Connecticut western news., 1917-06-14
DEFICIENCY BILL
 WILL NOW PASS
HOuSa AGtS on S3,34O,OOO,-
 OOO Urgent Measure.
CUTS OUT s2OO, GOO ITEM

Wranee Over Naval Base at Hampton
 Roads Ended by SIicing Off That
 Amount of Purchase Money-Cannon
 Holds Up Administration Food Bill.
 Espionage Law Passed Without Gen.
 sorship Clause.
 By clipping $2OO,OOO from the price of the Jamestown exposition site the house probably cut the Gordian knot that bound up the great $3,340,0O0,0 ,000 deficiency bill. Indications are now that the bill, which includes the $15O,- 100000 authorization for a merchant E.Grine, will soon be sent to the presi- dent.
 The Jamestown site was urged as training camp for naval recruits. It is, in fact, but part of the Hampton Roads naval base" which will be used not alone for training purposes, but for a fleet base Recently allegations were made that the government was being charged far too much for the James town portion. This has been the wran- gle.
 Think Senate Will Accept.
 Originally the appropriation for the base was $1,400,000, as agreed upon by the cOnferees. The house reduced this to $1,2000O0. Senator Martin, one of the senate conferees. said that this sum was satisfactory to him and he thought it would be to the senate as a whole.
 The house in it's amendment threw the responsibility upon President Will son. Representative Lenroot of Wis consin said
 '1The president must determine not only whether the base is a military necessity, but the price to be paid. If any scandal ensues the responsibility will attach not to the house of repre- sentatives, but to the president"
 The president in the amendment is authorized to take immediate posses sion of the base and decide upon a just compensation. The owners, if dissatis- fled, to accept three-quarters of this price and sue for the balance.
 Mr., Wilson wrote a letter to the house concerning the base. It read:
 have considered the matter from many standpoints and am more and more i'm pressed with the necessity for training station. If it can be had and is not had promptly the most serious embarrass- ments will ensue. ...
 Talks of Fighting Russia.
 During the debate Representative Caldwell endeavored without success to have soldiers held in service after the war instead of being released four months after the conclusion of hostili- ties, as the senate insisted upon.
 "We don't know who we may have to fight after we fight Germany" cried Caldwell. "What about Russia?"
 Members of the senate finance com mittee refused to admit Claude Kitch- en's assertion that the war revenue bill is being rapidly converted into "cor- poration measure"
 One of the committeeman pointed out that the senators practically had agreed to tax corporations on the basis of three years profits, while the house tax amounted to s per cent. .t*
 By this change we will add between $125 5,000,0O0 and $150,00OOOO more than we could have obtained from corpora tion taxes under the house bill. That does not look like much of corpora tion measure,'" said he.
 The basis of calculation he alludes to is the tentative agreement of the sen ate to select 1911, 1912 and 1913 as this basis. Those were ante-war years and their average profits will be used as the basis.
 No Censorship Now. The same committeeman pointed out that the house had by its imposition of 10 per cent on the tariff taxed almost every necessity of the poor man. The senate, said, he, cut $30O,0O0,OOO from the house bill and eliminated the tariff tax. He also pointed out that the house | taxed coffee, tea, sugar and cocoa 10 l per cent, while the senate taxes, which l are lower, realize $S5,000,000. | The espionage bill will become law as soon as the president signs it. The 1 senate has agreed to the conference re- | port which the house accepted last week. There is no censorship provision in the bill, as both houses f1atly re- jected such a suggestion.
 Uncle Joe Cannon held up the first of the administration food bills. When the measure which provides for a food census went to the house from the sen- ate Cannon delayed work on it day He refused to send it to conference saying he had not had time to study the amendments the senate put into the house bill.