Bisbee daily review., 1917-08-28
.C[OTURE RULE IN SENATE WITHIN NEXT FEW DAYS
Senate May Pass Stringent Ruling in Order to Facili- tate Passage of the War Revenue Bill Through Con- gress
tBv Review Leased wire),

uAE sion in the SenateS struggle VV over the war tax bill mounted so high today with the open ing of the third week of debate that the leaders began paving the way for applying the cloture rule to curtail discussion and negotiations were set afoot with the hope of compromising the varying opinions over higher taxa tion of war profits and incomes. Day of Talk
 The senate spent the day in talk without action on the pending post age sections of the bill. They hoped to dispose of the one-cent letter post Aage increase and the publishers tax provisions tomorrow but there was no certainty that it would beaccomplish- ed and the war profits section reached Wednesday.
 Cloture Rule Possible
 Petitions for cloture which tonight 1 had more than 50 senators signatures -only a few less than the necessary two-thirds to put cloture into effect were circulated after Senator Sim mons failed to secure unanimous con- sent to fix a date for final voting. Sev- eral senators signed with the under standing that the cloture rule would not be sought unless filibuster de- veloped. Presentation of the peti- tions is not planned by Senator Sim mons for several days.
 Pros and Cons
 In today's debate on the postage taxes. Senators Hardwick, Pomerene and McKellar led the attack on the bills provisions advocating higher postal rates for newspapers and maga- zines. Senators Harding, Shoot, Me Cumber and others opposed higher postage rates, while Senators Borah, Townsend and others urged entire elimination of postage taxes from the bill.
 Committee Defended | Senator Jones of New Mexico de- tended the action of the committee in levying a postal tax. He declared | the committee had no intention of ad- ' justing second-class postage rates. but acted purely with the intention Of | raising as much revenue as possible.
 Action Condemned The committees action was denoun- ced by Senator Townsend. who declar- ed there are thousands of articles that could have been taxed to bring in the same revenues without imposing such hardship. He also said the proposed i per cent excess income tax on pub fishers was unjustifiable and that in some quarters it was said to be a penalty.
 Senator Shoot said every protest againts the postage tax came from the publishers and that he did not think the people would object to the payment of an extra cent every time they mailed a letter.
 Measure Temporary
 ! This is only temporary war meas ure, he added, and will be repealed as soon as the war ends. The commit. tee, in fixing the tax rates, he said did not take the word of the publish CTS regarding their incomes, but ob tained its information from the treas ury department. He asserted the pub fishers profits in 1916 had been enor nous. and for that reason the com mittee believed it could take part of the profits without destroying them
 The house provision, eliminated by the finance committee. taxing picture and other private post cards one cent Senator Shoot declared would have resulted in a $1O.000.000 revenue.
 As to the publishers tax. Senator McCumber said the publishing busi ness was built on under the govern ment's promise in 1870 of reduced mail rate to enlighten the public. 'They have been encouraged by oul laws and shall we now, during tht war. strike death to any business tha we can keep going?" he asked.
 We want to get at the publisher: making enormous profits by the spe cial income tax and the small postage
 increase will not ruin any publisher. CAMP DONIPHAN, FORT SILL Okla, Aug. 27.-Corporal Chas. F. Hummen, aged 22. of Medicine Lake Mo, was killed today when a shel exploded premateurely. blowing ; ,,yo Foot eactiop of a thraa-ipcb oun