INCOME TAX.
Remarks in the Senate, April 7, 1870.
The Senate having under consideration a Joint Resolution from the House, with an amendment by the Committee on Finance, declaratory of the meaning and intention of the law relating to the Income Tax, Mr. Sumner said,—
I shall make no opposition to the amendment of the Committee on Finance, as I understand it is to relieve the Department from a difficulty which has arisen in the interpretation of a statute; but I desire to say now—and I take this earliest opportunity—that I think the income tax ought not to be continued any longer.
Mr. Conkling [of New York]. Reëstablished, you mean.
Mr. Sumner. Very well; I accept the amendment of the Senator from New York: it ought not to be reëstablished.
Mr. Scott [of Pennsylvania]. It has expired.