The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-18
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 TAX CONGRESSMEN
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House in Committee Writes Additional Drastic Sur tax on Incomes Into the
 War Revenue Bill

Washington, May 17.-Further drastic surtaxes schedule of the war revenue bill in the House committee of the whole today after announcement by Democratic Leader Kitchin that Secretary McAdoo' S latest estimate of one-half of the cost of i the first year of the war, which bill is intended to cover, would be about g, ,245, : GOO, ,0Ot.
 The increases, per cent on all the proposed surtaxes between s4O,O0O and sl- COOL GOO, as reported by the committee, and 45 per cent surtax on incomes in excess of s1O0o,O00 as proposed by Representative Lerroot of Wisconsin, were included by a vote of 146 to 1T. Representative Kitchin and others who were opposed to increased income taxes voted formally against the proposals, but previously MT. Kitchin had declared on the floor that he did not see how any members of the ways and means committee could oppose them.
 WILL NOT RAISE TOTAL
 No attempt will be made in the House, MT. Kitchin announced tonight, to raise the total of the bill to $2,245, ,OO0. It IS probable, however he added that the to- tai will be larger than s1,SOO o0O,OOo con- templated in the original measure. ana lf It Is found that more money Is needed, another bill will be drafted at the next session of Congress-
 Many members believe further efforts to make the bill total s2,245, 600 0oO will be made on the floor or in the committee. Regardless of Secretary McAdoo's esti- mate, Mir. Lenroot announced tonight he will seek to have stricken from the bill the taxes on light and heat. Opponents of the second-class mail rates increases also will continue their fight.
 A statement prepared by committee expert tonight said that the surtax in- creases would add about s66, ,OO0, 900 to the total of the bill during the coming year.
 The surtaxes, which would be added to the normal taxes provided by the old law. under the Lenroot amendments. would be as follows: Between s4o 0oO and sGo,oO0, 10 per cent; s6O,OO0 to sSo,OO0 lssl Der cent; $S0,00o to s1Oo,OOO, 171k per cent; s1Oo,ooo to sl5o,OO0. 21A per cent; sl5O ooo to s200, 900. 5 per cent; $2O0,OOO to s25o. .OOo, sv per cent; s25o,OOo to sSOO, ,0Oo, 33% per cent; $sOo,O0O to s35o,OoO, S71s per cent $500, ,ovu to s1 100000, 4l4 per cent, and s1,OOo.OOO and over 45 per cent.
 Representative Lenroot assaiied the plan of taxing the poor on necessaries of life and permitting the rich to reta,n their wealth subject to emergency taxes. Efforts of Representative Curry of CaIl- fornia to insert an amendment to in- crease the exemption on single persons from 5000 to s20o0 and on married Der sons from S2OC0 to $200O and failed by a vote of 100 to 30.
 Representative Mccormick of Illinois and Representative Lunn of New York tried unsuccessfully to get additional ex- emptions for married men with children. A proposal by Representative Paige ot Massachusetts to turn over to the Sec retary of the Treasury 65 per cent of the salaries of members of Congress during the war, and another by Representa- tive Burnett of Alabama to assess a tax of 5o per cent of the salary of every represen- tative who voted for war were voted down.