Arizona republican., 1917-05-11
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Republican A. p. Leased wirel


 WASHINGTON, May 10.-The $1.- S00,000,000 tax bill, carrying war time assessments on a multitude of every day necessaries and lu2uries, was taken up in the house today with leaders of both parties behind it but with scores of memoers objecting viz orously to individual sections.
 Democratic Leader Kitchin, in a four-hour speech urging prompt pass age, said tfdt while some items seemed unjust ard excessive, when considered Separat ely, the only answer is that the government needs the money For his part, he said he was willing even to swallow his lifelong tariff con victions in the emergency and SUD- port the bills high tariff section.
 T am going to shut my eyes and vote for it." said MT. Kitchin.
 The debate developed a dearth of expert information on the question of just what is provided by the involved legal language of the measure. and throughout the day there was a rapid fire of questions from perpleXed mem- bers. The income tax section raised such cloud of confusion that for a time the house resembled a class in higher mathematics, with members of the ways and means committee taking turns in exbounding the intricate workings of the proposed schedule of percentages and super percentages.
 MT. Kitchin said the bill would raise more additional taxes than any that has ever been presented to any legis- lative body in the history of the world and that more tax burdens might follow. He estimated that all told the war expenditures to the end of the next fiscal year would total S5,O0O 900, 900.
 The men who must sustain the government by a tax" he said must understand that they must endure these hardshiDs in dollars and cents while the others are enduring the hardships in tears, stress and blood
 Referring to the petition of the rail- roads for general 15 per cent freight rate increase, Mir. Kitchin continued:
 We will have plenty of chances to get some of that back for the Ameri can people ill the way of taxes. If the railroads are permitted to raise their freight rates 15ao of their gross re- ceipts, am willing to come in here with a tax bill and tell them to pay some of that to help support the government"
 Defending the bills proposal to ad- vance postal rates, Mr Kitchin de- clared that it costs the government S100,000,000 year to carry and handle second class matter and it gets back only S11,000,0 000 The proposed in- crease. he said, will bring in $31 900, 900
 Representative ReaVis of Nebraska interrupted MT. Kitchin with several questions about the income tax sched- ules, and finally launched into a gen. eral attack on the question because the levy on big incomes was not made greater.
 You are taking great deal so fal as actual dollars and cents are con- cerned," said MT. Reavis, but in tht proportionate sacrifice that the mer who pay it will make, you are takine q great deal more from the married man with s2000 who has family t, support than you are from the s10,000, 900 man. The man with the incom of $10.000,000 is paying that income tax out of funds that he can use Onl. in the way of investment The relativ, sacrifice cannot be compared
 MT. Kitchin replied that the com mittee did not go over 50f6 in taXins incomes, because if we tax these meI of wealth exorbitantly in their indus try and income, they would no doub put money into the rural credit bond:
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