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WASHINGTON NEWS

Of money, large expenditures and a
corresponding increase in importa-
tions. There will follow revenues more
than sufficient for the support Of the
government A six months trial will
demonstrate that there are no expendi-
lures In sight or liable to be incurred
which Will equal the revenues from
customs and internal revenue taxation.
s"The income tax and the alternative
of per cent. on the net earnings of
corporations raise SO many questions
that the man on the street cannot UNI
derstand why stamp taxes are not
adopted, II has been demonstrated
that they work well that they have
produced as high as forty millions a
year; that they are popular, and that
they affect only those who are amply
able to pay. People have to have bank
accounts and the ability to buy and
sell property in order to be called
upon to use stamps The revenue from
this source would begin the day the
bill is passed. / do not think it Is
needed. and I believe that any tax in
addition to the tariff bin and the in
win produce an unnecessary and dan
gerous surplus. The trouble with the
situation Is that it is wholly political
and not economic. The democratic free
traders want an income tax, as their
leader Senator Bailey. frankly de-
clares very frequently, in order to
compel reduction on protective man.
ufactures to revenue basis in order
to avoid an unnecessary and danger
Gus surplus. Others believe that there
| is among the people sentimental
feeling for an income tax to penalize
the rich regardless of its effect upon
the revenues. 1t is largely in order to
meet this sentiment that the tax upon
the net earnings of the corporations
is proposed to run for two years.
Before the end of that time everybody
knows who knows anything about pur
expenditures and revenues that it will
/ be unnecessary.
THE income tax advocates are so
/ fierce and importunate to have the
measure enacted now because they
know that by the next session of con-
| gress the surplus above expenditures
in the treasury viii make additional
taxes of any kind absurd They think
their only chance is now while they
can claim there is a doubt as to
whether the revenues. internal and
from the customs. will be sufficient
THE weak point In the income tax
proposition is that it enacts law
suit, and it will take two years be-
| fore the supreme court can have an
opportunity to reverse it's old opinion
| when it declared the bill of 1904, of
which The 'present propositions are
exact copies, unconstitutional, The
second proposal to submit to the
states constitutional amendment
to empower congress to pass an in
come fax which shall be levied upon
individuals and not apportioned among
the states as prescribed by the pres
ent constitution win meet when it
comes tn he acted upon by the states
two objections. The first. and most
important, is that all the larger states
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-06-30
are SO rapidly increasing their

are SO rapidly increasing their ex-
penditures for state purposes. Many
Of them, like New York. no longer tax
real estate for state purposes because
Of the tremendous burdens upon real
estate from town, village, county and
city assessments. In New York. and
In that We do not differ from many of
the larger states, our expenditures
have outrun our income from indirect
sources and we have exhausted every
kind of indirect taxation. other than
direct tax upon land, except an income
tax. ! think that when the matter is
fairly put before the people they will
reject a constitutional amendment in
favor of the federal government hav-
ing this source of revenue because it
will take 1t away from the states and
re-enact necessary direct taxes upon
land for state purposes, in addition to
the taxes already resting upon ii for
local purposes, becauss that would
add so much TO rentals affecting every
family. The other point which will
be raised is whether the taxes to sup
port the government should be paid
by the citizens of few states, about
fifteen, leaving the others practically
exempt. AS it only requires the vote
of twelve states to defeat a constitu-
tional amendment. this would seem
to place such an amendment in good
deal of peril.
Now, then, as to the proposal to tax
the net income of corporations: That
Will lead to a very exhaustive discus
sion The points made against it al
ready are that the great majority of
storekeepers and business men, no
matter how small their capital, have
Incorporated on account of the limit
of liability and to prevent dissolution
and sale of the property on the death
of one of the partners. They claim
that to put a 2 per cent. tax upon the
small earnings of the country store
and the small manufacturers would
be an inequitable burden. Another
point made against it is that it will
not reach bond holders. and Mr.. Car
negie is cited as an eminent example,
he having received three hundred mill
lions in the underlying bonds of the
United States Steel corporation on the
sale of his steel, coke and iron prop
critics to that company 1t is proposed
to meet this by regarding interest on
bonds as net income. That would not
reach Mr.. Carnegie, because 1t would
have to be paid by the corporation
and would have to come out of the
stockholders. 1t can be seen that in
corporations where there is Il very
large bonded Indebtedness if the tax
upon the interest on the bonds has
to be paid by that corporation there
would not be much left for the stock.
Another point made is that where a
corporation has large number of
subsidiary companies there would be
per cent. tax upon tho net earn
ings Of each of those companies and
then when the net earnings were paid
in. as is always the case. to the treas
urv of the parent company there
would be another tax of 2 per cent,
because these earnings of the suhsi-
diary company would be recorded as
part of the earnings Of the parent
company. This opens. wide field of
speculation as to results.
| Properly framed, and that is now
being done by the finance committee,
with the advice of the attorney gen.
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A Hurry-up Medicine.

