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Proposed Oregon Tax Law (Continued from last week) (Undivided estate of deceased persons How assessed. Section 10. That Bection 3045 of the Codes and Statutes of Oregon, com piled and annotated by lion. Charles B. Bellinger and William W. Cotton, be and the same hereby is amended to read as follows: The undivided estate of any deceased person may be assessed to the heirs or tluvisees of such person, without desig nating them by name, until they have given notice to the assessor of the divi sion of the estate, and the names of the several heirs or devisees; and each heir and devisee shall be liable for the whole of such tax, and shall have a right to recover of the other hehs and devisees their respective portions there of when paid by him. (Omits provision found in nci'tlon 3(145 for as sessment to occupant of an undivided estate of H deceased person--the provision for assess ment lo heirs or devisees as such, without des ignating them by name, is broad enough ami better calculated to briiiK the tax to their no tice than an assessment to a mere occupant.) Personal property Where assessed.) Section 11. That section 3040 of the Codes ami Statutes of Oregon, com piled and annotated by Hon. Charles 15. '.el linger and William W. Cotton, be, inid the same hereby is, amended to read as follows: Every person, except as otherwise provided by law, shall be assessed in the county in which he resides when the assessment is made for all taxable property owned by him, including all personal estate in his possession, or under his control as trustee, guardian, xecutor, or administrator; and where there are two or more persons jointly in possession, or having control of any such property in trust, the same may be assessed to either or all of such per sons, but it shall be assessed in the comity where the same shall lie if eith er of such persons reside in such coun ty. (Substitutes "except as otherwise provided by law" (or "except as provided in the sue ceediiiK section," ill order lo harmonize the ection with the other changes suggested.) (Partners How assessed.) Section 12. That section 3048 of the Codes and Statutes of Oregon, compil ed and annotated by Hon. Charles 15. Bellinger and William W. Cotton, he .and the same hereby is amended to Tend us follows: Partners in mercantile or other busi ness may be jointly taxed in their part nership name, or severally taxed for their individual shares, for all preson aly property employed in such busi ness; and in case they are jointly tax--d, either or any of such partners shall be liable for the whole tax. (The old sectimi used the word "such" where -'each" - partner -- was apparently intended. The amendment make cither or any of the partners joiuilv taxed fur the persona! proper ty employed liab'e fur the whole tax, which was the evident intent of the old scciiuii.) .(Personal property of corporations Where assessed.) Section 13. That section 304!) of the Codes and Statutes of Orongn, compiled and annotated by lion. Charles 15. J'.el linger and William W. Cotton, be and the same hereby is amended to read as follows: The personal property of every pri vate corporation is liable to taxation in the same manner as the personal prop ret y of a natural person, and shall be assassed in the name of such corpora tion in the county where the principal place of business of such corporation is located, unless otherwise specially pro vided by law; but if such corporation is enagged in the business of naviga tion, then thei steamboats or other water craft of such corporation shall be assessed in the county in this state where the home port or berth of such steamboat or other water craft may be. The personal property of a private cor poration may be seized and sold for any tax levied upon the property of such corporation as in the case of a natural person. fThe section amended contains certain pro vision" which were repealed by implication by general Laws, spwrnl session, is"v, page uni. is"v. nage . ami t hc-e pro iions have been omitted in the amendment recommended. Adda "unless oth erwise specially provided by law" to the rule that personal property of private corporation is to be aM"cd in the county where thn prin cipal place of business f the corporation is lo cated ; t his Amendment is necessary to harmon ize with other provisions of the act recom mended.) (Lands Where taxed.) Section 14. All lands shall be taxed in the county in which the same shall lie. (New; but compare B. it C. Comp., section So:.:. A distinction is made in the use of the w ords "taxed-" and "assessed" a the act of tax -a i ion may he performed in the county, although the assessment mitilit properly be mada as Ly a central board in another