Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-04
Washington Senator Makes Extended
Defense of Dingley Bills
Duty on Lumber.
IDAHO MAN ON INCOME TAX
He Quotes from Speech of President
Taft Favoring 1t. N
QUESTION OF VALIDITY RAISED
Thinks Court Should Have Another
Opportunity to Consider It.
MEANS OF wIPING OUT DEFICIT
Income Tax Would Have Effect OF
Awakening Public Interest
In National Ex-
penditures.
QUESTION OF VALIDITY RAIsEI
MEANS OF wIPMG OUT DEFICIT

WASHINGTON. May Am extended de-
tense OF The Guty provided in the Dingley
bill on lumber was made in the senate to-
day by Mr. Piles Of Washington. He was
iclowsu BY Senator Borah. who discussed
tic income taN declaring in favor not only
of Is justice as means of raising reve-
nucs. bI In viw o. the divided opinion
IN tht supreme court Of the United States
insisted also that il was the duty of con-
grcss to again submit the question OF the
constitutonality of he ak ne court
Mr. Borah referred to former President
Roosevelt as having shaped the destinies
OF the republican party and said that with
out his leadership his party would have
gone out of business
lIc added that without continued sdher-
cnce 60 those principles the party will go
out of power"
No man," he added, lis politically so
stOrtsightcd or politically so blind as the
man who thinks the steamer Hamburg car
rlcd away the policies the principles, the
public interest, the aroused public con-
science and the searching public concern
which this remarkable man bequeathed to
his countrymen."
This statement was in connection with
NJ Roosevet's suggestion in favor of a
graduated inheritance and graduated In
come tax
BOnah Quotes Taft.
Mr Borsh also quoted Mr.. Taft's speech
IN which he spoke In favor of the income
tax.
Docs the senator believe" Mr. Suther-
land asked. that President Taft believed
In the constitutionality of the income tax
law--in other words, that he believed that
law pronounced unconstitutional by the
Ns. far atit mt IL
II only know wheat he said to the Amor
,can people when he was a candidate for
the presidency responded Mr.. Borah, that
ne was in favor of an income tax, which
could ne. drawn 20 he made constitutional
| anu not willing TO believe that the presi-
dent believed in drawing income tax
law applicable to men toiling in professions
and then in exempting the vast accumu-
lated wealth of this nation from taxation.
Mr. Borah advocated an income tax as a
means OF wiping out the treasury deficit
as wen as awakening public interest IN
national expcnditurcs, saying it was no
moro inauisltoral than the present system
q, national taxation. Referring TO MT
C'arnC sizes statement that an income tax
would encourage perjury Mr.. Borah said
MI. Carnegie did not make the rcpub-
ucan party. and I wish I was just as sure
that the republican party did not make
Mir. Carnegie
senator Bcyeridge in a colloquy with Mr
Bo-ah and Nh. Clay said that he had beer
inclined to believe in the constitutionalitS
Of the income tax law, but when the su
IRENE court OF the United States decided
against il he was not inclined to set vi
his op nion against that Of the court. Fur
thcrmore he believed that such tax should
Doe imposed only In great emergencies wheI
hc would first favor tax on inheritance
and then a tax on incomes.
Mr Bcverldge told Mr.. Clay that tariff
commis on would throw a vast amount o
tight on all these questions and added h
would speak on the income tax amendmen
lstCG.