Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1907 — Fixing The Assessments. [ARTICLE]

Fixing The Assessments.

A remarkakable story in figures is told in the reports now being compiled by the clerks of the state board of tax commissioners in Auditor of State'Billheimer’s office. The result is so amazing as to be almost beyond belief, but the records are plain and cannot be disputed. A recapitulation of the wofk of the board during the last six years shows that the increase in the valuation of corporation property in Indiana in that short period was $40,502,678 —a record that has never been equaled in this commonwealth. At that, many of the corporations—in fact, a majority—have not complained of the board’s action, but have asked for a square deal. The increase in the amount of taxes paid to the various counties by the railroads and other corporations as the result of the efforts of the last two republican state ad« ministrations to bring the valuation of corporate property up to the point where it belongs, cannot be estimated accurately at this time, says the Lafayette Journal, but it is very large and is calculated to relieve the burden of taxation on other property. The board will resume its sitting July 14, and will give the corporation ample opportunity to be heard again and to protest all they desire against the assessments that were fixed last mouth. The figures show conclusively that the representatives of the republican party have not done the bidding of the corporations as their democratic opponents would make believe, but on the other hand they have worked consistently to increase the valuation of their prop erty to a point where it belongs. The board will resume work within a few’days and will be in session for two weeks listening to the appeals of the corporations that object to the valuation recently made of their property. The board will give thirty days-all of Augustto hearings to fix the valuations of real estate. Most of the county and township assessors have completed their work. The tax board was very careful in its instructions regarding the work of the assessors, as it will try to arrive at a just and an equitable value of real estate. After a heavy meal, take a couple of Doan’s Regulets, and give your stomach, liver and bowels the help they will need. Regulets bring easy, regular pasages of the bowels. $63.15 round trip to California June 10-11-12-13 14 and 15.