The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1914-10-15

IN tnt Sounu. on lHhNlBfauoHs hl
was, in fact, chairman of the lmmi
grafton Commission, which assiste
him in framing the scientific messur
now hung up in the Democratic Con
gress.
Income Tax and Vermont
Here is another question: 'Wha
was your action on the income tn
amendment when il was before th'
Senate ?. When it was before th'
Vermont Legislature 2
III the people Of Vermont are a.
eager to pay an income tax as this
question implies, Senator Dillingham;
probably is not their kind Of man
Mr., Dillingham's position on the in.
come tax was that of every other Re
publican senator in New England
that this was a Democratic measure
whose whole aim was to make the
people Of New England and New York
primarily, pay the twenty-five to fifty
millions the tax was expected to pro-
duce. This was another case Of the
sectional legislation which the Demo
cratic Congress is enacting all the
time to make the North and the West
pay the bills of the South, and the
northern senator who would not have
opposed it would have ben false to his
trust. Senator Dillingham; also point
ed out, when the amendment was un-
der discussion in the Legislature, that
Vermont had few bills of her own
she would like to pay and that if an
income tax were to be imposed it
should be by the State and not by the
Federal Government.
He Fought Elkins and Penrose
'The general reader probably is not
greatly interested in the details of the
Vermont contest, but it is only fair to
all parties concerned to say that Sen
ator Dillingham; is one of the most
useful and influential men the Repub-
lican party has in Congress. He is
respected by men Of all parties, and
should the Republicans again come in
to power he would hold a commanding
position which neither Judge Prouty
nor any other man the Vermonters
could nominate could hope to achieve
in less than twenty years.
Zone of the funniest of the non
partisan attacks upon the senior sena-
tor is that which accuses him of hav-
ing been a boon legislative companion
of the late Stephen B. Elkins and Of
Senator Boies Penrose of Pennsyl-
vania. Mr.. Dillingham; is a peacable
man, not given much to strife, but it
so happens that two of the hottest
fights he ever made in the SeIate
were against Elkins and Penrosc In
the first, Elkins was the champion Of
the North American Commercial Com
pany, which had the contract for kill
ing seals on the Pribilof Islands and
was advocating the interests of that
company against what the Vermont
senator regarded as the general well
fare. The Dillingham; policy has been
vindicated by the fact that the com
pany has now lost its contract and
Senator Dillingham; has been steadily
active in reaching an international
agreement, now in force, which will |
protect the seals for the use of future
true conservative pol |
cy.
"In the other case, Chinese exclu-
lion bill came over from the House in
uch radical form as to make it almost
! capital crime to be a Chinaman.
'enrose favored it, Dillingham; depre-
ated such drastic and i'll considered
egislation and fought it so vigorously
hat Vice President Fairbanks made
i'm one of the conferees on the bill
nd thus enabled him to defeat PEN
ose. About the last charge that can
e laid against the senior senator
rom Vermont is that he is under
he influence Of anyone except himself
nd the people of Vermont"
'The evening Of the day this article
'as written the democrats placed Mr..
'routy's name on their list in place of
ir. Watson's who was nominated in
he democratic convention over Mr..
routy by large majority, but who
ad resigned.
A GRATEFUL CORRECTION