Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1909 — INCOME TAX IN SENATE TODAY [ARTICLE]

INCOME TAX IN SENATE TODAY

All of the Tariff Bill Sections Disposed Of. TILLMAN TEA AMENDMENT South Carolina Wants Protection For Her Oolong Crops—Cummins Scheduled to Make Opening Speech In Favor of a Straight Assessment Upon Funds of Individuals, Firms and Corporations Which Proposition Is Distinct From Legislation Proposed by Taft.

Washington, June 29. —After seventy days of almost continuous debate the senate concluded its discussion of the schedules of the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill. Today the corporation and Income tax questions will be discussed. Senator Aldrich told some of his friends that he would take a few days off duty for a water trip of some kind if it develops that the discussion of the income tax is likely to be an extended one. Senator Tillman has pending an amendment providing for a tax of 10 cents a pound on tea. He declared that there was in his proposition $9,000,000 cf revenue and $1,200 of protection. Addressing himself to Aldrich as the embodiment of the United States sen ate. Tillman was interrupted by the Rhode Island senator, who suggested that there were some things that cease to he jokes. "He is the senate of the United States and he knows it.” declared Tillman, pointing to Aldrich Senator Smith said he had been greatly surprised to find that South Carolina today is raising fifteen times more tea than did the island of Ceylon in 1875. Senator Heyburn added thar he had used South Carolina tea for six or seven years, preferring it for its superior flavor It is understood that Senator Cummins will make the opening speech m support of an income tax amendment as a part of the tariff bill In contradistinction to the movement for a corporation tax. A joint resolution proposing an income tax amendment to the constitution was reported to the senate by Aldrich Tt was ordered to be printed and He on the table The proposed amendment is as follows: ..... “Article XVI The congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states and without regard to any census or enumeration."