Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1870 — Railroad Tax. [ARTICLE]

Railroad Tax.

Some of the people of this county who are'in favor of a tax to aid the Fort Wayne Sc Pacific Railroad are troubled with the idea that the tax. levied last summer for the defunct Indianapolis, Delphi and Chicago project mast be levied, and if this present election is carried, they will be compelled to pay for both roads—four per cent in all. Nothing can bo further from the truth. In event the election is carried, next Saturday week, in favor of the proposition of a two per cent tax in aid of the Fort Wayne A Pacific Railroad, the question for the Commissioners to 'decide will be, which appropriation shall be levied? There can he but one tax collected, as will be seen by refering to the thirteenth section of the Railroad Appropriation Law, which reads as follows: SBC. 13. No county or township shall be authorised, by the provisions of Skis act, to appropriate to railroad purposes, or to raise by taxation for such purposes, to exceed two per centum upon the taxables of such county or township (as said taxables shall appear on the tax duplicate of the county,) in any one period of two years. The friends of the Indianapolis, Delphi and Chicago project need hare no fear that anything can be done to injure the prospects of that enterprise. It is dead to all intents and purposes. The engineer's report of the cost of its construction io conclusive that the project is not feasible. His estimate is that it will cost eight thousand dollars per mile to prepare the road bed for the iron, and any person who gives the subject a moment’s thought will know that the people along the line can not and will not raise to exceed one half this sum, and the route is not of sufficient importance to induce capitalists to build it forthem. The officers of the company know this to be the condition, and publish that they have suspended active operations for an indefinite timeTh.e beirrg the case, we ask, is it not better for as to turn our attention to the Fort Wayne A Pacific Railroad, and vote it a reasonable donation? If the road is built wo will be the gamers, this much is conceded by all; if it is not built wo lose nothing, as the tax will never be collected. Let us say here that this company—the Fort Wayne A Pacific—have not and will not ask one cent, to survey the line, obtain the right of way, or tor any other purpose, but they simply and only ask that in event the rqad is completed we donate them a specified amount

Ths South Bend Union, the Winamac Dtu.ocral and the Stark couu ♦y Ledger, all democratic papers, apeak favorably of General Packard as the proper man for the republicans of this district to nominate for congress. We have heard psveral of the influential democrats df thia county speak in the same manner. The inference in plain.— They know Mr. Packard's course has created mortification, chagrin, bitterness, strife and wide-spread dissatisfaction in the republican ranks, and they hope his re-nomi-nation will drive enough voUS from - hh ticket Jo secure the election of a dwmnrrat ■ We hear that a happy father in theeountry has lately ken present *d by hi. proud spouse, with a sixteen pound babe.-Z< V orfe HcrM