The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-10
ASK REPEAL OF
INHERITANCE
Keno. State Representa-
tives Listed as Favor
ing Big Tax Slash.
BANKERS URGE DRIVE
Twenty-Five Assemblymen and
Four Senators Reported as
Signing Petition.

Kenosha county's representatives in
the state legislature, senate and as
sembly, have joined the ranks of
those who are requesting congress to
insert clause in the nations ta-1-
bill, already introduced in the House
at Washington for consideration by
the new congress, which will repeal
the federal inheritance tax.
State Senator George W.. Hull of
Whitewater, representing Walworth
and Kenosha counties in the upper
house of the legislature, and Conrad
Shearer, representative from the first
assembly district of Kenosha county
in the state legislature, and D. j.
Vincent of Randall, representative in
the second district, Kenosha county,
are named among the % Wisconsin
assemblymen and four senators who
have endorsed the movement to have
the inheritance tax repealed, according
to report by the American Bankers
league.
Letters Sent To All.
Letters are being sent to every
member of the Wisconsin legislature
asking them to sign the repeal petit
tion to congress. Those receiving the
request are furnished with stamped
postcard which the recipient is asked
to sign and mail. On the card is the
wording: "Be it resolved: That the
inheritance tax provision Of the pres
emit federal tax measure be repealed,
leaving this source of revenue to the
states for individual action as they
may see fit"
The majority of the legislators of
Wisconsin who are named as having
let their names to the league petit
tion are identified with the Badger
conservative group. They are sena-
tors, Walter H. Hunt, Beaver Falls;
Oscar H. Morris, Milwaukee; George
W.. Hull, Whitewater; H. T. LANCE,
Eau Claire. Assemblymen Conrad
Shearer, Kenosha; Fred E. .-Moul,
Brunette; T. H. Conway, Milwaukee,;
julius Jensen, Milwaukee; Robert
Caldwell. Lodi; George Frederick.
Merrill; Nels Larson, Neenah; Will
lam l.. Smith, Neillsville; E. J. Roethe,
Fennimore; j. M. Dihring, Browns
vile; Fred J. Busse, Milwaukee;
Michael Laffey, Milwaukee; j. A.
Cody, Amigo; r. 3. Wood, Adams;
Marcellus Dorwin, Durand; M. A.
Sellers, Green Bay; B. D. Thorp,
Ephraim; F. E. Lawson, Walworth;a
d. J. Vincent, Genoa City; Frank L.
Prescott, Milwaukee,; Ernest A. Son
nemann, Sheboygan.
LaFollette Is Opposed.
Senator Robert M. LaFollette, Jr.,
has recently announced that he is
opposed to the repeal of the federal
inheritance tax.
''We would like to have you join
with other members of your state
legislature, whose names are shown
in the enclosed list, in asking that
the federal government immediately
abandon the inheritance tax as a
source of revenue in time, of peace,
leaving it to the states to use as they
see fit" the last letter to the legisla-
tors reads. "We are opposed to con-
gress using its powers in compelling
the state legislatures to take dicta-
tion from it in regard to fiscal poll
cies and believe that the states should
be left to raise their own revenue in
their own way.
Would Readjust Laws.
"The proposal of the house ways
and means committee to levy max
imum 20 per cent inheritance tax
upon the transfer of property and
give the states 80 per cent of it, COM
pels a complete readjustment of the
revenue laws of all states and en-
forces uniform rates and uniform
provisions upon all states, based up
on property value of estates, regard
less of economic condition or political
sentiment of the states"
Legislators have also been sent
copies of news stories telling of the
plea of a half dozen governors at
Washington for a repeal of the fed
eral inheritance tax law.