Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-09-25
WAR MEASURE" TAX
EMERGENCY REVENUE LEVY IN
THIS COUNTRY TO MEET DE.
FIcIT IN TREASURY.
SAME AS SPANISH WAR TIME
Most Everything in Our Everyday
Life Hit by This Stamp Act-BilI
Will Meet Opposition in Senate
Bankers Pay High.

Washington.-An emergency reve
u bill to provide $105, 900, 900, tax
ing beer wines, gasoline, sleeping ant
parlor car tickets, insurance, telegraph
and telephone messages, amusements
and a variety of documents, has beer
agreed upon by the democratic mem
bers of the house ways and means
committee. 1t was introduced by Dem
ocratic Leader Underwood Monday
the house considering it Thursday.
Republicans of both house and sen
ate already have gone on record in
opposition to any war tax measure
The democrats hope to rush the bill
through the house and the big fight
against it, it is realized, will be in the
senate.
Taxes Liquors and Gasoline.
The committee increased the intern.
al revenue tax on beer by SO cents a
barrel, making the new tax total $1.50.
Domestic wines are to be taxed 20
cents a gallon on sweet wines and IL
cents a gallon on dry wines. Gasoline
is to be taxed two cents a gallon.
Many items of the bill are adopted
verbatim from the Spanish war tax
bill of 1898, including the administra-
tive features.
Stamp tax provisions of the bill, and
the tax on tobacco dealers, brokers,
bankers and amusementsare carried
in schedule A, which will continue in
effect until December 81, 1915. The
remainder of the bill be in force until
repealed.
Levies on Amusements
Bankers are to be taxed So on each
$1,000 of capital, surplus and undivided
profits; brokers will pay $50 each,
pawnbrokers $40, commercial brokers
$40, custom house brokers $40. Pro-
prietors of theaters, e and con-
cert halls in cities of $4,000 popula-
ton or over are to pay $500 a year,
proprietors of other exhibitions $40.
and proprietors of bowling alleys and
billiard rooms IS for each alley or
table.
Tobacco dealers and manufacturers
are to be taxed the same as in 1893.
except that in the largest class "to-
bacco dealers not specifically provided
for" the tax is to be $3.50 each. In
1898 there was a $12 tax on tobacco
dealers having annual sales of $4,000
pounds or more.
To Tax Telephone Calls.
Bonds and certificates of indebted
ness are taxed 5 cents for each 500
involved, and freight and express re-
ceipts 1 cent each, with a mandatory
provision that the shippers must pay
this tax. Telephone messages are to
be taxed 1 cent on all tolls of 10 cents
or more, and kilograms l cent a mes
sage.
The bill carries taxes OF 80 cents on
cash idemnity bond, 2 cents IN each
certificate of profits. 25 cents on each
certificate of damage and 10 cents for
each certificate not especially provided
for.
Travellers Must Pay Tribute.
For each seat in a palace or parlor
car and for each berth in a sleeping
car the tax now is to be 2 cents,
against the / cent war tax of 1898.
Passage tickets, which are tickets
from a United States port to a foreign
port, will be taxed from 81 to SIS each,
according to the value of the ticket, as
in 1898.
Other provisions are: Brokers' con-
tracts, 10 cents; deeds and other con-
veyances, so cents, when not exceeding
$500 in amount, and SO cents for each
additional $500; mortgages, rs cents
for each $500; power of attorney to
to vote, 10 cents; power of attorney to
sell, 25 cents; protest Of a note, bill
of acceptance, etc., rs cents.
Because of constitutional questions
the committee eliminated altogether
foreign bills of exchange, charter
agreements, manifests and foreign
bills of lading, and also struck out all
reference to stamp tax on checks, bills
of exchange, drafts and deposit certifi-
Gates and p~ostoffice money orders and
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