The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-22
FARMERS CRACK DOWN ON
INDIANA TAX STATUTES:
PLEDGE SUPPORT TO AAA
Delegates ExCoriats Utilities
and Holding Companies
in Resolution.
BACK ADM NISTRATl0N
HaSsiI SChenCk and Mrs.
L. D. Scott. Clayton.
Elected Vice Presidents.

Rapping utilities and hold
ing companies, members of
the Indiana Farm Bureau.
Inc, this afternoon pledged
support to the Administration
in efforts to obtain favorable
rates through IVA operation.
The resolution was one OF a series
adopted by the farmers in the con-
GLIDING session of their convention
at Tomlinson Hall. They lauded tire
AAA and cracked down on Indianas
tax laws. asserting the state should
make the gross income tax law carry
a fair share of the tax burden.
"Stranglehold on Production
Operations of utilities and their
holding companies were branded as
powerful" in the resolution and
the farmers charged the organiza-
tons had "a stranglehold on power
production and distribution"
Delegates. in indorsing the Adj
miniStrati TONS power rate reduction
campaign, said that IVA would aid
in measuring true costs of utility
operation and serve as a check on
rates enforced by utilities.
Eassil Schenck. Lebanon. was
reelected first vice president, and
Mrs. Lille D. Scott, Clayton. sec
end vice president. They. together
with Lewis Taylor, president, will
serve as delegates to the national
convention in Chicago. Dec. I. Q
and 9.
The convention adopted resolu-
tons asking for lower interest rates
in the Federal Land Bank: . con-
stitutional convention to be voted
upon at q special election, and re-
tention of the primary election sys-
tenn
Demand Legislature Act
They demanded law-enforcing
agents enforce the law continuously
instead of sporadicsllv; that uni
form mortgage fee be made legal,
and that laws be passed fixing
financial responsibility on motorists.
They insisted the intsngibles tax
be doubled and that a net income
tax law be enacted.
They demanded the Legisla turs
repeal the emergency clause in the
$3.50 tax law at its next session,
and asked that tax laws be amended
TO provide for an impartial tax ad-
justment board
They demanded enactment of ex-
else tax on al in competition with
wool and they demanded Federal
and state taxes on oleo.
Holt Hits Utilities
Yesterday afternoon Rush d.
Holt, West Virginia Senator, told
the delegates public utilities of the
country are attempting to control
he schools and the government and
% manipulate the press.
Private utilities, he charged. are
becoming so powerful that no per-
son or state can regulate them.
The Federal government, he said,
must step in when state govern
ments can not handle the situs.-
ton.
The utilities are not fearful Of
city councils" he said. and thev
are not fearful of state commits
sions, because they can control
them. But they are fearful of ex-
poses. Many government officials
merely are puppets of the financial
interests and want to make you
pay the bill
"Hoosiers," he said, 'pav ap-
proximately s39,000,000 in electric
bills each year, and you could buy
the same amount of current from
the Tennessee Valley Authority for
$40 100000.
In other words. the people of In
diana pay s19.ooO.0O0 Of tribute to
the power companies year so that
the holding companies can live