Catches It "comin' And Goin'.'
Washington, Marón 7.- Longressman Fielder, of New Jersey, is in a quamlry. He flnds that the iucome tax law, by the construction of ex-Speaker Crisp and the internal rovenue comruissioner. has a sort of doublo action in "deluthering" the frisky dollar out of the ottlzana pocket. It doèsn't workboth ways, though; it's all one way - Unole Sam's vvay. Fielder was electcd to flll the unexpired term - two years - of E. F. McDonald, deceased, 1 [e generously gavo Mrs. McDonald the salary for these two years, amounting to Í9,O(K. He iiow iinds that he hiis to pay income tax on the lase year's salary of $5,XX), while Mrs. McDonald has to pay on the whole sum of $9,ü(K), the law holding that all incoines, uo matter whethcr earned or bequeathed, are taxable. So it wlll seem thali the government, like tho man with the doublo-ended eel trap in the river, ' catches 'em a comin' and a gvviue."
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