Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-02
SPR0UL URGES CUT |
IN FEDERAL TAXES.
Governor Tells Conference OF
States Executives Levies
Work Hardship
SAYS y. s. MUST ASK LESS


be used In extracting money! from tax
payers, Governor SnromI to,d cxerntivcs
st tho twelfth annual conforcnre of
governor hero today
To that end Mr. Sproul suggested n
national commission 10 revise and sim
plify the fax laws Encroochmpnt bv
the federal government on revenue rc.
sourocs of tho state Governments no
said. IL leading 20 compIications.
The governors in attendance. who
recognize that taxation Is tho most pain.
ful part of government, from the tax
payers' point of view. agreed with
pennsylvania's Governor that duplica-
ton Of federal and state lcviCs should
be avoided wherever possible.
49,
Socs Nf" " Ne" Inn LAWS
Most states viii rcquir" new taS leg
hiation within the next few wears. GOV
ernor Sproul said pointing ont the Nd-
visability OF making te new laws uni
form IN the scevral states.
hecommendations should 10 lhadn 10
Songress by such commission. the
Sovernor said. looking to nominations
ot federal laws SO that the states may
taxation sources saved from dcuIstiop
BY the federal collections.
The most hopeful project that We
have to contemplate i in the nromise
that fedora rruuirCmcnts will de-
crease" he declared
II they do not, he continued. the
federal government should undertake
support Of public institutions now kept
up by the states with money raised from
revenue sources also levied upon by the
National government.
'sDccentrn lization of government
functions and activitics' and discus
sion Of the housing questions are the
two mntters yet to be considered By
the assembled governors.
Governor Alfred T.. Smith. Of New
York. who was tO have led the discus
sion on the housing question cannot be
here.
Other speakers today besides Gov.
ernor Sprou were Governor r. 4
Cooper, of South Carolina Governor
John G.. Townsend, Jr, Of Delaware.
and President Judge William NJ. IIur-
aest. of Dnuphin county.
Governor ! Il. 4. Roberts. of Okla
homa. WIS the presiding olsccr today,
Governor Simon Hamburger, OF Utah.
having gone 20 visit the Gettysburg
battlefield.
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Explains morn LAWS fhn
Efforts being made by the national
conference ON uniform state laws to
unity civil and criminal statutes in the
various states were explained to the
conference yJudge Hargest.
o"use -" s.s.,;a .u'' ", o,is this
year directed the attention of law :
makers to the necessity for uniformity
in laws upun subjects being submitted
To state legislatures for the frst time.
He pointed TO the efforts by the coin
niss,on to obtain uniform marriage and
divorce laws and relating to wis. but
which. he said. have met with only
slight success in most stutes
1.-THE desire for uniformity extends
to laws regulating commerce and buSi
ucss affairs but does not seem to ex
tend to those which regulate social anu
family matters" Judge lIurgrst said.
The extreme southern statcn have
heen the least receptive 20 the suggts .
t;onL NJ thr conference. he declared.
"a r;zona and MiSsiSsiDpi have
.dontcI five suggestions and other
soutbern horder states n less number
Wisron.in loads in the number of acts
recommended by the conference, having
rSanteI seventeen, MARYLAND has
sdonted thirteen Massachusetts.
,,ssr'o. IlIinnis and Tennessee. eleven
Aiask, ron, Michigan and Louisiana.
nine: New Jersey and Utah, eight
Idaho, Nevada and PennSylvania
eophned its attention to action on COM
mercial laws.
T.. T,,fo,,, A,-cr.,, J.ws
Laws regulating aircFatt Shou'd Te
passed uniformly ~ all states ne Ha'd'
'Alrcady there Is discussion c"hr"rhlhG
the rights and duties OF aircraft anl
laws on this subject VIII become n"c"S q
sary AZ Transportation by such means
increases. Tn" right 70 recover dam
ages, for landing In unauthorized DlaccI.
and for flying too low will have to be
defined and hring over crowds regG =
lated or prevruted
For MANY wears the national con .
ference on uniforrI stat laws devoted
its time rxcluSivrlr 70 efforts 70 make
uniform the existing laws Of III" sew
sral states That is. To tho preparation
Of uniform lnwS upon subjects con
cerning which tn" laws of the various
states are divergent and concerning
which uniformity was desirable. II did
not suggest uniform laws upon new sub
jects, Rut in recent wears our eyolu
tion has been marked the changing
times have developed situations which
require new laws and We are now turn
ing our attention to these A. we'll" "
Settlers, Deerepdop pts In ReunIor
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!, pe"'tnGnn'S ~ l'Ic eur! 'olol'"' ~,
tiers OF iehhsH sHlFahh nave cpINr n p"'S
70 Harrlsonrg tor rGuhioh, ~" t9h
chyt orins n'," u.uer I"T cnnfercncs rrtv ", s"'
: le.D tbaS tranty- Ave- of tho
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