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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-10
BATTLE ROYAL
OVER TAX POLICY
Report Of Bill is Filed in Sen
ate and at Once Made Tar
get by Several Op-
ponents.
TOTAL OF SIX BILLIONS
Incomes. War and Excess Profits Tax
to Take Care OF y, 600 100000
With Balance from
Other Sources.
TOTAL OF SIX BILLIONS
by l.. c. Martin, United Press Staff
rnrroopOndoDf

by l.. G. Martin, United Press STAFF
Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1O.-The con
gressional battle royal over the coun
/ try's readjustment tax policy begins
today. Senator Simmons, chairman
! of the senate finance committee, filed
his formal report on the bill in the
senate 1t was at once made the tar
get for several minority reports.
The first one was signed by all
republican members Of the commit
tee, breathing unalterable opposition
to including in the bill taxes for
1920.
Senators Smoot and LaFollette also
had individual reports dissenting
from the majority view.
Simmons presented the bill as "the
fairest both to business and the
great mass Of tax payers and from
the governments point of view that
it has been possible to arrive at
In word the bill proposes to raise
about S4,600,000,O00 from incomes.
war and excess profits taxes for the
fiscal year 1919, and $1,4O0, ,O00, 900
from other sources, total of $6,0C0.-
100000. For the fiscal year of 1929
1t will produce a little less than S3,-
uUU,UVU,uOU ITOm incomes ana PROFITS
taxes and about $1,000 100000 from
other sources, total Of $4,000, ,000, 900.
about the wisdom of such pro-
gram we entertain no serious doubt"
said Senator Simmons. "It is impera-
tive that profits and income realized
in 1913 be heavily taxed. This is
not only necessary to raise the need
ed revenues, but it is equitable and
in accordance with sound public
policy.
"The profits realized during 1919
are largely war profits; they are now
in the pockets of the taxpayers and
they should contribute heavily before
they have been dissipated or rein
vested.
But 1t Is equally important that
these special taxes should be reduced
as the occasion which inspired and
justified them, receded into the past
Not to provide now for the reduc-
ton of the war profits tax after 1888
profits have been taxed, would be AS
fnexcusable as to tax those pronts."
Simmons and other democratic
leaders admitted today that they VIII
have hard time getting any revenue
legislation passed this session With
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Killed in Acticn, 176; Died o1
Wounds, SO; Missing in
Action, 273.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1o.-The fol-
lowing casualties are reported by the
.ommanding general of the Ameri can
eApeditionary forces:
kiiled in action, 176.
Died of wounds, SIS.
hone.
Died OF airplane accident, none.
pied of disease, 81.
wounded severely, 4s9.
AS. 'ei iniiieu'
wounded slightly, 1862.
Missing in action, 273.
Total, 1863.
"a, Killed In Action.
Lleutenants-
Guy Wesley Canady. Atlanta. Ga.
1MarVln c, E. Stanton, Laurel, Miss.
enester w. Buchanan, Washington,
D. c.
1dwin R. Estep, Cicero. Ill.
"m' !. Keating, Baltimore. Nd,
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nited Press Leased Wire Service. ]
COPENHAGEN, Dec. 10.-A des-
rate but unsuccessful attempt was
do by the former kaiser to commit
|elde, Il 10 declared by the LeIp-
Ter TagebIatt.
The newspaper says II received jts
formation from German staff off,
who was wounded In frustrating
iIhelm.
The officer said the former kaiser
been much depressed Of late.
ANOTHER ATTEMPTS 1T.
AMSTERDAM, Dec. TO- Count
lroy, the Hungarian premier, at
mpted to commit suicide Sunday,
eording to q Budapest dispatch re-
lived here today. He Is said to have
len despondent over the political
kuatlon In Hungary.
BERLIN IN TURMOIL.
PARIS, Dec. 1O.-''We refuse peace
18th the entente and intend to over
lrow the present government with
fortnight" Karl Liebknecht,
ader Of the German boishevikl, de-
ared In a proclamation issued In
lerIin, according to Zurich dis
|atch to Information today.
Martial law has been proclaim ed
p Berlin, the dispatch said.
Two hundred and twenty persons
lave been killed and thousand
Founded In the recent skIrmishes In
~ "A = kn41
hevik forces and government
roops
Army Of 10000 Poles.
BERLIN, Dec. 9.-(delayed)-An
rmy of 10000 Poles. under command
General Haller, is expected to land
Danzig and occupy Prussian Posen.
Ambassador Dismissed.
MADRID, Dec. 9.--Louis Polo Y.
ernabe. Spanish ambassador to Ger
any, has been dismissed by the Ber-
n government, it was announced here
day.
Previous reports from Spain intim-
ed that the Spanish government
AIMED to expel German Ambassador
On Ratbor and his staff for alleged
pionage.l
Revolution in Full Swing.
Dec. 9.-(Delayed)-
le counter revolution at Potsdam is
null swing, according to reports
ceived here today.
It is also reported that the main
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-10
.nerate but Unsuccessful Attempt Frustrated
Staff Officer Who Was Wounded
During Scuf7e.
PRESSED AND ABANDONS UNIFORMS
|Ihelm Spends Time Preparing Defense if
Brought to Trial for Numbering About
Half the World.