county; for in nance, at the capital.) (Merchandise, capital and machinery Where taxable.) Section 15. All goods, wares and merchandise kept for sale in this state, all stock employed in any of the me chanical arts, ami all capital and ma chinerv employed in any branch of manufactures or other business within this state, owned by a corporation in or mt of this state, or by any person, xheiher residing in or out of this state, tduill l' taxable in the county or city .r other municipal corporation where the same may !m either to the owners thereof or to the person or corporat ioti who shall have charge of or le in pos session of the same. (When company is taxed nor f .ock Not more than 2..MHI persona in Paria have a capital of as much a $2"i .. and nearly one-third of those are foreign era. lUfnctnrr. Picking up a book from the counter, the lady turned to the last page and read : "And so they were divorced and lived happily ever after." "This lawk," f'.ie said to the clerk, Ms evidently all right Wrap It up, Dlease." 1 not to be taxed.) Section 10. The owner or holder of stock in any incorporated company w hich is taxed on its capital stock shall not be taxed as an individual for such stock. (Pledged personal property taxed to possessor.) Section 17. When personal property is mortgaged or pledged it shall, for the purpose of taxation, be deemed the property of the person who has the possession. (Sections Vi, K and 17 are respectively sec tions :)UI7, 3005 and 3056, B. t C. Comp., without change.) (Of the Duties of Asessors.) (Assessments, How Made). Section 18. That section 3057 of the Codes and Statutes of Oregon, compiled ami annotated by Hon. Charles 15. I'el linger a.. id William W. Cotton, as the same was reenacted by sect ion 1 of an act approved December 24, 1903, and found on page 4 et seijuitur of the Gen eral Laws of Oregon, Special Session, 1003, be anil the same hereby is amend ed to read as follows: The assessor after qualifying shall, on the lirst Monday in March in each year, procure from the county clerk a "blank assessment roll, and forthwith proceed and assess all taxable property within his county, except such as by law is to bo otherwise assessed, and shall return to such county clerk, on or before the lirst Monday in October next following, such assessment roll with a full and complete assessment of such taxable property entered thereon, in cluding a full and precise description of the lands and lots; owned by each person therein named, on March 1 of said year, at the hour of 1 o'clock a. in., which description shall correspond w ith the plan or plat of any town laid out or recorded; and said lands or town lots shall be valued at their true cash value, taking into consideration the im provements on the land and in the sur rounding country, the quality of the soil, its convenience to transportation lines, public roads, and other local ad vantages of a similar or different kind. True cash value of all property shall be held and taken to mean the amount such property would sell for at a volun tary sale made in the ordinary course of business, taking into consideration its earning power. No deduction of in debtedness fnun assessments or taxa tion shall be allowed in any case. All land shall be taxed in the county in which the same shall lie; and, except as otherwise provided by law, even person shall be assessed in the county where he resides at the hour of 1 o'clock a. m. on March 1 of the year when the assessment shall be made for all real and personal property owned by him within such county, but if the owner of any land le unknown, such land may be assessed to "unknown owner," or "unknown owners," with out inserting the name of any owner; but no assessment shall be invalidated by a mistake in the name of the owner of the real property assessed, or by the omission of the name of the owner, or the entry of a name other than that of the true owner, if the property 1k cor rect ly described ; and provided further, that where the name of the true owner, or the owner of record, of any parcel of real property shall be given, such as sessment shall not lie held invaild on account of any error or irregularity in the description, provided such descrip tion would be sullicient in a deed of conveyance from the owner ; or on ac count of any description upon w hich, in a contract to convey, a court of equity would decree a conveyance to be made. (The amendment recommended makes it the assessor's duty to assess property for which some other mode of assessment is not by law provided; makes the limit of the return of the assessment roll the first Monday in October in stead of the tirst Monday in September. The old law provides fur tne giving of notice that the board of equalization will