Show J L I j I SENATE GETS DOWN TO REAL REALI I BUSINESS WHEN WilEN SEN ALDRICH RETURNS I From Spokane ane Merchants Appeals for Corporation Tax While East Portland Lumber Lumb r Company Wants It to Tafts Plan Pan Commented on by Rhode hade Island Senator and Senators Root Brandegee and Nelson Washington Juh JUl the wa wai way i Uio tho school got gol don to busIness this I me It was evident that the he teach leach leacher or er had bM returned In other words Senator Aldrich chairman of the fin anco committee c was In his seat when the senate convened and at that time there was a full q quorum orum to proceed with business While Whilo Mr Ir Aldrich did not nol reveal the secret of his where whereabouts durin during his two days from irom the Uie senate lila his complexion was wasso wasso so muc ruddier than it Is ordinarily ll ily that It was as that he had put In most or of his time In the open aIr His return caused much gossip as to the possibility of getting a vote ote oteI on the income t tax x proposItIon Most I senators believed the end was near The fact that only Mi lr oh ob objection I yesterday stood in the way of taking adjournment next Tuesday and that the senators seemed almost ox ex exhausted hausted led to the concluSion that the vote ote would be reached by bj that timo if not much earlier Many lany predicted it for tomorrow and some wore were even een Inclined ts to think it might take place before beCore adjournment today BusIness began with the presenta presentation ion tion of petitions relating to th cor or tax many of whIch came from the far northwest From SIX Spokane kane Wash lOG merchants appealed to the senate for support of the tho tax as the saId It safeguarded the rate ate information of busIness tu lions ions The Inman Poulsen I er corn com pany of East Portland wanted the pernicious corporatIon tax killed while W B 13 Are of Portland con the proposed tax extremely unfair as It places the burden only oil the great Industrial life lICe of the cou COuntry a Mutual Insurance companIes or of New Jersey which insisted that thal such con cor were not the proper subject of taxation under the proposed of taxing the tho corporations organized for profit Mr lr objection was wis that the amendment was too indefinite to tomake tomake make It operative T The 10 first proviso ion 1011 of the bill fixes a tax or of 2 percent per percent cent on the net Income of corpora corporations corporations The Idaho senator contended that under thIs language It would be quite Impossible to determine the oh ob of the lull or to enforce its pro 1 lons because Cf Its vagueness He also claimed the lie tax being levied on all corporations organized for foi prof profIt It Included corporations that do no business except to collect rents which he said would bring it near nearh nearly h ly wIthin the scope of the Pollock case caso casein In whIch lie 1110 Income tax was declared ed to be Invalid In valid These objections provoked comment by br Senators AldrIch Brande Brandegee gee Nelson and others Mr AldrIch suggested that the language called Into had been passed pu ed upon ulOn by runny lawyers Sen Senator Senator ator Root gave assurance that thal these objections would woul rC careful con consideration of the committee although ho he said he believed the amendment as framed framel was such as to Insure its constitutionality Saying he preferred yoUng for an I Income rather than a corporation tax Senator Raynor declared lie he would vote ote for the pending corporation tux tax Ir if he could riot not have hi his first choice I I 1 believe he added that lint this Is IsI isan nn an absolutely constitutional measure I bill Is unjust and Inequitable but when I cannot obtain an Income tax taxI I will be e forced to vote for tills this amend amendment amendment ment or 01 leave the government bank or of the tho program or of the I celebration I The monument win will be feat and standing on an elevation feet above tile the river It will be visible I Ifor for foi man ninny miles up and down the tho rh nv en cr It was d by Carl Bitter and wIll be a Roman doric done column resting on a square base bearing a abronze abronze I bronze |