army has established headquarters in
Berlin and Is refusing to acknowledge
the authority Of the workmens' and
soldiers council.
The workmens' and soldiers cour
Gil here announced today that bol
shevists planned a coup d'etat in
Hamburg last night, but were frus.
trated Several arrests were made.
AmerIcan-Polish Division.
AMSTERDAM. Dec. 10.-An Amer.
ican-Polish division commanded by
General Haller is enroute to Danzig,
from where 1t will undertake the oc.
cupation of Posen and Silesia, a War
saw dispatch stated today.
Preparing His Defense.
LONDON, Dec. 10.-Two German
experts on international law have
conferred with the former kaiser. who
is debating an autobiography which
will be submitted in his defense II he
is brought to trial. according to the
Amsterdam correspondent of the Ex-
press.
The ex-emperor is said to have
abandoned his uniforms and is wear
ing multi.
stormed the Brewery.
AMSTERDAM, Dec. 10.-Bolshev-
lists at Munich broke up meeting
Of the democratic party. stormed a
brewery and tore down German flags,
according to advices received here
today Bolshevism is said to be
spreading throughout Bavaria
Generalization, Food and Work.
BERNE, Dec. 10.-The German
people are concerned principally with
rehabilitation and the problems of
food and work, it was stated in a
Berlin dispatch received here today,
dated Saturday.
Newspapers in Berlin continue to
demand that peace be signed as
quickly as possible, so that inter-
course with other nations can be re-
sumed before the present supplies of
food and raw materials-estimated as
sufficient for three months-are ex-
hausted. Feeding of the larger cities
is now attended with enrmous diff
culties. the dispatch said, owing to
the congestion of traffic, resulting
from the repatriation of soldiers.
Germans in Berne say democratic
republic in Germany is certain and
that the nobility is doomed. They
boast that universal suffrage" In
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Revolution in Full Swing.
HAMBURG, Dec. 9.-Delayed)-
ihe counter revolution at Potsdam is
n full swing, according to reports
'eceived here today.
IL is also reported that the main
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-10

r,,e Telegraph Service Of The
n.ily Gate City and Constitn.
IN. !. Democrat is received over
onr own leased wire.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-10
President Wilson and Party to
Reach Brest in Three Days,
Passing Azores To-
morrow.
DEPTH BOMB PRACTICE
Mr.. Wilson Watches Sailors Throw
Explosives Over Ships Side
at Imaginary German
u Boats.
GBy Robert j. Bender, United Press
STAFF Cnrresnondent

