Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1895 — THE PRESIDENT'S INCOME TAX. [ARTICLE]

THE PRESIDENT'S INCOME TAX.

There has been much speculation as to the probable course of the President consenting his own Income tax, the constitution providing that the President’s salary Shall not be diminished during his term ol affice. The matter has been set at rest by tn authoritative announcement, from Private Secretary Thurber, that Mr. Cleveland will not seek to evade the tax ir any way, but will make returns of his ofilcial salary in the District of Columbia Mid his income from other sources in New I’brk. Mr. Cleveland’s Income tax on his Jal arv—sso,ooo less the 14,000 exemptionwill bo 5920. The President, it is underJtood, does not believe that ho is entitled to any exemption because of the constitutional provision referred to.