The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-12
II Necessary, Offices Must BE Kept
Open All Day for Accommo dat ton
of People Making Returns.
MR.. MORTON'SI NvESTIGATION
CAUSE OF THE SHARP ADVANCE IN
MEATS TO BE INQUIRED INTO.
Supply of Cattle Falling Ex-senator
MorEan's Fears Regarding British
AgEressions in Venezuela.

WASHINGTON, April 1.-THE Treasury
Department to-day issued to all income tax
collectors a series of supplemental instruc-
lions to conform to the recent decision
of the Supreme Court. The Instructions
follow:
county and municipal bonds, or securities
ana rents from real estate, are not tax
aole as income, but persons or corporations
receiving said interest or rents shall include
IN their returns as receipts the full amount
thereof received or accrued within the year
duct the same as not subject to taxation.
second-The amounts actually paid for
may be deducted from income. - - N,'@-'s
Third-All persons and corporations that
have heretofore rendered income tax re-
turns for 1894 to a. collector or deputy coll
lector, including therein interest received
from State, county or. municipal bonds, or
the amounts of said interest and rents de-
Quoted from their income by duly making
collector or deputy collector to whom the
original return was returned.
Require all persons in making returns
in futrue to show clearly that rents included
and deducted were received only for real
estate and include nothing whatever paid
franchise"
These instructions were telegraphed to
collectors in all parts of the country and
another telegram " as sent by Commissioner
Miller directing them, if necessary for
the accommodation of persons filing income
tax returns, to keep their offices open for
BUSH ess from o'clock in the morning to
o'clock in the afternoon up to and in
GLIDING the 18th instant
The supplementary instructions issued to-
day to income collectors leaves undecided
many of the questions which were raised
by the Supreme Court decision exempting
from taxation incomes from lands. Conse-
quently the collectors will be called on to
pass Judgment on many points, and these
questions doubtless will be appealed to the
department, and pending the Commission
ers judgment, the appellants will not be
obliged to pay their disputed taxes. SO
cisionS of Commissioner Miller will proba-
bly, be final. Aggrieved citizens may pay
recover the nor ey.
One of to-days callers was the president
himself an Indian of full blood and who
sought information concerning the status
tions controlled by them Under the law, he
was told that tie Indians who have not
not taxable, but that all Indians who have
done so and who have taken lands in
seysralty. must make the returns.
Counsel for the appellants in the re-
pared petition to be submitted to the
United States Supreme Court asking a
rehearing of the case before full bench.
The motion for a rehearing will be made
en- the ground that the questions involved
atty of the act and that the Supreme
Court early in it's history adopted the
pra ctice of requiring constitutional cues
lions to be heard by a full court in order
that the Judgment might be the decision of
the majority of the whole court
In an interview tonight Assistant Attor-
ney- general Edward d. Whitney spoke as
follows, in connection with the recent de-
cison of the Supreme Court in the income
tax case (Mr. Whitney participated with
Attorney general OIney in the argument of
the case on behalf of the government.) He
said: 1.-The government was not party to
the income tax cases which have been de-
cided 1t only received informal permission
10 be heard. 1t cannot, therefore, move for
to be regarded as final upon the rental
question. 1t can be brought up again in the
next term of court in a case where the gov
eminent is less at a disadvantage. II is
believed that at the present state OF the
litigation, the judges minds are open to
conviction on rehearing. | believe that the
court is fully as likely to restore the tax
as a whole as it is to overthrow 1t as a
whole If the income tax should eventually
be declared valid the remedy OF the people
is very plain. If they desire such tax, they
can secure the passage of constitutional
amendment, wiping out the direct tax clause
of the Constitution. In common with the
great majority of my countrymep, L believe
the income tax to be a wise, just and fair
tax Our previous system of taxation, by
import duties and internal revenue excuses,
bore immensely harder on the poor than on
the rich.