Bisbee daily review., 1909-07-22
''bOSs' ALDR|CH' SCORES. AGAIN
Senate Leader Demonstrates That Rules of Upper House
 Are Flexible
TAFT'S PLAN CAN BE
 EASILY 0BSTRUCTED
Especial by "Tav"0

WASHINGTON. July 2i.--Score ah- other one for Messrs. A'drich. Shoot, ct al, They succeeded in preventing a vote beng taken in the senate or an income tax, thus demonstrating in a l,cactical manner .hat the liberal rules of the senate, like those oi the house. may be manipulated in the in terests of the powerful. friends of the Republican party.
 When AldTich can prevent vote on any legislation that hs desires, as he has prevented the vote an an ,n- come tax" declared an angry pro gressiye Republican after the tax on corporation earnings had passco, what chance is there for the peo' ple? All cf the senators may as well go home anl leave A,drioh and Smoot to frame the bill tl Suit themselves. The5- are doing | anyway. npt only in fixing the rates, but in deciding what amendments they snail allow me sen ate 60 vote upon"
 No other legislative manipulator could have accomplished in the United States senate what Aldrich did when he had his corporation tax passed. He has tried 10 get unanimous consent to vote upon the proposition three days later. and it had been refused. He got angry then, and showed his mastery of the situation by securing an inme- diate vote without unanimous consent. He forced the roll calls necessary 10 put through his amendment, laid se:- eraI other amendments on the table and obtained from Vice-President Sherman ruling that no amendment changing the wording of his amend ment could be entertained. This was very kind of the vice president to thus favor the senate boss.
 The corporation tax received a large majority, but the record of the votes taken is not a record of sen ate sentiment. Senator Aldrich. with the aid of President Taft. had led the senate into a trap. IL was case ot vote for tax on corporation earnings or 20 without anything in the way of an excise tax. as Aldrich made 1t perfectly plain there could be nc in come tax. Many senators voted for the amendment with the conviction if was but a cheating substitute for au income tax. but still better than noth- ing.
 The manner in which Aldrich rode rough-shod over all effors to amend his corporation tax will be productive Of trouble when the bill is reported to the senate. Al the amendments which the senate boss was able to have turned down before his provision was voted upon, will then he offered and the discussion will not be cur tailed out of any consideration, either for the majority of senate or tht wished of the president.
 There will be amendments to in pose the per cent tax upon the in comes of holding companies; amend ments. too, to impose a tax upon tn, holders of corporation bonds (whicl would hit men like Rockefeller, Carne Rie and Morgan, who go unscathet under the Taft corporation tax; and finally, the effort to substitute th' income tax for the corporation tax The friends of each of these amend ments will make their arguments il order that their views may go into tn Congressional Record to justify thei position on the income tax in late years. But each of the amendment must necessarily fail. Boss Aldric has already declared he will have non of them. Therefore the curtain ma as well be drawn on the subject. is now a closed chapter.