People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1895 — WILL BE A BIG CASE. [ARTICLE]

WILL BE A BIG CASE.

Western Union Telegraph Company and the State of Indiana Clash. Washington, June 26.—The case of the Western Unlqn Telegraph company vs. the various county auditors and county treasurers of the state of Indiana has been filed in the United States supreme court for docketing. It comes from the supreme court of Indiana on a motion for a writ of error. The case Involves the oofistltutionality-of the' state law of 1893, pj-oyl<yj\g for an extra tax on telegraph, telephone, sleeping-car and express companies. The Western Union company alleges that the law did not pa?s the state senate until after the expiration of the constitutional limit of the time of its session, and that the valuation of its property as a basis for state taxes as fixed by the state board was exorbitant, amounting to >357 per mile, or a total of >2,297,652 for the entire state, exclusive of real estate, machinery, etc., subject to local taxation.