New Britain herald., 1917-04-09
JOINT COMMITTEE
 TO CONDUCT WAR Bill Introduced in Congress Calls
 for Board from Each House BOND MEASURES READY Ways and Means Committee Will In troducc it Thursday ay-Isesolutton Calls for Self Governing Ireland and Poland.

Washington, April s.--A joint reso- lution for 8 congressional joint com- mittee on the conduct of the war was introduced today by Senator Weeks of Massachusetts and Representative Madden of Illinois, both republicans.
 The committee to be composed of six members of the senate, including four democrats and two republicans, six from the house evenly divided re- publicans and democrats.
 The resolution provides that the committee shall be known as the joint committee on the conduct of the war and shall sit during the sessions or recesses of congress, shall make a special duty of the problems arising out of the. war. and shall confer and advise with the president of the United States and the heads of execu- tive departments and shall report to congress from time to time in it's own discretion or when requested to do so by either branch of congress-"
 The committee will be clothed with the widest powers of investigation, compelling testimony under oath.
 In the senate the resolution for joint congressional war committee was referred to the rules committee at the request of Senator Weeks, who explained that 1t was designed to have this congress follow the course fol- lowed in the Civil war. "It would furnish direct connecting link be- tween the executive and legislative branch of the government" said he.
 Bond Issue Measure.
 A decision to introduce the $5,0O0,-. O,OOO bond issue measure on Thurs day in the house was reached today by Secretary McAdoo and Representative Rainey, of Illinois, democratic leader of the ways and means committee.
 The measure will carry a $3,O0O.-. 0OO.00O issue for. 8 loan to the Allies and a $2.o0O. .0o0.000 issue for con-. ducting the war for this country. The $2. .O0O, ,O0O. .00O issue is expected to meet approximately one-h half or this country's war expenses up to June SO, 1918. Consideration of plans for rais- ing additional funds by taxation for conducting the war for this country will come later. The most essential thing to be accomplished. 1t is agreed. is to prepare the Allies loan in or der that they may obtain much need ed food and munitions.
 About $1,750,000,O00 or one-half of the $3,5OO,00 asked for army and navy purposes within a year, will be raised by taxation, and the balance by sale of bonds. house and senate leaders had virtually decided today. It is proposed that the most revenue should come from increased taxes on incomes in heritance and excess profits, and that an issue of 1-2 per cent. bonds be authorized for $5;0OO, 100000 of which $3,0OO,OOO.- 900 would be invested in war bonds of the Entente nations and $2.000.- O00,000 would cover the balance of the war expenses not met by taxation. All of the two billion might not be needed within the year, according to advance estimates.
 Indications were that the bond issue would have little effective op- position in either house, although the problems of taxation for the war are likely to prove more difficult.
 Mccormick Resolution. The house was asked, in a resolu- tion introduced today by Representa- tive Medill Mccormick of Illinois, to convey to the executive chambers of the Entente nauOnS It's greetings ana the hope "that peace shall witness the restoration of Belgium and Serbia and the establishment of united self- governing Ireland and Poland" The preamble recites the fact that the United States now isaat war with Germany and declares that the other great powers at war with Germany have voiced their purpose to secure the rights of the small peoples no less than of the great.
 Army Appropriation Bill. The army appropriation bill carry ing about $27o.0o0, 900 which failed in the last congress, was taken up today by the senate. It provides for the existing army establishment until June 30, 1918 and does not concern the bill to provide a new army of a million men.
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