Alamogordo news-advertiser. (Alamogordo, Otero County, N.M.) 1912-1914, 1913-02-08
INCOME TAX AMEND
MENT ADOPTED
Necessary Three-Fourths of
States Adopted Measure
February 3rd

An income tax amendment to the
constitution of the United Sattes is
now a realty, the necessary three
iourths of the states having rattle d
this, the sixteenth amendment 10
/ the eonsiituti ticn ON the 3rd OF Feb
ruary.
During the several days previous
/ several Of the states We'd with each
other in being the deciding aflirma-
tive vote, but Wyoming by chang
ing the order of bills won the dis
tinetion
New Jersey and New Mexico were
also in the race. There have been
only four states which rejected The
measure while there are a number
! which took no action thus far. The
states opposing We're Connecti-
cut, New Hampshire, Utah and
Rhode Island. The amendment
reads as follows:
Article XVI.-The congress shall
have power TO levy and collect tax
IS on incomes from whatever
source derived, without apportion-
ment among the states, and without
regard to any census or enumera-
ton"
1t is expected that incomes of
over $4,000 per annum will be tax
ed and that the revenue therefrom
will be about one hundred millions
per year. In time it is probable
and would certainly be just to have
a graduated scale for taxing large
incomes where fortunes are being
swollen, but this phase need con-
cern few in Alamogordo
The. income tax amendment and
the corporation tax are results Of a
recommendation made by President
Taft to congress during the tariff
debate on the Payne-Aldrich bill
He urged both measures, and his
term of office has lasted long
enough to see both of them car
ried through congress and the
amendment proposed ratified by
thirty-eight Of the fOfty-eight
states.
been active at Box-H ranch. 8 miles
from Portales. After having pen
ctrated rock shale al a depth OF
600 feet, the operators struck very
peculiar and valuable mineral water.
The discovery of the water
mas created no little excitement and
the possibility Of mineral wafer
close in TO Portales carrying very
healthful qualities, will give rise to
CONSIDERABLE speCuation.
The hunting licenses issued in
1912 expired with December 31st
last. Now to hunt game projected
by law in New Mexico hunters must
secure licenses for 1913. The state
game warden has inauugrated a /
strict campaign against violators Of
the game laws and it does not COS
much to keep on the safe side.
We have neglected to mention that
Andrew II. Hudspeth of White Oaks
state democratic chairman, has been
in Washington and Trento. n. j.. al
which places he visited President
elect Woodrow Wilson Mr.. Huds-
peth We understand is a candidate
for U. S. Marshall of New Mexico
CarrizoZo Outlook.
The Silver City chamber of COM
merce has taken up the matter of
letter carrier service for the city.
The receipts of the local postoffice
entitle this place to carrier service
and 1t is the purpose of the chamber
Of commerce to properly present
their claims.
The Santa Fe Eagle asserts that
fifty murders were caused in New
Mexico during the past year by liq-
uor and that more than seventy per
cent OF all crime came from the sam
cause. And II closes by asking, why
not remove the cause?
Why should Roswell waste its ef-
forts to secure itself a place on the
big Ocean-to-Ocean macadamized
highway? That would bring only a
few hundred thousand dollars into
the city every few months. Why moi
go after something bigger?-Ros-
well Record.