Arizona republican., 1909-07-13
Adoption of a Resolution to
 Submit Income Tax
 FOURTEEN ARE AGAINST II
Though There Was So Lit , tie Opposition, the Reso-
 lution Was Made the Oc- , casion for a Field Day of
 Democratic 0ratory.

Washington, July 12-The house ! today adopted by 317 to 14 the joint | resolution, submitting to various legis-
 latures for ratification a proposed amendment to the constitution em- towering congress to levy an income tax. To a man the democrats voted for the resolution, while fourteen re- publicans cast Ntheir votes against it. Allen, of Main; Barchfeld, Dalzell, McCreavy and Wheeler, of Pennsyl- | vania; Fordney, of Michigan; Gard ner Mccall and Weeks. of Massachu- sets; Hill and Henry, of Connecticut; Olcott and Southwick of New York; and Calderhead, of Kansas. The de- bate lasted four hours.
 | We welcome the convers. .- of the republican party to another demo- cratic principle was the comment of Afr. Clark, the minority leader, who got a rousing applause from his side of the chamber for his utterance. An lincome tax he maintained was a democratic principle cone by one, the roses fall" he said. addressing the republican side. And one by one you adopt our platform He con- cluded by expressing himself in favor of increasing the amount of the ex- emption above s500O This led to a coloquy with MT Burke of Pennsyl- vania,
 How far above s5,OOO, and why" MT Burke asked.
 T would fix whatever figure l did fix for the public good" sharply an- swered MT. Clark
 Declaring that if the question should be put to him, MT. Clayton, of Alabama, said he would exempt the poor man. who is the least able to bear burdens of the government and he would tax the multi -millionaires, and thereby make the idle rich pay s"rrething to support ti,e federal gov ernment.
 q would lie cla:me1, amid demo- cratic applause, get your Willie, above any other man in private life income and lie abroad l would get the Laird of SEibob or Skibr, or whatever you cal it."
 Hobo" d voice on the republican side was heard to say
 T scorn," said James of Kentucky, favoring the resolution, "a govern ment whose taxing power provides that Lazarus shall share his crumbs, but that Dives must not give up his riches" MT James quoted from an ante-election speech in which MT. Taft favored a graduated income tax and expressed the view that perhaps a change in the personnel of the United States supreme court, might effect a reversal of it's former opinion. holding the income tax unconstitu- tiOnal
 You denounced Bryan for that. He exclaimed, facing the republi- can side. You said he was assailing ! the. honor and integrity of the su- preme court, yet the man who has been elevated to the loftiest station in the nation virtually repeated the same words, that for twelve years, the democratic party in every platform had uttered"
 In a fiery speech, in support of the income tax, MT. Robinson of Ark l ansas arraigned the republicans for. as he charged, "fooling the people, before the last presidential election. He defended Mir. Bryan declaring 1 that he stood head and shoulders above and other man in private life | today. There are men, here" he re- marked, who owe William J. Bryan an apology
 MT. Henry of Texas vainly sought to offer an amendment providing for the submission of questions to con stitutional conventions, but the speaker ruled that under the agree ment for vote no amendment was in order. The vote on the resolution resulted 317 to IA. The democrats voted solidly for the resolution. The house at 5:35 pm. adjourned until Thursday.