New Britain herald., 1917-08-24

l ment:
 Gore, Hardwick, Hollis, Husting,
 Kirby, McKellar, Owen, Reed, Tram
 mel Vardaman.-10. Total 21.
 Democrats voting against the | amendment:
 | Culberson, Fletcher, Gerry, Hitchcock,
 James, Jones of New Mexico; Ken
 drick, King, Lewis, Martin, Myers. | Newlands, Overman, Phelan, Pittman, | Pomerene, Ransdell, Robinson, Sauls- | bury, Shaforth, Sheppard, Shields, 1 Simmons, Smith of Georgia, Smith of
 Maryland, Smith of South Carolina, 1 Stone, Swanson, Thomson, Wolcott.- l 33.
 Republicans voting against the amendment:
 Brandegee, Calder, Colt, Curtis,
 Dillingham;. France, Frelinhuysen,
 Hale, Harding, Kellogg, Knox, Lodge, McCumber, Nelson, New, Page, Pen- rose, Sherman, Smith of Michigan,
 Shoot, Sterling, Sutherland, Wads-
 worth, Watson, Weeks.-25. Total 58.
 Senator Simmons opened the days debate with a criticism of Senator La Toilette. in which he talked of an effort to load the war revenue bill | down with amendments calling for i heavy tax increases so as to make it ] unpopular with the people. This, ] said Senator Simmons, was part 'of | the evident attempt on the part of some in the senate and out to create l an unfavorable sentiment against the 1 war" There are those who do not be- | lieve in this horrible war in which we l are engaged" said Senator Simmons ] They are not in sympathy with the | government in it's entrance in the struggle. They are not in sympathy with any of the measures which the government has seen fit and necessary to take in order to bring, the conflict to a successful issue. I make no per sonal application, but I do say. MT. President, that that class of people in the country-I am not speaking about the senate now, but that class of people in this country have been demanding, first, that we pay all the expenses of the war by taxation, and that this year and this generation shall bear the whole burden. They are exceedingly sensitive about placing even a small fraction of it upon future generations. Their con- science is punctured to the very core at the suggestion that the men who are to come fifty years from now, when these bonds become due, may have to pay some of the expenses of the war. They want it all placed upon the burdens of the people of this country, now right now-$10,O00,- 000,000 or SIP, 900, ,0OO, ,000-raise 1t by larger taxation.
 Making War Unpopular.
 1T charge no man with wrong, but l do charge that the inspiration of that suggestion, when carried to the extent that it has been carried by some in this country finds it's genesis in hostility to the war itself in a de- sire to make that war as unpopular as is possible. We all know that peo- pie, neither in peace times nor in war 1 times, like taxes. We all know that 1 you cannot make a cause more un- popular in this country. in any other country, than by imposing upon the country burdensome and op pressve rate of taxation. For that reason, not only in our wars but in the wars of other countries, not only | today but in past generations l throughout the whole history of man, l wars have been paid for generally l more largely by the issuance of bonds than they have by taxation.
 If you want to make this bill un- popular with the masses of the people of this country, the people of small and moderate incomes; if you want to make the load that is imposed upon them already heavier and heavier; If you want to exact from them an un- fair proportion of the expenses of this war-then you can do it, and do it very effectively, by adopting the amendment of the senator from Wis consin.
 His total increase is A per cent, I believe, upon incomes of over mill lion dollars, and yet of this A per cent, increase, 25 per cent. of 1t is levied upon incomes less than $30,000. He has, therefore, laid more than half the burden of his increases upon the highest possible incomes not $1, 1,OOO,- 900, but $1O,000,0O0 or $20,0OO,OOO. He has added more than one-half of the increase that he makes upon all | those incomes, or incomes less than | $30,O0O.
 MT. president, when the senator l was dealing with these low incomes, these incomes below $30,000, he went l by very close steps; he only skipped 1 a. thousand dollars at time, and he added another per cent. for each
 thousand; but when he got above $30,00O when the income began to get little bigger, he began to make
 his steps a little bit higher, a little bit
 wider, a little bit longer.' 1 La Toilette Answers. 1 Senator La Toilette, in a brisk re- | ply to Senator Simmons, said the lat
 ter appeared to be worried over put
 ting heavy income taxes on those hav- | large fortunes.
 G Senator a
 lette went on, that the income tax
 will effect just 35o,O00 people with
 sizeable incomes, out of 1O4, 900 900 in h. Sls tIo fnr ln