Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-03-31
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aay what their pledges were During
the campaign the ratification OF th'
amendment was a just obligation. yes
| terday the ratification of the income
tax amendment was defeated when II
| should have been ratified by a unltec
| Democratic majority.
The act of yesterday was as perf1d-
ions as was the kiss of Judas In every
way was it as fully a completes he
| travail. Whether the explanation II tho
act of Yesterday is as simple as was
| the hire of Judas, it is not our prov
ince to saw or to insnuate. BuA pc.
hind the defeat of ratification fhert
| must be a power which menace4 not
only party success but the sacreeness
| of the principles of government
Now / do not understand that the writer
of that editorial intended TO apply thai
criticism to every man that voted against
| the Federal amendment in the House
| I do understand that 1t might have been
properly applied to any man who voted
that way intending by that act to prevent
the passage of any income tax at this
session.
| Now can't add any light on
the merits of this question. l don't
know very much about it myself
But so far as am concerned
| I don't want to have the Senate get into
| the position of locking horns with the
House on this question, for that is pre-
cisely what some gentlemen want TO bring
about, and they want to prevent the pas
sage of any income tax law at TINS SEES
sion Now / am going to vote for the
| motion that has Just been mace by the
Senator from Lincoln to indefinitely post
pone the resolution ouered by the Senator
| from Somerset although it might have
heen ACCOMPLISHED lust al well by voting
| down the substitute for this report
am going to vote for this state income
| tax. But | am not going to vote tor the
indefinite postponement of the motion tc
the exclusion of any vote for a Fedora
| income tax because when that Fedora
income tax question comes up. as | under
| stand if will later. on the report of this
| committee. ] want To vote for a Fedora
| income tax, and ! am frank To say thai
out of it all and out of my present state
of mind on this question has come TINS
| conclusion for my own guidance, an
going to vote for the state income ta>
and for the Federal income tax. I dom
believe they are mutually exclusive.
J I see no objection whatever fora state
| income tax provided we do have FEEDER
al income tax ! am going TO vote FOL
them both. Because I don't want t
| have It said-it has been suggested II
these corridors that this proposition o.
the income tax Is going to be stopped ii
the Senate, taken care of in the Senate
and | hope the SerAte will vote for boil
of them and let ,thE Housesof Represent
atives take its ,cNeice bftTeen the two
propositions The one thug ] want tt
avoid ais any disagreement between these
two HOUSES which will result in denia
Ao I'D people of Maine of the plain prom
Use 81 At both parties have made to then
to e33act, AN income tax,
\ Mrk OSBORN: Mr.. President: ] would
Like % ask l didn't quite understand
| that the question of a Federal income tan
can come before this Senate If we adopt
the report of the committee and vote fol-
State income tax
> The president. The report of the
lcommittee twas if the Representatives
fdidn't care for State income tax. they
lrecommended the Federal income tax, in
| their report
| Mr.. OSBORN: Mr. president; Then dc
we take up the patter of the Federal
income tax2 1 am willing; if We can
take up this matter of Federal income tax
first and getAhat out of the way, then I
am willingf, Y
Mr.. MILEIKEN. Mr.. President Let
me say for myself that l want to vote
for the Federal'xincome tax sometime
if | get a chance. | don't want to vote
for it in connection with the motion now
pending because that vote would exclude
the State income tax and cause collision
in the House of Representatives. If this
be withdrawn and brought up indepen-
IDENTIFY some time and not exclude the
vote for the State income tax. | wish 1t
might be done And | want to be strictly
understood as being i'll favor at this time
of voting for both of them.
Mr. OSBORN: Mr.. President: To make
myself clear. | want to say this: | under
stand that my resolution cannot be re-
ceived except by unanimous consent. Now
have no doubt but what there are some
gentlemen here who VIII object to it and
set 1t out of here. and we should not get
any vote here If we adopted this state in
come tax. Now that is my position.
want to express myself on this matter
by vote. that is all.
Mr. SANBORN of Piscataquis: Mr.
President: | would like TO vote on the
Federal income tax first If it is IN order
and If that be voted down then we car
take up the State income tax and vote OF
that.
Mr.. BOYNTON: Unless the Senator
from Somerset wishes to withdraw his
resolution | would now ask that tho ques
Non be put and that the yeas and nays
he ordered on the indefinite postpone
ment.
Mr.. GOWELL, of York Mr.. Presi-
dent: Do | understand that the re
solve offered by the sena tor from som
| erset is an endorsement of the nation
~ income tax pure and simple?
Xhe PRESIDENT: 1t is.
< IRVING: Mr. President II