Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1919 — Sees No Defect in Tax Law. [ARTICLE]

Sees No Defect in Tax Law.

Indianapolis, March 21.—Ele Stansbury. attorney general, declared Informally, after a inspection of the reform tax law enacted by the recent legislature, that he was not alarmed about the law and did not belleve'that there were any fatal difficulties In the measure that would prevent its being In full effect this year. The embryo controversy over the validity of the reform tax for the purpose of making assessments in 1919 was raised In a statement Issued by Ellas D. Salsbury, an Indianapolis attorney, who pointed out that the legislature in passing the new act and in repealing the former tax measures, failed to retain the “saving clause," without which, he said, doubt arose whether there could be any assessment of property at all this year.