and franchises.” | And yot the railroads cry that there ka, but Mrs, Gougar, Susan B. An-|Now, how has this mandate been|are no grounds fcr complaint that thony and Miss Couzins are holding a | obeyed? Have our state officers ever | they do not bear their share of the wake over the corpse in several east-[lived up to their oath and levied any | burdens of government. orn states at once. tax upon the franchises of any rail- Sm—— road doing business in this state? Let OUR VU DIVIASE S Y BTRM ONLY a trifio of & hundred millions | us examine the returns of Nebraska| There isa growing lack of popular of dollars more is demanded by the | railroads us they aro assessod, as they | cOnfidence in our judiciary. 1Insomo pension commisstoner to meet next|are valued by their owners, and as |Of tho states it is below contempt. year's olaims, The survivors of the | they sell in tho open market. The judges are either grossly ignorant, rovolutionary war seem to be running | Zm=L- = e | or what is worse, are believed to be s competition with Mothusaleh's :n grossly venal, Scarcely a month passes $10 00 | Three Months. over $45,000 per mile upon which the 5.00 | One Month. One_Yeoar......82.00 | Three Montln. 50 Six Months.... 1.00 | One Month.... 20 AMERICAN Nrws Conpany, Sole Agents for Nowndealers in the United States. CORRESPONDENCE—AN Communi. atfons relating to News and Editorial watters should V)e addressed to the Eprfor or Tur B BUSINESS LETTERS—AIl Busines Letters and Remittances should be ad dressed to THE Ber PUBLISHING COMPANY OmAMA, Drafts, Checks and Postoffice Orders to be made payable to the order of the Company. The BEE PUBLISHING CO0,, Props, E ROSEWATER Editor BorsiNe down a court house to destroy the returns is no orime in Ne- braska railroad politios. It is only one of the incidents of a frontier election, em— Pror. Brooks, the astronomer, asks that prayers be cffered next Sunday for olear woather on the occasion of the transit of Venus. Bob Ingersoll’s present addross is Washington, D. C. mupane record. E Z?gig;‘::::g: that instances of judicial incompetence —— £ EEZEwa or corruption are not ventilated by the Jonn Loaax is ont with an article [ ¥ o a"fq:é press. Police courts iu a number of denpusioing Fits John Porter, | The ? gig‘ 2 our cili'fll are notorlously placed where officers who fought the most valiantly i T8 justice is sold to the highest bidder. in the commissary department a hun- dred and fifty miles from Bull Run seem to have the most decided opinions about the wecond battle of Manasaas, —— Severax candidates for the senate who have been more than favorably Inclined to the corporations are now 5i§?—".§§9.~'53555 ‘avoN 0 IKVN No. of Miles in Ne- brasks, anti-monopolists, though like Inger-| wopzasisp-icie woll's temperance Irishman with his o " half glass of whisky, they are proud | EZESGESER0ES ‘‘MoNEY to loan” is the ory .of the Iature will find no difliculty in secur- | - ing accomodations for long time at a low rate of interest, Don’t all speak .at once, Tur lows said by the railroad organs abuab Hon. M. K. Turaer's canvass in the Third district the better. Turner polled over 7,000 votes, which would ; seem to show considerablo strength for a candidate who was taunted all along with being nominated by only seven men and supported by seven papers In the words of Senator Saunders, ¢‘What are our conventions good for, anyhow?” Ttis a matter of fact that Mr. Turner's canvass was conducted without means and organization, Soveral prominent men who led him into thet fight with pledges of their warm support, quietly backed out, either because they had not the nerve, or because they had been aven by the railroads. He had no pa for his speakers, and fow speakers without passes, while every school district in the distriot was stumped by eminent republican orators, some of them fcr $100 a night, and others to earn their regular salary on the railroad pay roll, while the concert halls rang with the sweet notes of the Union Pacific glee club. Beer kegs were tapped by the hundred, whisky jugs were emptied for the glorious cause, and every brass | == band blew themselvea red in the face, in hovor «f the West Point land grabber. Mr, Purner had to literally hoe his own row. In a number of counties bis .ickets were burned up sud destroyed. In other places none went loto the hands of anybody, while throughout the district scores of postmastors made it their business to suppress the newspapers hostile to Valeatine,and to bull-doze voteraat the