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THE WEATHER
Fair tonight and Thursday; little
change in temperature.
vol. xxxni.
COURT RULES TAX BOARD EXCEEDS POWERS
COX-ROOSEVELT
CAMPAIGN SOON
TO TAKE FORM
Party Leaders Line Up Behind
Candidates, Bryan Only
Being in Doubt.
BID FOR WOMAN VOTE
SAN FRANCISCO, July 7.—Now
for the campaign.
Having nominated Gov. James M.
Cox for president and Franklin D.
Roosevelt for vice president, demo
cratic leaders today were making
preliminary arrangements for the
drive which they hope will land the
Ohio goverjipr in the whitehouse.
The campaign got under way today
following adjournment of the demo
cratic convention.
Plans were being made to make
special efforts to win the women’s
vote in the belief that that will be
the deciding factor next November.
Statements from many prominent
women were being preparer! indorsing
Cox.
It was learned that one of the first
steps will be to line np~ Attorney Gen
eral Palmer and William G. MeAdoo as
stump speakers.
COIN TING ON MICH
HELP FROM COLBY.
Bainbridge Colby Is expected to be
one of she administration's best bets in
the fight.
It is understood he was not given the
nomination for Tice president because
leaders believed he could wage a more
effective stump campaign if he were not
a candidate.
Roosevelt was rushed into the vice
presidential nomination after all leaders
of big delegations agreed to vote for
him. .
The other aspirants for nomination
withdraw.
Apparently harmony reigned as the
convention adjourned.
There was no visible discord except
possibly in the camp of William J.
Bryan, who opposed Cos and the plat
form. Bryan maintained ominous 'Si
lence.
The last moments of the convention be
came a general Julllflcation in which
Tammany, administration forces and
states which had held out for MeAdoo
to the last Joined in cheering Cox and
Roosevelt.
COX TO DIRECT
OWN CAMPAIGN
SAN FRANCISCO, July ".—The council
rooms of the democracy, transferred from
the whltehoßse to the Palace beteb here
two weeks ago, “moTed house” again to
day and will rest henceforth at ‘Trail'*
End,” the country of Got. James
M. Cox, democratic presidential nominee.
Got. Cox will direct his own campaign.
He la today the acknowledged leader of
the democratic party.
When outgoing trains carried demo
cratic national committeemen away from
San Francisco and the hushed convention
hall, they bore men and women who ad
mitted generally that the agreement of
the national committee to meet In Ohio
two weeks hence with Gov. Cox, “to ar
range for the campaign," could mean but
one thinif—complete reorganization of the
‘•ommittee, election of Edmund H. Moore.
Cox’s “bulldog” manager, to the chair
manship and a switch in the committee
control to men such as Norman Mack
of New York, Wilbur Marsh of lowa.
O. G. Johnson of Mississippi and others
of the committee, with leaders like
Murphy, Taggart and Brenan exercising
an “advisory” Influence.
Secretary E G. Hoffman of Indiana
may be trained In hla present position.
Indiana's strategical switch to Cox in
the crisis made him and his cohorts ac
ceptable to the new group which has
now gained dominance In party affairs.
There will be no fight to stave off the
change in‘the controlling personnel of
the national committee.
This was generally conceded following
the brief meeting held Immediately after
the convention adjourned.
Homer S. Cummings. Connecticut, pres
(Contlnned on Page Three.)
CHOICE OF PARTY
PLEASES WILSON
President Is at Orders of
Democratic Committee.
WASHINGTON, July 7.—The part
President Wilson will play In the forth
coming democratic campaign for the
presidency, will be “suggested” and di
rected by the democratic national com
mittee, it was announced at the white
house today.
The president will remain in Wash
ington throughout the summer, Secre
tary Tumulty said, following a confer
ence with the president. V
Unforeseen circumstances, he said,
might cause Mr. Wilson to change the
plans but at present he has no intention
of leaving the city.
The president Is elated over the selec
tion of the Cox-Roosevelt ticket, accord
ing to Mr. Tumulty, and expects all ele
ments of the party to Join In carrying
them to Tictory in November.
CHICAGO BANDITS
OBTAIN SIO,OOO
Drive Alongside Messenger,
Grab Cash, Escape.
