Show Jt- Jt I t C v SU SMART RT AGAIN AGUN ItE REBUKED tit f 3 J c J From Page One rh i ji Senator Joseph Q Quinney protested his sincerity in v vet vot- votIng t C i itt Ing against st the bill He had not been ben approached by any I Interests ho he said He was familiar with wilh tho the ted federal ral In InI Income I t come lax tax law but bul was Impressed with wilh many intricacies o G S In the present bill Senator Perry D. D Fuller a n second counselor in id a A stake presidency said he still had a sympathetic feeling for forthe rothe the income tax tux But ho he did not believe belleve in this thing of writing into the statutes of or the state slate laws what hap hap- f v j to be in acc accord rd with some religious belief He y was not convinced that this senate was assembled to toJ of ot the principles of ot any church or denomination de dee L J make laws because nomination or on any history If Ii J I f have paid my tithing he lie asserted I have done don doneit F it because I want to pa pay Y it I have not come here to tomake oj make a law to compel anyone else to lo pay taxes because of ot that principle If the bill cannot stand on Its Us own merits it il ought not nol to lo pass Corporations Defended l Senator Smart saw the reference to his remarks by Senator Fuller and said he agreed exactly with all that the senator from Juab had had to say sa He claimed the right however he said to state the various things that had served him as evidence In reaching his conclusions j To me he ho said the principle Is right and I had the right to stat the evidence that led lcd mo to conclude th that t the principle is right Senator J. J William Knight was in favor citizen citizen citi citi- share of ot taxes He Ho resented statements statements state state- zen paying his Just ments that corporations are escaping taxation and had in describing such statements as absolutely w no hesitation false he asserted Corporations on the whole would be shown on examination to be bearing their Just share sharo of ot tax burdens more burdens more than many other classes of people Many people he s sold said ld had benefited by the higher prices prIces' for tor farm tarm and ranch products products- but had not paid any In Income Income income In- In come tax He would not stoop to say that they were slackers It was probably out of ot place he said to bring in such arguments as had been heard In the senate on this bill bUl order had certain Because some religion or ancient a a. system even though It was right It was unfair to try such an n argument In the present case He e was for reachIng reaching reach reach- Ing those who do not pay taxes and also against trying to heap unjust burdens on persons and corporations already overloaded with taxes Arguments Repellent Se Senator ator Harrison E. E Jenkins said that the line of ot argument argument argue t ment that had been followed was so repellent to him that t he would vote veto In n the negative not only to the law but butt butto t to the argument He insisted that the law Is not an equal bearing law and did not think that the hand of ot G God d was in it ft On page 7 of the bill the senators would find schedules that were not equal The law was not designed designed de de- signed and was not thought to be equal Therefore he be said it ft was one of ot those things that have caused revolution and rebel rebellion lon He had studied the bill with some degree e of care and was unable to find those principles of righteousness in it that have haye been propounded so eloquently and so forcefully on this floor Senator Peters showed how with the state constitution constitution constitution tion as it Is the law would cause concealment of income Income in income In- In come because to reveal that In Income ome would also reveal the presence of intangible property taxation of which would amount to confiscation The practice he said would be that men would not report returns on intangibles because by s so sd doing they would have to report the existence of the intangibles This would lead to deceit without reaching a class it itAas was as desired to reach States that have a workable Income In Income Ine In- come tax law he said exempt intangibles from property property- tax Discussion Regretted Senator Southwick regretted so much discussion He said it had bad taken some years rears for New York to develop an income tax that would function but that in Utah this bill If It passed would at least furnish a beginning He had said nothing on the floor of the senate he asserted that he could not absolutely prove Senator George H H. Dern was glad that there were others v w Cho ho fo recognized the evil of ot trying to mix religion with politics The senator from Duchesne he thought should recognize- recognize that the surest way to destroy his church was w s to mix It up with politics because it would create internal dissension He thought he could say that much as an outsider He then went on to discuss the bill saying that the cost ost of collection In Utah would would- be more than 25 per percent percent percent cent if It It were properly collected He pointed out that while hUe the federal returns on corporation taxes were available the personal income tax returns were not available The state therefore would have to create its own machinery or else content itself with collecting what was voluntarily reported He was sorry the bill did not have something in it that would help in the collection collection col col- lection of taxes on incomes of alien aUen workers and would like ike to have some time to get something in on that point point- The Tho bill was killed later |