The Tax Amendment Campaign Committee 7 of Cook County B. A. ECirnART FRANK L. SHEPARD Chairman DOUGLAS SUTHERLAND, Secretary 2nd Vice-Chairman 804 The Temple, Chicago, Illinois J. LEWIS COCHRAN Telephone Main 3365 JOSEPH E. OTIS 1st Vice-Chairman Treasurer Executive Committee Wyllys W. Baird September 29, 1916. P. R. Barnes Dr. Charles E. Bentley James H. Bowman Frank C. Caldwell Thomas H. Cannon • John A. Chapman J. Lewis Cochran Mr. Harry P. Judson, Edward M. Craig Charles S. Cutting Chicago, Ill. Clarence S. Darrow Judge William E. Dever Thomas J. Dolan Dear Sir:- B. A. Eckhart Colin C. H. Fyffe August Geweke Members of the Tax Amendment Campaign Committee Edward R. Heissler Russell D. Hill of Cook County, will meet at luncheon, next Thursday, Robert S. Hotz October 5, at 12:30, at the Press Club -- City Hall Square J. W. Kline Oscar F. Mayer Building. Your presence is earnestly requested. John A. Metz e:. W. Mills Simon O' Donnell It is desired that this meeting shall give local Joseph E. Otis impetus to the Amendment campaign already in full progress Charles Piez Allen B. Pond downstate. Strong and aggressive effort from now on until William H. Rehm election day will have to be made to secure the necessary Harrison B. Riley Lessing Rosenthal affirmative vote for the Amendment in Cook County. Members William L. Ross of the Committee are relied upon to counsel together and Lynn R. Rutter R. E. Schmidt to cooperate to induce voters to mark their ballots -- and Otto J. Schulz mark them, "yes". Frank L. Shepard John J. Sonsteby A. W. Stanmeyer The Committeemen will be entertained by brief James F. Stepina B. E. Sunny speeches explaining the Amendment and the arguments which Douglas Sutherland sustain it as a public measure. The members also will Graham Taylor Edgar B. Tolman consider how best to circulate the Amendment literature Thomas J. Webb already prepared for distribution. Henry G. Zander This meeting is intended to inaugurate the ~266 active work of the Committee among the voters of Cook County. Consider yourself at liberty to bring a guest who is friendly to the Amendment, Kindly indicate your intention to be present at the meeting, on the enclosed card, as soon as possible. Yours very truly, Secretary. ' Cbl, go . ptemb r o ~ 1916 s.,. t 1a- d. a& lnni- o , e Tax end ent Oor.tull tt e a tne 5 , . r oto be.f' .' With bG . , ery trttly o:u.:r 9 ~ . Lougl~ Su herlana 00 4 'l!he !'em le• Chicago - ~ ,_..__ , ·--------------- ~- - - - - --·- ____ ________ Form 1204 CLASS OF SERVICE SYMBOL CLASS OF SERVICE SYMBOL Day Message ONION Day Message Day Letter Blue Day Letter Blue Night MeSSllge Nite Night Message Nite Night Letter NL Night Letter NL If none of these three symbols If none of these three symbols appears after the check (number of appears after the check (number of words) th is Is a day message. Other- words)this isa day message. Other· wise its character is indicated by the wise its character is indicated by the symbol a111>earing after the check. NEWCOMB CARLTON, PRESIDENT symbol appearing after the check. RECEIVED AT 03 3r 1,( -. Mid vay 4321 206 CH EM 33 BLUE BLUE 4 EX NA NEWYORK NY - 515PM JUNE 28TH-17 PREST HARRY P JUDSON U OF C CH I CAGO /I ~ /. {"' MAY I USE YOUR NAME ON NATiONAL COMMITTE MEMORIALIZING CONGRESS FOR FEDERAL TAX EXEMPTION OF BEQUESTS AND LEGACIES FOR EDUCATION PHILRNTHROPY )ANO RELIGION SITUATION IN SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE CRITICAL HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORNE \ CHAIRMAN NEWYORK CIT zENS COMMITTEE 812PM THE MYERS AMENDMENT "(J) All bequests, legacies, devises, or gifts to the United States, or to any State, or to any political division thereof, for exclusively public purposes, and all bequests, legacies, devises, or gifts for uses of a religious, literary, charitable, or educational character, or for the encouragement of art, or to societies for the prevention of cruelty to children." NATIONAL COMMITTEE REPRESENTATIVES OF EDUCATIONAL.. CHARITABLE AND RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS IN RE TAX EXEMPTION OF BEQUESTS AND LEGACIES1r'OR P~HROPY General Committee Executive Committee CARDINAL ]AMES GIBBONS, ]ACOB H. SCHIFF WILLIAM w. NILES Representing Catholic Institutions EDWARD w. SHELDON CLEVELAND H. DODGE R. FULTON CUTTING MORGAN J. O ' BRIEN NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER President of Columbia University NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER LEWIS CASS LEDYARD ROBERT W. DE FOREST FELIX M. w ARBURG ]OHN P. CARROLL HENRY FAIRFIELD OsBORN, Chairman Bishop of Helena, Montana GEORGE H. SHERWOOD, Executive Secretary R. FULTON CUTTING Representing Protestant Institu­ Address: American Museum of Natural History tions of Charity, New York 77th Street and Central Park West, New York City ROBERT w. DE FOREST President Metropolitan Museum of Art ,Tovember the sixteenth President Charity Organization Nineteen hundred eighteen Society SAMUEL G. DIXON President Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia De2r Sir:, CLEVELAND H. DODGE First Vice-President American Museum of Natural History Since the last report, Povember l , 1 J l7, of' the Exec'_)_tive Com-nit' ee of tne rational CARDINAL JOHN FARLEY Representing Catholic Institutions, CoIILini ttee of Pepresentaiti ·ves of Edv.cationB.l , City of New York Cn~ri table s.Y1d Pelii::::,io 1J.s Ins-Lit1J.tiion in re 1 1 FRANK J. GOODNOW '1 ax £:::emption of' ~e C:>J.ests ar. d Legacies for President Johns Hopkins University ?hilan.thropy, it has kept its elf in-formed as ARTHUR TWINING HADLEY to ·u1e a ction of Congress -L hro'J.gh tne Cammi t­ President Yale University tee on LT8,YS and_ Means in the :~,:mse 8r.cd. the JOHN GRIER HIBBEN ~--·i-:-:aI:. ce Comn~i t-i:ee of trie Ser2.te , upon the President Princeton University, proposed chan~es tn the Income Tax ~ew, with New Jersey tne purpose, At "Lhe proper moment , of ~rin~ing HARRY PRATT JUDSON ·further infl 'Jen ce to be2r toward. ha:vin&,· c h2ri t­ President University of Chicago able bec n.ests exempted from taxation, or if LEWIS CASS LEDYARD t !'lat sho'J.ld not prove f'e 2sib1 e , ha.'T1_ r. 6 the First Vice-President New York L2.w cll3nged so BS to exempt a S')~:;tantial per­ Public Library centgge of decedent's estates from taxation, A. LAWRENCE LOWELL provided ·the ssme were left for c~nari ta.ble President Harvard University, Cambridge P"'J.1.'poses. RICHARD c. MACLAURIN President Massachusetts Institute .. ~·o r t;ne past "Lwo months tne m2tter na s of Technology lJeen p cnc5-in 0 be fore the ..:dr.:.ance Co111:::~i tt,ee of RoBERT RussA MoTON -uhe Sen2te , which has been fully informed 88 to v President Tuskegee Normal and -t.;he posi-uion of this Commit ,ee by the et3,mpai&,n Industrial Institute, Alabama c01J.wwted la,st year and whicn ~1.as been kept WILLIAM WHITE NILES f11.rther in 1'\Jrmed 1Jy the act iv i l,ies of' the Com­ Manager New York Zoological :ni ttee on r.-e,r , Cn2.ri ty an.d Social \',orl-c , of Society .'V _ictr So!l11 ·e1 -1VlcCi..,:ne ulna.say of -C-olu.mo if; MORGAN J. O'BRIEN Un 1 ve rs ~l. ty , i s Chs.i rman . Representing Catholic Institutions of Charity, New York ~ 1 he me:r."bers of' the .J_'in2nce Cornmi t ' ee were HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN President American Museum of -f'n'"·1nd to ~e pos-=-e s~ ed o:f extremely di,.rers views Natural History, New York on ·the subj e ct f'rom a, desire 'for a complete ex­ ]ACOB H. SCHIFF emption of r~he.ritable b'i:fts to a. sti enuolJS in­ Representing Hebrew Institutions sistence th2t tir1ere should be no exemption 8t all. of Charity, New York EDWARD w. SHELDON Treasurer New York Public Library ? Lesiden"L Harry ?ra~t ~idson, FELIX M. w ARBURG Cht c a~;o . Representing Hebrew Institutions Jn.i versi ty of of Charity, New York Educational, Philanthropic and Religious Institutions Supporting Exemption Amendment Alabama Massachusetts New York Public Library Howard College Bertram Home for Aged Men, Salem New York University Spring Hill College Boston Society of Natural History New York Zoological Society Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Boston University Niagara University Institute Crombie Street Church, Salem Pratt Institute Free Library Woman's College of Alabama Diocese of Massachusetts (Protestant) Protestant Institutions of Charity Essex Institute Rochester Public Library Arizona First Congregational Society, Salem Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences Diocese of Arizona (Protestant) First Universalist Society, Salem St. Stephen's College Grace Church, Salem The General Society of Mechanics and Harmony GrO\'e Cemetery, Salem Tradesmen Arkansas Harvard University Syracuse Public Library Subiaco College Haverhill Public Library Union College House of the Seven Gables, Salem Vassar College California Lafayette Street Methodist Episcopal Church, Wells College California Academy of Sciences Salem North Carolina San Francisco Theological Seminary Mack Industrial School Davidson College University of Southern California Massachusetts Institute of Technology North Carolina State Museum Mount Holyoke College Colorado North Church Alliance, Salem North Dakota Colorado College North Shore Babies' Hospital, Salem Fargo Co 1lege Colorado Museum of Natural History Peabody Museum of Salem Post 34, G. A. R., Salem Ohio Connecticut Proprietors of the North Meeting House, Cincinnati Museum Association Wesleyan University Salem Cincinnati Society of Natural History Yale University Proprietors of the Tabernacle, Salem Marietta College Plumm Farm School Mount Union College Delaware Salem Athenaeum Municipal University Diocese of Wilmington (Roman Catholic) Salem Association for the Prevention of Oberlin College Tuberculosis Public Library of Cincinnati District of Columbia Salem East India Marine Society Western Reserve University Diocese of Washington (Protestant) Salem Fraternity Salem Hospital Pennsylvania Dean of the Cathedral of St.