Every housekeeper recognizes the
need of effective remedies to be used in
n1ergencies-when something must be
done right away. Such remedy is
Perry Davis Painkiller. for sprains and
bruises. for strained muscles and for
the aches and pains resulting from
blows and falls. Burns and cuts are
instantly relieved by 1t and helped to
healing. It's mission of mercy began
10 years ago. It is used in all coun-
tries and millions of bottles are sold
annually. There is but one Painkiller,
Perry Davis. Have you seen the new
large CSC size?
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First Lieutenant III, Newton Kier-
uiff of the medical reserve corps at
Fort Missoula has been ordered to
Fort Smelling, Mimi. by the war de-
partment, on July 2, for temporary
duty,
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Doctors Presentations

1t has been proved over and over
again that the doctors of this country
freely prescribe proprietary medicines
in Latin for their patients until they
are advertised to the public, after
which time they consider it a duty to
Immediately condemn the very same
medicine, not because the preparation
is anv less valuable. but because it Is
not ethical to prescribe an adver-
tised medicine. There are, however,
many physicians Of recognized stand
ing hroadminded and successful
enough to continue to prescribe such
standard remedies as Lydia E., Pink
hams Vegetable Compound. which
they know to be good
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The following interesting interview
on the tariff with Senator ,Chauneey
M. 3Depew OF New York has been OBJ
tanned by your correspondent:
THE tariff bill has about 700
main schedules, and in the division
of the schedules 1000 items. These
have all been acted upon except
in the iron and steel schedule pig and
scrap iron. steel rails. wire nails and
schedule. tobacco coal. hides and
leather, hats, bagging for cotton bales,
carpets, silk, linoleums and pineapples.
Except for the debate which is
aroused by hides and leather, coal,
lumber and steel the tariff could be
finished In few hours. The debates
On these items, however. will probably
consume from three to four DAYS. The
free list and the administrative fea-
lures have not been acted upon. but
the free list Will pass without debate
The administrative features involve
reciprocity Or countervailing duties
there ia p'acine. In the hands of the
president the power to simpose the
higher duty against countries which
discriminate arainst our products,
1.-THE uncertain equation in the time
schedule is the ircnme tax and the
substitute proposed by the president
~ n tax ~, corporations Of ? ner cent
unon their net earnines. There Is RI
earthly doubt that the moment this
tariff becomes law the country viii
enter unnn an unprecedented period
OF prosperity. This will lead to plenty
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SEVEN ARE INJURED.

Seattle. June 29.--In a collision be-
tween an automobile and a Northern
Pacific freight train, south of George
town early today. seven persons, all
residents of Seattle, were injured.
Two of the party probably will die.
The automobile was demolished as
it ran past a crossing just as a
freight car was shunted.
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AlRsH,P LANDS.

Biberach, Germany, June 29,-The
airship Zeppelin r., travelling from
Friederichshafen to Metz. landed here
this morning on account of the over
heating of it's machinery, which
caused a fusing of certain metal
parts. The landing was effected
during a rainstorm without diff
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TAEATERs BLOWN UP.

Barcelona, June 29,-Bombs We're
exploded at midnight last night in
two of the Barcelona theaters. One
of the play houses, fortunately. was
empty, but the other was crowded
and the audience was thrown into a
panic. One man was fatally wounded.
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Second lieutenant John w. Simons,
jr.. has been detailed from Fort Har-
rison to temporary duty with the Sec
ond battalion. sixth infantry, to Fort
Lincoln, N. D., and thence to march
with the battalion to Devils Lake.
N. D., to participate with the North
Dakota national guard in its annual
encampment from July IL to 25
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MANY DEATHS REPORTED.

