The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-13
HILL OPPOSES
 INCOME TAX
Declaring Strongly Against Such a
 Measure in Time of Peace.
HENRY VOTES WITH HIM
 AGAINST AMENDMENT
Other Members of Connecticut Delega.
 ti0n Vote For It.

v Washington, > July 13.-Features of F'the income tax constitutional amend ments in the House yesterday were Representative E.. J. .Hilrs speech against the proposition and the split in the Connecticut delegation on the vote. Messrs Hill and Henry voted against the amendment, while Repre- sentatives Tilson and Higgins voted for it.
 Mir. Hill said in part:
 'fI shall vote against this amend ment for the following reasons: In the first place, I do not believe that this extra session of Congress was olutionize the taxation system of the United States. I think that ques- ton of such magnitude should be sub Tnitted to the people and discussed in entation of so important a matter as an amendment of the constitution. This proposition was found in the Democratic platform and not in the Republican platform on which the Presidential campaign of 1908 was won. My understanding is. that Con- gress was called together for the sole purpose of revising the Dingley tariff law on the basis of the difference in the cost of production at home and abroad and so far as the House is concerned an honest attempt has been made to do that. I voted in the ways and means committee for a supple ment to that revision in the shape of an inheritance tax. My judgment was then, and is now, that it was not nec- essary. I am firm believer that in times of peace the revenues of this country should be derived from GUS toms duties and internal revenue tax es, and that if these are not sufficient, as prudent people, we ought to re- duce our expenses to a point where they will be covered by such revenues,
 %1,< ofv ct and realizing that the inheritance tax would bear hardly upon the people of my state, voted for an inheritance tax. .N
 ultimately vote for a corporation tax. My mind is not yet made up on that question. I shall not vote for an in come tax. We ought to have the pow CT to lay an income tax in time of war, but I am not in favor of giving this government the power to lay an income tax in time of peace. With an amendment limiting 1t to time of war or other extraordinary emergencies, l would gladly vote for it.
 "We did have an inheritance tax in 1900 to 1902. Take the collection dis trict which I have the honor to rep resent in part, including Connecticut and Rhode Island. That district paid $66G,75 of that inheritance tax in the year ending June 30, 1902.
 "A1l told 35 states paid $31. 900 less than the little states of Connecti- cut and Rhode Island, and yet you come and ask me in time of peace and to pay the ordinary current expense of this government to-yote now for a |constitutional amendment which will enable thirty-five states to impose a far greater tax upon my people," A roll call showed 317 Representa- tives for the proposed amendment and only IA against it, one man answer ing present.
 The fourteen opponents of the meas ure were all Republicans. They were Allen of Maine, .Barchfie1d, Dalzell, McCreary, and Wheeler of Pennsyl- vania, Calderhead of Kansas, Ford ney of Michigan, Gardner. Mccall, and Weeks of Massa achusetts, Henry and Hill of Connecticut, and Olcott and Southwick of New York. Four of these are members of the conference committee on the Tariff bill that will have the corporation tax to consider l-Fordney, Calderhead, Dalzell and Mccall,