Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-12-24
WAR REVENUE BILL PASSES
 US. SENATE
Senator LaFollette for First Time In Nearly a Year Heard in Urging Adop- ton of Substitute.

Washington, Dec. 23.-Without a record vote, the senate late tonight passed the war revenue bill. introduc- ed to raise about six billion dollars in 1919, and four billion in 1920. as compared with the levy of $S,200,000- 900 for next year proposed in the bill passed by the house three months ago.
 In his first address to the senate in a year, Senator LaFollette of Wiscon- sin, member of the finance committee. tonight urged adoption of his substi ute bill, which, he estimated, would raise &6.713, 100000 with increases principally on war excess profits and individual income surtaXes.
 Senator LaFollette, whose address was prepared, attacked the senate bill principally because, he said, it would not raise enough revenue nor distri- butc taxes fairdly. He said it would not really levy 80 per cent on war profits, nor impose large enough taxes on persons with large incomes.
 "I would take every dollar of war profits" the Wisconsin senator said, "leaving business it's enormous pre- war profits and it's capital untouched.
 "i would take all of the incomes over enough to enable the owner of the income to support his family in comfort"
 Even under his bill, Senator Lafol- lette said, war profits earned by cor porations in prosperous past years would 90 untouched
 Regarding his plan to increase in- come taxes on the wealthy, Senator Lafollette said:
 ''Whatever may have been the forces which caused the present world war, one result of it must be appar- ent to every man of intelligence and that is that the plain citizen has come to realize his power as never before, and consequently. will assert his rights. as never before. In order to raise the money to pay the expenses we have incurred and are bound to incur. the government must reach out and put a heavy hand, through its power of taxation upon every citizen in tn land, and if it ge presently dis covered that the hand of the govern ment bears heavily and unjustlv upon the masses and touches only lightly the rich-in preparation to their ability to pay--'it will produce condi- tions of discontent and resentment to contemplate"
 Declaring that the country's ex- pendtures would be ten or twelve billion dollars for the next five years Senator Lafollette said with the pres ent bill in operation. this would neces- sitete twenty-five or thirty billions additional in bonds. This. he said, would be truly an appalling situa- tion."
 Senator Lafollette insisted that the American armies would not be de- mobiliZed for many months and that their aintenance would require huge sume.
 Senator Smith, of Georgia. sug- gested that under the draft law, the service of men called to the colors must end four months after peace is declared. Senator Lafollette. replied that Congress "is so suhservient" that if the administration should use American forces abroad against na- tions with whom war has not been declared, congress would vote money for such military operations"
 Amendments adopted included one by Senator Sheppard, of Texas, mak- ing the Reed law prohibiting shipment of intoxicanting liquor into dry terri tory, applicable to the District of Columbia, and another by Senator Trammell, of Florida. providing for a bonus of one months pay to all off cers and enlisted men hoonrably dis charged from the nations fighting forces after November 11th.
 The Senate voted it's first disappro- val of the revision of the house bill by the finance committee when it re- inserted all the so-called .semi-luxur- ies except those on wearing apparel for men and women. Later it voted to reduce the rate on semi-luxuries from 20 to 10 percent.
 Senator Lafollette, of Wisconsin, Republican, made a long address to the Senate tonight in support of his substitute bill which would raise more than six billions of dollars, chiefly through increased rates on war excess and surtaxes The Wisconsin Senator said he would take ''every dollar of war profit" and all incomes above enough to enable the owner of the income to support his family in com fort.
 The. revenue bill which had been be- fore the Senate since December 18th. now goes to confernc with formal meetings of the Senate and House managers planned to begin January End, with view to final enactment of the legislation next month. The senate conferees appointed tonight were Senators Simmons, of North Carolina: Williams of Mississippi: and Smith of