Arizona republican., 1916-09-06
|S DESIGNED ID RAISE b|C
 SUM ANNUALLY
Republican A. P. Leased Wirel


 WASHINGTON. Sept. 5.-The ad- ministration emergency revenue bill. designed to raise S2O5000,000, annual ly from taxes on inheritances and war munitions and from increases in the Income tax, creating a tariff commis- sion, establishing a protective tariff on dyestuffs; providing for protection Of American firms from dumping at the end of the war; and giving the president authority to take drastic retaliatory steps against allied inter- ference with American trade vas passed by the senate, AZ to 16, late tonight
 Five republican senators, Cummins, Kenyon. La Toilette, Norris and Clapp voted for the bill. There were no democratic nays.
 Amendments for retaliation against Great Britain for embargoes on Amer ican goods. the trade blacklist and interference with the mails were agreed to without roll calls and were unopposed in debate The amend nents will authorize the president:
 To deny use of the United States mails and other methods of communi- cation to citizens of any belligerent nation which does not accord those facilities to American vessels, citi- zens companies or corporations
 Withhold clearance to any vessel from American ports which gives "any advantage whatsoever te any particu- lar person, or institution in the Unit ed States or it's possessions or to the citizens of the United States re- siding in neutral countries abroad" or is subjecting any of them to any undue discrimination in regard to ac- reptDS, receiving, transporting, or delivering any cargo. freight or pas sengers"
 Deny the commercial privileges and facilities nf the United States to any vessel or citizen of a beiligerent na- tion which does not accord full facili- ties of commerce to American citi- 'ens, that are accorded to citizens of other nationalities. or to withhold clearance to vessels of such belliger- ent nations until reciprocal liberty of commerce have been restored"
 Employ the land and naval forces of the United States to enforce the retalietory measures; and to prohibit importation of goods into the United States from nations which prohibit the importation into their own or into any other country or dependency of any legal article produced in the United States
 Another retaliatorv provision would prohibit the admission of halibut or salmon into the United States from the Pacific coast through any foreign nation except in bond from a United states port. This is directed against m alleged Canadian monopoly of the Pacific northwest fish industry and is designed to encourage revival of American fish industry.
 The bill creates a tariff commission to consist of six members to be des- ignated by the president. The com mission would investigHte the admin istration ana fiscal effects of the GUS toms laws; relation between the rates of duty on raw materials and finished ar partly finished products effects Of all duties: all questions relating to the operation of the tariff laws; tariff relations between the United States md foreign countries, and Would make renorts 10 the ways and means com mittee of the house and finance com- | mittee oc the senate.
 Salaries of the commissioners were i fixed at $500 year.
 A section of the bill would make it | unlawful to import goods at a price substantially less than the actual market value or wholesale price in | the principal markets of the country | of their production. The president is l given authority to prohibit importa- l tions of this country from nations | which prohibit importations from the (Continued on Page Two1