meet the last Monday in August. There is no other provi sion for the time of the meeting of the hoard, ft. A '. Comp., section :tnW), reenacted special session l'.S'll . Section 3057, above amended, permitted an extension (f time fur tiling the roll if necessary until the first Monday in iicto lier. In practice the roll is seldom or never ready for equalization by the tirst Monday in September, and ihe time is usually extended, and the board meets w hen the roll is tiled. Hut the old law provided for the board meeting be fore the assessor w is required to rile the roll, and at no either time. The jurisdiction of the board is thus thrown into question. The provision for Winf notice of the meet ing the last Monday in Auaust is a relic of the tirst cosie in this state, and w as originally in tended to provide that the assessor and auditor should meet at the courthouse to correct pure ly clerical errors, etc., one waek before the county court equalized the roll, te board of equaliiatiou not then being known. Since then the scheme has hauii completely changed, and the provisions are now, owing to corclcss editing in amendments, contradictory and iui possi ble. The amendment recommended omits the pro vision for the extension o( the time of filing the assessment roll, but gives the assessor the same limit as under the present law he could be giv en by the county court. Omits definitions of real property and land, w hich have been de fined in sect ion 2 of this act; omits provision that all land must he assessed distinguishing assessed from taxed; see section It of this act in the county w here located ; omits provisions as to assessment of unoccupied land as such, ticrmittiiig the assessment of land as to un now n ow tier, when the owner is uuknow n, re gardless of occupancy, l'rovides for consider ation id earning power in determining value.) (Personal property How valued.) Section !'.. That section .".OoS of the Codes and Statutes of Oregon, compiled and annotated by Hon. Charles 15. llcl lingcrand William W. Cotton, l and the same hereby is amended to read as follows: All jsTsonal property not exempt from taxation shall la" valued at its true value in cash, as deli nod in section Too Finical. "Pris. ner." Mid the judge, who was about to pronounce sentence upon the culprit, "if. instead of he ing a chronic offender, you had chosen the career of a Iawnliuling citizen " "I nm a law-abiding citizen. your hon or." interrupted the hardened crook. "Whenever 1 break a law I am ready to abide the consequences." Thereupon his honor added six months to the term of Imprisonment he had in tended to impose, aa a punishment for picking flaws in the court's English. 18 hereof, and it shall be the duty of each assessor to value all improvements on claimed United States lands within his county as personal property. (Omits provision for a special ratio of assess ment and taxation for sea-going vessels, w hich violates the constitutional provisionn as to uni formity and equality.) (Plats or surveys and towns Present ownership book or list Taxpayers' index.) Section 20. That section 30G1 of the Codes and Statutes of Oregon compiled and annotated by Hon.' Charles 15. 15el linger and William W. Cotton, lie and the same hereby is amended to read as follows: The asssesor of each county shall make a plat of the government surveys, anil of all tow n plats within his coun ty, ami shall note therein, or in a pres ent ownership book or list, the owner of each tract of land, and of each town lot; and in counties where the assessor shall describe the land in the roll in the order of its location upon the ground he shall keep a taxpayers' in dex for each year, which shall be a public record subject to general inspec tion; and in such index shall be en tered the name of every taxpayer against whom any tax shall be charged in the county, in alphabetical order with reference to the first three letters of the surname of such taxpayers as have surnames, and of the first names of any others, and shall refer to the; pages and lines of the roll where the assessment of such taxpayer may be found. (Provides for present ownership book or list, or else assessor's noting ownership on plats as at present. Taxpayers' index kent when the ! roll is geographically arranged shall refer to j page and line ol roll, tne old law seeming 10 provide merely for a list of taxpayers, which is but half an index.) (Stock or other personalty of nonresi dents.) Section 21 . That section 3062 of the Codes and Statutes of Oregon, compiled, and annotated by Hon. Charles 15. Del-; linger and William W. Cotton, be and the same hereby is amended to read as follows: Whenever any live stock or other personal property of non-residents in this state shall be pointed