The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-04-27
and
THE SENATE.
Duty Inn posed In AIdrlch Bill
Said to Be Proh;bitive.
uhCOLN'S HEAD ON PENNIES.

Senator Bradley and His Speech to
Nesroes-SociabiIity With Water, an
Anecdote Of the Hayes Administra
tion-The Prospect For an Income
Tax-Capital Gossip.
Washington, April 26. - Special. i
The guessing now is that the income tax
proposition will hardly he Incorporated
in the tariff law The house lead
ers would not listen To such Il thing
either in committee or Vi hen the meas
ure was being considered On the floor
of that body. 1t il; known hat Sena
tors Aldrich and Hale and most of the
Republicans in the upper branch are
violently opposed to such a plan OF
raising revenue But the subject will
certainly provoke great deal Of de-
bate before it is finally disposed Of,
and it is conceded now that number
of Republicans will favor the income
tax. Under the rate in the Bailey
amendment Il person enjoying an in
come of S1O.0G0.a year would have to
pay toward the support Of the gener-
III government $3.50 annually The tax
would not he applied to people having
less than $1,000 Incomes The law de-
clared unconstitutional by the supreme
court included people with $1,000 in
comes.
Protest Increased DUTY on Lemons.
Fruit dealers all over the country ap-
pear to be stirred up over the in
creased duty on lemons provided in
the tariff bill by the senate finance
committee. Under the Dingley law
there is Il duty of Il cent q pound. In
the Payne bill as passed by the house
the rate was increased to IA cents.
The senate bill raised the amount to
~ cents, and that is what causes the
howl. Senators of both parties are re-
ceiving urgent requests to do their
utmost to have the duty decreased.
The claim is made that under the
Dinglcy rate the California and Flori-
da growers of lemons had monopoly
and most of the dealers state that if
this new rate goes into effect they will
not be able to procure any foreign
lemons, bccauSe-so they insist-the
duty is prohibitive.
Busy Explaining His Position.
Senator Bradley of Kentucky has
been in hot water for some days over
speech delivered by him at an eman-
cfpation celebration held by a large
number of negroes Of the District Of
Columbia The Blue Grass statesman
was written up in the local papers as
If he had taken sharp issue with Pres
ident Taft on account of his supposed
policy toward the SOUTH particularly
as to the appointment Of negroes to
Office. The report reached Bradley's
constituents that he was fighting the
administration. That was nuts for his
political opponents inside of his own
party in Kentucky. The senator has
been denying vigorously ever since,
and he insists that it is the duty Of
all coed Republicans to support the
president and that the negroes cannot
better their condition by voting with
the Democrats.
Lincoins Portrait on New Pennies.
The government is coming SOOOO,-
100000 pennies which are to be put in
circulation in the place Of all other
coin Of this denomination. They are
to be the Lincoln pennies, so called be-
cause they will have on them the min
iature portrait Of the martyred presi-
dent Portraits Of presidents and 9TH
err distinguished men have been placed
on the paper currency and or the
bonds and stamps of various kinds,
but never before in the history Of the
United States has the face Of any pub
lie man been stamped on the coin of
the, country. When the mint was first
established in Philadelphia in 1892 it
was proposed to stamp all coin with
the head Of George Washington, but
the Father Of His Country protested,
and the idea was abandoned. Wash
ingtOn said that savored too much of
monarchy, as it is the custom in Eu-
rope to- have the portrait of the SOW
ereigns on metal money. The Goddess
of Liberty was therefore stamped on
the first pennies issued.
Temperance Workers Renew Efforts.
Prominent members of the Woman's
Temperance union and of the Anti
saloon league have been energetic in
their efforts to prevail upon Mrs. Taft
to Danish wines from the White House
table when state dinners are given.
They have learned that President Taft
about three years ago cut out wines
and liquors from his list Of beverages.
and they think. therefore, guests who
sit at his board should do the same.
But wines are being served right along,
and the general impression is that the
Tafts will continue to have them at
the dinners to be given during the time
Mr.. Taft is head Of the nation.
Evarts' Experience With Soc;ability.
The late William NJ. Evarts was Sec
rotary Of state In the Hayes cabinet.
Mrs. Hayes had banished wines, and
Mr. EvartS when tho s1inlOmati, din