Salt Lake Herald | 1899-06-20 | Page 1 | Fight for the Canteen

FIGHT FOR THE CANTEEN War Department Will Not Submit to Court Decision Washington June 19U is improbable improb-able that the war department will accept ac-cept as final the decision o the Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania state court declaring that the army canteen is subject t state taxation taxa-tion The officer In charge of the canteen can-teen at Camp Meade appealed to the war department for assistance in defending de-fending the case and the Jeparrment approvIng of his application transmitted trans-mitted It to the department of lustlce with the request that an officer of that department be assigned for the purpose pur-pose I is believed the decision was rendered before the defense could be prepared The principle Involved is regarded a important and it ia significant that the Pennsylvania decrion Is directly in conflict with the f3rmal opinion G the court of claims In the case involving the canteen That court decided that the canteen was one of the Instrumentalities Instrumen-talities of government and therefore exempt from taxation