The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1907-11-14
NATIONAL TAX
CONFERENCE
To Be Most Notah'o Meeting
In The word.
BIG MEN AND BIG QUESTIONS
Economic Experts will Discuss at Co.
lumbus Every Phase CT the Taxa
tion Problem -Many Governors to
Be There.

DC ncIcs
A bulletin just issued by the Ma.
tional Tax association indicates that
the tax conference. to be convened In
Columbus on November IL, will be
the most notable and serviceable OF
its kind that has ever occurred in
this country IL not in the world.
One purpose of this conference is
70 bring together for joint debate and
action, representatives of universities
and practical administrators OF state
and local tax laws.
Another purpose is to collect in
volume of proceedings the best
thought up to date, expressed by edu-
Gators and public administrators, on
the subject of state and local taxation.
for the use of members of state legis-
latures, public officials whose duty II
is to collect, disburse and account for
money paid by the people for taxes
and other public charges, for the use
of writer's and speakers interested in
the subject-the educators of the
people.
Twenty-six papers are being prepared
by university professors 16 papers
are being prepared by taxation invest
igators and administrators. An effort
is being made to secure the attend
ancs Of representative from every
university and principle college In the
country, some 60 In number. Thirty
six governors have appointed com.
missioners to represent their states in
this conference, In response to the
invitation of Governor Andrew L. Har-
ris Of Ohio. Every state in the Union
will probably be so represented. The
governors Of seven states have given
notice that tley will attend the con.
ference. A majority Of the whole
number have expressed an earnest de-
sire to attend and will do so II they
can arrange their engagements so as
to make this possible. Every auditor
or comptrolles of state, and every
member of state tax commission or
board Of equalization has been invited.
More than majority of the whole
number have accepted the invitation.
From AZ titles in the program the
following are selected
Separation of State and Local
Revenues" Prof. Edwin X. A. Selig-
man, Columbia university, New York
city.
Separation of State and Local Rev.
enues." Prof T. 8. Adams, Wisconsin
university, Madison, Wis.
Taxation of Public Service Cor.
porations," Prof Adam Shortt, Queens
university, Kingston, Ontario. nom.
Der or tax commission, province of
Ontario.
- "Outline of Model System of State
and Local Taxation" Lawson Purdy,
president of board Of taxes and as
ssssmsnt, New York city.
Incidence of Taxation" A. G. Pley-
dell. secretary of New York Tax Re-
form association, New York city.
THE Economic and Statistical Value
OF Uniform State Laws ON the Subject
of State and Local Taxation" l.. G.
Powers, chief statistician Of bureau
of the census, Washington, d. c.
Taxation of Incomes" Charles Lee
Raper, professor of political economy,
University Of North Carolina. Chapel
Hill. n. c.
THE Single Tax" C. b. Fillebrown,
president of the Massachusetts, Single
Tax league, Boston, Mass.
Municipal Taxation" Prof Jacob
II. Hollander, John Hopkins univer-
sity, Baltimore, Md.
Taxation of Life and Fire Insur-
ance Business" Prof. Solomon s.
Huebnsr. University OF Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia. Pa.
The Relation OF Federal to State
and Local Taxation" Prof. H. Parker
Willis, professor of finance, George
Washington university Washington
correspondent New York Journal If
Commerce, Washington, d, C.
THE Position of the Inheritance
Tax in the American System OF Taxa.
tion," Prof. Charles ]. Bullock, de-
partment OF economics, Harvard uni
versity, Cambridge, Mass.
THE Incidence OF the Single Tax"
Prof. II. j. Davenport. department Of
political science, the. University Of
Chicago, Chicago, III.
Reform in Municipal Taxes" Prof.
Charles Edward Merriam. department
of political science, University of
Chicago, Chicago, H..
Taxation of Competitive Industrial
Corporations" Hon. Theodore Sutro,
attorney chairman committee on tax.
alton. American Bar association, $50
Broadway, New York city.
Interstate Comfy In Taxation, -
Hon. Frederick N. Judson. author Of
Treatise Upon the Law and Practice
OF Taxation In Missouri"
"A New Method of Raising State
Revenue" G, B. Kegley. master state
grange. Pullman, Wash.