polls. In the face of all thls desperate oppoaition, with thousands of dollars of corruption money toattered broadoast, and a venal, cowardly and subsidized press howling like jackalls at his heels, Mr. Tarner received 7,000 out of the 16,000 republican votes polled in the alstrict, Buch a showing is a credit t0 any man, and no one but a pack of political wolves would dare to follow & man in his retirement who had made such a showing. A change of 1,600 republicans would have put Mr, Tur- ner ip sod left Valentine out, and had there been tickets in the field where th.y were needed these yelping would now be fawning at his feet, only too glad to do his bid- ding for the pitiful crumbs that fall from the political table. $3BzERnRE RES of the faot that they are ‘‘no bigots.” ;_;‘.E::.@ :&EMQE RO Lo 2888888533253 's3 » ieading U, P. candidatefor the ‘sen E “ atortal sucoession, The market’ is 2R3E3RBSELREL ! ,. 3 very tight but membors of the legis- ~323§893»§s88 Ent're Lon; of Eoad, e T % 3113618 Bteoked at. Valuation o Stock, Por Mile Not Profits “+5dl6% £oF Cort Valuation per Mile, o00y'st | 919°58 00 GoE Markot Velus por Mile. Amcunt on which 8 per, goub neb per ile 18 rotuned, RE (18 The corruptions of the New York bench when Barnard and Cordoza held their sway and acted as the tools of the Tweed ring are paralleled by the recent disclosures of Judge West- brook’s court, where Jay Gould se- cured his elevated railroad decisions. the next learniog and ability, ANl three onght to be combined in a com- petent judiciary. = Such men ocould neither be bribed or threatened, and with sach s bench we should hear of fower reversals of opinions in the higher courts, and a less number of complaints of the lack of integrity in our judges. Of what use is it for the people to make laws if there is no as. surance of their proper Interpretation] —_— Oommussionzr of Internal Revenne Raum agrees with Pig Iron Kelley that the revenne ovght to be reduced ~nas much as £30,000,000 he thinks— but he differs decidedly about making whisky and tobacco entirely free of taxation, while articles of general use and benefit bear heavy burdens, He thinks that the people would not stand such a policy as that, And he is right. Aslong as there are any taxes at all, it is cortain that any wise system will make whisky and tobacco bear a good share. There is no easier or more agreeable way of paying one's share of the support of the govern- ment than by drinking and smoking it out. 0. J. Gouperick, ono of the pioneer editors of the west, died in Denver on Saturday. Ho first embarked in the nowspaper buvsiness in Colorado in 1860, and n 1865 was the publisher of the Salt Lake Videtle, the most scathing and outepoken Gentile organ which has ever maintained its position in Utah, He was a man of fine edu- cation and brilliant editorial talenta. His leaders were known throughout the west for their brevity, precision and force, Ho was a bitter political antagonist, but gathered around him a host of personal friends. For a num- ber of years past he had been con- nected with the school system of Col- orado, Norioe of contest has been served upon Mr, M'Gavock by Fred Orone- meyer and depositions will be taken on December 8. The ground of the contest is that the board of election did not sign the returns of Jefferson precinet, Mr. Charley Dewey is also contesting the seat of George Canfield on the general ground that mistakes were made somewhere in the count, So Douglas county will afford the usual spectacle of a bear dance for the amusement of the legislature, TuERE are democratic possibilities in the legislatures of both Nebrreka and Colorado. If the democrats get one of these states the senate wi'l be evenly balanced, not counting Ma- Instances like the foregoing do not need to be multiplied. Every one knows that the reverenco which years 8go hedged in u court has, for the most part, passed away. Even the supreme court of the United States is no longer above suspiclon. Iu the days when the venerable John Mar- shall was chief juatice, the honesty of the opinions of the court were never questioned, Even when Roger Tautiey delivered his famous lecture on the Dred Scott case no one accused him of belying his honest convictions. He was at last given oredit for sincerity even though sympathizing personally with slavery. In those days the bench was practically divorced from politics as it is to-day in the two states where justico is impartially administéred. No one inquired whether the judge was