out to the assessor by any resident householder of his county it shall lie the duty of the assessor to assess the same at its cash value; and such stock or other personal property shall be held liable for the payment of the taxes thereon in the same manner as the personal property of resident citizens is held liable. (No change except to use word "live stock" Instead of "stock" to clear up the present am biguity as to what kind of stock is meant live or corporate.) (Assessment roll and appraisement of property.) Section 22. That section 30G9 of the Codes and Statutes of Oregon, compiled and annotated by Hon. Charles 15. Pel linger and William W. Cotton, be and the same hereby is amended to read as follows: At the time prescribed by law the assessor in each county shall ascertain by diligent inquiry the names of all persons liable to taxation in his county who by law are assessable to him, and also all the taxable personal property, and all taxable real estate therein which by law is assessable by him, and make out an assessment roll of all such property, and appraise the same ac cording to the provisions of the statutes relat ing thereto. (Only change is to provide that the assessor assesses property w hich by law is assessable by him. thus permitting the' legislature to place the duly lo assess certain classes of property elsewhere. (Owner or managing agent to furnish list of property Penalty for and proceedings after refusal.) Section 23. That section 3070 of the Codes and Statutes of Oregon, compiled and annotated by lion. Charles 15. liel lingcr and William W. Cotton, be and the same hereby is amended to read us follows: 10 very assessor shall require any per son liable to be taxed in his county and to be assessed by him, and the manag ing agent or otlieer of any corporation or associat ion liable to be taxed in his county and to lie assessed by him, to furnish such assessor a list of all the real estate of stub, jicrson, corporation, or association situate in his county lia ble to taxation, and a list of all the personal property of such person, cor jk irat ion, or associat ion liable to taxa tion in this state, and shall require such person, managing agent, or oilicer to make oath that, to the lest of his knowledge and lelief, such list contains a full and true account of all its or his property liable to be taxed in such county; and if any person shall refuse to furnish such list, or to swear to the same when required so to do by the as sessor, such person shall forfeit and jvty to the assessor, for the use of the coun ty, the sum of $50, which sum may be recovered by motion in any court hav ing jurisdiction of matters of debt or contract to the amount of $50. Should any such jhtsoii. managing agenl. or oflieer, when so required, refuse to furn ish and to swear to such list the assess or shall ascertain the taxable projaTty of such jxT-on, corporation, or associa tion, and shall appraise the same from the best information to lxl derived from other sources. ( Itesides amending section S CO. incorporated also the essrmials of It. .V I'. Comp.. se- iion : uv.i. Kxtends the provisions of section .; .To liii lnde niana .1114 a, ents or officers of e: ;,.; ht ion or assoeiai ion 1-able to assessment b. : he H-s(wor; increases Ihe penalty from ' i f - it iM'ing common cipericn.c tuat ne '.i. . soils prctcr to run their chances of 1.h pay a g 1 penalty rather loan make the -.;.' incut required.) ( To b continued next reck) t.ut-al Color. Mrs. Goodsole What odd rotiti.ists one finds in society ! Mrs. Kedpep O. yes; in the Muebook you find the names of ever "so many peo ple that are hopelessly green. Jnat Hint. An Irish provincial prver recently printed the following notice: "Whereas. Patrick O'Connor lately left his lodg ing, this 1 to give notice that If h" does not return at once and pay for the same he will b advertised." GOVERNMENT'S f GRfP TIGHTENS Maiy Officials Involved in Robbery f of Nation's Land. Senator Warren Said to Lead Them Herman One of His Tools Machinery of Law Now at Work Against Men Who Ruled in U. S. Land Office. Rait Lake, Nov. 29. The grip of the government and of justice is tightening slowly alxiiit the organized gangs which, it is alleged, have for years, with the connivance of the Land department, robbed the public domain of coal, min eral and t imher land valued at many millions) of dollars. In the end, it in stated, every member of these gangs, whether he be a plain citizen of the United States or occupies high official position, will be made to answer in the criminal courts for his complicity in the most gigantic frauds said ever to have been perpet rated on the United States government. Every agency of the government, in cluding the Interstate Commerce com