Special Assessments: A Study in Municipal Finance (Classic Reprint)
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AS an example in point, the new city charter for Omaha (laws of Nebraska, re-enacts provisions of former statutes relating to Special assessments, but seeks to make the system more elastic by differentiating between the classes of improvements in which petitions of abutting property owners are pre-requisite to jurisdiction. Within an arbitrary area com prised within a radius of feet from the court-house square, the city council may order paving and other street improve ments without regard to the wishes or protests of the parties to be assessed to defray the expense. For original paving beyond these limits the council has jurisdiction to act unless the prop etty owners file protest within the designated time. For te paving, jurisdiction can be acquired by the council only through the presentation of the requisite petition.
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Studies in History, Economics and Public Law. Volume II. Number 3. Special Assessments, a Study in Municipal Finance. Second Edition
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Victor Rosewater was an American politician and journalist. He was an editor of the periodical "Omaha bee" from 1895 to 1920.
Background
Victor Rosewater was born at Omaha, Nebraska, the first son and third in a family of five children of Edward Rosewater and Leah (Colman) Rosewater. He came of a German-Jewish family which had emigrated to the United States from Bohemia in 1854, settled in Cleveland, Ohio, and changed its name from Rosenwasser to Rosewater.
Education
Victor graduated with honors from the Omaha high school in 1887, then went to Washington to spend a year "studying practical politics. " He attended Johns Hopkins University and Columbia University, graduating from the latter institution with the degree of Ph. B. in 1891. Continuing at Columbia in political science, he received his A. M. in 1892 and Ph. D. in 1893, submitting as his doctoral dissertation Special Assessments, A Study in Municipal Finance (1893).
Career
After completing his studies at Columbia, Rosewater returned to Omaha to join the editorial staff of the Omaha Bee, which his father had founded in 1871. He became its managing editor in 1895, editor in 1906, and editor and publisher in 1917. In 1920 he sold the paper to Nelson B. Updike, an Omaha fuel magnate, who later transferred it to the Hearst newspaper chain.
Meanwhile Rosewater had also been active in education and public affairs, serving for a year as a member of the board of regents of the University of Nebraska (1896 - 97) and lecturing in municipal finance at this university (1894) and at the University of Wisconsin (1904).
By 1908 he had become a dominant influence in the Republican party in Nebraska, and he was in that year elected a member of the Republican National Committee. He remained on the committee until 1912 and was its chairman during the fateful weeks preceding the Republican National Convention of 1912.
Rosewater had long been a staunch supporter of Roosevelt, and when he began as early as the summer of 1907 to work for Taft's nomination it was with the assumption that Taft was Roosevelt's choice for the presidency. His efforts for Taft in 1908, including his service as director of publicity in the West during the campaign, were based largely on a desire to bring about a vindication of Roosevelt's administration. As Roosevelt and Taft became increasingly estranged, however, Rosewater remained with Taft, partly out of deference to party regularity and partly because in Nebraska the Roosevelt forces aligned themselves openly with the supporters of Robert M. La Follette, for whom Rosewater had no regard. As chairman of the national committee, he presided over the stormy opening session of the Republican National Convention of 1912. His short stature and weak voice gave a comic-opera aspect to his attempts to control that tumultuous body, but he managed to carry the day for the national committee by ruling out of order a motion by Roosevelt's floor leader to substitute a list of delegates for those approved by the committee in some seventy contested cases.
This made it possible to elect Taft's candidate, Elihu Root, as temporary chairman and was a major event in the series which led up to Roosevelt's withdrawal from the convention. By this time Rosewater had already been defeated for reelection as national committeeman in the Republican primary in Nebraska; and after the convention he returned to Omaha to resume editorial and civic work. He remained keenly interested in public affairs, but his only active participation after 1912 was as a member (1916) of the advisory committee of the Republican National Committee. During World War I he served on the advisory commission of the Council of National Defense and as administrator for Nebraska of the paper and pulp section of the War Industries Board. He was a member of the American Jewish Committee and of the advisory council of the National Civic Federation.
Rosewater moved from Omaha to Philadelphia in 1921 to direct publicity for the Sesquicentennial Exposition to be held in 1926. He resigned from that post in 1925, more than a year before the exposition opened, but remained in Philadelphia, writing and lecturing. During this period, in addition to many magazine articles, he wrote a History of Coöperative News-Gathering in the United States (1930) and Back Stage in 1912 (1932). A sufferer from heart disease, he gradually withdrew from nearly all activity. He died in Philadelphia after an illness of six weeks and was buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Omaha.