The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-21
NATIONAL TAX
CONFERENCE
To Be Most Notable Meeting
In The World.
BIG MEN AND BIG QUESTIONS

Economic Experts will Discuss at Co.
lumbus Every Phase Of the Taxa.
ton Problem MANY Governors to
Be There.
A bulletin just issued by the Ma
tional Tax association indicates that
the tax conference, to be convened in
Columbus on November ~, will be
the most notable and serviceable of
its kind that has ever occurred in
this country II not in the world.
One purpose of this conference is
to 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 it
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
Rnce of a 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 they will attend the con-
ference. A majority of the whole
number have expressed an earnest de-
sireyto ATTEND and WI d,ttfHa, ,ttfH8as,i Il. II .tis~s.
can arrange their engagements so as
to make this possible. Every auditor
or comptroller of state, and every
member of a 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 R. A. Selig-
man, Columbia university, New York
city.
Separation of State and Local Rev
enues," Prof. T. s. Adams, Wisconsin
university Madison, Wis.
Taxation of Public Service Cor
porations." Prof. Adam Short, Queens
university, Kingston, Ontario. men,
Der Of tax commission, province Of
Ontario.
Outline Of Model System of State
and Local Taxation" Lawson Purdy,
president of board Of taxes and as
sessment, New York city.
Incidence of Taxation" A. c. 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. G..
"The Single Tax" G. B. Fillebrown,
president of the Massachusetts Single
Tax league, Boston, Mass.
Municipal Taxation" Prof. Jacob
H. 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 Of
Commerce, Washington, D. c.
"The Position of the Inheritance
Tax in the American System of Taxa.
tion," Prof. Charles j. Bullock. de-
partment of economics, Harvard uni
versity, Cambridge, Mass.
THE Incidence of the Single Tax"
Prof. H. j. Davenport, department OF
political science, the University of
Chicago, Chicago, ILL.,
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, 2SC
Broadway, New York city.
Interstate Comfy in Taxation,
Hon. Frederick N. Judson, author oi
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.
Taxation of the Products of Agri
culture" N. J. Bachelor. master ma
tional grange, Concord, N. H.
"The Taxation of Real Estate I'm
provements," F. A. Derthick, chair
man committee on taxation, National
grange master, Ohio State grange
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