mission, the secret service, the Federal grand jury and the court of equity, has been set in mot ion to accomplish the end desL-ed. While the Interstate Commerce commission is taking testi mony here tending to show that the Kio Grande railroad and its allied com panies, the Utah Fuel company and the Pleasant Valley Coal company, have been securing by fraudulent means all of the coal land in the state of Utah and consequently building up their monopoly in this line, the Federal grand jury here is awaiting the out come of the hearing with a view to gathering all of the guilty ones into its net. The peculations of which the govern ment complains have been perpet rated in Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Mon tana, New Mexico, Calfiornia, Oregon and possibly in other states. The rob beries of the public domain have been almost ns extensive, it is charged, in timber land as in mineral land. That such enormous frauds, extend ing through a long period of years, could not have been perpetrated with out the complicity of the Land depart ment is sail to be a patent fact. 1 luring the hearing here yesterday a glimpse of the real power behind the throne was given when it was stated by government land agents that they had been compelled to see Senator Francis E. Warren regarding official business of the Ijind department. Senator War ren is charged with having ruled the land office for a nuinlier of years. It was his influence and that of Senator Clark which secured the appointment, during President McKinley's adminis tration, of Willis Vandevanter to be assistant attorney general for the Inter ior department. Vandevanter was the legal conscience of the Ijmd depart ment, and Vandevanttr had been at torney fur the comjianies charged with stealing the land. It was Warren who made Congressman Frank W. Modell nssistant land commissioner, who later put Uinger Hermann in the position of commissioner, and who succeeded him by present Commissioner Richards. It is Warren, it is claimed, who still con trols the land otlices from Nebraska and t lie lakiitas to California and Alaska. CALL FOR OIL TRUST PAPERS. Texas Wants to Know All About Its Dealings With Bailey. Austin, Tex., Nov. 20. Attorney General K. G. Davidson and counsel associated with him in the prosecution of the suit of the state to oust the Waters-Pierce oil comjiany from Texas vest en lay served on former Attorney General George Clark, one of the at torneys for the oil com jinny and tiled with the clerk of the court a demand for the production of thelwoks, records, vouchers, etc., of the oil comjuiny, show ing agreements w ith other com jisinies, eorresjiondeace lietwcen the at torneys of the oil comjiany and J. W. Hailey, and jiurjiorting to show jiay tiients of money by II. C. Pierce and siiid oil comjianies on divers dates. Copies of all letters jiassing lietwcen J. P. Johnson and George Clark, coun sel for the oil comjiany, or written by them to J. W. Pailey and to jiarties in New York during 1!00 relat im: to the settlement of the cases jx'nding in Waco, Tex., against said oil comjianies, letters written by or to said jvirties are (ailed for. The other matters culled for are cojiies of the original trust agreements, ngnvments with the Eagle Ketining comjiany and the Texas Oil and Gasoline comjmy, agreement as to the division of territory and agreement with Attorney General Hadley of Mis souri as to ownershiji of Waters-Pierce stock by the Standard Oil comjiany. Pay $90,000,000 Dividends. New York, Nov. 1M. Preliminary 'omjii lttt ions of dividend and interest payments to 1 made in IWemlier indi ate that alxnit $;M1,000.000 will lie ex pended. The lamest sinule disburse ment w ill le a jviymcnt of fH.750.itoO by the Standard Oil comjiany. The American Tobacco company is next with $4.024. -M.'i. and the United States Stool corporal ion thin!, w ith 47t. The Atchison, with a payment of $J,5tt,'J7o, is the tirst railroad. Plans for Nvw Sugar Trust. New Orleans, Nov. "t. Plans to form a S.0O0.000 merger of Lmisiana Miagr plantations and sugar houses are announced by a committee in charge of the jirojeot. EVIDENCE OF MORE CRIME. No Influence Can Protect Plunderers of Coal Land. Salt bike, Nov. .'JO. Powerful influ ence in leing brought to bear at Wash ington to prevent threatened prosecu tions of corporations and individuals in connection with the land frauds which have been disclosed by the Interstate Commerce commission. Tlie.se efforts, however, have been unavailing and the course which the government has mapped out will be pursued unfalter-1 ingly. When the Interstate Commerce com mission resumes its hearing here today, evidence will le produced byJ.T. Marchaiid and E. V.. Thomas to prove that the Utah Fuel company, ever since