The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-02-19

of the session that they had accom-
piished nothing.
Handicap 10 Prosperity.
President @. I'll. Funston. of the
Real Estate exchange, told the direc-
tors what his organization was doing
for the reform of the mortgage tax
laws, and explained to the directors
what a handicap the present statute
was to the growth and prosperity Of
Richmond and the whole State. What
the exchange wants liz a tax Of one
half of one per cent payable only
once-when the mortgage is record
ed
Fritz sitterdiug, Jr., who was
member of the special grand jury of
the Hastings court to investigate the
matter of .'tax dodging,. told the
directors very interesting resume of
the jury's findings, declaring that the
States tax laws. are las rotten as
can be-" and that as a member of the
Jury he would not vote for any In
dictments because the tax laws were
impossible OF intelligent construction.
Mr.. Sitterding caused a laugh with
the statement that before the jury
called on anybody. 1t began It's inves-
tigation by Investigating each other"
and that several of them "fessed up"
to shortcomings in reporting property
for taxation simply because the laws
We're vague and not ineligible.
Appoints Special Committee
Mr. McAdams made the motion that
brought. the whole matter to focus
that President Darlington appoint a
special committee to cooperate
With the committees of the Bank
ers' association and the Real Es-
tate Exchange TO frame tentative laws
TO replace the bank deposit and NOR
gage tax laws to report at meeting
4 sd
which the representatives Of all the
commercial organizations of the State
win be invited.
A resolution framed by the Cham
Der of Commerce of the United States
calling for the appointment of per-
manent tariff commission, was unani-
nously endorsed by the directors, with
body be as permanent as the body it.
seif---in other words " civil service or
ganiZation with lift tenure Of office.
The nomination Of the inland trade
committee of f. $. Goodman to be
reelected as traffic manager Of the
chamber for another year was car
ried unanimously.
New Director Elected.
Edwin Strudwick, president of the
Atlantic Life Insurance company, was
unanimously elected member of the
board OF directors of the chamber to
iil3 "a vacancy caused Dy the dHCfina~
ton of member elected at the an
nual meeting
The directors unanimously adopted
resolution offered by j. l.. Wingo
congratulating the promoters on the
consolidation of the Medical College of
Virginia and the University College
of Medicine.
The following resolution offered by
Business Manager w. T. Dabney was
adopted without a dissenting voice:
Resolved: That the convention
committee is hereby authorized by the
board of directors of the Chamber
OF Commerce to extend invitations to
any national or divisional organiza-
ton of a cooperative nature to hold
their conventions in Richmond when
IN their Judgment such invitation
would be In the interest OF our city,
New Members Get In.
me Following new members OF the
chamber were elected. Rloomb berg
Michael Furniture company: C. q. Bur
ton. contractor; W. G. Herbert, assist
ant superintendent, Southern HALLWAY,
John M. Hudspeth, division superlr
tendent Southern Railway; Norfolk
southern Railway, represented by G. 1
Il =, lie 9rande; @. E. Parrish cashier,
Church Hill bank
The first meeting of the new hoard
OF directors OF the chamber. the pur-
pose OF which was to outline a tenta-
tive program tor the years work, was
held IN the palm room of the Iefrer- |
son motel and substantial dinner
aided materially in the deliberations Of
the body. Those present were: Presi-
Dent \. Al Darlington. Secretary r. b.
Dunlop, Business MANAGER w. r. Dab
ney Traffic Manager &. 8. Goodman
W; Meade Addison. Thomas r. Bryan, |
John q. Coriey. John G. Easley, Julien
Fl. HIM. S, T. Morgan, John "a pinnsr
Charles G. Head, W F. Richardson
J. f. Ryland, O. j. Sands. Fritz sill
teFding, Jr, Alvin Nj. Smith, Warren
+ Taylor J. L. Wingo. Hugh Antrim
frank w. Brown. w. c. Broaddus, W,
Gordon, George Curry, J. r pajc,a
tary w, J. Parrish and ", n
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