The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-02
Bureau Vice President Hits
Leslie, Marshall, Myers
and MCNutt.
URGES EXTRA SESSION
Legislature Action Is Asked
to Avert Trouble
in State.

first president of the Indiana
Farm Bureau Federation, in the
current issue of that organization
periodical, The Hoosier Farmer.
AS director of farm bureaus ta1
and leg slative department, Taylor
is familiar with the events of the
1881 session. He not only demands
a special session, but flags Governor
Harry G. Leslie, the Governor
mentor Henry Marshall, Demo
cratic Chairman r. Earl Peters
Speaker Walter Myers, Paul V. NC
Mutt and other party leaders fol
the assembly's failure to pass prom
Used tax relief.
"a statesman in the Governor
Office would use all his power tc
avert pending trouble by forestal-
ling it," Taylor declared.
This he could do by calling q
special session of the legislature u
enact fair and equitable tax laws
Taylor's article is headed: The
Mountain Labored and Brough'
Forth a Mouse
Slaps at Governor
He Gesne) would do we'll TO heec
the signs of the times and not reao
the stars that shine with specia
brightness on big business, when M
consults the civic horoscope" say!
the article Nor will the scare Of
the expense of a special session be
accepted as an excuse for inaction
During the next two years own
ers of lands and Improvements vii
pay more than $100.000,000 in direct
taxes, and this will not include
taxes on their personal property
which will add many more millions
LAS all these millions can be col
lected legitimately only from the
net income Of this property, While
much larger income from othel
sources goes scot free, such owner;
will not be quoted with SpeciouI
talks of economy that, for them
means confiscation for two more
years-a prospect that statesmen
must view with apprehension, If moi
alarm"
Cost Worth 1t
TAYLOR goes on to declare that
even if a special session would cost
S500,0O0C' would not happy, con-
tented prosperous people, assured
of equality in tax matters, out
weigh a thousand times the cost oil
a special session of its legislature?'
Pointing to the powerful lobby
brought to the legislature to fore
stall passage of the income ta1
measures introduced in the session
Taylor asks if the same power vii
be able to prevent special tax ses'
sion of the legislature"
A warming to big business tina
agriculture will not meekly submit
to further outrage" is contained il
the article. Taylor advises that Il
farmers exist only to be exploited
by local interests, it is time the,
began to ask themselves what prof
they are to expect from loca
Chambers of Commerce who us
farm profits to fight fair tax legts
lation and thus rivet unendurabl
tax laws more firmly about the necl
of agriculture
Points Out Revenge Course
In order to obtaiT. revenge tn
farm bureau spokesman suggest
that farm co-operatives be organized
to sell everything to the farmer
and in event this can not be done
the alternative be taken from mai
order houses outside the state o
from chain store merchants, WIN
at least do not finance lobbies t
fight tax bills"
Describing the fight to obtah
passage of the income tax bill'
Taylor writes:
In spite of all that dinner partie
and shameless midnight orgies coul
do. farmers forced from reluctan
senate a personal income tax LAY
and came within two votes Of
corporation income tax act.
Mental alteration, aSininity
plain cussedness on the part of tn
{ Speaker Myers apparently advise
+ bv political friends, among whor
the chairman of his party Peters,
and a rather anxious candidate fo
Governor (McNutt), we're rathe
conspicuous, doomed the income ta1
Raps at Myers
His Myers extraordinary treat
ment of the bill gave the Governo
an opportunity. promptly accepted
to pocket veto the measure by re
fusing to receive IT..
Tavlor's reference was to Speake
MYERS action in writing a histor
of the bill on the enrolled act an
dating his approval March 10 III
stead of March 9.
with the advice of his attorney
general Games M. OGDEN and
the magnetic presence of his frien
and mentor, the editor Of the La
fayette Courier-J journal Marshall
he of indianapolis fame as a builot
of streets. the Governor apparent
assumed the function of the supren
court and declared the action OF II
general assembly null and void.
so the farmers must thank
Soeaker, a political state chairmsl
an over-eager candidate for CO.
eInor. an ex-street-building edito
and a highly imaginative judicia
minded Governor for the lack
any sort Of promised tax relief.
They henceforth must face Il
prospect and task of paying the "a
debts and obligations of va
amount of tax-free income. tl1anl
to the stupidity. inefficiency, or il
difference or some too damnt
dumb now sitting in high places. ="
Lawn Rake Perfected
WARSAW. Ind. April "A raj