Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 9 November 1897 — Page 8

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Old Lake' Captains Declare that Saturday Night's Storm-Wa« One of the Very Worst.

Buffalo, N. Y., Nov. 7.—The following are .he names of the sixteen of th': nineteen men who lost their lives cn the steamer Idaho, which sank during the gala oo Saturday morning above Longpolnt, on Lake Erie:

ALEXANDER GILLIES, captain. GEORGE GIBSON, first mate. WILLIAM CLANCY, chief engineer. JOHN D. TYLOR, steward, all of Buffalo. NELSON SKINNER, first assistant engi­

neer. LOUIS GILMORE, watchman. RICHARD M'LEAN, wheelman.

ROBERT WILLIAMS, wheelman. A. J. RICHARD, lookout. -v'I HENRY THOMPSON, lookout. CONRAD BLANKER, fireman. WILLIAM GREGORY, fireman. JOHN HEALY, assistant steward. ..i/i-vv. FRED K. MIFFORT, oiler. EDWARD SMITH, deck hand, Rochester,

N. Y. ,V, M. BEEL, deck hand'. The names of three of the men drowned are unknown to the steamship company. One was fireman, another a deck hand and the -third a porter. Jr_H-

The names of the two men saved are: Louis La Force, Jr.,second mate, and William Gill, a deck hand, Rochester, N..Y. It is not known at the office of the Western Transit Co., where the greater portion of Uie dead men hail from.

The Idaho went out of commission three or four years ago, but this summer she was thoroughly overhauled. After her overhauling she was placed at the disposal of the Naval Veterans' Association and by that organization used as a flagship during the G. A. R. encampment in August. At the close of the encampment she was putfintp commission again as a freighter,

The captain of the ill fated steamer, A'lex Gillies, was one of the most widely known of lake seamen. He was 41 years old. His brother, Donald Gillies, is captain of the ateamer Harlem.

When the steamer Mariposa arrived in jort about midnight last- night with the news of the disaster to the Idaho and having on board the two surviving members of the crew Captain Root had this to say regarding the storm on the lake and the rescue of the, two men: "It was one of the worst gales I ever experienced in all my years on the lakes. We started from Chicago with a load of oats. All the wAy down Ahe lakes we had a fight" -with the storm and* thought once or twice of putting in somewhere until it blew over. It was about 12:30 yesterday afternoon when I first learned of the Wreck of the Idaho. I •was on deck when First Mate Chamberlain came to me and told me that he had sighted a spar off to the north and that a couple of men were clinging to it. We were running under a good head of steam at the time and I put on more and headed for the spar. "We could not lower a boat in such a storm. 1 circled about the flpar until I ran alongside and my men picked the poor fellows off. They had to drag them away from the spar by force, for the men had been there ao long that their arms had become numbed and were twisted about the mast and almost frozen fast to it. "When we got the men bn board we put them in bunks and gave some warm food and soups and had tbem feeling pretty good physically when we reached harbor."

Wm. Gill, the rescued deck hand, is more Intelligent than the average seafaring man, and his story of the disaster as. told early this morning is a thrilling one. "We left here Friday'.night bound for Chicago with a cargo of general merchandise,'' •aid he. "Everything seemed all right until we got outside the breakwater, and then we were struck by the worst storm I ever 6aw. When the first big breaker struck us we were tossed up in the air like a top, and a second later a big roller came over the port bow and rolled down amidships a foot deep. The wind shrieked and howled, but we did not pay much attention to the storm. The captain consulted with the mate and decided that he could weather it, and he kept on his course "We moved slowiy against the heavy wind and sea which was growing worse ev•ry minute, and when we were well up the lake we found that the boat was taking water. The bilge pumpfe were put to work, but the water gained and every minute the ship kept getting less buoyant and the big comers continued breaking over her. "We were near Long Point a this tltne, and the captain started to put in there with the intention of beaching the ship. But the water giined so rapidly that it was too late. She was already laboring and the two men at the wheel could do nothing with her. Two more men went to work with them, and finally they brought her^ around and headed her toward land. "Captain Gillies started the pumps, ordered the men to the fire buckets and we formed a line and be/an to bail. but. it wab ao use. The water gained on -the pumps and the buckets,, and soon the water .put .the •res out. *. ,rl "Wkea it was 'found that the power jraa tone and that the Idaho could not be moved, «re could not live in the trough of that fearful sea, and the oaly hope left us was to