CHICAGO, July 7. —Two bank mes
sengers were held up and robbed <>f
SIO,OOO while on their way to a bank
here today.
The robbers 'drove alongside the mes
sengers, Jumped ou the running board
of the messenger's automobile, snatched
the bag containing the money and es
caped.
$50,000 Holdup Marks
New Mexican Revolt
EAGLE PASS, Tex., July 7.-A nee
revolutionary movement in the vicinity
of Monclova, in Coahulla state. Mexico,
was growing today, messages declare.
Bandits were reported in control ot
Monclova, which Is on the National rail
way.
Railway bridges were “burned near the
city.
The insurgents began operations by
robbing a pay train of $50,000 Mexican
gold, reports said. '
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WHAT’S YOUR STAND?
JOHNSON TO HARDING
W
SAN FRANCISCO, July 7. —Senator
Hiram Johnson today broke the political
silence that has enveloped him sln< - e his
defeat for the republican presidential
nomination at Chicago.
In a formal statement the California
senator declaring that the league of na
tions lathe “overabarfowiug question In
t served a virtual nltlma
i a on Senator Harding, republican
standard bearkr. that Johnson* active
support of the party this fall will de
pend largely on the attitude taken by
Harding on.the league of nations.
After contrasting the declarations of
the two parties on the league issue.
Senator Johnson declared;
“With a candidate standing four
square on the platform, the issue leaves
those who believe in safeguarding, pro
tecting and preserving our Americanism,
BIG TANK FALLS;
4 ARE INJURED
Crashes Through Four Stories
Into Basement.
NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 7—A
in.ooo-galion tank, filled with water,
mounted on the roof of the National
Casket Company here eollapsed, crash
ing through four stories and Into the
basement today, injuring four persons,
one frfobably fatally.
CAR OVERTURNS,
BABE RUTH UNDER
Y"ank Slugger Nearly Ends
Sensational Career.
PHILADELPHIA, July 7-Babe Ruth,
th slugging outfielder of the New York
Yanks, came near ending his sensational
baseball career, a mile of Wawapa today.
His touring car looped the loop on the
Baltimore pike and landed all four
wheels in the air with Ruth and his party
beneath it.
The “Babe,” his wife and three other
persons whose names could not be
learned, were In the machine. All es
caped serious injury.
Elks Will Stage
Enormous Parade
CHICAGO, July 7.—Elks expect to
shatter parade records when the 10,000
delegates to the annual convention here
march tonight.
One hundred bands will enliven the
parade. Floats from thirty-five states
will depict historical events. More thin
$500,000 was spent In preparing the pag
eant. .
Delegates were takenN on a sightseeing
tour of Chicago today.
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Naiae
Str t address .U
Cit Statel
Jttitoma Haihj
hut one choice, and that Is to support
the republican party.”
The statement, while making no ref
erence to other than republican and dem
ocratic affairs. Is believed effectuulty to
remove the possibility of Johnson head
ing a third party and was so construed
by party leaders here today.
STATEMENT DEALS
WITH ISSUES.
The statement follows:
"For more than n year the contest over
the president's league of nations has
been waged In congress.
“It has been the all engrossing and
paramount issue. f
“Os necessity, this Issue came to the
conventions of two great parties.
“Both the republicans and the demo
rrnts In their platforms have Indulged 4n
(Continued on Page Three.)
DID HE ‘CUSS OUT’
WOMAN OR CAT?
Defendant Says Latter—Judge
Must Decide.
Were rude words directed by Earl
Phillips, 1145 Deloss street, against Mrs.
Helen Sullivan, 1147 DeLoes street, or
were those words dlrecter at Mrs. 81111-
ran's cat?
That was the nll-lmportant question
that Judge Walter Pritchard had to de
cide In city court today.
Philips had been arrested charged
with profanity, the arrest being made on
an nffidJklt sworn to by Mr*. Sullivan.
Mrs. Sulivan told the Judge that Phil
lips had bought the house where the Sul
livans have been living Just to make the
Sullivan family move.
Phillips testified that Sullivan's cat
had killed forty of hi* chickens last year
and had started in this season by killing
four more.