Annoy, China, June 29.-According
to official reports there have been III
deaths from bubonic plague in Annoy
in the fortnight ended yesterday.
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Representative Butler of Pennsyl-
vania thinks that as for SO years from
1925 the postoffice department was
self sustaining, 1t ought to be able to
do 80 now, and has introduced a bill
instructing the postoffice committee
of the house to inquire into the ex-
pediency of SO amending the postal
laws as to produce an annual revenue
adequate to its support
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MISSOULIAN CLASS ADS
BRING QUICK RESULTS
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\ Representative HaWiey has intro
duced a bin creating reserve for elks
In Oregon.
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on the 75oston rate would have been
i6o IN New York they uoukd have been
lao, IN Brooklyn 10. iu Chicago. or rather
ON I't chicago rate, they would have
oeeh 80, and on the PHILADELPHIA rate
Now 20 seems 10 me that that table
SHOWS CgnCluslEely that the conditions
are not the same, and that any assumD-
t!oA hlElJ upon the idea that the COudi-
lions ne the same isl very erroneous.
because here is Boston. with 90 per cent
wafer gas. showing deaths at the rate
on 500 Per year, and Chicago, with 100
per cent water gas, showing deaths at
ne rate. of only $50 per year, and
Brooklyn, with 90 per cent of water gas.
showing deaths at the rate Of only Zl5.
Water Gas Not to Blame.
II it was the water gas that was do
ING IL entirely, the rate should have
shown much closer agreement than
-hst1' Dr. Haldaue gives, ln his own
repcIt. the reason why the conditions
are not the same, and why you cannot
reason from English conditions TO Amer
lean conditions. or from American con
uIlohS 10 English conditions, whichever
way YOU choose to put iL. He saws I'm
speaking OF another table.
The above table is calculated NOR far at.sr-
as. nut ioF uuIaForable conditions OF ven
lllatlpA. lh rooms with au open fireplace the
average ventilation would. to Judge from the
daJa given above be nearly double that ex-
lsting under uufavomble conditions This
however would not apply Co the many small
rooms not supplied with "a fireplace. ana IN fs
toward these rooms that measures OF urecal-
non ~ connection with the distribution of
water gas should more specially be directed
Should Have Fireplaces
Then he goes on to recommend that
rooms without hreplaces should not
have any gas lights in them. That
shows what the conditions are in Eng
land. The number of rooms without
hreplaccs must be -ery incOnsiderabIe
or he could not male that recommends
ton. Think what that would lead to
in this country IF every room without
fireplace was left without a gas
light with a fireplace he himself saws
1t IS practically impossible, I'm any case
20 get conditions shat would lead to
dangerous exposure.
Mr.. sIMS-You mean, by a fireplace,
What2
Mr.. FORSTALL-A Hue going up. In
Eng! nd the temperature is not low,
and the houses are heated with FIRE
places. There is no central heating
plant. 1T is the same way i'm New Or
leans. in New Orleans every room mas
fireplace, practically tt is the only
way we have OF keeping warm, practi-
cally.
Conditions Not Comparable.
The difference tn conditions seems 10
me to be such that any reasoning frOm
English conditions 10 American condi-
tons by which it is attempted to prove
that it is simply the carbon m0noxide
in the gas distributed in America that
causes a larger proportion of deaths
iu America, as coulEasted with the
proportion of deaths in England, is en-
UTely erroneous.
Mr. SIMS-HaVe you any cOmpari-
sons OF cities i'm the United States that
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deaths from gas poisoning shown by the
health records Goa the District Of Column
bia. The information that ! have covers
from 1891 10 1907. inclusive. with the
years from 1S98 10 1901 missing. The de-
partmeut did not have them iu shape
They had changed their method OF re-
porting and did not have those years in
shape TO give them 20 me. They stated
they would send them TO me- but have
not received them as vet Ira 1891. 20
take the two extreme years. the acct
Qehlal deaths from gas. due 10 the iu-
h9lauon Of Illuminating gas, were Is
Mr. TAYLOR-WhaU gas was used
thens coal gas or a mixture2
Only Five in One Year.
Mr.. FORsTALL-I have not taken it
by years, Mr. Taylor I can give you
statement Of what It was for the five
years beginning with 1sgI-that Is. the
average. It varies so much from year
10 year that / have not taken the single
