Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-22

even then il will not have reached the
normal. That normal is somewhere
above s125.oOo,oOo at the present rate.
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If the present peace rates of England
We're applied here, the yield would easily
reach SsO0,C00,OOO The largest tariff
yield in recent years has been but 1898,
100000. Our total revenues are now
about S7oo.000.oo0 year, aside from
postal receipts.
AT existing rates, from the best in
formation in my possession, the new tax
will be paid by several million corpora
ton stockholders under the corporation
provision, and by 10000 to 100000 other
individuals.
But consider that this country pos
sesses more than S17a.00o.0oo,00o of ma
tional wealth. One hundred and seventy
five billion is a sum SO vast as to be be-
yond human conception. The annual In
come therefroIn is far greater than many
have believed. | know of no better or
fairer method of distributing the burdens
OF national taxation among the people
than to impose that taxation upon this
income.
1t was during Judge Hull's first term in
Congress, in 1909, that he first began
'.fooling with the income tax subject"
as he expresses it. Since then he agitated
continually until his ideas became law.
Always a serious student of governmental
problems. Judge Hull also had the force
Of tradition behind him in advocating a
direct system of public revenue.
Benton McMillin, now minister to Peru,
represent ID Judge Hulls district in Con-
gress fol number of years and like
him. served on the ways and means conf
mittee. Mr.. McMillin was chairman of
the subcommittee, which framed the In
come TAX feature of the Wilson tariff bill
during the Cleveland administration, an
other member of the subcommittee being
William Jennings BRYAN, now Secretary
of State. 1t was this income tax law
which the Supreme Court later declared
unconstitutional.
But in addition to his labors in this di-
rection, Judge Hull has had much to do
with the other work of the ways and
means &C mmittea. In making the demo-
cratic tariff bills passed by the demo-
cratic Sixty-second Congress and vetoed
by President Taft, he was active par
ticularly with the wool, the steel and iron
and the silk schedules and the admins
trative provisions. Last year he devoted
particular attention again to these three
subjects. His speech on the wool sched-
ule WAS pronounced particularly able and
subcommittee the silk schedule
Judge Hull was forty-two years old last
October, native of Overton, now Pick
EFT, county. Tenn While citizen and
resident of Jackson county. he has prac-
ticed law for a number of years at Car
thage. His education was received at
Cumberland. Lebanon county, Tenn, from
which he was graduated in law. Soon
after graduation he was elected to the
state legislature. in which he served two
terms.
When the Spanish-American war broke
our he volunteered and was made cap
tain of Company H. 18th Tennessee Infan-
try. That regiment. in the autumn of
1895. was sent to do garrison duty at
Trinidad, near Cienfuegos, in south CEN
trail Cuba. The troops had to take over
the civil government of the district and
Capt. Hull, by reason of his legal expe-
rience and ability, assumed with other
duties the post of what amounted to at
torney general and occupied that posi-
ton for the six months the regiment re-
manned on the island.
On the muster out the Governor of
Tennessee appointd him judge of the fifth
judicial circuit of the state Subsequently
he was elected to the position, resgning
therefrom In 1905 to run for Congress.
Tennessee politics at times has taken on