Arizona republican., 1908-07-29

Iexpenses connected with the cleo tion of presidential electors, or of members of congress, is forbidden under penalty.
 | A resident of New York has been selected as treasurer of the republi- can national committee, who was Icommittee when Governor Hughes was elected in New York and who made a complete statement within twenty days after the election as re- lquired by the New York law of the contributions received by him of ex- lpenditures by him under authority in that election.
 | His residence and the discharge of his duties in the state of New York subject him to the law of that state as to receipts from the treasury of II the national committee from what ever sources, and as to all it's dis lbursements. His returns will be un- der the obligations and penalties of the law and a misstatement by him, or the filing of a false account, will subject him to prosecution for per | jury Of course, under the federal law he is not permitted to receive Iany contributions from corporations. If I am elected president, I shall urge upon congress with every hope of success that a law be passed re- quiring a filing in a federal office of a statement of contributions filed by the committees and candidates in elections for members of congress and in such other elections as are lconstitutionally within the control of congress.
 Meantime the republican party by the selection of a New York treasur- CT, has subjected all it's receipts and expenditures to the compulsory ob- Iligation of such law.
 INCOME TAX.
 The democratic platform demands two constitutional amendments, one providing for an income tax and the other for the election of senators by the people. In my judgment an Amendment to the constitution for an income tax is not necessary. I believe that an income tax when the protective system of customs and the internal revenue shall not furnish income enough for governmental needs, can and should be devised which under the decisions of the su- preme court will conform to the con- stitution.
 ELECTION OF SENATORS
 With respect to the election of sem ators by the people, personally l am inclined to favor it, but it is hardly party question. A resolution in its favor has passed a republican house of representatives several times and has been rejected fin a republican senate by the votes of senators from both parties. It has been approved by the legislatures of many republican states In a number of states, both democratic and republican, substantially such system now prevails.
 THE CHARGE OF ExTRAvA-
 GANCE
 Our opponents denounce the repub- lican party for increasing the number of offices 23,000 at a cost of $16,O00,0O during the last year. Such denuncia- tion is characteristic of the democratic platform. It fails to specify in any way what the offices are and leaves the inference that the increase was re- sisted by the representatives of dem ocracy in congress. As a matter of fact the net number of offices increased was just about half the number stat ed, the increase was due chiefly to the enlargement of the navy. the construc- ton of the Panama canal, the eXten-l sion of the rural free delivery and the new offices necessary in the en- fcrcement of the pure food. meat in spction, railroad rate regulation, arid lands reclamation, forest preservation and other measures which congress passed with an almost unanimous pop ular approval. The democratic plat form so far from attacking any of this legislation specifically approved much and condemned none of it. and it is, of course, disingenuous to claim credit for approving legislation necessary to give it effect and yet to denounce the expenditure.
 THE DEFICIT.
 Again it charges that a deficit of sixty million odd dollars between the receipts and expenditures during the fiscal year ending June 90, 1908 oc- cured.
 As explained by the secretary of the treasury at least half of this deficit is only an apparent one There was falling off in receipts, of course, occasioned by the unusual panic, but there is ample free money in the treasury to meet the difference and the difference itself is not half of it properly a deficit, be- cause involved in it was the retire ment of some thirty three millions of the bonds of the government. During the past seven years. the income and expenditures of the government have been nearly equal. some years showing surplus and others, fewer in num- Der. deficit. Taking one year with another, including this spring, there has been an average surplus.
 The surplus last year for instance was greater than the deficit this year so that in fact under the present ad- ministratiOn there has been no deficit but a surplus which is naturally in the treasury
 The democratic platform nowhere points out the expenditures which might be reduced or avoided It would be found generally that to the cases which have occurred democratic rep resentatives in congress made no ob- jection but rather supported the meas ures providing them; and now the aQNafWW lnr.r.