The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-04-27
tax" asked Mi. Aldrich. instead Of
1000 or $4,000, or $2,OOO?"

Mf. Bailey replied that ne haQ
fixed that figure because he had as
sumed that incomes of $4,000 are
spent upon living expenses SO that
the recipient would be compelled to
pay another than the income tax at
the custom house OH everything he
purchased and as the one tax had al
ready been paid, exemption from the
income tax seemed justifiable. But
more than that, he said. he wished
to levy the tax upon those best able
to pay it.
To Avoid HOstilities.
Being further pressed with ques-
tions by Mr.. Aldrich, the Texas sem
ator REPLIED:
II know what you want me to say
and l am going to say it. fixed up
on $4,000 year as the income to be
taxed for the further reason that
wanted to affect as few people as pos
sible. SO that it might not provoke
hostilities. Is the senator satis-
fied?" inquired Mr.. Bailey smiling up
on MIR. Aldrich. who NODDED and
smiled. In other words. retorted
Mr.. Aldricl, the senator wants to en-
uSt Wllu a SldSS
in order to get it through"
Does the senator believe that
Adam Smith was correct in saying
that taxes should be laid upon peo-
pie best able to bear them: asked Mr..
Baile:.
Certainly" nodded Mr.. Aldrich,
who added that the constitution and
every code of ethics and morals
agreed that taxes should be levied
with Uniformity and according to the
means OF the people to pay.
THAT is rather a serious criticism"
retorted Mr.. Bailey "of the Republi-
can party which, in the incumbency
OF Abraham Lincoln, levied an in
come tax upon some and exempted
Others"
Mr.. Aldrich. returning to his criti-
cism of the plan of income tax pro-
posed by Mr.. Bailey, said laborers
aboard received from to 60 cents a
day and from $50 to $500 or $40O a
year, while American labor is paid
about 500 year. His plan, he said,
this American labor over foreign
cheaper labor.
II would like" said Mr.. Bailey amid
applause from the galleries, ito make
it impossible for that cheap labor to
come here at all"
The gavel of the vice president was
necessary to restore order, and Mr..
Aldrich interposed to say: THE SEN
ator would prevent these laborers
coming to this country, but he would
permit the product OF that cheap Ia
Dor to come"
The criticism of this income tax.
said Mr.. Bailey, will find small au-
diences i'll labor centers when he
comes to complain that I do not tax
somebdy beside those included in the
$4,000 limitation"
Mr.. Owen Interrupted to suggest
that in order to make up for what
would be lost in eXempting incomes
below $4,000, the amendment might
be changed to tax incomes of more
than $1,000,000 at the rate of five per
cent.
Without replying to MIR. Owen, Mr..
Bailey continued:
THE tender solicitude of the sem
ator from Rhode Island is in keep
ing with American politics."
Referring to an expatriated citizen.
who he said owned $10.O00,000 of real
estate in New York City, he said that
the working men of this country were
taxed to protect his property while
he went untaXed in the war with
Spain. The workingmen, he said,
who paid a tax upon plug of tobac-
co paid more for the support of the
federal government than did that eX-
patriated citizen.
For more than eighty years, said
Mr.. Bailey. the action of congress
and decisions Of courts had MAIN
tanned the validity of an income tax
law.
Postponing the conclusion OF his
remarks until tomorrow when. he
said. he would give some attention to
supreme court decisions OH an income
tax. Mr.. Bailey said in conclusion:
Il do not think that any citizen or
senator is precluded from indulging
in just and fair criticism of any ques-
ton relating to any department of
this government. am willing to
stand uncovered in the presence Of
that great tribunal, but 1 am not will
ing to be silent. The judgments of
the supreme court governs ME in any
particular case and submit without
complaint to that judgment, but l do
not subscribe to the doctrine that be-
cause the judges have spoken all 9TH
er men must receive their speech in
silence"
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