Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 164, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1911 — Income Tax Ratification Impośible Until Later [ARTICLE]

Income Tax Ratification Impośible Until Later

Although New York by the action of the assembly Wednesday swung into the list of sixteen states that have ratified the proposed federal income tax and brought the total up to thirty-' one, tabulation shows that the necessary thirty-five or three-fourths vote of the states is out of the question this year. Fifteen states have either defeated the amendment in one or both houses, have adjourned without taking action, or, having indorsed the measure in one branch, have gone into adjournment with the other branch unrecorded. * This accounts collectively for all forty-six states to date.

Eliminating Arkansas, whose governor has raised a constitutional question by vetoing the indorsement of the amendment by both branches of the state's legislature, only thirty votes in favor of the proposal remain. Thus it is obvious that further progress must await the convening of new legislatures. The fifteen states which have failed to indorse the amendment either because of adverse action or by inactive adjournment are: Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Utah, Rhode Island, Virginia, Vermont, West Virginia, Wyoming. Those which .have indorsed the amendment are: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, lowa, Indiana, Kentucky, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, New York, Nevada, North Carolina, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington, Wisconsin.