It wps on the occasion of the violent
death of chicken No. 4 Sunday that the
“rude” language was alleged to have
been used by Phillips, who testified, as
did two other witnesses, that he was
talking to the cat that was carrying
away one of his chickens.
Mrs. Sullivan and her two daughters
told the court that Phillips addressed his
words to Mrs. Sullivan, and the words
they said he used were rude in the ex
treme, but Phillips quoted other words
which he declared he used on that oc
casion.
Judge Pritchard foutid him guilty and
fined Phillips $1 and costs, but sus
pended the judgment.
CHANGE DRUGGISTS’ TESTS.
Because of interference of the spe
cial session of the state legislature the
state board of pharmacy will conduct
the examination for registered pharma
cists’ license at the Indianapolis College
of Pharmacy, 522 Fletcher avenue, on
July 12, 13 and 14. V
, INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 1920.
$406,000 IN WOOD
MONEY HELD BY
ONE MAN ALONE
Primary Campaign Funds Dis
tributed Somewhere, All
Right, but Where?
PROCTOR GOT $6,000 BACK
CHICAGO. July 7.--A history of the
financing of the Wood campaign for the
presidency was given the senate cam
paign investigating committee here to
day by William Loeb, Jr.
Loeb said he was the “depositary” for
$406,000 collected for the Wood campaign.
He sent $225,000 to the Chicago head
quarters of the general, he said ; $150,-
000 to eastern headquarters and $45,000
to the New York headquarters.
Lately he sent a check fur the balance.
$6,000, to Col. W. C. Procter, Wood**
manager.
“Oh. tlie colonel Is getting Rome of it
back, Is he?” Senator Ifenyon asked.
“Yes, much to his surprise,” Loeb
replied.
MaJ. A. A. Sprague, Chicago, was
asked by Senntor Reed what had he
come of the difference between the s.‘loo
Colorado leaders admitted receiving and
the $14,1*00 reported to the committee as
expended In that state. Sprague slid
he did not know.
STRANGE DEARTH
OF INFORMATION.
“There's a most remarkable dearth of
information around the Wood headquar
ters,” Senator Reed Interjected.
“I know enough about campaigns to
know that someone around headquarters
knows what became of the money.'
Asked when* the money he handled
for Wood came from. Loeb prefaced his
testimony with a story of she forma
tion of the Wood management
He said after John T. King was
dropped by Wood ills advice was asked
.is to what It would cost to make a
campaign from "Maine to California.
“1 said ‘upwards of $1 .OOO.tDO," “ Loeb
testified
Appeals were sent the original mem
bers of the Wood for presl lent move
ment and later a league of fifty was
termed In New York to get the money
Names of contributors were exacted
from Loeb with difficulty. Naming J.
It. Puke, George W. Perkins and H.
II Rogers, as heavy contributors, he
said he disliked to mention the names
since many of them passed along sub
scriptlons which had been given them.
Perkins gave a check for SIO,OOO, but
said tt w-as not his subscription, accord
ing to Loeb.
In the same way Rogers handed over
SSOOOO he Slid.
MIS SOI RIAN TELLS
OU I.OWDEN MONEY
T W Hukrlede, Warrenton. Mo., re
reived $2,050 of “I.owden money" during
the presidential primary campaign, he
told the senate committee today.
Hukrlede filed a formal statement with
the committee. He said the money was
given him by E. 1.. Morse. Excelsior
Springs. Mo. He *a{d he spent the money
touring six Missouri congressional dl*
trb-fs for I.owden.
Hukrlede asserted he had nothing to be
ashamed of—that more uionev was spent
In other-eompslgns than in th* I.owden
primary effort.
Senator Jsmes A. Reed, niemt'er of the
Investigating committee, said he might
have something to say later on n report
that the committee will hear allegations
that money was expended to bar Reed
from the democratic national convention.
The presence of a number of Missouri
democrats gnvc rise to the report. The
charge. It was said, would be that oppo
nents of Reed were given their expenses
to San Francisco.
■T. 1,. Rabler, republican national com
mitteeman from M ssourt. at the request
of Senntor Kenyon, gave an Itemized
statement of his receipts from "E. L.
Morse, representing Gov. I.owden." He
said his disbursements exceeded re
ceipts.
