Show I REPEAL El ASKED ON INHERITANCE TAX STATE TATE EXECUTIVES MEET WITH HOUSE WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE OMMITTEE TO PROTEST r Government Powers Power Belonging Belong ing To Subdivisions Subdivision Says Governor Governor Gover Gover- nor Fifty Million Hat Has Already Al AI ready Been Bien Paid 1 Washington Washington Six Six state governors and nd personal representatives of eleven others demanded repeal of the federal fed fedral eral ral inheritance tax before the tho hou house e ways way and means meana committee The federal government usurped ho tho levying power of the state In this tax In a war crisis and has ha unjustly continued it sin since e the governors contend in their arguments for fer repeal The delegation of seventeen state executives was led by Governor Cliford Clif cm ford ord Walker Democrat Georgia who presented a resolution adopted by a n conference of Governors at Savannah last ait June asking repeal of the federal federal fed fed- era eral inheritance tax Our people are earnestly in sympathy sympathy sym sym- pathy lathy with this petition which asks asks- you rou to eliminate the Inheritance clause when you write the new tax bill Walker told l the committee It is admitted that this is the field of the exclusive jurisdiction of the state The present law would not and could not have been passed saye save as asa asa asa a wartime measure and the time has now conie for its itA repeal Representatives of other governors Included Henry Cours attorney New Mexico II H. S. S McCluskey secretary to Governor Hunt of Arizona 4 The delegation claimed to have the sympathy of two thirty-two state governors gover Kover nors fore and only four have opposed re repeal repeal repeal re- re I I peal of the tax according to Walker |