Arizona republican., 1918-05-28
PRESIDENT ASKS CONGRESS PASS
 TAXATION LAWS
Immediate Response Comes to Appeal, Congress Will Continue Working Until
 Needed Law Is Enacted
Republican A. p. Leased WireJ

WASHINGTON, May 27.-President Wilson today ended discussion over whether congress shall remain in ses- sion this summer to enact new revenue legislation by appearing before the house and senate in joint session and calling upon members to put aside pol itics and all other considerations to provide money for growing war eX- penses and to advise the country in advance of the tax burdens it must meet
 As the president was leaving for the capitol, word came that the German drive against the west front had been renewed. He gave his visit dramatic touch by announcing this news as he | concluded his prepared speech saying it strengthened the purpose he had tried to express.
 Response is Instant
 The demand that with the war at it's | peak and crisis" congress do it's duty at home as the soldiers are doing their | duty in the trenches overseas brought instant acquiescence. There still was reluctance in some quarters to believe immediate legislation important, but plans for midsummer adjournment were abandoned and both republican l determination to go at the task of passing a revenue bill with will. Profits to Pay Taxes | A suggestion by the president that most of the new taxes probably would | fall upon incomes, excess profits and | luXuries and that profiteers could be reached in this way was greeted with cheers and congressional leaders said later the money needed would come from these sources.
 To initiate the bill it was announced that public hearines would be begun early in June by the house ways and means committee, to be followed by cooperation in it's drafting with the senate finance committee. Presenta- tion of the measure to the house in July was regarded as assured.
 The Presidents Address | Gentlemen of the congress:
 Tt is with unaffected reluctance thai I come to ask you to prolong youl session long enough to provide more adequate resources for the treasury fo, the conduct of the war. I have req son to appreciate as fully as you dc how arduous the session has been Your labors have been severe and pro tracted. You have passed a Ions series of measures which required the debate of many doubtful questions O judgment and many exceedingly diff cult questions of principle as well a: of practice. The summer is upon u in which labor and counsel are twice arduous and are constantly apt to b' impaired by lassitude and fatigue. Tn, elections are at hand and we ought a. soon as possible to go and render al intimate account of our truSteeship ta the people who delegated us to act fo them in the weighty and anxious mat ters that crowd upon us in these day of critical choice and action. But w dare not go to the elections until W have done our duty to the full. Thes are days when duty stands stark ant naked and even with closed eyes w know it is there. Excuses are un availing. We have either done ou duty or we have not. The fact vii be as gross and plain as the duty it self. In such a case lassitude am fatigue seem negligible enough. Tn l facts are tonic and suffice to freshel the labor.
 Must Not Overwork Loans
 And the fact are these: Additona revenue must manifestly be provide
 for It would be most unsound polio
 to raise too large a proportion 0 them by loan and it is evident tha
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