Evening star., 1928-11-23
NATIONAL GRANGE
. SESSION NEAR END
Convention May Adjourn To-
night-Taxation Report
Is Adopted.

Preparing to adjourn their 10 days
sessions tonight, the delegates to the
National Grange convention adopted a
report committing the agricultural body
to a program of National and State
taxation, with the exception of pro-
posal for tax on intangible property,
which was ordered referred back to
committee without instructions.
The report from the committee on
taxation, submitted to the convention
by Chairman Ralph w. Smith of Iowa,
embodied the following recommended
tionS:
Retention of the Federal inheritance
tax without any reduction in existing
rates.
~. Urge Tax Retention.
Retention also of the Federal income
tax with no reduction In rates until
indebtedness accruing from the war has
been paid. ".
Enactment by the various States of
State income tax laws and the enact
nlent by Congress of an excess profits
tax to apply to stocks and bonds and
other intangible property.
4 The committee had proposed prop
erty tax on intangible property on the
theory that counties and townships
would derive the chief benefit. This
proved the only, controversial point, the
|. discussion ending. when this phase OF
the report was ordered recommitted.
Adoption Of program for agricul-
tural relief remained as the only I'M
portant matter pending before the con-
VentioD adjourns. :.
It was forecast that this program
would embody the four principal points
made In the opening address to the
convention by National Master Louis j
Taber. These are:
Tariff diuStment-Increascd du-
ties on many agricultural imports,
broadened powers OF the Tariff Com
mission; equality for farmers on level
with other products.
Export debenture plan-Application
to agriculture of the same type Of ad-
justment of tariff laws as have been
necessary to accommodate industry
Specifically the use Of the export de-
benture as means of making the tar
| if effective on those staple farm crops
of which there is stiil produced sur
! plus
Reorganization OF the marketing sys-
| tenn with the introduction uf better
| market methods and elimination of
| waste through development primarily
of the cooperative system.
National land policy opposing new
| irrigation and reclamation projects until
evidences appear of actual need for food
| purposes.
Road Building Urged.
Preparatory to winding up their busi-
ness, the delegates adopted resolution
| proposing that the proceeds from the
| sale of supplies to France during and
after the World War should be used In
| building and repairing rural roads.
This material that was sold tC
France would have been used in this
country for constructing roads II We
had kept it," said A. S. Goss of Seattle
| Wash. in introducing the resolution
and it is only right that the proceeds
| go to the construction of roads that
do not come under the Federal highway
| system"
| The Grange adopted two other reso.
| lutions, one calling for the publication
Of the financial sources of support o
all lobbyists and persons seeking to in.
| f1uence State and national legislation
and the other adopting the policy o.
placing all butter substitutes other thar
oleomargarine, under the same regula
tions that restrict the sale of oleomar
garine.
Grand Master Taber and the otheI
delegates we're the guests last night o
r. w. Dunlap. Assistant Secretary o
Agriculture, at a dinner at the Con
gressional Country Club.