The Lamar register., 1915-06-02
nen affected could understand.


lating to deductions allowed in COM
putting gross income, must go to the
courts like hundreds of others.
5. The entire income tax provis-
ion has been pronounced by the Taxa
ton Committee of the American Bar
Association, a non-partisan body, "as
open to the gravest objections both in
structure and specific defects" TWEEN
ty-fve imperfections being pointed
out.
6. Necessity for amending this law
has forced administration officials to
the work of formulating u report of
its crudities, as a basis for amend
ment by congress.
On innumerable occasions during the
debate on the tariff and other bills,
republican floor leader James II. Mann
Of illinois cautioned the majority to
use greater care, and gave one reason
for the dividing line between the two
sides Of the house as "a lack of in
formation on the part of the demo-
Gratis.
Like Senator Tillman's utterances,
these words have assumed prophetic
meaning. Literally hundreds of the
other bunders in the tariff bill might
be cited. Typical examples have been
referred to because they show the
/ logical results that followed the em-
Iployment of slovenly, inaccurate
methods of legislation.
Practically every important statute
passed by the present administration
is likewise honeycombed with needless
imperfections, that must be corrected
by expensive legal procedure or leg
islative action. They are facts with
which everyone should become famil-
lar, and with that object in view the
subject will be dealt with in future
articles.
The National Treasury balance de-
creased a million dollars during the
seven days ending May %, leaving a
balance in the Treasury of Sl3,S64,-
451.61. On the corresponding date
two years ago there was $l31 ,0O2,9 1894
in the general fund. For the present
fiscal year up to May %, government
Expenditures have exceeded the re-
ceipts TO the amount of $l32 2,326, ,6sO.-
90.
Because railway equipment COM
panies lack business for their factories
they are willing to take orders at
prices so low as to eliminate profit.
Taking advantage Of the opportunity
to get cars and locomotives at sacri-
flee prices some Of the eastern rail-
roads have placed few orders. And
lit is this sort Of business that demo-
cratic newspapers point to as an evil
dence Of revived industry. The fac
tory that takes orders for the pur-
pose Of keeping machinery from rust
ing is about on a par with the man
who works for his board to keep
| from starving. In each instance there
is useful employment but it would be
I hard to induce either to accept such
work as an evidence Of prosperity.
When the submarine F'-4 sank in
4 in Hawaiian waters, it was suggested
in very plain terms that the Navy de
partment had neglected this arm Of
the national defense and that few if
any Of our undersea craft were really
capable of effective work. Josephus
Daniels denounced this criticism as a
piece Of malicious and ghoulish pol
itics. But now it seems that fifty
per cent Of the submarines which
started out in the "war game" last
week, have been Withdrawn from the
fighting line by reason of defective
machinery. ks, flagship of the fourth
division Of the Atlantic fleet, went
fast aground on No Mans Land. XII,
with disabled engines, and E-2 with a
broken shaft, have been towed into
port. D-1, Cd, and ks are reported
to have returned to harbor, their
cruising radius exhausted. Sir Jose
phus will probably explain at once
that this, too, is u matter of politics.
The Philadelphia Ledger uses fine
language to describe a minor political
event. The giving of job to that
deserving democrat" Bryan's SON