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provisions will be stricken out.
The house proposition to cut the
cavalry down to 10 regiments, make
all enlistments five years and consoli.
| date several bureaus in the war de-
partment, will be reported adversely.
The senate military affairs commit.
tee added $275.000 for equipment of
coast artillery companies of the mill.
tia.
Washington, ID. G. - The Demo
| cratic excise bill to virtually tax
everybody's income when it is SIS, 900
or more a year passed the house $50
to 40. The Democrats voted solidly
for it and carried 80 Republican votes
with them. Forty regular Republic.
ans were the opposition.
The bill now goes to the senate
where it's fate is problematic. Many
senators declared that if upon analy-
sis they found the house measure
would tax all classes Of people alike,
they would support 1t. Democratic
senators with a few exceptions are ex-
pected to vote for it. Democratic
Leader Martin expressed the hope
that the Democratic senators and the
progressive Republicans might put the
bill through. Republican leaders are
depending upon the presidents veto
to check evenu revision bills from
the house.
The excise bill though primarily in.
tended to produce anywhere from $780,
100000 to $50, 000, 900 a year to make
up for the losses on free sugar is also
expected to be one of the Offsets to
general pension legislation which
seems sure to be enacted.
Democratic Leader Underwood held
his majority intact through the pas
sage of the; bill. Not one Democratic
vote was cast against it, and the
was passed exactly as
framed.
With the free sugar bill and excise
tax bills out of the way Democratic
members of the ways and means COM
mittee are free to tackle again the
wool schedule which is considered the
knottiest problem they have to deal
with at this session Of congress-. The
committee will begin work with the
free raw wool sentiment strong.
The house passed the rivers and
harbors appropriation bill carrying up
wards of $685. 900. The vote for it
unanimous.
The senate agreed to adjourn on
Saturday in time to participate in the
Maine memorial exercises.
Washington, d. c. The aboli-
tion of the United States senate and
the office of vice president with a re-
duction of the membership Of the
house to 300 is proposed in a resolu-
ton which Representative Lindbergh
Of Minnesota announced he would in
troduce. Mr.. ~Lindbergh, as one of the
advanced Republican Progressives,
forced the inquiry into the s~o-called
money trust.
The main feature of Mr.. L%indbergh's
provides for the creation Of
a committee at large" which would
have absolute control over the legisla-
tive activity of congress. The men,
bers of the committee would be elect
ed by the country at large for a term
of 10 years and 1t could prevent the
submission Of bills to the president.
This opposition could be overcome
only by a two-thirds vote of the house.
In order to provide what Mr.. Lind
bergh called Checks and balances"
in his plan, he invoked the recall of
the members of the committee at
large whenever their actions, in the
minds of the people, justified their re-
moval. Presidential succession in the
absence of the vice presidential Of
ice, would be dictated by the commit
tee.
Mr.. Lindbergh's resolution will be
the first concrete plan for a change in
the existing form of government, al
though many suggestions recently
have been made. He declared his in
tention to press early action on his
scheme and claimed he had a
growing support for 1t.
A California wine manufacturer,
opposing the bill to prohibit transport
ing liquors from wet states into dry
told the judiciary committee
the best cur for drunkenness was
to encourage the use of wine.
Washington, d. c. - Prospects
OF a coal strike stirred members Of
both houses Of congress to action.
Senator Townsend introduced a bill
to provide a federal investigation of
any controversy affecting interstate
commerce. and Representative Esch
proposed a similar measure In the
house. Senator Townsend's bill is
similar to one he introduced when a
member of the house several years
ago.
Washington, ID. ~C.-Secretary Knox
by wireless from the cruiser Wash
advised the state depart
ment that the results which it was
hoped would come from his tour of
Latin-America had been attained.
importance attached to the
secretary's trip and while the full sig
nificance probably has never been Of
announced, its prime purpose
Is said to have been to lay the founda-
ton for closer relations between the