[By Robert j. Bender, United Press
Staff Correspondent
ON BOARD THE U. S. S. GEORGE
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.-(night)-
(By wireless to the United Press
The George Washington is due to pass
the Azores tomorrow morning. There.
after it's course will be due northwest.
The president and his party will ar
rive at Brest Friday morning.
Mccormick and Otiaruch have been
advised to stand ready for a call to
France.
(The naval wireless station at
Washington states that the latter
name came doubtful by radio, but
probably is Baruch Mccormick" may
be Vance Mccormick of the war trade
board.)
The president today witnessed the
practice dropping of depth bomb.
That President Wilson will not sit
at the peace table in Versailles.
after the preliminary conferences in
Paris are completed, was the belief
expressed today. He will remain in
France, however, where he will be
available for immediate counsel.
That Premier Clemenceau will pre-
side at the peace conference Is re-
garded as certain.
The president attended a song
service by the crew last night, after
which he shook hands with many of
the men.
1t was the unofficial conviction on
the George Washington today that
the president will not return to the
United States before the last of Feb
ruary.
Germans Would Welcome Him.
AMSTERDAM, Dec. 1O.-"Represen.
tatives of the German republic would
be happy to meet him and discuss
peace and food problems" says the
Cologne Gazette, regarding the surg
gestion that President Wilson be In
vited to come to Cologne
"They also would let Wilson hear
the German view on questions such
as Polish and Swedish matters on
which he is sure to have received
one-sided Information. He might also
obtain the release Of German prison
ers.'
Cabinet Meeting by Wireless.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1o.-Presi-
dent Wilson has called a meeting of
the cabinet for this afternoon by
wireless, it was announced at the
white house today. At his request.
vice President Marshall will preside
at the conference between the heads
OF the executive branches OF the gov
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sression on land, on the sea a
from the air"
/. How such a phrase could
stretched to inc4ude-as some Eul
pean statesmen are now actual
proposing-the cost Of maintenans
equfpntent, munitions. etc., of th
comprehend.
Furthermore, It Is considered th
the question OF honor is involve
inasmuch as Germany accepted =
proposals In good faith.
1t is true that severity OF the an
istice renders Germany incapable
renewing the conflict, but this fal
according to the Wilsonian vie
point, makes all the more bindi]
the allies moral obligation to lin
peace exactly to the contract
which they were party.
Additional Naval Terms.
LONDON, Dec. 10.-The British
miralty confirms the additional naj
terms announced yesterday from B)
lin.
THESE terms included the SURF
der Of all allied merchant vessels
termed in German ports. fully Goa
and provisfoned, as well as Germ
warships under construction.
Berlin dispatch said an allied naN
commission had arrived in Germa
to superintend the carrying out
these provisions. which, the Germ
government protested. exceeded
terms of the armistice.]
Favors League Of Nations.
LONDON, Dec 10.-Premier Llo|
George in speech to women hi
late yesterday. declared that gigan
armies must not be permitted in
future, because they tempt nations
make war. He said he is a firm
lever in the league of nations
Sir Eric Geddes, first lord of
stated In a speech that
is inconceivable the supremacy of
British navy should be surrender
EngIand's Peace Delegates.
LONDON, Dec. 10.-Premier Lid
George, Foreign Secretary BALI
and Chancellor Bonar Law, have b
decided upon as British delegates
the peace conference, the Expr
says 1t understands.
Appointment Of a labor represeI
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Ten Thousand More Troops
Return From Europe 4
Fonr Big Transports Loaded With Officers and 4
Several Hundred Sick and N0unde9


andh hospitals
and23 39menabo
Amngothe are
The icwithe lightly sand 2O8nenab aboard.
men
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-12-02
SUGAR RESTRICTIONS
GREATLY MODIFIED

County Food Administrators Ridgely
p. Melvin announces the following
changes in Food Regulations for Anne
Arundel county:
Effective December first, the surren-
der of sugar certificates will no longer
be required when sugar is purchased.
This removes the restrictions which
have heretofore existed limiting the
use of sugar in various lines of bust
ness and the restrictions which pre-
vented the establishing of new bust
nesses for the manufacture of pro-
ducts requiring sugar
The restrictions against the manu-
facture of water ice are, of course, re-
moved
The regulations which remain in eff
feet are as follows:
Retailers shall not sell sugar to pri-
vate families at the rate of more than
four pounds per month per person,
but the signing of the counter pledge
is no longer required. The Food Ad-
ministration feels that the people of
Maryland can be relied upon to OBJ
serve this restriction.
Manufacturers are requested to
limit their purchase of sugar to an
amount sufficient to cover their needs
for 30 days in advance
Until further advised, please note
that the public eating place restric-
lions remain in force except that these
establishments may secure their sugar
without certificates, and are requested
to purchase their supply of sugar at
the rate of four pounds per 80 meals
served, with the addition of course, of
the necessary quantity to cover baking
done by them.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-12-02

