Philander Knox, Sec of State, 1909-1913, the Taft Administration,
proclaimed the 16th amendment to be ratified just a few days before he left
office in 1913 (the same year the FEDERAL RESERVE was chartered as a corporation), to make way for the Wilson administration,
even though he knew it had not been legally ratified.
Philander Knox had for many years been the primary attorney for the richest
men in America, including Carnegie, Rockefeller, Morgan, the Vanderbilts,
the Mellons, and others. He had created for them the largest cartel in the
world, then was appointed, at their request, as the Attorney General in the
McKinley/Roosevelt administrations, where he refused to enforce the Sherman
anti-trust laws against the cartel he had just created.
The income tax amendment was pushed through Congress in 1909 by Sen Nelson
Aldrich, father-in-law of John D Rockefeller Jr, and grandfather and
namesake of Nelson A Rockefeller, and would not have been ratified if Knox
had not fraudulently proclaimed it so.