Rabler said the receipts were:
December, 1919 ..11.190,00
January 7. 1920 4.325.00
January 21 1,019.00
February 26 5.050.00
Mnrch 7 46*1.60
May S 1.000.00
About same time..... 4,205.00
Disbursements, Rabler said, were by
check and totaled $10,021.06.
Senntor Kenyon, lingering a document
which he Intimated bore on the Missouri
situation, asked regarding amounts
given individuals by Rabler.
Loeb admitted that the Wood cam
paign had been underwritten for
$1,000,000 by some of the country’s big
gest financiers.
SEEK TO HOLD UP
SUFFRAGE LAW
Colby'and Palmer Served With
Supreme Court Order.
WASHINGTON, July 7.-—Bainbridge
Colby, secretary of stnte, and A. Mitchell
Palmer, attorney general of the United
States, today were served with an order
signed by Justice Halley of the supreme
court of the District of Columbia, re
quiring them to show cause by July 15,
why they should not be restrained front
proclaiming the ratification of the suf
frage amendment to the constitution or
from prosecuting any* law looking to Its
enforcement.
This order was Issued upon petition
of Charles S. Fairchild, an official of
the American Constitutional league, with
offices in Washington and New York,
and composed of citizens of a number
of states. *
It is claimed by the plaintiff, formerly
a member of the Cleveland cabinet, that
the suffrnge amendment is unconstitu
tional and void, nun that its ratification
by the original Virginia legislature had
been obtained by frt^ud.
It is further stated that the state
legislature of Tennessee has no power
to ratify it.
Blind Tiger Cases
to Be Heard Friday
Ten doctors or dentists will go to trial
Friday before Judge James Collins of
the criminal court if the calendar is car
ried out as arranged.
These doctors and dentists are charged
with operating a blind tiger and the in
dictments were returned as the result of
the cases against Julius and Louis Haag,
local druggists, who will leave the last
of this month to begin serving sentences j
of eighteen months at the ' fedeal prison i
at Atlanta.
Those going on trial Friday will be
Harrison B. Hulse, W. M. McQueen, C.
Roland Perdue, F.dgar M, (Jutland,
Charles P. Wier, Pearl O. Dickey, Alonzo
S. Meely, Calvin R. Atkins, Otto Oester
ly and W. M. Byers, according to the
docket.
Cox’s Running Mate
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT.
BODY PROBABLY
RICH MAN’S WIFE
Note Says Husband Sought
Others With Prosperity.
NEW YORK. July 7. The body of a
fashionably dressed woman believed to
be Mrs. Daniel M. Redell, wife of the
millionaire clubman of that name, was
found floating In a lake In Central park
today.
A note found on the shore rend
“I am the wife of Daniel M. Bedell.
1 stuck to him through adversity, but
w!ii-ii prosperity (Mine he sought others."
Bedell, who Is a former city alder
man ami prominent In politics, could
not be located.
Police declare the two committed ul
clde.
LAKE STEAMER
GOES AGROUND
Harmonic, With 360 Passen
gers, in Trouble.
DETROIT. MJoh.. July 7 Word
reached here today at noon that the
steamer Harmonic, with 360 passengers on
board, was aground seven miles from
Harbor lteacb, the south tip of the
"Thumb."
The vessel is owned by the Northern
Navigation Company and 1* of 5,625 tons.
efforts have been'made to dlsem
bark" her passengers, tl(y advices said,
and It was thought she could he floated
late today.
RECALLS FORMER
EL WELL PARTNER
Official Seeks to Clear Up
Clashing Statements.
NEW YORK, July 7. William Fondle
ton, former business associate of Joseph
Ilowne Elwell, was summoned by District
Attorney Edward Swann today to clear
up what officials said were contradictory
statements regarding Pendleton s move
ments on the eve of the murder of the
whist expert.
Swann said that from the evidence he
has obtained “It Is not Improbable that
Pendleton was in Elwell’* home the
morning of the murder.”
“Pendleton In his first examination
said he went home early In the evening
of June 11 and 12.” Swann said.
“Elwell was murdered the morning of
Juno ii.
“He said he put his automobile In his
own gArage and went to bed early.
