Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1883 — NATIONAL BANKS. [ARTICLE]

NATIONAL BANKS.

Decision sf the Attorney General by Which They are Enriched. $3,000,000. [Washington Telegram.] There can be no question, of course, that the decision sf the Attorney-General in the matter of the construction of the Tax law, to the effect that National banks are not required to pay taxes after Jan. 1, last, la correct At all events, it will be the construction which the tax-collecting power will adopt The decision furnishes another illustration of the crude nature of important legislation. There prob/tbiy are very few men in the two houses who thought at the time they were voting en the Internal-reve-nue section of the bill, that the banks were te be made a favored class, and beperraitted to escape the payment of #1,000,000 in taxation. Bat there can, of course, be no question that there were no taxes due and payable on the 8d of March, when the repeal took effect Fbom Maine comes the story of a woman only 30 years old who has been struck by lightning twice, had been on the train when It was attacked by robbers once, has been apparently drowned twice, abducted twice, and met with numerous accidents with homes, and still she is hale and hearty.