The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1917-09-13

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war revenue bill was passed byt
Senate At s7:35 o'clock BY vote IN
81 10 4. is the largest single taxays|
ton. measure in American, history
The four Senator's voting against ikSI||
passage were Borah, Gronan, II kcl*SI
|lette and Norris.
AS passed by the Senate the bill
carries total Of $4,000, 100000 Ap-.
proximateiy $4,000, 600 Of pro
posed taxes we're ripped out Of the
bill today. The proposed consumt-.
ton taxes on tea, coffee, cocoa AMI
sugar were beaten. This wiped $8o,s
100000 out Of the bill and saved tsle
breakfast table from extra taxation. i
The Mcclellan amendment, which
proposed to introduce the zone sys-
TEN Of postage rates for newspapers,
and periodicals, was also defeated, ~
to 81.
Desperate efforts were made BY
Senator's Hardwick of Georgia and
Gore of Oklahoma to have the bill
amended SO as to hamper the plans
81 the Government for sending draft
ed soldiers abroad. All attempts BY
Hardwick to provide for the pay
ment of $50 bonus to draft army
soldiers for foreign service were de-
feated. The Senate refused to make
any distinction between soldiers
drafted and those volunteering.
Cores efforts to have the bill amend
ed so as to. provide only for domes-
tic service for drafted soldiers, also
failed.
A small, but important amendment
was adopted on recommendation OF
Senator Ransdell of louisiana,
amending the postal laws so as 70
permit the shipment by mail to reg
ularly ordained ministers of the Cos
pel of wine to be used in sacrament
al and communion services IN
churches.
The projected taxes on newspapers
were eliminated, except taxes I'M
posed on newspaper companies as
corporations.
Practically the entire fight in the
Senate centered around the effort 20
force a greater tax on wealth than
upon the consuming public. Whiis'
the radicals did not succeed in tneir
mass attacks for taking four-fifths
of all war profits earned by business
institutions, they did succeed in com
pelling an addition of $5oo.ooo,ooo to
the taxes imposed by the bill as re-
ported by the Finance Committee.
The total revenue from war prof.
its expected to be obtained from the
bill as passed tonight will be $i,-
o6o .ooo, 600, or nearly one-half OF the
total carried by the bill. The demand
for the Transcription of wealth" was
also successful in increasing the taxes
on incomes. The Senate proposes -
levy tax OF 342,ooo,o 900 on incomes
i stiff increase on the House propos-
ais.
Second only to the demand for tax
ing the great wealth of individuals
and business concerns was that TOT
.he illumination of all consumption
taxes on the necessities of life. for
DAYS the radicals, led by La Toilette
Of Wisconsin and johnson OF Caii-
fnrnia commended that "a tax on the
moor mans tea, coffee and sugar
would mean an unjust burden that nc
could not carry. This fight was won
when the consumption taxes were
beaten tonight.
The bill as finally passed proposes
TO raise total of $218,ooo,ooo in ex-
ira taxes on alcoholic and soft drinks,
Ss6.6oo.ooo on cigars and tobacco
$I4I.7so,ooo from taxes on t1anspo''
tation and public utilities, $4S,1ooooo
from the special tax on automobiles
and $18,1oo,ooo from the adm'ss'o"
tax on theaters and places OF amuse-
ment. ~.
Many features proposed by the
Senate Finance Committee We're
knocked out by the Senate itself.
The committee proposed to RAISE
500 600 600 through increasing post
age. rates, a large part Of this to come
from a 3-cent letter rate. The Sen-
ate not only rejected that proposal
but eliminated the proposed profits