a whig or a«democrat, or whether the district attorney belonged to the samo party as the sultan, The in- tegrity of the judgment cf the courts was above suspicion, and the bench gained in reputation through the con- fidence of all parties who appealed to ita tribunal for justice. To-day it is much too common to hear of lawyers who have acquired prominence because ‘‘they have the ear of the court,” and equally eommon to learn of judges who have amassed fortunes outside of their salaries on the bench. Every lawyer has ‘‘his justice of the peace,” with whom he is supposed to have more than usual ioflaeuce, And corporations and individuals interest themselves in the election of men to high T L Percintof Aseard (| toMarko! Value. @l Ver cent of Asensed |__to (st Value, shebissls * Bonds and Stocks. 1 Ow.ed by U, P. Unkeoan, The above figures as to number of miles and assessment per mile, and total aszossed value are taken from the state auditor's books, The figures as to length of line, coat, (which is re. turned in the balance sheet as con- straction account) bonded debt, stock, profit per mile, are taken from Poor's Manual for 1881, 1t will be noted of not only the railroads, but all the roll. ing stock aud equipmentas, course that tho assessment includes Now what efforts have our state |people. officers made to ascertain the actual |sfter being balked at the polls, block vaiue of these roads and their fran- chises? Havo they exercised even | Their creatures on the bench receive common disoretion or judgment in ar- | and openly use free passes on the rail- riving at the true market value of the | roads, froe stawps from telegraph cor- positions of judicial trust with a z2al which is suspiciously begotten of private interest, . Where years ago the bench was given for the honors hone and Riddiegerger.— Philadelphia Press. There is no danger that the Ne- braska legislature will eleot a demo- cratio senator so long as a candidate of a good anti-monopoly 1ecord who will vote with the republicans on natfonal iseues can be secured. ——— THE NEBRASKA PRH:S. The Polk county Farmer's Advocate notes that the neweditor of the Ropubli- can has always stood by the railroad wing of the republican paity and shows great el in denouncing such small fry as S:na- tor Van Wyck, Lorenzo Crounse and Ed. ward Rosurater, Zeal at $6a day, paid by the government, is cheap at half ths money, This from The Tecumseh Torchlight: The Omaha Repubiican is ‘‘rough” on Senator Van Wyck, and etill it wants the republican party to beceme united, The Republican should remember that Van Wyck was endorsed by a lirgs portion of the republican party, who happen to take ‘more stock in him than the Republican, or the small fry papers who are so loud in their denunciations of the senator. The Olsy County Journal raises its voice for John M, Thayer for senator, as one of the wheelborses of the republican party in Nébraska in its eariy aays, It saye: ““The general is closely connected with the early bistory of this state, and has always manifested considerable interest in its moral, political and financial success, He has once represented us in the United States sennte, and is probably the peer of any man in the state for that position agaln,” According tothe Hastings Gazatte-Jour- nal the announcement by several of the ring papers of the state that the anti-mo- nopoly ory would no longer be heard and that the movement bad been severe'y re- buked by the late election is simply the expression of a fond wish, The principles professed by the anti-monopoly party will not down, They must be eudorsed, and that soon, by some party. The cry of the peoplo is aguinst menopoly rule, againet corruption i the civil service and for a re. duction wf taxes, end that cry will be heard, The new movement is & strong infunt and us it develops it will grow to such proportions as soon to be able to care for the intere:ts of the people and to defy the encroachments aud_usurpations of the bos:es and the monopoly kings, The cry which it conferred upen the occupant, it is now sought for the salary which 1t commands, and the ermine is be- draggled and besmirched inthe mire of a political scramble for office, in which the candidate who secures the greatest number of votes in a caucus and convention is awarded the prize, irrespective of the qualifications for the porition which be is called upon 1o sssume, The character of many of our judges is at ouce a source of strength to the corporations and of weakness to the This