The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-01-13
|euator Badger Introduces
Resolution Providing for
Ratification of Measure.
|UL DIRECTLY OPPOSED
!, TO GOVERNORS POSITION
|uthor Declares Measure Is
Son-Partisan, and Demanded
by Platform.

Senator Carl A. Badger of Salt Lake
4 Thursday introduced a Joint resolu-
|on providing for the ratification by
"a legislature Of Utah of the proposed
to the constitution of the
|uited States authorizing an income
3. In this action Senator Badger
<opts course precisely opposite to
kat advised by Governor Spry IN his
.essape to the legislature
The governor recommended that the
.risIature reject the proposed amend
.ent as he believed that the states
nd not the government should levy
la tax. Senator Badger said that the
oyernor very properly voiced his in
'sidual sentiments In his message TO
"a legislature but that there was moth
q in the message that bound the leg
[ature to follow the recommendation
\ the governor,
/. Not Partisan Measure.
1.-THE proposed amendment has been
.iorsef by all parties and is therefore
0t partisan measure, said Mt. Bad
h. f'Neariy all the members Of this
|1isature were elected on a platform
Edged to the ratification of this pro-
Essd amendment and from that fact l
rlieve that the resolution will be car
|ed
1.-TWO years ago the Democratic ma
|onal platform advocated this amend
INT The Republican national plat
|1m was silent on this question but
II amendment was urged By President
10 aud the amendment submitted to
d states by the unanimous vote OF
a Senate and the house or represen
Lives of congress. In the United
ties senate Senator Sutherland OF
ah made strong speech in favor of
amendment. The state platform
II fhe Republican party in Utah pledged
| legislature TO the ratification of the
IBndment,
4 To Judiciary Committee.
Under the rules of the senate the
&olution was laid on the table for one
q and will be taken up today and re-
red TO a committee. Senator Badger
"a he would ask that ii be referred
The committee on judiciary. 1t was
|ought that this resolution would go
The committee On federal relations,
which Senator Funk, a Democrat, is
% chairman,
The constitutional amendment be-
mes effective as part of the federal
Institution when it is ratified by the
lslatures of three-fourths of the
tee, 1t has already been ratified
thirteen states and rejected by three
Tour. Most of the legislatures of the
ties are now in session, so that the
q OF the amendment will be known
hin the next two months.
Ihc Badger resolution ratlfying the
Institutional amendment follows :
For Ratification.
Whereas, ut the first session of the
Hfy-1rst congress 1t was resolved by
senlte and house of representatives
me United States of America, in con-
5s assembled (two-thirds of each
l5e concurrlng therein) that the fol-
ing article be proposed as an amend
mt TO the constitution OF the United
yes, which when ratified by the leg
lures OF three -fourths OF the several
@kes. shall be valid TO all intents and
Hposes as a part Of the said copstitu-
ID namely:
article XVI. The congress shall have
Fer 10 lay and collect taxes on in
PES, from whatsoever source derived.
nout apportionment among the sew
states and without regard to any
sus or enumeration
+nerefore, be 1t resolved by the iegis-
ture OF the state OF Utah:
ection !. That the Legislature OF the
re OF Utah does hereby ratlfy the
Fe recited proposed amendment 10 the
lsutution OF the United States.
ec- 2. That certified copies OF this
amble and joint resolution be for
fned by the governor Of this state 10
president OF the United States, 10
presiding officer OF the United states
Me and to The speaker OF the InIte ed