years. / have taken periods of I'VE
years and taken the average.
Mr., MOORE-GiYe as tho high year
and the low year2
mr.. SIMS-Give us what you have
got2
Mr. FORSTAIL-In 1891 the number
Of accidental deaths was fourteen. tn
1907 the number of occidental deaths
was -, which was the highest iu the
whole range. The lowest number iu any
one year during that period was Eve
Those are accidental deaths. ia 1881
there was only one suicide. and 10 1870
there were nineteen suicides.
Mr.. MOORE-HaYe Won gone sufdci-
emily into detail TO give US the cause
that is, the manner ia which the death
occurred?
Mr.. FORSTALL-I have TO a certain
extent.
Mr. AIOORE-whether by carelessnezs.
pure negligence. or uOEy
Mr. FORSTALL-No the records 90
not show that
Mr.. TAYLOR-Do the records show
whether 1t occurred by reason OF 6eIec-
tive fXtures2
BIr. FORsTALL4-No, sir. The coroner
has no clerk, as he informed me, and
the records are not very fun.
hir. MOORE-X0u are getting this
from the corOner's ID q rds2
mr.. FORSTALI--YEs. that IS these
figures i gave here I got from the
health department, and then to locate
IS far as i could the cause Of these
deaths / went TO the cOTOuers records
for period of eight years. but j found
that the coroners records We're very
Mr.. MOORE-Iu order 10 settle the
question in my mind, let me ask YOU
whether, while you were making these
inquiries at the c0rOner's office. YOU
occurred duo to accidents on the troll
ley?
Compared With Trolley Accidents.
Mr.. FORSTALLs-NO; 7 did not at the
coTOner'5 office, but I did get that from
the health department while I was go
ing over the health department records.
Mr.. MOORE would like to know
what you know about trolley accidents
and accidents on the railroads. or acct
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use only coal gas and cities that use
the other?
Mr. FORSTAII-No 7 have not in
that shape out / have comparisons OF
and then went 10 so per cent water gas,
MT SIMS-HOu mean 100 per cent, and
then dropped
Situation in Baltimore
Mr., FORSTALL-Yes. and then drop
ped 10 90 per cent. Take Baltimore, for
instance. The Maryland steel Company
built coke oven plant outside of Balti-
more, and had no use Tor the gas
ana sold 1T at a price that made It at
tfacllFe 10 the company and the COM
pany bought IL and stopped making
lhHl amount OF water gas for the time
being
Mr.. SINIS-You have no comparisons
men between pure coal gas and water
MI FORSTALI-No; that is the
point ] am coming to now. In the days
beiOre caTbureted water gas was intro,
dUced INTO the country nobody paid any
particular after ton 10 accidents from
sas. Ia the piece, the medical rec
oTdS were no. -ept in very good shane.
They have been constantly IMPROVING
constantly subtIVidlng their classidca-
uons- The eUrly records LETT deaths
from a whole let of causes under one
classification, and in reference to that
/ want Just 70 read a little statement
mere made by Mr.. Baker a good many
years ago.
Barker's Letter to Humphreys.
] thought he might get it on record
this morning, but he did not. IT is ia
this same report that I referred to be-
fore. on page 113. tt is in a letter from
Mr.. j.. T.. Barker to DR.. A. c. Humph-
reys:
Upon the subject Of comparisons. I might
add word more. You may not be aware
that some six or eight years ago white
hrarly every city and town in the country
ytsro water gas was distributed and / was
impressed with the apparent lack Of precision
with which the vital statistics bearing upon
the question mad heretofore been kept. and
the not lufreQuent ambiguity in stating the
cause Of death. / am glad % say that I
have reason to believe there has been a SUBJ
stautial Improvement In this respect in more
recent years.
That describes, I think. very accurate
ly the state of the records before the
advent Of carbureted water gas. In the
agitation against carDureted water gas
or by the agitation made by the coal-gas
companies against IT, the attention Of
the cities was directed to the statements
made against it and they began TO keep
accurate records, so that now you get
all Of the cases, whereas IN the old days
you did not.
] suppose a man could make up a very
plausible argument that the disease or
appendicitis did not exist twenty wears
ago. because nobody was ever operated
upon for appendicitis in those days, and
nowadays apparently If is very prev
alent it is simply that they called it
something else.
Statistics Of Deaths.
Coming down TO the statistics. the first
thing ] did when I got 10 work on this
case was TO get the actual number of
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Easier for the Men.