is why the railroads, tho wishes of tho people at tho bar, property, as every assessor is supposed | Porations, and free permits from ex- todo! Take for instance the Union |Press companics, and they are preju- Pacific, which secured an aggregate diced in advance in favor of these liti- subsidy from the government of over | gants should their cases ever come be- $30,000 per mile aud which was as- fore them for trial. Since the seleo- sessed in this state at the time of its [ tion of judges in most of the states of completion, for 16,000 a mile exclu. |the Unlon lies with the people, so the sive of its local improvements such as | remedy is alone in their hands, depots, machine shops, turn-tables, water tanks and round houses. That|be sought for in a judge should be The first and pre-eminent quality to rosd was returned to the government |honesty, the next impartiality and is from the yeople and it will not be lsughed or ridieuled out of existence, Iabor performed and the money invested— not the watored stock—but a reduction «f the tariff will be a long stride n_the right direction, and will aid very much in nc: gomplishing complete roform in the utare, POLITIOAL NOTHS, The election of [Maginnis ({em.) to con groes for Montana will probably be son® teated by Botkin, his republican opponent, becanse many Chinamen and Indiams voted the democratio ticket. The S, Panl (Mion,) Press prints the names of eighty-thres mewbers of the Minnesota legisiature who, it says, are in- structed or pledged to_vote for Senator Windom’s re-election, Seventy-six is a majority of the whole legislture, I'he total vote of Arkansas at the con- ressional election was only 64,521, about alf the vots cast at the presisential elec. tion two years ago. Kach party lost about 20,000 votes, The democrats re. mained at home because they knew their party would win and the republicass were convinced that it was useless for them to g0 to the poils, “The Indiana prohibiticnists do _not pro- pose to allow the demoorats to shirk the responsibility of killing the proposition to submit a prohibitory amendment to the people, They wili press the measurs at the coming session of the legislature and compel the democratic party to put itsslf on record on the question, Thera is said to be aome signs of restlessness among the democrats ut the evident intention of the liquor interest to dominate the party. There does nor appear to be much of a boom for ex-Senator Eaton for speaker of the next houre ameng the New England democrats, They cannot give hi:n more than six votes at the outside, three of which would have to come from his own state, The etanding of the three demo- cratic congresemen from Mas«achusetts on the speakership question is not known, and 1t I« doubtful if they have considered the matter themselves, the prolonged “‘eat” over the Butler victory having oc- cupied all their attention. A fulfillment of promises of econom: the democratic leaders now realize wlfl seriously endafiger their pronpects of hold- ing & eolid suuth, it is just the same with their yromise of revenue reform, They have talked about a revision of the tariff, and have p omised to lighten the burdens of taxation, but find now that the power is to be placed in their hands that the most conflicting views on the tarifi queation, from abeolute free trade to the strictest rotection theories, divide their councils. n fact they appear to realize that their recent victory is something of un elephant. Just what to do with it is_a terrible per. plexing question,—Boston Traveller (S‘::b wart Rep.) Ex-Senator Oglesby is likely to prov formidable candidate for David Davis’ seat to the senate, The effectiye work he did upon the stump during the campaign and his dizcretion in refusing to allow him- welf to be considered as in the field for the position until the canvasa was over, tend- ed to make him many friends and no cuemies in the party. Hven now he re- fuses to enter iuto any scramble for the place and is willing to leave the decision to the free choice of the republican members of the legislature. It appears probable that Mr, Oglesby discovered the drift of public sentimen} more nccurately then his rival and, that this is no: a goed year for eandidates to succeed who display too much eagerness for office, In New York Governor Cleveland’s ma- jority was 193,991, but he had only 1,185 more votes than Hancock received for pros- ident aud 20,000 less than General Garfield received, This proves that there is still o republican