its organization six or seven years ago, has received rebates from the Denver & Kio (irande and Kio (irande Western systems. It is expected to prove this by William O.Williams, auditor for, the Utah Fuel company, and it will be i shown, it is said, that by means of , these rebates the fuel company, an 1 also the Pleasant Valley Coal company, were better able to maintain the mono poly, which they are charged with hav ing, of the coal business in Utah. It is alleged that Ixith of these coal com panies enjoyed a blanket rate of y2 cent a mile per ton on all of the commodi ties which the railroad company men tioned transported for them. These preferential rates were enjoyed upon both state and interstate traffic. BRING GRAFTERS TO JUSTICE. ! fitnlwrsln Starts Vio-nrnuo Innniiru Intn Famine Fund Scandal. St. Petersburg, Nov. 30. Prompt steps have been taken bv Premier Stolypin to deal with the famine relief 'contract scandal in which Lidval and , M. Gurko, assistant minister of the In-1 terior, are involved. The premier has called a special meeting of the council' of ministers for tomorrow to discuss the affair. M. Gurko has resigned. When he ' presented his resignation, the premier told him he should not quit ofhee, but that, for his own sake at least, he must face the court. The premier is expected to appoint an inter-ministerial commission com posed of assistant ministers to investi gate the case. He will then bring it before the first department of the sen ate in public session. Orders have been given to collect evidence and cross examine all persons connected with the affair, and General Fredericks, gover nor of Nizhni Novgorod, has been sum-1 moned to St. Petersburg to answer to ' the charge of standing sjxmsor for Lid val. A certain Sotskieh, an nssistant of Lidval in buying grain in the pro vinces, also has been summoned by the minister of the Interior, but has failed to answer and is thought to be in hiding- GREAT FIND OF EXPLORERS. Fragments of Gospel and Many Other Ancient Writings. Chicago, Nov. .10. A cable disjiatch to the Tribune from London says: It now is possible to give further details of the remarkable find of papyri as a result of the efforts of Trs. Grenfell and Hunt, of the Greeo-Koman branch of the E.'Vjit Exjilomtion Fund at Oxy rbynehus. The find consists of no few er than l."0 Ixixes of jiapyri, ranging in date from the second century, P. C, to the sixth century, A. I). They com jirise all classes of literature, many fragments of the lost or even unknown classical works, and some most imjiort ant fragments unknown to Christian literature. The most important find is a vellum leaf containing 45 lines of gosjiel which has a variation from the authorized version. The subject is the visit of Jesus find his diseijdes to the temjde of Jerusalem and their meet ing there w ith the Pharisee, who rebukes them for their failure to jierform the necessary ceremonial of jmritieation. In the dia logue which follows, which resembles in some resjx'cts Matthew xxiii:25, the Pharisee describes with considerable fullness and detail the formalities he has observed, wheroujion Jesus delivers an eloquent, crushing rejily, contrast ing outward with inward purity. May Ask AH To Resign Havana, Nov. ."0. Governor Magoon has issued an invitation to all the sen ators and rejiresentatives chosen to otlice in the last elect ion to attend a conference Saturday for the considera tion of urgent affairs. Lilvral leaders exjiressed the belief that the governor intended to request the resignation of all senators and rejiresentatives as a lirst steji toward new elections. Al fredo Zayas exjiressod keen satisfaction w ith the jiossibility of new elect ions and said the Liberals would comply, but feared the Moderates would not. Orchard Case Postponed Poise, Ida., Nov. :?0. Harry Or chard, who killed former Governor Steunenberg and who turned Mate's evidence, was taken to Caldwell today to ajijx'ar in court. Py consent of Kith sides the trial was jotsxned until the next term of court. The jirisoner was taken down by Warden Whitney and two guards, aiwmjwniod by two detec tives, all being heavily armed as a jire oaut ion against violence to the jr;soner or themselves. Czar Fixes Telve-H jur Dy.T St. Petersburg, Nov. ."0. The etn poror has aro(d the resolut ion in tniduced by the council of minters fixing 12 hours tis a working day. clu ling two hours for meals, in a'.i in dustrial and other circles. Tivs law will Invome ojH-r.itive six wivks af;r its jiromulgat ion. MAKE MONEY ON POSTOFFICE Syndicate Offers to Assume Control of Postal System. Would Reduce Rates by One-Half, Rent Buildings From Government and Share Profits Save $100, 000,000 Yearly and Wipe Out Annual Deficit. Washington, Nov. 27. Uncle Sam