The Sentinel=record., 1914-10-18
SENATE ADOPTS THE MEASURE WHILE SOUTHERN MEMBERS
 PLEAD FOR COTTON AID.
WILL RAISE $lOO,OO0,OO0
Tax Is Assessed on Wide Variety of Articles to Raise the Amount of Money Needed to Meet Curtailment of Revenue by War.

Washington, D. C., Oct. 1.-The ad-
 minlstration war revenue bill, levying
 approximately $10O,O00,OOO additional
 taxes to meet the emergency caused by the war in Europe was passed by the senate tonight 34 to 22, after southern democrats in coalition with | republicans of the senate, desperately fought to indefinitely postpone con- sideration of the measure because the cotton relief legislation had been de.
 cisively defeated.
 The main provisions for war rev
 enue included in the senate bill are:
 Tax on beer $1.75 a barrel; recti- fled whiskey, five cents a gallon; all
 domestic still wines, cents a gallon
 and D cents a gallon on all grape
 brandies used in Qualifications there-
 or Champagnes, 25 cents a quart: carrbonated wines, 10 cents a quart. liquors and cordials, 24 cents a gal. lon; bankers, $1 per thousand of capital, surplus and undivided pro- fits; pawn brokers, $50 a year; com mercial brokers, $20; commission merchants, $20; custom house brok- CTS, $l0; proprietors of theatres, mu- seums and concert halls vita seating capacity not more than 300, $25 a year; not exceeding 500 capacity, $50; not exceeding 1000, s75; more than 1000, S100; cireuses, s100; other amusement proprietors or agents, ex- cept of chautauquas, lecture lyceums, agricultural or industrial fairs or ex- hibitions under religious or charitable auspices, $10; bowling alleys and bil- Hard rooms $5 for each alley or table.
 Special annual taxes on tobacco dealers and manufacturers: Dealers in leaf tobacco, with annual sales not exceeding 100000 pounds, SC: not ex- ceeding 100000 pounds, SIP; not ex- ceeding 100000 pounds, SPA; not ex- ceeding one million pounds, $60; five million pounds, $500; ten million pounds, $500; twenty million pounds, $l,200; exceeding twenty mmilion pounds, $2,496.
 Manufacturers of cigars whose an nual sales do not exceed 100000 ci- gars, $3;\ two hundred thousand cigars, $6; four hundred thousand cigars, SIP; one million, $30; five million, $50; twenty million, $500; forty million, $1,2O0; exceeding forty million, $2,496.
 Manufacturers of cigarettes with annual sales not exceeding 1000 000 cigarettes, SIP; two million, s24; five $60; ten million, $1eO; fifty $40
 Stamp taxes as follows:
 Perfumery, cosmetics and similar articles from one-eight of a cent for each five cent package to five-eights of cent on each 25 cent package and 5-S of cent for each additional 25 cents in vaIue; chewing gum, four cents for each $1 of value; sparkling wines, not otherwise taxed, one cent for pints and two cents for all larger Bonds, debentures, cer- tificates of indebtedness and certifi- NoNSS OL StOSh, liN0 tChto Ou cdCH $l00 of value; sales, agreements to sell, etc, two cents on each $1O0 of value eXempting agreements of de- posit on stock certificates as col lateral for Ioans; board of trade sales or agreements to sell, one cent for each $100 of value; promissory notes, two cents per $1OO; express and freight bills of lading, one cent each; newspaper shipments taxed on monthly sworn statements of publish CTS (shipments within the county of publication eXempted) one cent per shipment; telegraph and teiephone messages, one cent each; indemnify ing bonds, fifty cents; certificates If profits, two cents for each $100; cer- tificates of damage, etc., 25 cents; all other certificates required by law, ten cents each; brokers notes, mem orandums of sale, etc, ten cents; conveyances, fifty cents on values between $100 and $500 and fifty cents for each additional $500 of value; custom house receipts, 25 cents to SI on values ranging from $100 to more than $500; custom house withdrawal entries, fifty cents each.
 Marine and fire insurance policies, one cent on each dollar of premium, cooperative and mutuai fire insurance