The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-11
REVENUE BILL PASSES HOUSE
 BY 240 TO I40
Forty Republicans Vote for Measure to Raise $200,000,000.

Washington, July 11-Without any
 fundamental change the Democrats | put through the House Mast night their | emergency revenue bill by a vote of 240 to 140. Forty minority mem- | bers-39 Republicans and one Inde- pendent-voted for the bill for final passage. t
 The bill.' which is designed to raise
 more than $200,000.000 a year. prac- tically doubles the income tax rates, levies a tax on inheritances and the production of munitions of war. creates a tariff commission, provides for anti-dumping legislation and re- peals the Stamp Tax sections, but not the special excise taxes of the war revenue bill of October, 1914.
 Republicans succeeded in amending the bill in several particulars even if they were unable to modify its essen- tials Representative Longworth of Ohio was the author of successful amendment striking out the provision that no former member of Congress shall be appointed to the tariff com mission. His amendment carried 239
 to 76, and lame ducks are eligible for appointment.
 Representative Wood, an Indiana Republican, obtained adoption of an amendment eliminating the special tax levied against bankers of $1 per thou sand of capital. surplus and undivid- ed profits. This amendment was adopted, POP to 176. The bill as re- ported. assessed bankers, although it
 was argued today that they already were taxed under the corporation tax statute. MT. Woods successful amend- ment was offered while more than 20 members were seeking recognition from the Chair, to offer amendments.
 and constituted an eleventh hour
 change probably as important as any
 made in the bill,
 Despite the protests of Representa-
 tive Rainey, in charge of the Tarin
 Commission section of the bill, the House adopted an amendment by Rep
 resentative Green of Iowa reducing
 the salaries of the members of the
 commission from s1O,000 to $7.500 per
 year. The salary of the secretary was
 cut from SC, 900 to s5,000.
 Chairman Fitzgerald of the Ap-
 prapriations Committee objected to
 the ''permanent'' appropriation of
 $a00.000 per annum for the expenses
 of the Tariff Commission. His amend
 ment to strike out the permanent ap-
 propriation was adopted. The oom-
 mission must apply for it's allowance
 annually.
 MT. Kitehin presented one amend
 ment of importance to the manufae- turers of cigarettea- As reported the
 bill carried a tax of 25 cents for every 10000 cigarettes made. MT. Kitchfn's
 amendment reduced this tax to csnts for 10000 cigarettes. It is es-D timatedl that under the original pro- posal the four chief cigarette manu-' lecturers would have paid in the as- gregate more than $250,000 in inter- nal revenue taxation. y
 Representative Ebenezer Hill of Connecticut, Republican, made an in- effectual attempt to increase the rates of duty proposed on the importations of dyestuff.. MT. Hill said that the rates in the bill recognized the pro- teetive tariff principals. but were not high enough to encourage the build ing up of the American dyestuffs in- dustry or to relieve the present short- age. 4
 .Thet arrival of the German U-boat at Baltimore this mdrning marks 9. very significant situation in the his- tory of the world" said MT. Hill in support of his amendment. Tt means seterai things: First, that the mas tery of the seas hereafter will be equally under the control of the small nations as well as the great naval powers. It means another thing-the beginning of renewed attempt on the part of Germany to control the monopoly of the dyestuff production of the world as she had it on the 1st of August, 191l. and it also means renewed attempt to strengthen her stranglehold upon the defensive power of every, nation in the world"
 Representative Mann. the Repubii- can floor leader, assailed the Demo cratic bill as class legislatien. He said it levied taxes only on the wealthy, whereas all classes were benefftedN by the preparedness legisla- tien which the revenue bill was de- signed to offset. MT. Mann quoted figures to show that four states-lNew York, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Mas paying more in- come and corporation tax than the A other states combined.
 Representative Fordney, ranking Republican of the Ways and Means committee, failed in an atteVpt to recommit the bill with instructions to bring in a protective tariff measure. After this the following minority members voted for the bill:
 Anderson, Davis, Ellsworth, Lind bergh, Miller, Schaii, Smith, Steener- son, and Volstead of Minnesota; Browne, Cary. Cooper, Esch, and Stafrord of Wisconsin; Dowell, Good. Green, Ramseyer and Sweet of Iowa; Dillon and Johnson of South Dakota; Helgesou, Norton and Young of North Dakota; Sinnott of Oregon; copely of California: Hawley of Oregon; Farr of Pennsylvania; Gardner of Massa- chusetts; Kinkead. Sloan and Reavis of Nebraska; Morgan of Oklahoma; and McCulloch Of Ohio; Roberts of Nevada; Kent, (Independ- ent), of California.
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