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Show DISCUSSION OF DEMOCRATIC DIRECTTAXES Senator Aslo J. Gronna of North Dakota. It Is my conviction that tho necessity for the Imposition of taxes like these somo of which bear heavily and unequally on certain mem bcrs of each community nrlscs from (ho mlslnki") (Ipcnl nnllry of tho pros-ui. pros-ui. aduilnw'rntlon. ln forni'r un's we huo found It possible to raise tho revenue necessary for the support sup-port of the government In tlmo of pcaco wlthvtit Imposing taxes on mnny of the common transactions of lifo ln the manner this act docs. This administration camo Into power pledged to a program of economy, which, It wns stated, would rcduco tho appropriations far bolow what thoy had been under Republican administrations. ad-ministrations. Yet tho expenditures of this administration have beon gt cuter than under any administration administra-tion sinco tho Civil War. it is often ttiged that tho war ln Kuropo is re-rponslble re-rponslble for tho falluro of tho Underwood Un-derwood Act to produco the noedod revenuos. During tho first nine months of calendar year 1913 our total to-tal Imports woro valued at M.327,000,-000; M.327,000,-000; for the samo period In 1914. during two of which months war existed, ex-isted, they totaled f 1,410,000,000; and during the samo nine months in ,1915 their total value was $1,302,000,-000, $1,302,000,-000, or only $25,000,000 less than for the snmo period ln 1913. Rut whllo 1 ln 1913 wo collected for tho nlno months duties amounting to $2-12,02 1,-,000, 1,-,000, in 1915 the duties eol'ected totaled to-taled only $148,225,000, or almost $100,000,000 less. Tho deficit In our ' revenues should not be attributed to the war, but must bo chnrgod to tho defect in legislation which reduced our rovenuo from tariff duties without with-out making adequate provision for raising from other sources tho revenues rev-enues required. |
