The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-30
Senators Take Advantage of Alb
sence of Aldrich.
Only Handful Present When
Morning Session Began.
TWO CALLS OF ROLL
Were Necessary to Get and Hold
Quorum.
Cummins Resumes His Speech
on the Income Tax.

| Washington, June 30.-Whether owing
to the absence of Senator Aldrich, the
lack OF interest. or to the continued
heat, the senate was much slower than
usual in assembling today When the
vice presidents gavel fell at 10 o'clock
there were not more than eight or ten
senator's present and the point of no
quorum was made Twenty-Five min
utes elapsed before a majority of sena-
tors could be brought into the cham
ber. Mr.. Piles entered the hall as the
forty-seventh senator but before busi-
ness could be put well under way a
large number of those who had come
il during the call disappeared and by
half past 10 another roll call had been
| ordered
1t had been the intention to proceed
at the beginning of the session with the
consideration of the various income tax
amendments by the senate and Mr..
! Cummins stood ready to proceed with
his speech The supporters of the in
cCme tax proposition, however, did not
purpose that the Iowa senator should
speak to empty seats. and it was soon
made evident that they were deterInin-
ed to keep the senators in the cham
Der.
THE proceedings were begun with the
protest from the Building and Loan
Association league of New Jersey
against the inclusion of building and
| loan associations in the corporation
to the New Jersey senator and was
very emphatic in tone. Evidently Mr..
Kean was not averse to presenting 1t.
Cummins Resumes His Speech.
Mr.. Cummins did not get under way
until 1o:45. Before proceeding with his
speech he remarked upon the absence
of Mr.. A1drich, saying he had seen IN
the morning papers the announcement
/ that the chairman of the finance COM
mittee was going on sea voyage.
After the acknowledgment which
he made 10 the senate yesterday with
respect to his vote in bringing forward
the am 4nd,nent that we are now con-
sioering." said Senator Cummins, evil
4 -ftiently referring to Mr.. Aidrich's state
raent that he favored the corporation
tax to defeat the income tax amend
nent che needs the restoration and
the recuperation of salt air. I would
want TO take a trip lasting about a
thousand years il I should be compell-
! ed to make confession of that sort
with respect to a measure brought for
ward by myself"
Mr. Clapp interrupting with an OBJ
) servation referring to the corporation
tax amendment said
Il notice by the newspapers that the
Large corporations are not uncomforta-
BILE They are reported as being vel
lsatisfed with this provision"
Nothing to Disturb Corporations.
| Mr.. Cummins replied there was moth
Iing in the corporation tax amendment
Ito make the corporations uncomfcrta
lille. He then proceeded to discuss the
receipts ard expenditures of the gov
ternment to sustain his contention tina
the pen1ing bill did not supply enough
money for usual expenses.
yvoQr million
; raised from customs duties and an in
!, Eeritance, corporation or income ta1
to properly meet the expenditures o
the government and to keep up tn
sinking fund, Mr. Cummins presented {
letter from Secretary MacVeagE, of tn
treasury department. stating that {
: Geficit appeared III the sinking funt
at The close of the fiscal year 1908 0
: $549, $50. SAT, although up to that periot
the, total dett had been reduced $32,
, S12 900 in excess of the sinking fund re
!. quirement.
1.-The deficit at the close of 1s0S.'' SAT-
: Mr.. MacVeagh in his communication
t will be increased however, in the cur
rent year of 1909 by approximately s44.
100000 which deficit is more apparen
than real"
Mr. Cummins claimed that secretar
les of the treasury had failed to plac
aside in the sinking fund the amount
4 contemplated by law. There is,' h
said. "a mystery in the bookkeeping
which is not easy to understand.
Deficit of $1z5 100000.
:, Estimating at $S40,000,000 the amour
q of money required by the governmen
a for the fiscal year 1911 Mr.. Cummin
, said that not more than $3.50 600, 90
= would be raised from internal revenu
. and not more than $340 0000.0 600 would b
| obtained from customs revenues unde
the Payne bill. leaving about $240,000,
! 900 to be supplied from other sources
- MY conclusion is he said, the de
ficit will be 900 at the close Q
1911"
He declared that no one could in
| vestigate the subject without bein
| convinced that there must be large de
Il ficits every year hereafter and he as
serted that every penny which woul
Mr. Bailey's income tax amendmen
= would be necessary to meet ths dc
k mands of the government
# A tax on incomes he said, ought t
be the first imposed and it should h
# levied by every state as we'll as by til
k national government. Sententiousl.
k said he, 1--WE should lay the tax on for
y tune rather than on misfortune" H
is said this course would place the hurde
of government where it would belon
and would discard all unprof1tab
property. He contended that the az
4 cumulations of property do not pa
:. their share of the taxes and said thel
" would be no injustice in increasin
, | their proportion of the general burdel
v Mr.. Cummins having spoken durin
is three hours the senate at lis o'cloc
: took a recess for half an hour to aiio
d the members to take luncheon.
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g Not Much of Storm.
IT Grand Forks N d. June 30.-TE