"John Boyle, an employe of the Atlas
garage. Informed ns that Oliver Bird,
Jr., a friend of Pendleton’s, drove Pen
dleton’s automobile Into the garage itt 2
o’clock on the morning of the murder.
“We have found also a taxi driver at
Oedarhurst who said he drove Pendle
ton to the railroad station qn the day
of the murder, June 11, In time to catch
the 10:26 train to New York."
Telephone operators Informed author
ities that a call was placed from the El
well home to the Pendleton home at 1:45
a. m. the day of the murder. *
Commenting on this fact Swann said:
“It is not Improbable that Pendleton was
In Elwell’* home at the time and was
calling his wife to tell her that he would
not be home that night.”
Parley 6n Coal Wage
Dispute on for Today
SCRANTON, Pa., July 7. The eom
misslon appointed by President \Vllson
to settle wage disputes between coal
mine operators and workers was to re
convene here at noon today.
W. .Tett Lauck, Washington. D. C„
arrived here to assume charge of the
case for the union.
Two Bound Over
for j\uto Theft
Earl Tierce. 2100 Brooker streei, and
Bryan Davenport, 968 West Maryland
street, were bound over to the grand Jury
In the city court today, on the charge
of having stolen an automobile ,owned by
Dr. George Wells. 2126 College avenue.
The car was stolen July 2.
They’re Most as
Good as Gold Now
NEW YORK, July 7.—Highwaymen
here pass up no valuables.
Thomas Kelly told police two men
forced him to remove and surrendet
his brand new shoes after thyy had
taken S6O In cash.
C..K. i. jßy Carrier, Week, Indianapolis, 10c; Elsewhere, 12c.
Subscription Rates. ( By Mall B ’ ffc Ber ’ Month . , 5 00 Per year.
CONTRACT FOR
KEEPING MEN
IN JAIL SOUGHT
Recent Delivery Brings Action
by U. S. and County to
Fix Responsibility.
NO FRICTION IN MOVE
A contract between the federal
authorities and the county commis
sioners for the keeping of United
States prisoners at the Marion coun
ty jail will be entered into following
the wholesale escape of both state
and federal prisoners from the jail.
District Attorney Frederick Van-
Nuys has requested the authorities
at Washington, D. C., to send a rep
resentative to Indianapolis to con
sult with the county officers regard
ing the proposed drawing up of a
definite contract for housing federal
prisoners.
There has never been a contract be
tween the federal and county authorities
and the exposure of lax conditions at
she county Jail makes it imperative that
a definite agreement be reached between
county and federal officials.
Commissioner Joseph G. Hayes con
tends that he has insisted for weeks that
a cpntract be made by which the federal
government pay the county $1 a day for
keeping the prisoners
Under the old arrangement the sheriff
has received the money from the govern
ment for boarding the prisoners.
COUNTY PAYS
THE OVERHEAD.
“The county has ben paying the over
head for the prisoners and It Is rov opin
ion that the federal authorities should
meet their part of the overhead expense,"
said Mr. Hayes.
Officers state that the contract should
be carefully drawn, fixing the overhead
eharge to be paid by tile federal govern
ment, rules governing conduct of prison
ers and providing for federal supervision
over "federal row" and a definite under
standing of the nature of food to be given
the prisoners.
It is said on reliable authority that
Mich a definite contract will be welcomed
both by federal and county officers, as
the responsibility of both parties will be
determined.
County officials point out that s’nce
the criminal court has ruled that a Jailer,
unless he is sworn .in as a deputy sber
-1 Iff. mu not be legally responsible for
federsl prisoners confined in the county
i Jail. It is high time that a legal agree
ment he entered h)to fixing the respon
sibility.
No hT.UK LAW
ON U. *. PRISONER**.
There Is no Indiana law which pro
vides for eounfy jails keeping federal
prisoners.
The question today appears to be this:
There must be a definite agreement made
between county and federal authorities
: nr federal prisoners will be removed to
another jail.
The county commissioners point out
that they are willing to co-operate with
the government, but it Is now time to
have a definite understanding.
It is understood that Distiict Attorney
VanNuys favors the making of a definite
contract for keeping federal prisoners at
the Jail.
