Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1909 — THE INCOME TAX AMENDMENT. [ARTICLE]

THE INCOME TAX AMENDMENT.

It can hardly be doubted that the amendment to the United States constitution providing for a tax on incomes will be ratified by a necessary number of states. But it will he a long time before many of the states can act. Alabama has already ratified the amendment. Georgia has refused to ratify it. Barring special sessions, not a third of the states will have an opportunity to pass upon the amendment before 1911. But by the middle of next winter or the early spring enough of the states representing every section except the middle and far west to make predictions of considerable value will In all probability have considered the subject. Following Alabama and Georgia the regular sessions of the several legislature will be held in the following order: November, 1909—Tennessee, Texas. * December, 1909—Virginia. January, 1910—Connecticut, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Ohio,. Oklahoma, Rhode Island. October, 1910—Vermont. January. 1911 —Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware,, Idaho. Illinois, Indiana, lowa. Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota. Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania. South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming April, 1911—Florida. “ January, 1912—Mississippi. May, 1912—Louisiana.