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SKAGWAY, ALASKA. FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1913 PRICE 10 CENT
INCOME TAX TO
REPLACE LOSS
81 LOW TARIFF
\Vush>s'on, May S ? The pro
l- ?ed income tax is oxpocted to
yield an unnuai revenue of J 1 00,
00u,000. Cbalrmun Underwood mad
the following explanation of the
provisions of tho law:
In foriuuluting this additional im
post tbe attempt has been made to
provide uot only a source of reven
but also a means of redressing
i:i some measure the unequal tax
burdens which result from the prac
t'ce of basing the federal lucome en
tirely upon custonis and internal
revenue duties. This is a system
of taxation which inevitably thrown
the burden of supporting the govern
ment upon the shoulders of the con
sumers. It correspondingly exempts
tho men of large income, whoso con
sumption of the ordinary necessar
aries of lifo is subject to tariff tax
ation In u far less aggregate degree,
than is that of the smaller income
earners, who expend tbe greater ;
proportion of their resources for j
the ordinary necessities of life.
In pursuance of these ideas it has :
bttn determined to levy upon ln-l
comes of more thau $4,000 annual-:
ly a tax of 1 percent to be imposed j
upon th? excess of such Incomes a
bove the >4,000 Minimum. But in
addition a surtax upon the higher
classes * income has also been in
cluded. T! is surtax will amount to
1 per cent extra upon the excess of
incomes over $20,000 and not ov
er $50,''00, and 2 per cent oxtru
upon tho excess of incomes over? 50- \
000 and rot over $100,000, and 3
per cent i pon the excess of incomes (
over ->100,000 annually. This ap
plication of the progressive princi
ple In income taxation is believed to
fully uarrauted by the best the- ;
orv on the subject and will add mat
erially to the yMd obtainable from :
a fiat rate of taxation. The pro- '
gresslve principle has already been
sustained i-y the supreme court ol
the United Stutes in the inherit-,
ance tax cases, and there can be i
applies to the income tax Included
in II. It. 1" and will be fully up
held should it over bo called into
sutstion. Owing to defects in per
sonal property taxation the larger
lntomes in tho United States have
for many years been ablo to escape i
IR. MILL DELAY
MUSES ALARM
| 10 ALASKANS
Washington, May 2 ? The Sen
ate to which was referred the Alas
ka Railroad bill, has not had a
hearing yet. This delay Is causing
cc nsiderable alarm among the Alas
kuns and support re of tho bill. It
is (eared that the measure will bo
passed over at this session.
Subscribe for the Dally Alaskan
<\ 1th less than their share of the
v moral burden of taxatlou, and this
inequality will be. It Is bolioved. Id
part overcome by the plan now pro
The effort hs abeen made to ar
r\tj at an Inclusive dellnltlon of ln
c? me, which Is described as:
gains, profits aud income derived
fiom salaries, wages of compensa
tion for personal service of any
k i d and In whatevor form paid,
professions, vocations, business, sales
or dealings in property; whether
real or personal, growing out of tho
us- of or Interest In real or person
al property, trado, commerce, Intor
est. rent, dividends, premiums, sec
urities or the transactions of any
lawful business carried on for gain
In toe attempt to establish a rea
sonable definition of net Income
(here has been a careful enumera
tion of all legitimate deductions
properly to be made from the total
amount received by any individual
a.id including taxes, losses, inter
nal on state and municipal bonds an
ether items. While re-enacting tho
1 . esent corporation tax, some Im
provements of detail have been In
troduced, among thorn a change In
the fiscal year, for which report Is
to be made, improvements thnt have
long been demanded In the Interest
of good business practlco and easy
collection of the tax levied upon cor
poratlons.
T' e definite application of the ln
coino tax principle has been mado
possible by tho adoption by the re
quisite number of states of the six
?eenth amendment to the constitu
tion of the United States, granting
to congress the power to levy taxes
n;cn incomes practically at its dls
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of her and her method of spending money?
St. Louis, April 2 ? Andrew Car
negie, the disciple of poace, open
ed the Peace Congress yestorday,
and made :t convincing talk on the
prol ability of unlvorsal peace among
the clvlllzod nations off tho oarth.