= G L / p p / NJ GS o F.
= CAPITAL COUPONS =

The way OF the world. Elizabeth, is
around the sun,
There is no graduating from the
school OF experience.
Some self-made folks seem to have
found the material at a bargain
counter
a schoolgirl never graduates until
she has learned to stab pickle with
a hat pin.
Some men trust to luck in this
world. and others are lucky TO get
trusted
The kangaroo is healthy looking
animal. but it is nearly always on its
last legs.
No. Edna. Solomon when arrayed in
all his glory didn't have pair of plaid
silk stockings to his feet.
\
A man is apt to suffer less from
the ''fiu" than he is from the innumer-
able remedies suggested by his
friends.
Science tells us that a mans body
is nearly so per cent water-and still
the prohibitionists complain.
Notice that 1000 United States SOL
diers are now on the ocean speeding
homeward Occurs that the seas APP
pear fairly free.
We agree that music is indispens-
able In celebrating our glorious vic
tory. but not chin music.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-12-02
THAT FOREIGN TRADE

So much has been said lately about
the possibilities in foreign trade. and
especially with South America, that
there is sort of general feeling that
any one who has anything he wants
to get rid of. from locomotives to old
clothes, had better get packed up and
started or the British and the Ger
mans will beat him to it.
AS matter of fact, the prospects
for foreign trade never were so bright
as now. But just as with the recipe
for rabbit pie, which begins First
catch your hare, the first step is to
know your field and the people in it,
their needs and their desires.
One man, who can speak with au-
thority, tells of an offer made to him
OF "a small surplus of women's
shoes for sale in South America" He
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-12-02
SELL
WOODEN FLEET
Shipping Board VIII Put One Hundred
And Fifty Vessels On The
Market

Through a letter written by Charles
A. Piez, vice-president and general
manager of the Emergency Fleet Cor
poration, ii tecame known that the
Shipping Board wishes either to sell
$50 wooden ships abroad or cancel the
contracts for them. The Fleet Cor
poration regards the wooden ships as
good emergency vessels. but as rather
Improbable investments under COM
petitive conditions.
Mr.. Piez stated that one of the OBJ
jects of Mr.. Hurley's trip to Europe
was to try to sell these wooden ships
Work upon them has been stopped.
Coincident with the release of Mr..
Piez's letter came a statement from
Senator Duncan Fletcher, of Florida,
protesting against abandonment of the
wooden shipbuilding program. Many
of the wooden shipyards are in his
and contiguous States.
The Piez letter was written to Rep
resentative Albert Johnson, of Wash
ington, who asked about the cancella-
ton of contracts.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-12-02
SOLDIERS RELATIVES
MAY NOT MEET SHIPS

Relatives and friends of the first
American troops now returning from
England will not be permitted to meet
the transports when they reach Ho-
boken, according to statement made
by Brigadier General G. H. McManus,
embarkation officer at the port of New
York. at conference recently with
newspapermen. He did not state
whether this policy would apply to
other troops returning later to
America.
While accredited newspaper men
may board the ships, he said, that the
public would not be allowed on the
piers, first because of the congestion
that would result, and second because
of desire to safeguard public health
by making possible physical exami-
nation of the soldiers before they were
welcomed by their relatives, in order
to make sure they had contracted no
illness on the voyage.
The first contingents to return, COM
prising chiefly men in the air service,
will proceed directly from the docks
to the camps at which they will be ex-
amined and discharged, according to
Brigadier General McManus. He added
that army, navy and customs officials
had been deluged with letters from
relatives of men in service, asking
whether they would be allowed on the
piers when the transports locked.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-12-02
WOODROW WILSON
AN ACRoSTIC
nv
W. F. BROWN, d. ID.
ronopol,u~0 Do

Canonsburg, Pa.
The following poetical acrostic was
written last March and sent as a
cheering word TO President Wilson
when war winged its wide desolation
and threatened the land to deform. T"
Words, as from an oracle, have by
your lips been spoken,
On these has leaned our Nation. as on
an arch unbroken;
Out of darkness and turmoil you have
light and order brought,
Doubtful questions you've quickly ans
wered after careful thought.
Round the whole world from distant
shores fash signal lights to you,
Der lands and seas heavy war clouds
daily obstruct your view,
While millions await your words be-
fore they their course pursue.
With wisdom and courage too you
have steered our ship of State"
In deep troubled waters, through many
a dangerous strait.
Lifes duties you perform while great
burdens upon you roll,
Such weight is enough to crush ones
body, mind and soul
Our prayers for you to God ascend,
may He your counsels guide,
Now, and through all your trying
hours, may He with you abide.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-12-02
STUDENT OFFICERS
TO QUIT SERVICE

