Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-13
ALL WORK FOR CITY
Keynote Is Sounded at Meet
ing of Board of Trade.
OUTLINE YEARS PROGRAM
Members Pledge Their Support TO-
Plans Of Committee.
NOT CITY OF TAX DODGERS
Property Owners Willing to Bear
Fair Burden, But Inheritance Tax
Is Declared Unnecessary.
OUTLINE YEARS PROGRAM
NOT CITY OF TAX DODGERS

The WASHINGTON Board OF trade, at
its first meeting OF the new year last
night at the New Willard Hotel began
it's work for the coming twelve months
with an enthusiasm which augurs we'll
for the District OF Columbia. Several
hundred members listened to the recon-
mendations of charmen of committees.
gave their approval and pledged them
selves to aid in having these recon-
mendations carried out. The keynote OF
the entire meeting was sounded by
Thomas G.. Noyes, who as vice president
presided in the absence of President Har-
ries. AS the meeting was about to ad-
journ Mr.. Moves said:
Members OF the board, you have
adopted many recommendations tonight.
| call your attention TO the fact that
you are all pledged to carry out these
recommendations, and that SO far as lies
in your power YOU must see that they
are carried out"
For Canal Celebration.
Among the important matters which
were passed upon by the board was the
recommendation Of the joint committee
OF the board and the Chamber OF Com
merce on the proposed Panama canal eel
ebration in Washington, which calls for
an oflicial celebration of the great work
in the National Capital. Z. c. Graham
who made the report, asked that the COM
mittee be continued with authority to
carry the plan as outlined by the JOINT
committee to Congress, and the board
agreed to this request unanimously.
A special report was made by the COM
mittee on municipal finance, attacking the
f@y< n aaysi q n
in the District of Columbia. which has
already been passed by the House and
which now lies before the Senate. The
report was made by A. A. Birney for the
committee Mr.. Birney pointed out that
the District Commissioners had already
reported adversely upon the measure,
holding that the tax was not necessary.
Unnecessary Tax an Evil.
AN unnecessary tax is a great evil"
said MI Birney. If the so-called Judsou
bill to regulate the finances of the Dis
trict and to care for the District debt
is enacted into law, there is absolutely no
need for the proposed Inheritance tax
II has been said by members OF the con-
gressional committees that the residents
of Washington are tax dodgers put TINS
is not true. 1t has been said, too, that
Washington Is becoming an asylum Tor
rich men who seek to dodge the inher-
itance tax enacted by many Of the states,
but this Is not borne out by the facts. An
inheritance tax would make necessary
the employment Of legal counsel in the
settlement of thousands of estates which
are now settled without dfficulty'
The board adopted the report OF the
committee against the proposed tax and
win DO all IN It's power to help defeat
the measure.
The municipal finance committee recon-
mended that the board give Its support
to the bill providing for payment OF
taxes In arrears with per cent interest
instead Of the accrued penalties, and the
board gave its approval.
Much enthuctasm was aroused by r.
Walton Moore, state senator Of Virginia,
who pleaded the cause Of the Fairfax
Good Roads Association, which plans to
build frst-class highways from the heart
Of the county into Washington. Mr..
Moore said that the amount needed for
the work was $4,000 of which $4,000
had already been raised in the county.
"And we viii get the other 10000" he
declared emphatically. Mr.. Moore point
out that the proposed highways would be
OF great benefit to Washington and to
Washington business interests.