Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1909-06-30
NE THINKS lITTLt
OF PRESIDENTS PLAN
Scores AlGriCh for His Statement
Yesterday Concerning His
Attitude on the Cor
pOration Tax
Scheme.

" Washington, June 80, - Senator
Cummns Of Iowa opened the discus
sion on the income tax bill by
sharp thrust at Aldrich this morning.
After the acknowledgement he
made to the Senate yesterday with
respect to his vote on the amendment
We are now discussing said Cum
minis. referring to the statement by
Aldrch that he would vote for the
corporation tax amendment as
means of defeating the income tax
che needs restoration and recupera-
tion in the salt air. | would want to
take a trip lasting about a thousand
years if compelled to make a state
ment of that sort with respect to a
measure brought forward by myself"
There We're but few in the Senate
when it convened this morning, but
whether this was due to the hot
weather or due to the absence of
Aldrich, who is on vacation, was
not discernable.
Cummins' colleagues would not
permit him to talk to empty seats on
the income tax and he waited until
quorum was present Cummins then
took up the tax amendments and
proceeded to show that the present
bill does nto provide sufficient funds
for the running expenses of the gov
ernment
Estimating at $4,000 900 the
amount the government will require
in 1911, Cummins said that $26O,OOO,-
900 can be raised by internal revenue
and s340,OOO.OO0 by the customs,
leaving about s240.0OO.000 deficit
under the payne bill He said the
conclusions is that there would be
$175.0O0.0OO deficit after all other
sources of revenue had been ex-
hausted.
He asserted that every penny
raised from an income tax amend
men would be needed and said that
a tax on incomes should be levied in
every state as we'll as in the nation
at large. He contended that an ac-
cumulation of property does not pay
its share of taxes and said that there
would be no injustice i'm increasing
the general burden.
Does Not suit Cummins.
The issue respecting an income tax
had suddenly changed, declared Sea-
ator Cummins. Until within a feV
days" he said the issue was wheth-
er auy income tax should be author
lied by Congress. 1t now seems TO
be what kind of an income tax shall
be adopted. The amendments offer
cd by the senator from Texas and my
self provide for a general income tax
to be paid by all persons co-part-
nerships and corporations with net
annual earnings in excess Of $1,000
SO adjusted that the tax would not
Oe laid upon any person unless he
enjoyed such an income even though
a part of it is derived from co.
poratiOn
The amendment recommended by
the president provides a special in
come tax laid only upon corporations
ana measured by their net earnings.
The difference between the two plans
is fundamental and invites the most
pitiable abuse OF the authority of any
government to tax it's citizens.
Mr.. Cummins said h did not con
slider any presidential recommend
tiOn as a command nor did he be-
Iieye the president would want any
senator 10 accept il unless IT is IN
harmony with his own judgment. He
felt that he could not agree with the
presidents conclusions.
DtlleNts Sdlu MI. ' uAilil'H9'
that the special income tax would
not only contravene the most sacred
principles of our governmental COM
pact not only over-rides the deepest
convictions that civilized man holds
with respect to taxation, but it coll
Iides with the decision of the supreme
court al the same pont and with the
same force as does the general in
come tax provision which We pro-
pose
Mr. Cummnis suggested that the
very existence of the protective tar
in system would make necessary some
other means of raising revenue than
that now followed. The people he
said would not consent TO the exces-
siye duties necessary to obtain all the
revenue needed from imports,
The objections urged against the
income tax" he said, when weighed
with the objections that properly can
be brought against any other form
OF taxation open to Congress will be
found trivial
Mr. Cummnis concluded that II the.