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out ike aaaber aod bring her head tip

to the sea and let her jide out the gale. Every seaman realized the danger of attempting to do that in the face of a hurri­

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and when Captain Gillies decided to do it he ordered the lashing of the boats cut and told the men they were forced to tike one last chance for their lives. "At the word the anchor dropped from the bow and the chain began to pay out, but the sea was too heavy and the anchor simply tumbled into the trough of the sea which broke over her in torrents. In an instant she was as helpless as a log. From port to starboard the great mountains of foaming water poured, rolling into the hold and adding to the quantity already weighting her down. The load was too much and after a moment, when we all felt that we were lost, the ship keeled over to the starboard and went down stern first. "What became of my mar.es I don't know no boat could have lived for a minute in that terrible sea, and if any of them did get .in the boats it was simply swamped-as soon 'as the first wave struck it. May be they did not leave the ship at all. I was near the spar and when the stern of the vessel began to go under I went for the rigging, and went up as fast as I could. Another man went with me—the second mate— and I thank the Lord he was with me or I would have gone mad during all the long hours that I was up there hanging on and trying to keep off the frightful cold that was steadily killing us both. "The hail and sleet was coming down in a cutting sheet and we were covered with ice in a few minutes, for though the top of the- spar on which we were hanging was twenty-five feet above the water, the big waves struck us and broke over us and the hail cut us like shot. "It was about 3 o'clock when we went down. When -daylight'came we could not sep-a sail anywhere near us and the sea was as bad as ever. Hour after hour we waited thete and then we saw the Mariposa coming.. "When she finally sighted us and we saw her head for us I tried to tell my mate, but I could not, and he looked at me with a happy- look on his face. It was a terrible time to us before she came up to us/, "When the Mariposa got within a cable length of us- a man with a strong voice yelled to us to'hang on. 'Don't, give up,' he yelled, 'and we'll get' you off soon.' The boat circled aountf us. On the third trip around she ran right alongside our spar and as she went past a dozen men reached for us. I don't know who got the mate, but Mr. Smith, the engineer, got hold of me and dragged me from the' spar and over the rail of the Mariposa. An. instant later we had passed the little stick on which the mate and I had been hanging for almost a day, although it seemed a week."

The second mate, Louis La Force, said tti^t in the rush of men from the hold one of them, a watchman, was trampled to death. Six or eight, he said, must have been drowned like rats in the hold. The first long dip- ot the stern was the first intimation tbiey had that the final danger was at hand and then they made a frantic rush TO get on d?4k.. The hatchway was too small to let them through together and the result was thta one of them was trampled to death and several were left to drown.

Rochester, N..Y., Nov. 7—The unknown fireman who went down with the Idaho was named Richards. He lived at Ogdensburg. Nelson Skinner, first assistant engineer, lived at Auburn.

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|T, CAVERN FOR A LODGE.

Wonderful Natural Hall in the Arizona Mountains. f'vJU '^Phoenix, Ariz., Nov. 7.—In the- written lore of Masonry it is told that the order had its birth in the cave quarries beneath Mount

Lebanon, where ttfe workmen of Solomon's temple gathered at night, and bound themselves in a brotherhood, uniting in the triple cause of mutual protection, learning and truth. In the earlier days of the guild, through tjie persecution that ever is allotted a cul£ that is new, the caves of Syria were the lodge rooms. But the days when Masonry was deemed allied to the black arts are past, and not for centuries have the craftsmen of the order been compelled to hide their lodges like the foxes.

