The Spectator. (Ozark, Ark.) 1911-1916, 1914-10-20
OUR CONTRIBUTION
IN TREASURE TO
EUROPEAN WAR
Senate. "a to q, Has Passed
the War Revenue
Measure.
MEANS SlOO,OOO,OOO
In ADDITIONAL TAXES
COTTON AMENDMENT VOTED
DOWN AFTER HARD FIGHT BY
SOUTHERN SENATORS.
LED BY SENATOR CLARKE
Stamp and Special Taxes That Will
Be leVied-Tobacco and Liquors
Are Heavily Taxed.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Are Heavily Taxed.
Western Newspaper Union News Service
Washington. - The administration
war revenue bill. levying approximate
ly $100,000000 additional taxes to
meet the emergency caused by the
war in Europe, was passed by the Sen
ate Saturday night, 81 to %. after
Southern Democrats, in coalition with
Republicans of the Senate, desperate
ly fought to indefinitely postpone con
sideration of the measure because cot
ton relief legislation had been decis-
lively defeated.
Democratic leaders gathered their
faltering forces and defeated, 30 to %,
the coalition in its move to indefinite
ly postpone action. Senators Clarke
OF Arkansas, Smith of Georgia. Smith
of South Carolina, Yardaman and
White were Democratic senators who
fought to the end, voting with the Re
publicans to postpone action This
would have killed the bill for the
present session of Congress.
Democrats Denounce the Insurgents.
Despite urgent pleas of Senators
Williams, Stone, Shively and James,
who demanded united Democratic sup
port for Democratic measure foster
ed by the administration. these five
;. Southern senators, under a storm of
.oratorial denunciations, persisted to
the last that the bill should contain
some cotton relief provision.
T.. The cotton relief amendment, pro
posed by the senators from the cotton
states, was defeated by vote of p
Ito 40
* The amendment provided for an is
sue of $3.50. 100000, of three-year four
per cent government bonds, in denom-
: nations of $40, 500, $50 and 500, to
he used to purchase from producers
5,000,Q0O bales of cotton at not more
than 10 cents pound
1t provided that the cotton would be
neld by a cotton board composed OF
the secretary of the treasury, the
postmaster general and the secretary
of agriculture until 1916. unless the
4 price meantime went to II cents All
of the cotton would be disposed of
during 1916 and 1917.
''" A tax of half a cent pound on all
. cotton grown and sold in 1916. and,
= if necessary. tax of one cent 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;
Vote on Cotton Measure.
A., Republicans-Borah, Clapp, Jones.
Democrats-Clarke of Arkansas
Culbertson. Fletcher. Lane. Lea of
Tennessee, MARITIME, Meyers, Overman
Il sheppard Shields, Simmons, Smith of
) Georgia. Smith of South Carolina,
Thornton. Vardaman. White and Will
liains.
T." Progressive-Po
1s TWenty-one Democrats voted against
1t. They were:
Ashurst, Camden. Hitchcock, James,
Hughes, Johnson, Kern. Lewis, Lee
. of Maryland, Martin, O'Gorman, Pom
creme, Salisbury, Shafroth, Shively,
Stone, Swanson. Thomas, Thompson,
: Walsh and West
a.. An amendment proposing a $500
100000 bond issue to be used by the
secretary of the treasury in stablizing
the price of grain during the Euro
pean war proposed by Senator Nc
!Cumber. was voted down
-. :. = ~
No Southern Cotton Tax Refund.
The amendment of Senator Over
man, approprating sos. 800, 59S to pay
go the Southern states the amount col
iected as tax on cotton after the
Civil war. was defeated, IA to A. The
amendment would pay the tax on the
condition that the states loan it to the
cotton producers on their product.
Tense hours in the Senate follow
ed the announced determination early
in the day of Southern Democrats tC
make an effort to hold up action or
the war revenue bill should the cottoI
amendment be defeated Postmaster
General Burleson was closeted will