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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1916
Page
3
The United States Supreme Court rules income tax constitutional in a unanimous decision. The ruling affirms the federal levy as lawful under the constitutional framework, upholding government power to tax income. The decision consolidates prior arguments and establishes a clear precedent for taxation authority.
The Supreme Court ruled the income tax constitutional in a unanimous decision, enabling Congress to raise rates on large fortunes. The ruling interprets the Sixteenth Amendment broadly, freeing the tax from apportionment among states and paving the way for higher levies to fund national defense.
Mrs Edith TH Biscoe Roosevelt seeks a 50 counsel arrangement and 400 a month alimony while awaiting trial for separation from John Ellis Roosevelt cousin of Theodore Roosevelt. Mr Roosevelt counters with an annulment suit claiming the marriage is to be dissolved. The docket hints at tax policy debate on incomes above 20000.
Washington returns show the distribution of federal income tax subjects by bracket. Figures list counts in ranges from over 1 million to under 3 thousand dollars, reflecting the era's tax structure and revenue base.
New York report shows government probes found complaints of concrete siege gun emplacements in over twenty sites unfounded. Investigators found only shallow surfaces, such as a tennis court on Staten Island, and no emplacements capable of threatening Forts Hamilton Wadsworth or Iona Island.
San Francisco January 24 Chinese revolutionary leaders in Shanghai cabled Tong King Chong president of the Chinese Republic association here urging him to appeal to Americans not to recognize Yuan Shi Kal as emperor The United States was the first nation to recognize the republic and should aid China in maintaining the republican form of government The cable also said Yunnan province was fully under revolutionist control and Sze Chuen province nearby was almost entirely controlled by their forces
Twenty two men were jailed after a clash between deputy sheriffs, police and rioters at the Spengler Loomis company plant in Jatt Rockford M on January 24. Nine discharged workers returned with others, women were roughed as they tried to enter, clubs and pistols used, several rioters clubbed but no serious injuries. Officers dispersed the crowd.
A Mount Pleasant 4A package of currency containing 2200 disappeared today between the Hurlington depot and the Adams Express company office. Police are investigating. A second package containing 300 in silver was undisturbed.
A broad appeal urges men and women to try Scott Emulsion after meals for a month to combat general debility. The ad promises increased vitality by enriching blood and stimulating nutrition with a non alcoholic, food based tonic from Scott & Bowne of Bloomfield New Jersey.
Seven Texas brewery companies face an anti trust case in Sulphur Springs alleging price fixing and territory division. They are also accused of collecting about 1.2 million dollars yearly over five years to back anti prohibition activism and of padding poll taxes to sway votes against prohibition.
The great French actress Madame Bernhardt reportedly keeps a cupboard in her boudoir filled with artificial legs from leg makers worldwide. She has nicknamed them all and treats the collection as a personal trove of curiosities.
Washington reports Paymaster General McGowan told the house naval committee that a 330000 variation is needed for the collection of information at home and abroad. He cited naval attaches in Berlin Vienna Rome Paris Buenos Aires Tokyo and Peking and described the information as of great military value. Representative Hensley pressed for details on foreign activities and questioned the need for increased spying funds. Cambridge prosecutors prepared a jury trial over an alleged false oath by Herbert B Harris in connection with a Harvard student registration case involving Wendell Townsend.
Canadian railroad officers announce that the Allan Line steamship Pomeranian, en route from Queenstown across the Atlantic to return to that port, suffered slight engine trouble. The vessel has served as a troop transport and munitions carrier. Argentina produced 275000 barrels of oil last year.
El Paso reports 100 typhus cases last week with 3,000 in the country per Mexican consul Andreas Garcia. Chicago notes four fatalities and six injuries after a Milwaukee and St Paul train rear ended a street car on Lawrence Avenue. An ATV head on collision near Atlanta Nebr results in five deaths, all Toad company workers. James Duffy, the conductor, dies tonight.
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