The sun., 1917-08-30
PROFITS TAX IS
PUT AT BILLION;
CLOTURE ASKED
Senate Committee After
Doubling Levy Seeks to
stop Debate.
S2.522.+1O.OOO IN BILL
Proposed Impost on Pub
fishers Incomes Stricken
From Measure.
ZONE SYSTEM ADOPTED
Increase of Second Glass Post
age Approved by Vote
! of 10 to 35.
S2.o22.+1O.OOO IN BILL
ZONE SYSTEM ADOPTED
Spec,a! Despofrh N Tur sr>

WASHINGTON. Aug. ce.--A petition for
cloturc, in an effort TO force early pas
sage OF the war tax bill. was presented
to the Senate to-day by senator Sim
mons II the plan TO shut OF debate lie
approved the revenue measure will be
the first bill 80 singled out and it's pas
sase by the early part of next week
would be assured. The vote on Mr..
simmons motion cannot come before
Friday under the amended rule adopted
in the early spring
The publishers tax provisions OF the
bill were disposed Of to-day and the
long expected debate over war profits
was opened Senator simmons, speak
Ing for majority of she Finance Com
mittee, proposed to Increase the levy
on war taxes from sss2. .ooO, 600 to 81
oso.eoo,ooo. The latter figure rs offered
as compromise. In an effort TO pre-
vent more radical Increase
The Senate made changes in the bill
which, including the almost doubled
levy on war profts, would hrinS the
total authorized IN the measure TO So
522.%7o,oo0. The proposed special in
come tax on publishers was stricken out
without roll call. BY a vote Of 40 to
3s the Senate adopted the Mcclellan
plan OF raising Sl2.60o.0 900 by zone
system of increasing second class postal
rates
Necessity for Cloturc.
senator Simmonss action in invoking
the Clo;ure rule Is the outgro~th of the
situation which has been developing
from hour 10 hour in the Senate. II is
accepted as indicating that the efforts
Of the Administration leaders and the
Republicans who have acted with them
in their efforts To perfect war revenue
bill. have failed TO produce a bill upnu
which the various divergent interests
could unite and that for this reason
alone the Senate is compelled to resort
to cloture ~ bring the consider 'atiou OF
the hill 10 an end
The senators signing the petition for
the application OF the rule are by no
means united representation in so far
as the points iu contention within the
hill are ConcerNcl but they represent
more than the twc-th.rds of The Senate
present in Washington necessar! to
enforce cloture The following were the
siguers
Ashurst, Eaukhead, Ecckham. Brous
sard. Calder. Chamberlain, Colt, Curtis
Dillingham;, rernald, Fletcher. FrclinG
=
cock. Hollis, HustIns. James, Johnson
(South Dakot,O. kelogs kendrick
Kirby. KnoN. Lodge, McCumher, Nickel
lar. cNary. Martin. Myers, Nelson
New, Newltuds Overman, owen. Page
penrose, Phelau. Pi'tman. l'oiudrNtei
/ Pomerene, RausJell. Robinson, Sauls
bury, Shafroth. Sheppard. Shields sin
mons, Smith ,Narylandl, Smith ,South
Carolina), Sterlirs, Sutherland. swan
son. Thompsor, Townsend, Under wood
Watson. Neeks aHi Williams
To-daN'S deliberations Of the Scnat,
were a Sideshow 10 ne Grestcr error, go.
ing on IN the halls and committee room
Of the Capito looking to an aiiustmenI
OF the vcNed question of The war profits
levy The postal rates were under con
s,deration ard the rad csl element aftel
their victory cf Yesterday IN the matter
o! nrs, class rates were shed with Tho
desire tu strike from tho hill all posta
Increases