THREE SUSPECTS ARE
HELD AT COLUMBUS
I / Lawrence Roberts, deputy sheriff, left
Indianapolis today cn route to Columbus.
Ind., where the authorities had under ar
rest threp suspect* whom they believed
were prisoners escaped from the Marlou
county Jail.
Sheriff Miller last night said that only
two of the suspects under arrest at Co
lumbus could possibly be escaped pris
[ oners, as the third man was much too
old.
Harry Itrlght, the ninth of the prison
ers to tie recaptured, is in the Marlon
county jail today.
Bright was caught at Itrownsburg yes
terday. taken to Danville, and later
brought to Indianapolis.
He refuses to tell the authorities
he remained In hiding in Indianapolis
(Continued on Page Two.)
Another Day With No
Coal Bids for State
The state purchasing committee failed
again today to receive any bids for the
supply of coal to state institutions and
the supply in the institutions’ coal bins
1 continued to diminish.
It Is rapidly becoming apparent that
the plan to buy coal from day to day
until the state can purchase Its own coal
mine will not prove successful.,
The board, which asked for dally bids
lust Wednesday, has not received more
j than six bids since that time and has
i purchased only twenty-one cars of coal
on these bids. \
Ohio dealers, who were included in the
| list of those asked to submit bids, have
not submitted any figures.
AND THE CUPBOARD WAS BARE ’
HOME EDITION
2 CENTS PER COPY
FINDS HORIZONTAL
INCREASES ORDERED
WITHOUT A UTHORITY
Decision of Supreme J udges Affects Valua
tions in Every County—Reduces
Future Payment.
MUST REBATE AMOUNTS COLLECTED
%
That the state board of tax commissioners exceeded its authority in
ordering horizontal tax valuation increases was the decision of the su
preme court of Indiana today.
The supreme court affirmed the decision of the Marion county superior
cohrt room 2.
The decision is considered extremely important, because it is ex
pected to mean that taxes can not be collected in the future on the basis
of the Increased valuations, and those collected on this basis must be
returned.
Two questions arose before the supreme court during the sessions.
One was the question of whether the appellants had a right to sue
and the other was the question of whether the order of the state tax
board was without authority and void.
Both questions were answered by the court in the affirmative.
'Try an Airplane!
2§Pf^Jii_
A battle royal in which five men fought
a desperate battle in the back end of
a speeding motor truck, did not end
when John Ryan, 535 East New Y’orn
street, was kicked overboard. The truck
sped on.
Sergt. Houston and a largo squad of
police were rushed to the* White river
bridge and the Crawfordsvllle road at
5 o’clock yesterday afternoon on the re
port of a fight.
The police arrested John Ryan, the
man who was kicked off of the truck, and
charged him with-'drunkenness.
Ryan refused to tell the police the
names of the men on the truck or the
cause of the battle.
Sticks to His Mule
A i:e ’indoor sport” has been Invented
by John McMahou, 209 North Walcott
street.
It is called "Grab It when the turnkey
ain't looking."
McMahon had been relieved of a bottle
of "white mule" whisky and while the
turnkey was searching his pockets for
other valuable John reached Viehind him
and “nicked” the bottle from the win
dow ledge.
He wan not quick enough and the turn
key got the bottle back.
The turnkey continued to search Mc-
Mahon's pockets ancf McMahon again
reached back and got the bottle.
This time lie beat the game and got
the bottle inside of the ceilroom before
the turnkey missed it.
The turnkey got the bottle back, but
the amount of “white mule” had been
greatly reduced.
Prowled to Peep
Elmer Iloltman, 17, of 533 North Temple
avenue, was holding hi* hands high
above his head when the police emer
gency squad reached the alley in the
rear of 518 North Oford street at 12:30
o'eock this morning.
The cause was a large double-barrel
shotgun held by Louis Hoover and a
long-barreled revolver held by Hoover's
son Robert, facing him.
Robert Hoover had returned home an<l
discovered a prowler near his father’s
ga rage.
Robert told bis father and they se
cured the weapons and started to search
for the prowler when they discovered a
man in the tiller near the garage using
a flash light. %
They covered the man with their
weapons and Holtman held his hands
high in the air.