Then. from the standpoint OF tho com
pauy. it is less ezLaustiug for fLa men.
The work Of a stoker lu coaI-eaa
works is not so bad as THAI OF "a pld-
dIer. working the old-fashioucd- pud-
ding furnace, but H. comes not very
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400 Accidental Deaths.

Nobody committed suicide i'm England
Joy gas that year apparently. because
the total deaths and the accidental
deaths were the same. The total deaths
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MORE GAS EXPERTS


wei for me to treat of it from the
general standpoint 7 was right Ia the
thick Of that fight, although / was
very young man at the time but my
father was one of the recognized old
Euard OF the coal naE mon
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Statistics of Deaths.

Coming down TO the statistics. the first
thing I did when I got 10 work on this
case was to get the actual number of
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One Old New Jersey Law.

Nr. FORsTALL-Yes. ant no. tl.uh
there is sti5I a law on the statute
books of New Jersey which prohibits
L viii set at iu another way. This low
Is law entitled An act 10 permit the
formation of gas companies" and ig
provides the general law under which
gas companies can be formed, with the
stipulation that such companies shall
furnish O. gas when snail not contain
more than a certain amount of sulphur
per 100 cubic feet and certain amount
Of ammonia. nor a certain amount or
carbon monOXide, or 10 per cent of by
drogeu. IL is absolutely impossible to
make a gas of that kind
Mr.. TANLOR-Eveu coal gas
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Gas Manufacture Abroad.
Growth in England.

old. .-f E.rrFsr that If 4Tu-zr-e does
Be-. -.. Co.,. -r.... s-. r-.-.1..,.4 $3.50, s..
80
.""a,.t t.i ABOUT Aa5Y ana ia tll1
nineteen years since then its use In
EllIaud has grown 20 the extent in
.r...t..4 DO M ,.,-, a., f-f, e+.ter,.,,t
- 49,.
..-.r Oh r'e-"4- lN INC oHlt'b states
there are very few municipal owned
ea. uIarrs but a vDrv striking taetf-
-r.,-.r- ID. fr.. .... chat ....F.,.,..tl,F ,,-.
..r sa- has mad. It's vya.- ON rs u1ar-
TO-. ......... d.. .... g.. 3D.. w. s .-,
-... I'D. .. ~ .......s...r...I - fa.t ~
T-uar.ra and .r fr. --uffrerf az
IErro.. XII of the LARGER TnllrirfnaI
r.r..r.f. |r I.-.rI..ra are rIsI,.,. ~ ''''
sr.... Sd. -..f..- ~ 49, - ,t.-..f.-,r..
ana .. .....-.-.l-.z +..r- rl.L ..l.---' r,s'
|. -fr+lE rr r.Irra nat ~. l''' .'',.
r-.rH.rf IL and il has TaeT a 1870
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WARM FIGHT AMONG
BRASS BED MAKERS

NEW YORK, Jan. 29.-An interesting
war that has been WagIng between the
few large and the many small manu-
facturers of brass beds throughout the
country for The past six months has
just ended in the complete TOut for the
small manufacturers. The fight has
proved most interesting throughout
Owing TO the considerable drop some
time ago in the price OF copper. which
enters very largely into the c0nstruc-
ton Of brass beds, these small manu-
faCuuTeTs found that they could under
sell the prevailing prices OF the large
manufactures end srilI maintain a sub
stautial margin Of profit The large
manufacturers eudeavOred TO hold the
little factories I'm line on the regular
prices, but without avail Not only did
the large manufacturers almost imme-
diately meet the cut prices of their
smaller competitors but made Teduc-
lions SO great that small manufacturers
could not hope to compete except at
loss.
For once the buying public has bene-
fitted By a commercial war. but their
good fortune was shOrt-Iiyed. Already
brass beds have jumped back TO prices
that often seem eEOrbitauL
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Compared \

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