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Show THE CORPORATION TAX AMENDMENT APPROVED President Taft's Measure Passed by the Senate by a Vote of Sixty to Eleven. Washington. The corporation tax amendment suggested by President Taft, drawn by Attorney General Wick-ershaw, Wick-ershaw, and presented to the senate by Mr. Aldrich, chairman of the committee com-mittee on finance, is an integral part of the tariff bill as that bill now stands. The senate reached a vote on the proposition shortly before adjourning at 7 o'clock Friday evening, and the amerfdment was agreed to by the large vote of 60 to 11. With all modifying amendments disposed of, many Democrats Demo-crats voted with most of the Republicans Repub-licans for the amendment. The test vote was on the substitution substitu-tion of the corporation tax amendment for the income tax provision, and on that vote forty-five senators cast their ballots in the affirmative and thirty-one thirty-one in the negative. On this ballot all of the Democratic votes were cast in favor of the income tax, which also received the support of a number of the insurgent Republicans. The income tax question disposed of, the senate will enter upon the administrative ad-ministrative features of the tariff bill, probably taking up the maximum and minimum rate provisions. |