In Arizona on November 10th the Masons will return to first principles, for the annual sessions of the grand lodge of the territory will be held in a cavern, not in a disitial quarry, tough, strewn with the products oif the chisel and mallet, but in a temple of surpassing beauty, a direct gift from Supreme Master Williams, unmarred by touch of human workman. Large it is as the largest lodge room, with fluted and frescoed roof, with wondrous columns and pillars, such as mortals could never hew the walls t)ie spotless, white of purity, with here and there a stripe of the blue of truth. At the Master's right hand nature has placed a pedestal of creamys white that will ring like a bell under his gavel. On either side the dais are snowy curtains of purest lime, through which the lights will shine, only mellowed by the barrier.

Though the lodge -oom is 300 feet below the surface, yet it will be reached from below, and well guarded may it be, for the approach for rods is by a narrow tunnel. Then the way leads up a short shaft and through a portal broken in the cavern's 3ide. At tie back, beyond the Master's station, is another gateway, but one that only adds to the mystic influence of the place. Outlet it is. yet no man knoweth whither it leads. Though the cavern's air is Afreet'-arid pUre. no draft comes from the Stygian pit. No man has ever been lowered into its mouht. and lanterns swung down show nothing beyond the narrow slit, 6ix feet in width, of unknown length and depth. Stones thrown within are never heard to Strike^ the bottom. Such is the rearward boundary of the lodge room.

The location is at Bisbee, one of the most unromantic of mining towns, set in a gorge of the Mule mountains, in the southeastern part of Arizona. Down the narrow valley the shanties straggle in the usual nerve distracting way. At the head are the great smelting furnaces, surrounded by growing mountains of slag. Below this lies the lodge room: down a shaft, along a drift, and up an "upraise," where stolid Cornish miners broke through the side of the chamber. The room ia approximately an acre In area and twenty feet in height. Under foot the white floor is almost level. Overhead the drippling of lime water, long ages drained, has left the most curious tracery, much as though the cavern were in an iceberg and net is coarser earth.

The Express is the only Sunday mornUg paper Terr* Btute, week.

CURRENCY SYSTEMS

BUSINESS-LIKE FLAN 18 SUBMITTED TO THE MONETARY COMMISSION.

National Banks Would Bave to Make Ampit Guarantee for Redemptions #{»,» Their Iuue.

OBLIGATIONS TO BB WITHDRAWN.

FIFTEEN PEB CENT. OF IMPOST DUT1ES PAYABLE IN GOLD.

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High Financial Authorities Favor the Creation ot a Cmrency Board Controllinff Issue#. ..

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it proper and expedient, with power also to increase the amount of note issue by the banks required for the. normal conditions of business as the country shall grow in population and in business expansion. "As banking capital may be increased by creation of new banks, the currency board should have power to adjust the note issue, whether normal or extraordinary between the new and old banks—no distinction being drawn between them. "The 15 per cent gold upon the note issue

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need of such a system than the fact that it has: been established by voluntary consent in ii&es of panic." iVice President E. O. Leech, of the National Union Bank of New York, formerly director of the United States mint has also {Absented a paper to the commission addressed not so much to the merits of any particular form of banking system as to needed reforms of the present minting and currency laws.

PCRLEY K1(jHT AGAIN

$OME MORE PERPLEXITIES IN TI1B FAMOUS GUARDIANSHIP CASE.

'government Baa Taken Hold Of It, And la InTeitigating Both the Parley Klfbtl.

The Supreme Court, to which the suit of Purley Kight vs. William H. Soale and bondsmen was appealed the other day, will not have the only finger In the pie. Uncle Sam is manifesting a very warm interest in the matter of the two Purlers, and is also displaying his customary and commendatory investigations.

