The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-05-04
|BEvtRIOGE WON
THROUGH Use OF
Al OR|CH METHOO2
Senator Clay Of Georgia Yes
terday minated a conces-
sion Had Weakened income
Tax Support.
BORAH DEFENDS THE
MEASURE IN SENATE
Idaho Statesman Insists That
It Would Mean a Much More
Equitable Distribution Of
Tax Burdens.

Washington, May Alas Senator
Beveridge OF Indiana weakened in his
support OF the income tax amendment
to the tariff bill offered by Senator
Cummins Of Iowa. as the result OF con-
cessions made to him by Senator AL
drich, chairman Of the finance COM
mittee. and the dictator in the senate
in the framing of the tariff law? It
was broadly suggested, II not actually
charged in the senate yesterday after
noon that Mr.. Beveridge had lost all
his enthusiasm and ardor as a sup
porter of an income tax since the max
imum and minimum section of the bill
was reported, carrying authority for
the appointment of a tariff commits
sion Mr.. Beveridge has been a con-
sistent and prominent advocate of the
creation of a tariff commission and
the removal Of the tariff from politics.
Clay interrupts.
Senator Clay of Georgia, during a
speech by Senator Borah Of Idaho, up
on the constitutionality Of the income
tax, interrupted to question Mr.. Bever-
idge concerning his position, and Oh
tanned from the Indiana senator the
explanation that he favored an income
tax in time of emergency, but he de-
MED that in his judgment an emergen-
cy authorizing recourse to such tax
exists today.
Mr.. Clay then said that the impress
sion had prevailed prior to the favor
able report for tariff commission
that Mr. Beverage was in the ranks Of
the progressives, supporting an income
tax and expressed regret that Mr.. Bev-
eridge since his victory in his fight for
a tariff commission had reached the
| conclusion that he would not at this
time need the revenue an income tax
would produce. Mr.. Beveridge made
no reply to the insinuation.
Roosevelt Policies Live.
During his speech Mr. Borah refer
red to former President Roosevelt as
having shaped the destinies OF the re-
publican party, and said that without
his leadership his party would have
gone out of business" He added that
without continued adherence to those
principles the party will go out Of
power"
mo man." he added. lis politically
SO short-sighted or politically SO blind
as the man who thinks the steamer
Hamburg carried away the policies, the
v~rS, l@lA TIT hA
aroused public conscience and the
searching public concern which this
remarkable man bequeathed to his
countrymen.''
This statement was In connection
with Mr.. Roosevelt's suggestion in IA
vor of graduated Inheritance and
graduated income tax.
Mr.. Borah also quoted Mr.. Taft's
speech, In which he spoke in favor Of
the income tax.
Does the senator believe" Mr.. Suth-
erland asked. that President Taft be-
lieved in the constitutionality Of the
income tax lawn other words, that
he believed that the law pronounced
unconstitutional by the supreme court
was in fact constitutional?
Il only know what he said to the
American people when he was can
didate for the presidency" responded
Mr.. Borah, that he was in favor of an
income tax which could be drawn so
as to be made constitutional. I am
not willing to believe that the presi-
dent believed in drawing an income tax
law applicable to men toiling in pro-
LESSONS and then in exempting the
vast accumulated wealth of this nation
from taxation
Takes a Rap at Carnegie.
Mr.. Borah advocated an income tax
as means of wiping out the treasury
deficit as well as awakening public in
terest in national expenditures, saying
1t was no moresinquisitorial than the
present system Of national taxation.
Referring to Mr.. Carnegie's statement
that an income tax would encourage
perjury, Mr.. Borah said:
Mr.. Carnegie did not make the re-
publican party. and I wish was just
rs sure that the republican party did
not make Mr.. Carnegie
Il believe in an income tax" said
Mr.. B0rah, mot that We may impose
the whole burden Of government upon
the rich or upon wealth, but that
wealth may bear its just proportion OF
that burden which it does not do under
q system of taxation resting entirely
upon consumption. Every system Of
taxation resting upon consumption
should be supplemented with an in
come tax. not alone for the purpose OF
raising extra revenue but for distrib-
uting the burden OF whatever revenue
10 necessary more eQuitably and more
in accordance with ability to pay"
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