The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-04
GOVERNOR D|XOUE
HERE TOMORROW
New York Executive Will Ad-
dress international Tax
Conference.
MANY EXPERTS ARE COMING
Convention Program Includes
Discussion of Many Vital
Questions.

Tax experts of international fame
will address the Fifth International
Conference on State and Local Taxa
ton. the opening session of which
takes place tomorrow afternoon at
the Jefferson Hotel. The complete
program. just issued carries. in adj
dition to the schedule of addresses.
much other information of interest to
delegates and visitors. Seven sessions
are listed besides business meeting
Friday afternoon, which will officially
close the convention. The speakers
who are down for addresses are, with
out exception, men who have attained
wide recognition in the investigation
and solution of present day tax prob
lens. and the subjects they will dis
cuss are strictly in keeping with the
objects of the association. which, ac-
cording to section 2 of It's constitu-
ton, is ito formulate and announce.
through the deliberately expressed
opinion of an annual conference, tho
best Informed economic thought and
rlpest administrative experience avail
able for the correct guidance of pub
lie opinion, legislative and admins
trative action on all questions pertain
ing to State and local taxation and to
interstate and international comfy in
taxation"
Governor Dix to Speak.
First in popular interest among the
events of the convention will be the
address on Tuesday Of Governor John
A. Dix of New York on the subject
of state Comfy in Taxation" Hold
in the chief executive office In a
State which in recent years has been
called upon to face many and complex
problems In tho field of public taxa
Il n, Governor Dix has addressed him
self closely 10 their solution and will
bring to the convention the result of
thorough and frst-hand study of
the subject.
OF wide Significance too Will be the
addresses Wednesday of Herbert Knox
Smith. Commissioner of Corporations.
and Allen Ripley Foote, president of
the International Tax Association Mr.
Smiths subject will be The Methods
of Taxing Corporations" a topic which
| Will hold peculiar interest for the at
torneys of the large corporations who
VIII be present. The taxing of corpo-
rations is a question growing daily in
prominence, and its discussion at this
meeting is highly opportune Mr.. Rip
ley will discuss Railroad Taxation"
and. ii is stated. Will introduce novel
plan of his own devising, which. he
claims does away with a number OF
the anomalies and Inconvenience of
the system of railroad taxation now in
vogue. This address is attracting the
attention of the country's big roads,
many OF which will be represented at
the convention through their attor-
neys.
Scholars to be Present.
The convention will bring TO Its de-
lioerations several of the hest known
students OF economics in the United
states to-day. Most prominent among
these. perhaps. is Professor e r. A.
Seligman, of Columbia University,
head of the department OF political
works on economic subjects. He will
discuss practical Substitutes for Per
sonal Property Tax" Professor
| Charles j. Bullock. of Harvard Uni
versity will speak on Local Option
! in Taxation" An address on ''Mer-
I camille Business" will he delivered by
I Oscar Lesser. Judge of Appeal Tax
Court. Baltimore
! Two Hundred Expected
| Two hundred delegates. IL is OK
! pected, will attend the convention.
Headquarters will be at the Jeffers 81
Hotel, and the sessions. which will
take place in the hotel auditorium.
| VIII be omen to the public Mayor
D. c. Richardson. of Richmond. has
: oeen made temporary chairman, and
Will open the convention with a speech
OF welcome on behalf of the city. Gov
ethor Mann viii welcome the dele
gates TO Virginia. after which Will
follow responses by the visitors. Sec.
rotary a. c. Pleydell. of the associa-
ton. arrived in Richmond several days
ago and has been engaged In per-
| fectinS the planS fo, tho ,poattrg