The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-18

loans; board of trade sales or agreements | to sell 1 cent for each slOO of value promissory notes, cents per si00; express and freight bills of lading, 1 cent each; newspapers shipments taxed on monthly sworn statements of publishers (shipments
 within the county of publication exempt ed), l cent per shipment; telegraph and telephone messages, 1 cent each; indemni- flying bonds, 50 cents: certificates of
 profits, cents for each s1oo; certificates Of damage, etc., 25 cents; all other certificates required by law, 10 cents each ; brokers notes, memorandums of sale, etc, 10 cents; conveyances, 50 cents on values between 500 and $500 and 50 cents for each additional $5O0 of value; custom house re- ceipts 25 cents to $1 on values ranging
 from S100 to more than $500; custom house
 withdrawal entries, 50 cents eaca. Marine and fire insurance policies cent
 on each dollar of premium. cooperative
 and mutual fire insurance exempted 1. casualty insurance cent on each dollar of premium.
 Passage tickets sold In the United
 States to foreign ports not exceeding ss0 in cost, sl not exceeding s6O in cost, sS
 costing more than s6o, s5; tickets less than $l0, exempted.
 Power of attorney 10 cents; protest of | notes, etc. 20 cents parlor car seats and berths, cent.
 Maximum estimate of annual revenue sl07,O0o, GOO; minimum estimate, based on possible slump in beer production, ss2,- 000,0 ,000
 Amendment Defeated The cotton relief amendment proposed by the senators from the cotton states fad 1.xy Df The amendment provided for an issue of $250, 100000 of three-year 4 per cent gov ernment bonds, in denominations of $10 $20 and $50 and S100 to be used to pur- chase, from producers, 100000 bales of cotton at not more than 10 cents pound It provides the cotton would be held by Q cotton board composed of the Sec retary of the Treasury. the Postmaster General and the Secretary of Agricul- ture until 1916 unless the price mean time went to Il cents. All of the cot ton would be disposed of during 1918 and 1917.
 A tax of one-half cent a pound on all cotton grown and sold in 1916 and, if necessary, tax of 1 cent a pound on the 1917 crop would be levied to repay the government the amount of the bonds and all expenses incident to the handling of the cotton. Those who voted for the amendment were:s
 Rerublicans-Borah, Clapp and Jones.
 pemocrats-Clarke of Arkansas, CuI- person, Fletcher. Lane. Lea of Tennes- see, Maritime. Myers. Overman, Shep- pard, Shields, Simmons. Smith of Geor- gia, Smith of South Carolina, Thornton, Vardaman, White and Williams.
 gressives-Poindexter
 Twenty-one democrats voted against it. They were:
 Ashurst, Camden. Hitchcock. Hughes, James, Johnson, Kern. Lewis. Lee of Maryland. O'Gorman. Pomerene, Sauls- son, Thomas, Thompson, Walsh and West.
 Vote Down Amendment
 An amendment proposing $500.000.- 900 bond issue to be used by the Sec retary of the Treasury in stabiliEing the price of grain during the Euro pean war. proposed by Senator Me Cumber. was voted down.
 The amendment would have author ized the Secretary of the Treasury to prohibit or allow the importation ef grain to insure the stabilizing pro- cess
 The amendment of Senator Overman, appi opriating $65.963,598 to pay to the southern states the amount collected as tax on cotton after the civil WAT was defeated. 14 to A. The amendment would have repaid the cotton tax on the condition that the states loan 1t to cotton producers on their product.
 Tense hours In the Senate followed the announced determination early in the day of southern democrats to make an effort to hold up action on the war revenue bill should the cotton ah1end- ments be defeated Administration leaders and even President Wilson were notified of the situation Post master General Burleson went to the capitol and was closeted with several of the leading southern senators who were planning the coup. His influence and that of others was said to have prompted some of the senators to change their minds
 been defeated. however. Senator HoEc smith of Georgia. declaring that the Senate has defeated q measure vastly more important than the war revenue Dill moved to lay that measure on the table. Senator Bryan of Florida made the point of order that the mo- tton was out of order because the Sem ate had agreed yesterday to bring about final disposition of the bill to- night.
 Vice President Marshall sustained this point of order. Senator Vardaman of Mississippi then moved that the Sen ate indefinitely postpone action on the war revenue bill. This motion was held