Show ASKED iia TAX STATE C executives S MEET WITH HOUSE WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE COMMITTE E TO PROTEST government usurps po powers wera BeI belba ing to subdivisions says governor no r fifty million has already been paid washington six state governors and personal representatives of eleven others demanded repeat repeal of ane the aeu fed eral inheritance tax before tho the house ways and means mcana committee the fe federal derill government usurped tho the levying power of the state in III tills this tax in it a war crais bricis and h has Is unjustly continued it since ince s the governors contend in their arguments for crepea repeal I 1 the delegation of seventeen state executives was led by governor clifford walker democrat georgia who presented a resolution adopted by a of governors governor at savannah jact june asking repeal of the fed cral inheritance tax our people are arc earnestly in sympathy with this petition which asks it aks you to eliminate minato eli the inheritance clause when you write tho the new tax bill walker told the committee it is admitted that this Is ia the field of the exclusive jurisdiction of tho the state the present law would not and could not have been passed save as a wartime measure and the timo time has now conic come for its repeal representatives of other governors included henry cours attorney new mexico 11 II S mccluskey secretary Becie tary to governor runt hunt of arizona the delegation claimed to have tho the sympathy of thirty two state governors and only four have opposed repeal of the tax according to walker |