Holtman was arrested by Sergt. Wink- i
ler on a eharge of vagrancy, and he told '
the police that he was not trying to steal
anything, but was just peeking in a !
window.
NO. 49.
COMPLAINT SHOWED
LEVIES WERE UNEQUAL.
In regard to the former question the
complaint showed that more than 500 tax
payers of Washington township, Marion
county, are similarly affected by an il
legal order of the state board of tax com
missioners, made and issued on the pre
tense of equalizing the aggregate assess
ments In that township of all lands and
lots 50 per cent, ail Improvements 30 per
cent, and all personal property, excepting
certain items, 50 per cent.
All this property had-previously been
assessed at its full value.
At the same time by the alleged void
order the same classes of property in in
corporated towns in that township were
Increased only 20 per cent above tbeir
own true value.
The that it was the
opinion of the court that it was not the
intention of the general assembly to con
fer on the board of tax commissioners,
, jurisdiction over the class of property
j which this suit relates.
It continued that “if the state board
of tax commissioners is not given all
powers of the county board, then there
is no provision giving the state board
Pftwer. on its own motion to equalize the
various taxing units of a county, by
means of horizontal assessments.”
Ihe only business which could prop
erly come before the state board, at an
extended session, according to the opin
ion of the court, was the equalization of
assessments 0 f the several counties,
which were too low.
lor that purpose alone the mandate
. of the legislature requiring the board to
I adjourn an the third Monday In August
I gave the board permission to extend its
session not to exceed ten days.” the opin
ion reads.
HAS RULES WHICH
MI ST HE FOLLOWED.
Ihe supreme court held that the ap
pellants petition could not be sustained
for the reason that the lefislature fur
nished the board plain rulei . which must
be followed.
“When the board assumed the power
to equalize the various taxing units of
the counties at that time-dt exceeded its
authority. In that it assumed to exercise
statutory functions not within Its pow
er.” the court held.
“In so far as the legislature prescribed
rules which the tax board must follow,
the bdard must rely on them, and the
taxpayers have a right to rely on their
being followed.” •'
COURT RULING IS
CLIMAX OF BATTLE.
! The ruling of the court is the climax
of a long-standing legal battle between
Marion county taxpayers and the State
ns a result of horizontal increases in
| valuations <>f taxable property ordered
i by the tax board.
These increases in the various counties
, of the state range from 10 per cent to
100 per cent.
In Marion county they amounted to
from 20 per cent to 50 per cent.
An injunction was sought by Marion
county taxpayers against the county
treasurer to prevent him from collecting
taxes on the basis of horizontal in
creases.
Judge Linn Hay of superior court,
room 2, granted the injunction.
This ruling on the part of the court
hold up the collection of any taxes in
Marlou county for weeks.
COLLECTION AGREEMENT
IS FINALLY REACHED.
An agreement oft the part of the plain
tiffs, the defendants and the court was
finally reached whereby the county
treasurer could collect the first install
ment of taxes.
It Ywas provided, however, that the
treasurer should agree to deduct from
the final installment the excess paid on
the first installment because of the hori
zontal Increases in valuations.
This agreement was stamped on every
tax receipt.
Following the decision of the lower
court the case was appealed to the ap
pellate court.
This court reversed (he lower court
and the action of the tax board was
legalized for the time being.
The Marlon county taxpayers imme
diately petitioned for a transfer to the
supreme court.
This petition resulted in the formal
transfer and today’s ruling, which were
entered within a few minutes of each
other.
COCRT DECISION
MOST SWEEPING.
The decision of the supreme court is
one of the most sweeping in its effect
of any that has been banded down by
the court in recent years.
The decision will necessarily compel
a complete reversal of the attitude of
the state board of tax commisisouers,
which contended it had the power to in
crease levies in cases where it believed
v them to be too low.
The most serious effect, however,
will be upon the financial condition of
the state, cities, counties and townships,
which will not receive the- amount of
taxes contemplated and which for this
reason must be given some relief in or
(Continned on Page Two.)
This Is How They
Told Us About It
CHICAGO, July 7. —Bound and
gagged by robbers, Michael McQue,
railroad watchman, worked his way
to the phone, removed the receiver
with his teeth and called the police.
Two men were arrested as they were
leaving with loot.