will be aksed tomorrow to turn over to a syndicate of capitalists the conduct of the postal business. The joint commit tee of congress investigating postal abuses and intrusted w ith recommend ing reforms, which has been in session in New York, resumed its meetings to day, and tomorrow W. I). -Boyce, of Chicago, will go before the committee with a bonafide offer made by substan tial capitalists to take over from the government the rostal business and re lieve it of all the great expense attached. The offer has several objects. It is true that capita ilsts have been found who believe that money can be made by a monojxily of the jioi-tal business. Whereas the government has failed to make the Postotfice dejutrtment a jiay ing institution, the capitalists believe that by the introduction of business methods they can put the dejiartment iijxm a dividend paying basis. Wells Fargo Express company saw enough money in the monojxily to offer the government a bonus of $1,000,000 a year if permitted to run the po-toffice. The proposition is presented in good faith and will serve the double purpose of emphasizing with the public the fact that there are capable business men in the country who believe that they can give the people penny postage and an excellent service, as good as that per formed by the government. The offer will have the effect of showing to the people that these business men, who w ill give satisfactory bond, will guaran tee to give the patrons of the postoffice reduced postage rates, which the de partment officials unite in reporting the government cannot afford to do. The proposition, broadly stated, is that the government shall withdraw from the field of controlling a public utility and shall place the business of transporting and delivering the mail in private hands, as the express business is today conducted. The capitalists w ho are willing to assume the burden w ill pay the government rental for the postotfice buildings all over the country and will charge the government regular rates of postage ujxin its mail, which is now curried free under frank and penal ty stamjis. Mr. lioyce said in part: "A careful comparison of rates of postage now charged on first and second class matter, with the rates herein pro jiosed to be put in force w ill readily demonstrate that it means an average saving for the next 20 years to the gov ernment and g -neral public of $100, 000. 000 annually. "We projKise to perform all the ser vices now rendered the public by the Postoftice dejiartment and carry out all treaty stijiulations and contracts and to take the entire receipts arising from the jiostal service as full eomjiensation for the rendition of all paid services now performed by the Postotfice dejiartment and pay all salaries and exjienses neces sary to carry out the terms of such a detailed contract as w ill accomplish the ! objects sought, namely: "Pirst The reduct ion to the public by one-half of all jiostage to bo paid on first and second class matter, or 1 cent jier ounce or fraction thereof of first class, and l,2 cent jier pmnd on second class matter, except for weeklies, as heretofore . "Stivind The wijiing out of the deficit annually in the ojvrating of the jiostitl service as a government depart ment . "Third We will pay into the United Statos'trcasury all net jirotits accruing over 7 jer cent interest on eajiital in vested." Print City's Name on Stamps. Washington, Nov. 27. Postage stamjis of the issue of 1007, at f,000 jirosidential jxi-tot!ieos will liearon their face the name of the state and city in which the jvi-totlice is situated. The chief reason for this innovation is said, at the Postotlice dejiartment, to be the belief that it willhelji do away with jMV-toilice robberies and make it much easier to trace criminals. The jiostotlice robbery at Chicago a few years ago is a good example of the ease with which Molon postage stamjis can be disjiosed of. for no trace of the jierjetrators was ever found. Has Not Refused to Rig,n. New York. Nov. 27. United State Senator Thomas C. Piatt sai l tday concerning an alleged interview in which he was ijuoied as -aylng that be would not resign his oii'.ce a- senator: "I have not said I would not resign, nor have I said I would not send in my resignation to Governor Hi-'gins. I never said to a'v new sjviix r man that I would stay in Washington all winter. In fact, tin-whole it'.teri lew alviut my refusal to resign is untrue." Creat Bridge Over Yulu. London. Nov. 27. The Tokio oorrf1- SJ indent of the Tittles telegraph that the .T.-ijxutese h.ive d'-ei led to bri Ig'i the Yalu river at Yonganqn. The sjian will lie ".2;?"' feet long and Ihe bridge will oot ? 1 ,000.0,10. Jt win conflicted at the ame time as the Wiju-Mukdon t Fusan railroad.
