Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1874 — WHAT THE LAST LEGISLATURE DID. [ARTICLE]

WHAT THE LAST LEGISLATURE DID.

The.last legislature of Indiana, was elected upon professions of retrenchment, and this is the way they accomplished it : They increased the pay of State officers—Senators, Representatives, etc.—Si 22,100. They raised the levy of State tax from five up to fifteen cents on the SIOO. They increased the valuation of real and personal property eighty per cent for taxable purposes. They used up a surplus of $763,000 which was in the treasury, and made a temporary loan of $710,000 additional. They increased court expenses $55,000. They passed t>law requiring the appraisement of real estate every two years, thereby more than doubling the expense of making such appraisement to the taxpayers. What political party was responsible for this kind of legislation? Will the people submit to such outrages and re-elect the same men ?