Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-07-07 | Page 4 | Revenue Bill Attacked by Republicans

REVEHUE IL ATTACKED II REPUBLICANS Charge Is Made That the Income In-come Tax I3 a Burden Imposed Im-posed Upon Northern States by South. CHAIRMAN KITCHIN . OPENS THE DEBATE Outlines Measure in Detail and Pleads That It Be Passed as Non-partisan Preparedness. WASHI.MiTOX, July H. The house t oil ay hcan n four rliiys ' riobato on tlif fulmini.sl nili'Mi rcvcium bill, de-Mni'd de-Mni'd to r.'iihti $ I !)7,iJilu,(i!0 next year by ;i mir-tax on incomes uinl by taxes 011 inhcritunces and on war munitions I ) roll tfi. 1 " n 1 1 cr a special rul a final vol e will ho ta ken het'nrn ad journnicnt Monday. M ajority Leader Kit chin opened tho debate with 11 ple;i that tlie bill bo jia.-.sed as a non-part ian prepn redness me:turet si nee so Itirjjc a part of the revenue to be derived from it would go to pay Tor army ami navy increases. hVpnblicnn leaders replied by charging the admi ni.-d rat ion with gross ext rav-aance rav-aance and by ul tacking as ill-advised t he means now proposed to meet the treasury situation. Outlined by Kitchin. Mr. Kit cli in outlined in detail the federal government 's financial condition condi-tion and the expenses that will have to be met during tho coming, year. A total of rJuri,U00,0U0, he said, would bo needed to carry out tho enormous appropriation ap-propriation programme congress had drawn up and tho $ I 17,000,000 to be raised by the revenue bill would leave $W,OUO.u0u to be made up out of tho general fund. 'Wc propose," he continued, "to take from tho general balance fund, which on June MO was the largest by many millions of any year for tho last eight years, tho sum' of' 000,000 and then leave in the disbursing otHces, or to their eredit, $G0.000,O0O to operate I the government 'a current expenses. After taking out that $10,000,000 to make good the .fu'iiO.OOO.OOO wo will then have over $100,000,000 in the gen- j eral balance 1 mid. Will Issue Bonds. ''We prone -c to finance any possible; t rouble witii Mexico or any other mi- ; tion, as this nation and all other nations 1 have alvas financed such emergencies,! by the issuance of -bonds.'' i Wf preventative Fardney of Michigan, ranking Republican member of the ways and means commit too, attacking tho proposal for a sur-tax on incomes, de-flared de-flared the income tax was a burden being be-ing imposed on the northern states by I the south. Tho twelve southern states,' which control The Democratic house caucus, he said, have 27 per cent of the country 's population, but pay only rj.4 per cent of the income tax. Re present a tive Jl ill of Connecticut, another Republican, deelared the bill "probably puts a heavier burden of taxation upon the American people than any other one mcasuro in the history of the republic.