Washington, Nov. 7:—The monetary commission is receiving in answer to its invitation many interesting propositions for reform of the banking and currency systems of the country, and among these is one from John C. Builitt, which coming highly indorsed as it does by financial authorities has commanded great attention and study. Mr. Bullitt's plan touches every branch of the problem before the commission and its provisions in outline are as follows: "That all of the outstanding currency, obligations, amounting to about $800,000,000, shall be taken up and cancelled, being replaced according to business exigencies (under the direction of a currency board composed of the president, secretary of the treasury and comptroller of the currency), by 3 per cent bonds. "There is to be but one kind of currency, namely, national bank notes redeemable in gold at the bank of issue and a selected bank of reserve, and these notes are to be issued gradually to replace United States obligations as the latter are retired. •These notes are to be secured by a deposit of 15 per cent of gold in the treasury by 15 per cent gold in the bank vaults and by a first lien upon all of the bank's assets, as well as by a special provision giving the government the right to assess all national banks when needed to make good notes of a defaulting bank, the notes of which would then be redeemed by the government. A tax is to be laid upon the banks to cover the expenses of the currency board and the balance held to secure redemption of notes in gold, but if. this exceeds $10,000,000 the surplus may be covered into the treasury to pay interest on United States bonds and fort general purpose. This tax should be one-t half of 1 per cent, or 1 per cent per annum, as the commission shall elect. "Power should be given to banks under permission from the currency board to increase the note issuewhe demand caused by unusual financial emergency, such increase to be subject to a tax (to be determined from time to time by the currency board) upon the notes while in circulation the tax upon the notes to be at a rate which would put a pressure upon the banks to take up the notes when the emergency has, passed. "Silver and subsidiary coins should be redeemed in gold by the United States government when demanded. These amount to about $100,000,000. "No notes should be issued for less than $5. "National banks should be constrained to exchange notes now out for new. issue by surrendering notes as they receive them. "Customs duties and taxes of all kinds due the government should be payable onethird in gold and two-thirds in bank notes. This is necessary to supply the government with the gold required by it to pay interest upon its bonds, redeem silver, and for ether purposes. "The legal tender quality of gold and silver should remain as now provided by law, and they should be the only legal tender except to the extent of two-thirds of customs duties and taxes due the government, which should be payable i^ bank notes, as abbve stated. "Confer upon the currency board power to regulate the issue of bank notes from time to time in lieu of the government currency retired, and to authorize new banks to be established when and where and with such amouBts of capital as the board may deean Mrs. Smith's removal to Ohio and the ep- .. ... .12..I.)*. V«

The case is still too fresh in the minds of the people to need a very exhaustive recapitulation. Express readers will remember that Purley Kight (so alleged), on coming of age, sued his guardian, Soale, for the money held in his name, which consisted ot the accruing pension given him after the death of the father.

No more romantic case ever tame into court, it is safe to say. Young Kight had disappeared from the knowledge of the authorities and his friends when a baby. It was over ten years after tnat when Henry

Ehrenhardt of this city saw a boy on Maim street whom he recognized as Purley Kight. Mr. Ehrenhardt had heard that Attorney Soale, who had been appointed guardian of the estate without a claimant, was searching for the lad. So he marched him up to the lawyer's office. The boy told a pathetic story. He had been by turns a homeless waif end'a care upon sympathetic farmers. Mr. Soale established his claim-to the pension and became his legal guardian. The young fellow worked around in V,igo county and at the time of coming of age was married and living at Martinsville. He blaimed he could not get a settlement out of the guardian and sued him for the amount of the pension aggregate. Judgment was rendered him for $500 and the case was appealed.

By examination of the special examiners it developed on the last day of the trial that there had been another application for the Kight pension. A young man had sent in hia- application some time subsequent to the other from Urbana, O. His name was also Purley Kight. There was a great deal of scepticism about this new ship on the horizon and a charge of fraud, was made on both sides. Soale and his attorneys Seemed to be of the opinion that the other side had known of this all the time and was withholding it, thus acting, to say the least, in an underhand way.

But the jury was not inclined to consider this latter development in any serious light and gave the judgment mentioned.

However, this made a new case, one In which the government was interested. One of the young men was certainly a perjuref and the penalty of this crime in connection with a pension claim is very severe. Unfile Sam's minions therefore set to work to ferret out the real facts in the case.

The papers in the matter went traveling eround the country and soon elicited some interesting facts. It will be remembered that Purley Kight was placed In the poor asylum by his mother when her husfcand died and was thence removed by her when he was about 6 years old. There was another little boy in the asylum nearly the same time and he disappeared about the same time. His name was Charles MatherIy and his uncle, William Matherly, is a well known citizen of Prairieton. The claim made by the attorneys for Mr. Soale was that the plaintiff in the suit last spring was Charles Matherly and the Ohio claimant the true Purley Kight.