In speaking of the strained rela
tions between this country and Jap
an ho said that there was no dan
ger of a war with Japan. He ns
sur ? 's hearers tlmt If California
had passed a law which was con
trary to tho agreement entered Into
by the two Nations, such a law
would be declared unconstitutional
by the higher American courts and
t! us the question would settle it
I s'-lf, without the Intervention of
Dloody war. In his opinion both
nations cnmo "under tho head of civ
ilized governments and could not af
ford to settlo their differences by
wholesale murder.
SATURDAY WILL CLOSE
DK1IATE ON* TARIFF
Washington, May 2 ? Chairman
Underwood declared yesterday that
tho debate on the tariff bill would
ond Saturday.
Advertlso Alaska advantageously
by sending tho Dally Alaskan back
to tho states. By mall, 75c per mo.
CHICK
FOOD
A L II E R 8
PROGRESSIVE"
NOW IN STOCK.
|IM pound Suck $1.00.
50 pound Iota $2.2.*S.
Sninll lots . . B cents per pound.
P. H. GANTY, Grocer
San Francisco, May Five tliou
said Japanese assembled In u gi
gantic meeting yestorday immediate
ly nfter the legislature passed the
jntl-al(< n land holding bill, and
drew up resolutions advocating a
v.-ar with the United Slates. Their
orators were vehement in donounc
lug the action of tho legislature,
claiming that by such action tlio A
mnrlcan government had abrogated
tho treaty with tho Japanese gov
ernment and that the honor of the
Oriental peoplo had been insuitod.
w rivr: diseases a
MENACE TO WHITES
Is iho health of the white poptila-l
tion of Alaska mcnnce.l l>y the dis
eases of the natives?
J'lenty of Indication that It Is is
lotmd in the last annual report of Dr .
Emll Krulibh, acting commissioner j
of public health for Alaska.
L'ut for the climate of Alaska,
which Krullsh describes as extreme
ly healthful, the mortality auiuiig
the whites might be very low. >jy-|
phlllis, tuberculosis and eye diseas
es and other communicable diseas
es effect a large percentage of tho|
natives and the villages are extreme
ly unsanitary. In Southeastern Al- 1
aska 25 per cent of the natives arej
nlf Meted with eye disease, and tr.
choma ? for which foreigners are
excluded ? keratitis cataructs, bleph
aritis nnd conjunctivitis are common
and the cause of blindness and fi
no; I opreltli.
"I believe that 80 per cont of the
blindness end pnitial loss of vision
among the natives of Alaska might
have been provented by^ treatment
of those cases in the early stages of
the disease", is among the signifi
cant statements in the report. Of
the eye diseases, the dread trachoma
iu l he iuimI prevalent. Tuberculosis,
syphilis and Infantile paralysis, ar?
ater the eyo diseases, the most prev
alent, a .id are a menace to the|
health of Alaskans.
Among the white people of Alnskt'
Rheumatism, pneumonia, and oMi't|
r.iacases due to exposure, and pto
KMl.-ie iclsoning, due to eating cu>
ned goods", are the most prevalent.
Some. 'ling gallant must be going
on at the schools, for this morning
we found the following note shove J
under the office door;
"The boys who brought the bas
kets ui kl3ses to 'he teachers
yesterday were not wise. Tl.e
girls were properly rewarded but
oil, boys, why didn't you wait until
af.cr dark?"
TREATY US
Washington, May 2 ? President
vVllson "in commenting 011 tlio ac
tion of California In passing the an
il-alien land holding law, said that
If California had transgFessed up
on the principles of the treaty made
!?? this govornmant with a friendly
nation, suits would be started im
inedlatoly to test the constitution
ttlitj of tho measure, and it would
be up to tho Supreme Court to de
termine which party to tho contro
versy was In the right. In tho
meantime he advised that no inflam
matory utternnces be made on the
action of tho legislature by cither
Americans or Japanese. In his o
pinion the differences' could best be
settled without tho intervention of
Ui'ms.
HAN AWAITED
FINAJJCIION
Sacramento, May 1 ? Secretary
W/ J. Bryan returned from San
Francisco to await the action of
the legislature on the anti-alien
land acquiring bill, which has been
postponed until complete debate
could be bad. President Wilson
has wired that if the legislature
passed th "> bill, suits would be filed
under the treaty rights. Mr. Bryan
will remain until the legislature
t.->kes final action.
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