The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-13
Income Tax on Corporations Will Be Live Issue for
 Coming Week
TAFT'S SUGGESTION IS ID
 BE USED AS 4 CLUB
AldrIch Will Press the Taft Amend ment Before the Senate In Order
 to Defeat the Plans of
 Bailey and Cummins.

Washington, June 12.-(special.)- Ator Aldrich on the completion of the free list adjourned the Senate early this afternoon until next Monday, that the finance committee may determine on rates of duties and administration fea- lures of the new bill, about which there is some difference.
 No protest over the early adjournment was made. The senators have worked faithfully during the past week and great progress has been made. There still re- main for adjustment the maximum and minimum plan, rates on dressed lumber, the paper wood pulp schedules, hides, oil. coal pig iron and a few other schedules. The republican mempers of the finance committee agreed on duty of three eighths of l cent pound on steel beams and structural steel valued at less than SIS a ton and four-tenths of 1 cent a pound of over SIS a ton. This is slight reduction. Duty on boracic acid increases from to cents pound
 Duty on barytes Is fixed at s10.50 per ton, as adopted in the House.
 Crude oil is free, except as against those countries having discriminating tariffs, where a countervailing duty will be ap- piled.
 Importations of Nova Scotia coal under the disguise of slack coal is to be re- stricted. Slack pays 15 cents duty and coal 67 cents per ton.
 It is understood the committee, which meets again tomorrow, will reduce the duty on glass used in windows and pie ture framing and will place a duty of 15 per cent on hides. The Senate will accept 10 per cent duty on hides if in- sisted on in conference as g. compro- mise with the House demand for free hides.
 The committee will place the duty on print paper at s4 a ton. The House re- duced the Dingley rate of $6 a ton to g ton There will be free wood pulp.
 Tafts Income Tax.
 The proposition that will give the finance committee chief concern will be the Taft amendment which it is thought the committee will accept providing for a tax on the income of corporations available for dividends.
 It is believed Aldrich will try to use this proposition to sidetrack the income tax amendment urged by Bailey and Cummins. It will be urged as com promise. Cummins had a somewhat sim liar plan in his income tax amendment Early in the session Daniel of Virginia. presented 1t as an independent amend ment. Bailey has excepted it and 1t Is now feature of the compromise in come tax amendment
 Aldrich will press 1t as an administra- ton feature, urging that whatever danger rfcf faft ha fail of flna fnr.iff i,tl to provide sufficient revenue for the gov- ernment will be removed by receipts from this new tax. By presenting it before the income tax bill comes up, June IS, and se- curing it's adoption by both republican and democratic votes, he will be in po- sition to insist that it offers enough new taxation to be carried in any single tariff bill, and is d sufficient burden to be placed on the investor and men of capital. President Taft is strongly in favor of the plan, and this is being used to whip re- calcitrants into line. Aldrich accused Nell son and Cummins at today's session of having abandoned their tariff reform fight when they urged that sago flour was an article of food, and was in com petition with the starch trust.
 Stand of Cummins.
 Cummins said he opposed putting trust products on the free list. He insisted ludl SdBO nOuT WdS SLdTcQ ana CdIue III competition with corn and potato starch, destroying protection to the farmers.
 Tt is simply another case" commented Nelson, ''of farmers of the middle west coming against the cotton manufacturers of New England. Sago starch is used to stiffen cotton fabrics
 A compromise was reached whereby sago flour when used as food went on the free list. Tapioca flour was subject- ed to the Sama limitation
 Radium, by Aldrich's consent, was also put on the free list.
 Nelson endeavored to have a limitation placed on the free admission of works of art when intended for public galleries He was opposed by Root Tillman, Money and Carter, who urged free importations as an inspiration to the American artists and in the interest of education.
 Duty on Works of Art.
 Carter suggested that the idea of put ting duty on a picture by Michael An gelo was absurd. Private collections in- evitably gravitated to public galleries. He cited examples of pork packer in Milwaukee and mail carrier in Montana grown rich who had searched the art centers of Europe for works of art and had brought them to this country and in- stalled them in galleries where they were the delight of all visitors.
 Tillman: "When we want to be hard on the millionaire let us cut out of this bill the methods by which he gets the money. Let them spend the money for works or art and bring them in free, that they may be an inspiration to our own artists"
 Money: "Men with means have their place in the scheme of civilization If there were no inequalities of wealth we would have no palaces, no art, no prog ress no civilization. Equality Is found only among the savages."
 Art works were finally free listedSby 2 vote of 53 to 15, rugs and carpets being excepted from the para graph at the de- sire of Root.
 Overman on Steel.
 The early proceedings were enlivened by Senator Overman, who spoke for an in come tax. a head tax of $l0 on every immigrant entering the United States and free lumber. In discussing the steel sched- ule he said:
 "The absorption of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company by the United States Steel corporation was one of the