The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-05-27

gested, incomes would be more heavily
taxed and heavy taxes would be as
essed against business profits, lux
uries and the so.called non essentials.
.. Takes Charge. -.
President Wilson personally took
charge of the war tax legislation tan
gle today, and appearing Unexpectedly
before a joint session of congress.
declared it was necessary to proceed
Immediately with new war tax laws.
The president called upon congress
to eliminate politics from the consid-
Grafton Politics, he said, is lad
journed." The principal increases III
taxation, the president said, should
be on incomes, war profits, and lux
uries ~.
Plans which might have delayed the
work, which involved working agree
ment between the parties, have fallen
through, the president told the legis.
lators, and there was no way to meet
the problem of financing the war, but
to have congress remain in seccion
and 60 ahead at once.
The president was greeted with
cheers when in his speech he intimat-
ed that new revenue would be drawn
from war profits, incomes and luxur.
les.
The crowded galleries and the house
end senate cheered when he declared
that hundreds of thousands of Ameri>
can troops in the field and ships are
crowding to the front with regiment
after regiment to join them until the
enemy shall be beaten and brought to
q reckoning with mankind"
Majority Leader Kitchin as chair.
man of the house ways and means
committee, which vii Immediately
begin plans for the revenue legisla-
ton and Chairman Simmons of the
senate finance committee held con-
ference Immediately after the speech
to discuss framing the legislation.
Republican Leader Gillett of the
house haid of the speech:
Everybody will agree on the three
SUBJECTS Of taxation outlined in the
message-income, excess profits and
luxuries. ] am in thorough accord
with the policy he announced. We all
wish to provide all the revenue that
is needed"
TO Prolon9 Session..
The presidents address follows:
Gentlemen of the Congress:
1T is with unaffected reluctance
that come to ask you to prolone
your session long enough to provide
more adequate reasurses for
the conduct of the war, /
have reason to appreciate as fully as
you do how arduous the session has
been. Your labors have been severe
land protracted. You have passed a
long series of measures which re-
Quired the debate of many doubtful
questions of judgment and many eX-
ceedingly difficult questions of prin-
ciple as we'll as of practice. The
summer is upon us, in which labor
and counsel are twice arduous and are
constantly apt to be impaired by lassl.
tudes and fatigue. The elections are
at hand and we ought as soon as pos
sible to 90 and render an intimate &C
count of our trusteeship to the peo-
pie who delegated us to act for them
in the worthy and anxious matters
that crowd upon us in these days of
critical choice and action. But we
dare not 60 to the elections until we
have done our duty to the full. These
are days when duty stands stark
naked and even with closed eyes we
know it is there. Excuses are unavail-
ing. We have either done our duty
or we have not The fact will be as
gross and plain as the duty itself In
such case lassitude and fatigue seem
neglibible enough. The facts are
tonic and suffice to freshen the Ia
Dor.
And the facts are these: Additional
revenues must manifestly be provided.
It would lie most unsound policy to
raise too large proportion of them
by loan and 1t is evident that the four