Investigation by the "pension department discovered, it is stated, that, in the first place, Mrs. Kight, who had married one Jesse Smith while the son was in the poor asylum, moved to Urbana, O., some time adjacent to the disappearance of the boy. It is said, though this cannot be verified, that she and husband died at that place and Purley- found a home with a shoemaker named Henderson. So far as The Express is able to ascertain there is a hiatus in regard to government knowledge between the time of

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plication by the young man in Urbana. But the examiners found that a young man, who gave his name as stated, had made the application in regular form. This was rejected at the time owing to the priority of the one made by Mr. Soale for his ward.

When Uncle Sam went back to Urbana to find the real or pretended claimant he had disappeared. It was learned the family with ..whom he had lived had removed to Louiswille. Ky., but at this place they could not be found nor no trace or clue of them. The

xae 10 per tic ill, guiu upuu cut? uvco IOOUC uo lvuuu deposited Jn governments treasury and the investigation was at an end for the time, 15 per c.ept kept in bank Vaults should be I the authorities being at their wit's''iftid. counted a^pa,rtfof the 25 per cent reserve on The next movement muet therefore condeposit in national banks. The system of cern the Purley Kight whi figured in the clearing house certificates adopted by the suit. Last Monday be was summoned to banks in the'Iarge cities in times of panic thic Vuv wherp federal renhesentatlves met should be legalized. "They have proved to be most salutary, and there can be no better evidence of the

this'city, where federal representatives met him and the party proceeded to the home of William Matherly, In Prairietoii: And the queer thing about it all is that Matherly is as positive that the fellow is his long lost nephew as Ehrenhardt, and others were a few years ago that he was Purley Kight. The old men claimed he is Charles Matherly on account of certain family resemblances ^pnd of marks on the body. He asserted the slight scar on the young man's face, below the left eye, was on the face of his little nephew fifteen or- more years ago.

Purley Kight had a sister a little younger than he. A young woman, who claimed to be Ida Kight, attended the--case in the Circuit Court here last spring. Many claimed to see a remarkable resemblance In her face to that of the plaintiff. But the claim of Mr. Soale and his side is" that the Ohio aspirant also spoke of a sister Ida, who had been left in Indiana, but wnose Identity is now shrouded in as great doubt as that of the real Purley Kight. If the lad from Ohio could be found, some light, one way or the other, could possibly be obtained.

All this information obtained by the federal authorities has been sent in to the departmetn at Washington and will be taken up and considered at length and sooner or later the department wltl express itself as to the merit of the claims of each of the Rights, or Kight and Matherly, as the case may be. Attorney Soale has received notification that, in case the matter should be decided in favor of the Ohio man he will be called upon to hand over to the government the moneys received as guardian. Or if, as would be more likely, the Indiana claimant should be found to be a perjurer, with no more light on the other, the same thing will be asked. Mr. Soale says he Is perfectly willing to do this and stands ready for it. He asserts, however, that he will not hand over the amount already paid to the Indiana Kight, nor the cost of the appeal to the Supreme Court.

Meanwhile, the mill of the latter will continue to grind regardless of the government's actions and Mr. Soale feels hopeful that the decision of the Vigo Circuit Court will be reversed.

K. of P. Fast Chancellor* Meet.' At a called meeting of the past Chancellors of this city Sunday a committee was appointed which should draft by-laws and a constitution. The committee was composed or the following members: George Sweeney, chairman, A1 We-mkrecht. fi. H. Smith, L. P/'Siedeoe, &. U. Say J. Price pS

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TARES EXCEPTION TO STATEMENTS MADE BY CITY TKFASUREK BALCH

More About the Levy Marie By the City Treasurer On the Property of the Street Railway.