majority in New York, and it may be relied upon to rally to a repub- licin eandidate for the presidency in 1884r In Indiana the democrats carried the state by 10,000 majority, in round numbers, and the republican vote was about 22,000 le's than the. vote cast for Garfield, This proves than Indiana is safe or the republioans in any contest that will briug cut the full vote. In Pennsyl- vania the democratic yote was 355,991, and the vote of the two republican candi- dates fur governor was 850,382. The vote for Garfield in 1880 was 444,704, The democrats polled their fall vote in the late election, while the republicans polled aver than two years previous, The in the three states mentiored ey sre still republicans, and can be sounted upon for & republican ma- jority two years hence. full ret: prove thay THAT MORTON LETTER, Nepraska Crry, November 27, Correspondence of the Ece. In this morning’s BaE I see that you publish a letter from this city to The Chicago Times and attribute its authorship to J. Sterling Morton. Now, the truth of the whole matter is this: I wrote that letter, without Mr. Morton's knowledge or any sug- gestion from any one, Mr. Morton, at the time, was in your own beauti- ful city ongaged, I hope, in a far bet- ter businees than pleadinginthe public press for a seat in the United States senate, As the place has been filled so long by cottonwood men, I deem that there is lit'le honor Jeft in being a United States senator from any state, especially Nebrasks; however, let me thank you for the compliment by re- forring to my letter as from the pen of g0 able a writer as J. Sterling Mor- ton. I also hope you will noce the fact that Mr. Morton is a member of the United States grand jury; is still bucking the frauds in conneciion with the surveyor pgeneral's cffice, while Mr. Dawes and Batler elink away for fear of making enemies by simply do- ing their duty, Hopiog you will give this a place in your columns, I am, respectiully yours, W. T. CANADA Dopend Upon It Mother Shipton’s prophesies and Louis~ fana election+ axs very uncertaia things, bu: T 4 rie Oil can be depended ures ache s and psins of The Arapahoe Miuor Lits the nail on the head when it remarks that before elec- tion the ory was raised that every snti- monopoly republican if elected to any office whatever, would affiliate and work with the democrats, Then they were called ioreheads, demagogues, cappers for the democrats, and everythlnr mean the Hgtraight” rejublican mud slingers could lay their slimy toogues to, But behold how great » chawwe » few days have wrought! Now that twenty-four anti- monopolists were elected to the Nebraska logislature (six to the upper and eizhteen to the lower house) lhui’ are beiog be- smeared with taffy and called good reput- licaus by the n*{a.rod *straight” organs with 5 degree of “lavishuess” that would equal the cheek of Uncle Sim's oft-re- ferred to descendant of the jackass famiiv, Of such is the kingdom of U, P, aud B, & M. “reput licanism.” RiSays the Grafton Gazette: Toere is now 1o doubt but that the anti-monopolists will have control of the next legislature by » large msjority, ‘There will be no excuse whatever for a failure to pass a law reduc- ing railro.d tariff, Butthe men who have been elected will attempt uo excuse. They are one and all determined that something must be done at the next ression of the state legislature to relieve the people of Nebraska of the heavy burden of railroad taxation. Plenty of bills will be pre- sented, and the majority will bé ready to e i declding “apoa ths cas oult; e one which u’n be enforced, and which will do ustice £o the people snd the railroads, ‘o cunnot hope the law to be pasied this m{.«r'fll ;:I‘ the radicsl 'mgofi ly needed and so long or, reduce the tariff to s polnt where the rates will give & fair roturn sad uo wore for the WCLoRmEREth | ain dlaesiag s 2 PILES. jitu vor st bel5 cated with constipstion, Kiduey:. 3, or 85 for & re- D= [iail box by Express of the best Candies in America, put up in alegant boxes, and strictly pure, Snitable for presents, Express :|HIDES, FURS, WOOL. PELTS & TALLOW charges light, Refers to all Chi- oago. Try it once. Sy ovNTamRy, GUNTHER'S CAND Con _n286m McCARTHY & BURKE, Undertakers, 218 14TH ST., BET. FARNAM AND DOUGLAS . . B —— OM.ATELA. COFFEE AND SPICE MILLS. Roasters and Grinders of Coffess and Spices. Manufasturers of IMPERIAL BAKING POWDERI Clark's Double Extracts of BLUEING, INKS, ETC. H. G. 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