Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-08-11
FROM WASHINGTON.
correspondence of Alexandria Gazettel


Forest Service for aid in fighting forest
Tres Mai. Wood has directed that a
battalion OF the 14th Infantry now at
American Lake, Washington, at the
summer encapment be ordered at once
10 Occur D-Alene, Idaho where the fires
arc still raging. Report from the at
fcctcd district was received at the Forest
Service this morning sayil g that all
he forest fires with the exception OF
,,ouer D-Alene have been suppressed
and il is expected that this will soon be
,.xtjnobished with the additional force
Of fire fighters.
A review of the figures issued by the
Treasury Department on the revenue
returns for the first operative year OF
the Payne-Aldrich tariff law today
shows that the customs receipts, exclu-
sive of all other revenue sources, were
S3.ll6,154 less than the customs re-
ceipts for 1907. Democrats here have
seized upon the convenient neglect, "
as they term it, Of the Treasury Depart
mcnt to draw this comparison III their
public statement. The Treasury De-
partmcnt statement published only a.
comparison of the total revenue returns
Of the two years, including in 1910 the
returns from the new corporation tax.
This statement showed a gain in re-
ccipts for the last year OF some fifteen
million dollars over 1907. The total
was referred to in the statement as the
total ordinary receipts OF the Payne
Aldrich law" which the democrats
aver would mean to the laymen the
returns from the revised tariff.
The Payne-Aldrich law, though usually
thought of as the law affecting customs
duties. covered internal revenue, the
new corporation tax and various minor
miscellaneous items. In fact OF the
total revenue produced under the new
law only 1929, III .203 was produced by
customs duties, while the grand total
was S67S. $50, SIG. The corporation
tax, a provision which was not con-
tanned in the previous law, produced
some twenty-seren million dollars. This
together with the revenue gained by Col
lcctor Loeb through the detection OF
fraud was largely responsible for thetotal
surplus shown in the treasury statement.
Comparisons are made with 1907 be-
cause that was the greatest revenue
producing year in the history OF the
country prior to 1910. 1t is fact that
.hc customs returns under the new law
when compared with any year in the
past exclusive of 1907 show an increase.
The democrats, however, point out that
this cannot be credited entirely to the
new bill inasmuch us a greater revc-
nue. was produced under favorable
circumstances in 1907 These calcutta
tons and comparisons are destined to
play big part in campaign oratorv
this fall according to the manner in
which the leaders Of the two parties are
working over them at the present time.
The argument drawn by the democrats
from the comparison of the customs
receipts with those Of 1907 is that the
import tariff has been revised upward
in SO much as the volume Of duties has
decreased. The republicans, however,
put forward the claim that 1907 was
not in any respects normal year.
Every thing was on the boom and
customs receipts naturally totaled an
extraordinary amount. The demo-
crats aver that the new law will never
keep up the record that ii has estab-
lishcd for itself in its first year.
Treasury Department officials, as
against the democratic charge that
they avoided comparison OF custom
receipts, point out that both the cor
poration tax and the internal revenue
are part and parcel OF the Payne-Al-
drich law should rightly be counted in
any comparison Of revenue just as in
t-rnal receipts were counted in under
the Dinglcy and other tariff laws.
Crack carmen, rowing experts and
enthusiasts from a over the country
gathered i'll Washington TODAY to watch
the lry-outs and prepare for the big
national regatta which will be opened
tomorrow afternoon under the auspices
of the National Association Of ANA
trur Oarsmcn. Coach Wray, Of Har
ward, is here with the Mound City
Four: Coach Jim Ten Eyck, Of SYRIA
cusc University, has charge of the OF
tawa. and Coach Jim Rice, of Column
bia University lis handling the Arundels
OF Baltimore. The Argonauts and
Dons, Of Toronto and the Dctrolts ar
rived today. The course in the Poto-
mae river WIS alive with shells today.
The programme includes all sorts OF
races from single souls to the eight
cared competitions. The entries rep
resent clubs from New Orleans, st.
Louis. Detroit, Toronto, Boston, New
York, Baltimore aud Richmond and
many others.
Mrs J. Ellen Foster, one of the few
women admitted TO practice rs an at
torncy 1T the bar Of the Supreme Court
of the United States, died here today ut
the age OF seventy years. She was a
native OF Lowell, Mass. and Il graduate
of the law school Of Iowa University.
Mrs. Foster took 4 prominent part in
the work Of she w. G. T. U.
Enormous decreases in the cxporta-
ton of practically every chief food
product produced in the United States,
WAS shown in report made public
today by the Department of Com
mercc and Labor According to the
report the wheat expectations de-
creased from 2,715,000 bushels in
,Euly 1909 to $4,000 for the same
munth i'm 1910 tauSinu n fall 81 :