The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-27

supplementary pldntS III private
ship yards for destroyer manufacture,
Daniels said, would be built. He de-
clined to say how many destroyers
would be sought. He added that the
appropriation might be made more
than $3.50 100000.
This is the first step toward as
sembling great numbers of destroyers
to beat the U boat, announced by Sec
rotary Daniels recently.
Rights Of Married Men.
WASHINGTON, Aug. pa new
fight in congress to preserve the
rights of married men under the
draft is pending. Fearful lest the
soldiers insurance bill will be re-
garded as sufficient grounds for null
flying dependency claims from the
head of the household, amendments
will be offered to clearly define this
point.
The provost marshal generals Of
fee holds there is no ground for ex-
emption of married men except de-
tendencies. If a law providing for
the dependents both before and after
the death of the man supporting
them is passed, the claim for exemp-
ton would be weakened"
1--WE must safeguard the married
man under this BILL" Senator Weeks
said today. 1.-THE danger Is very
great that a tremendous injustice will
be done If the act is construed that
way" Gas construed by the provost
marshal generals office.)
Senator Lewis said the measure
must be made to say exactly what It
means. ct is certainly not intended
to mean that married men with de-
pendents shall be forced into the
draft army" he said
This point promises to be the only
one upon which any great fire will
center when congress takes up the
bill Senator Simmons who will be
in charge of it says the finance COM
mtttee will rush the measure through
to q favorable report with practical
ly no changes or hearings.
Opposition to the genefal soldier
insurance has been laid to private in
surance companies by Chairman
Adamson of the house Interstate and
foreign commerce committee and by
senators who say insurance men are
irving to emasculate the bill.
Senate Action Delayed.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.-.Efforts
to hasten action on the war tax bill
were blocked in the senate today by
the wealth CONSUMPTION forces.
Senator Simmons tried four times
to limit debate on the bill itself or
on the income and war tax sections
only to have objection raised by
Jones, Washington, and LaFollette,
Wisconsin He finally notified the
senate that when the postal rates
and publishers tax sections are dis
posed of he will ask immediate con-
sideration of war profits.
Harding, Ohio, urged immediate
action, saying the country should
know what new burdens it must as
sume-particularly if the view of the
extremists, who demand sixty or
eighty percent war profits tax, is to
be accpeted."
The new cloture rule may be re-
sorted to by those favoring a quick
vote.
Circulation Of petition was begun
today by Senator Hale, republican,
Maine.
Conscriptionists say the petition
cant get the necessary two-thirds
vote because there is no flibuster
on the bill. There must be evidence
of a filibuster before cloture can be
invoked.
II two-thirds of the senate mem
bers present support the cloture mo-
ton, no senator thereafter may
speak longer than one hour, nor more
than once on the pending measure.
Adoption Of the cloture rule is
favored by the finance committee
which sees long fight ahead on war
profits and incomes.
The Johnson-Borah group will Wig
orously oppose clOture and LaFollette
who has a program of his own, in
creasing war profits and incomes, is
bitterly opposed to it. He will fight
its application until after both the