The complete rehabilitation of the
Student Officers Training Corps, COM
prising units in hundreds of institu-
tons throughout the country has been
decided upon by the War Department.
In making the announcement, Sec
rotary Baker said in some cases the
rehabilitation will start, Immediately.
and the plans of the department con-
template the breaking up of every
unit by January l. The demobiliza-
ton of the St Johns unit of the S. A.
T. c. will begin on December q.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-12-02
GOOD.BYE. BEER!

To paraphrase an old convivial
song:
Now farewell, beer for evermore!
Our brewing days are surely DER.
The Federal ban on the use of food
materials for manufacturing beer has
gone into effect No more beer can be
brewed i'm the United States while this
emergency ban lasts. 1t is safe to say
that IL will last until the country auto
matically goes dry by the adoption
OF the prohibition amendment, or by
the Federal prohibition law becoming
effective next July.
There will still be on tap for some
time yet in States and communities
that still afford market for that sort
OF thing. But there will be no more
brewed, and the present supply will
hardly outlast the winter
Thus passes one of the oldest of
human institutions. The earliest
Anglo-Saxon records represent our
half-savage forefathers as brewing
beer. The beverage was common
among the ancient Persians. Its use
is depicted on the walls of Egyptian
tombs. thousands of years old. and on
Babylonian bricks probably older still.
1t goes back almost to Adam-or at
least, almost to Noah. whose taste ran
to wine. And now it is banished, to
the accompaniment of many senti-
mental tear.
Because we are virtuous, must
there be no more cakes and ale?" ask
ed Falstaff Because we are virtuous
there may be cakes. but no ale.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-12-02

declares that the surplus" was sufii-
cient to supply a pair OF shoes TO
every woman IN South America north
OF the equator who is accustomed TO
wearing shoes"
This is only one OF thousand in
stances Of the necessity OF familiarity
with the market if the trade is to he
successful.
We are prone 10 he self-sufficient
and careless in our business as we'll
as our political and social relations.
II the most is 10 be made of the ex-
port opportunity now before this coun-
try, the first step is comprehensive
knowledge of the business and the
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-12-02
WHAT THE SCRIPTURES SAY

In those days they shall say no more:
and the children's teeth are set on
edge.
But every one shall die for his own
iniquity: every man that eateth the
sour grape. his teeth shall be set on
edge
Behold, the days come, saith the
Lord, that / will make a new cove
nant with the house of Israel, and
with the house of Judah:
Not according to the covenant that
made with their fathers in the day
that | took them by the hand to bring
them out of the land of Egypt; which
my covenant they brake, although
was an husband unto them, saith the
Lord:
But this shall be the covenant that
will make with the house of Israel;
after those days, saith the Lord, will
put my law in their inward parts, and
write il in their hearts; and will be
their Cod and they shall be my peo-
pie.
And they shall teach no more every
man his neighbor, and every man his
brother, saying know the Lord: for
they shall all know me, from the least
of them unto the greatest of them,
saith the Lord: for / will forgive their
iniquity, and l will remember their sin
no more.-Jeremiah 1923, 80, 81, 80,
33, "a.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-12-02
ARMY STORES FILLED UP
Rehabilitation To Leave Vast QHanti-
ties OF Clothing On Hand

Decentralization of the military
forces of the nation will leave in pos
session of the government enormous
stores of clothing. Clothing and equip
age on hand November /, ten days be-
fore hostilities ceased, as shown in a
report made public yesterday by Brig
Gen. Robert E. oWod, acting quarter
master general and director of pur-
chase and storage, icnluded 5000. 900
cotton coats. 100000 wooden coats.
100000 overcoats. 100000 flannel
shirts. 100000 pairs of winter and
summer drawers. 100000 pairs of
winter and summer undershirts, H.
100000 pairs of shoes of all types, 49,
600. 900 pairs of stockings and 5,00O.-
900 blankets.
Some of this large supply of CLOTH
ing will be used before the troops can
be demobilized. Some will be retained
for the regular establishment and the
remainder doubtless can be salvaged.