President Harrison, of the street railway company, was seen Saturday in regard to the statement made by City Treasurer Balch in the levy on the property of the railway company, and the subsequent application for a receiver. When shown the card of Treasurer Balch, Mr. Harrison expressed himself a "I am not surprised th&t'thc petition of the Trere Haute Electric Rairtray company to the city council for a fair and equitable adjustment of o»r taxes to a legal basis, should arouse Treasurer Balch. it is certainly a remarkable and unusual condition that the company must appeal to the city" council to prevent au attempt to collect illegal city taxes on our property lying outsiide of the city limits. But unfortunately 'It is a condition, not a theory, that confront* the~company.' While our petition to -the council was not a newspaper controversy, being only an appeal for justice, I am not willing to let Treasurer Ba'.ch attempt to defeni the securing of illegal taxes^from the company by a forced ana indecent levy, to .go unanswered. Corporations, as well as citizens, have rights, and while president of a street railway company I shall always endeavor to protect Its interests to the best of my ability. The company's petition to the city council is a perfectly fair one, and its statement truthful. The company having suffered so much:by four years persecution and oppression on tne part of certain city officials, S Would not want, as its representative, to do anyone an injustice. But even with this feelltfg, the company can not afford to submit to illegal taxation. It is all very well for Treasurer Ba'.ch to make the statement that the facts IS the company's petition are no' truj, but such a statement does not prove anything. An analysis of the petition shows that it covers these points. (1) The company has property outside the city limits. (2) That the city treasurer has illegally placed city taxes on the company's property that lies oUtside of the'city limits, and that he attempted :to collect the same. (3) That he made a levy th enforce such taxes, and that sfich levy was very hasty and unwise from any .standpoint to the city and the company. The levy was also made at an hour when financial institutions were closed, and covered property, which, by preventing its use, greatly^ incommoded the public, and deprived honeBtand deserving laboring men of a half day's pay. (4) That the treasurer's demand for the immediate payment of the taxes was indecently short, allowing no time to communicate with parties in the East. (5) That if only a reasonable time had been given the funds would have been paid, under protest. (6) That the has levy impaired the company's credit, and prevented the city securing the taxes.

Thsse are the points cdVered by the petition, and yet the treasurer calls them false. If these facts are not true, there is no such thing as truth, and every one of them can be sustained. The Citizens of Terre Haute are intelligent, apd I am quite willing that they should pass judgment as to their truthfulness. I fail to see where the company committed any wrong, or error of, judgment, in petitioning the council, for a fair adjustment of this problem and reciting the facts, for the council at nearly -e*ery meeting adjusts tax matters. City Treasurer Balch in his attempted vindication, produces an order from the mayor for the collection of taxes. This is regular and usual, but is not, and can not be construed as in any way authorizing the placing of unjust a'iad illegal taxation upon our property. He also produces a certificate from the city clerk, that the tax duplicate

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a true and correct abstract of the assessment of real.esate as furnished by. the auditor of Vigo county, and also of personal property, polls and dogs, returned by the township assessor. These certificates-are conceded to be authority for all legal taxation, but there is not a line of authority in either certificate that commands the city treasurer to do an illegal thing, and'it is childish to try and creep behind these certificates as justification for the collection- of taxes not authorized by law. Treasurer Balch should know that no one could give him authority to do an illegal act, and that he has autlfority—in fact it is. his duty—to act on his own judgment when necessary and not to go beyond the law, no matter who makes or is responsible for the assessment. If he has not a duty to perform fn preventing errors of this kind, then it would have to be admitted that if some one placed a piece of Clay county property on the city duplicate the city treasurer would have authority to collect $f taxes by a levy and attempt to sell the property. I challenge the city treasurer to produce a single line from the statutes of Indiana, authorizing him to collect city taxes on property outside of the city limits, or that will enable him to quote the error of anyone else as authority for him to do an iilegal act. "As to the levy and the manner in which it was done, I will leave the fact as to whether «t was hostile, oppressive and injudicious to the citizens of this city, who are quite competent to -pass intelligently upon the question. If the object of the levy was to collect the taxes, no one will saj that it was unnecessary to destroy the company's credit in so doing, or that it was necessary to-levy on the cars and prevent their operation, thereby greatly incommoding the public, when the fixed and immovable property of the company could have been levied unon just as'readily.' I can show by others that if a levy had not been made before daylight and in such a public way, that with a few days' additional time taxes would have been paid, as stated, under protest and the city Would now have bad money, instead of waiting for the company to earn it. No one will say that there was any necessity for a levy in this way, for the city had first lien for the rightful amount Of taxes due, and the course adopted delayed instead of facilitating the collection of taxes. "The public, I am sure, will not Jose sight of the fact—which Treasurer Balch carefclly avoids—that the city council had unanimously extended our paving bonds, and if the mayor had signed the bonds authorized—wjiich was only a lien upon the company's property—then all taxes would'have been-cleared up. Everyone will admit, under the circumstances that we had an unusual right to forbearance by reason of the fact that legal opinions were being submitted to the mayor In the matter. It is not claimed the city treasurer, that the city was in need of funds, as a justification for his levy. The inference is from the city treasurer's report made to the council the 1st of October, that there should he a balance of over JU2.000 in the treasury to the credit of various funds, and with^h'.s amount on hand, there was no necessity Ift the hasty and indecent levy, resulting in emoarrassment to the company's credit and destruction of a progressive corporation, particularly when the levy did not bring the payment of the sum, and cannot, before the council fixes the correct amount due, and the company has time to earn it.

