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Show . PROPOSED TAX REVISION AND MR, SEEGMILLER . (By L. A. Hollenbeck.) , W. W. Seegmiller Is one of the Ablest and most honorable Republl-1 cans of Utah. He . was speaker of ihe House when the writer was a ' member of the legislature, aud a ' tetter man never presided over a j legislative body. He is now in the ' RJintah basin fighting the proposed j lax revision that is now being for- J mulated by the tax commission authorized au-thorized by the last legislature, . Ke is here representing the mines iwbx-h are threatened with a double taxation, and extreme at that, which .would shut down some of the mine ot the state and arrest Utah's ...growth; and, he has nearly all his life been a farmer and he figures rightly that this proposed tax revision revis-ion will be of great injury to the .fanners as well as the miner.?. TTbere 5e a dangerous scheme hatched to Induce a competition among the counties of the stati to raise valu;i-tior.fi valu;i-tior.fi of all properly, and henc xaise our. tax burdens. The writer has been denouncing this scheme in the papers, and by co-et.pondcnce t. j ilJUh Taxpayer and other papers, and to everybody and tint Mr Seegmii-J Seegmii-J ler stands against this langor ,ls a V.7 aource of gratification. The last 'i . legislature wanted to spend more Iban a half million dollars above the usual heavy appropriation, and " " ,the reason they didn't spend ft was (because the constitution wouldn't permit it, and now they are seeking ' . to have a special session of .'lie leg-- leg-- ielature so that they can change the - constitution so that they can get the money. It is also gratifying to know that our representative, B. L. Dart, stood against this scheme and for economy. |