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"As to the amounts'earned by the Citizens' Electric Light and Power company there is no dispute. The city is being well lighted, and every dollar paid by the city is earned, and there arevno favdrmg":clauses in our contract, as with the preyioua pne.. It was not necessary to call attention to payments made this company, unless It be a misdemeanor in the city of Terre Haute to make a low bid and secure a contract formerly held by a company, of which a c'cUhctWaan was president. Treasurer Balch'».statement that the property used in the production of the city lighting service pays no taxes- is false, and tho true situation, I believe, was &nown to the city treasurer, for he had his attorney looking up the matter at the .time our lighting warrant wae up. If the'Itfcts'were reported to him, he knew the st'feet ranway company had purchastd the actual property of the Cltisens' Electric Light and Power company, as authorized by law, and, therefore could not be expected to pay taxes. This misleading reference will not foil the public, however, in the matter of the company's taxation, which, including street paving, is excessively and burdensomely heavy, and when good service is required beyond -the earning capacity of the road in such business depressions as wo have been passing through. "As to the treasurer's reference to our petition, it really needs no reply, as there is nothing in the pcint he makes. While It is true the actual property of tbe company Is in the hands of a receiver, the company is in existence, and as Its president, it is my right and my duty to petition the council for an adjustment of the treasurer's action in attempting to secure city taxes' on railway property outside of the city limits, particularly where these illegal taxes were placed against the company prior to the time the receiver came into the possession of the property. The receiver represents the interests of all concerned, and is therefore interested that this illegal assessment of taxes, resulting in a levy, should he adjusted to what Is fair and legal, so that he, as receiver, will not be obliged to pay out of funds that may come into his hands any unjust or illegal taxes, as whatever the company may have to pay would be in the end a loss -to the company not to receiver. "In closing, I have no desire to controvert the statement that he is a servant of the public, but on the morning of the levy, when the treasurer was appealed -to. to allow tha cars to run, so as not to incommode the.pu^p lie, he replied, 'I do not consider the company's interests in this matter.' It 'is ver/, clear he did not consider the public's infer est, than, and yet he now wishes to appear as a servant of -the public. '{.w* "I hope Treasurer Balch will close his term as city treasurer, as honorably and creditably as servant of the -pvJbllc, as the manageniMt of the company have done, ia submitting to the order of the court in the matter offfli receivership, which we feel was hastyy^Jad unwisely brought upon us by the city.

Our petition for a redress of the tax matter was addressed tc the council, and we hopo and believe they will act fairly to us. We expect and ask nothing more. "Independently of Treasurer Balch, taxation and conditions that brought about the receivership, and without making charges against anyone, it will be interesting to state at this time -that in the spring I was informed by a pary, who at least thought ne understood the situation, that unless we purchased -the old light company at a good round -figure, war would be made upon our company, its busi­

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