The sun., 1918-11-30
KITCHIN-MADE
TAXES HIT IN
FINISHED BILL
Amendments MakeIncOmeS
and Excess Profits Prin-
cipal Revenue Producers.
PEACE POSTAGE PROVIDED
G. O. P. in Senate Ready to
Block Two Year Plan of
Assessments.
PEACE POSTAGE PROVIDED
specfal ptspotch to THr srx.


WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.-The Senate
Finance Committee tonight completed
u, work of revision of the Kitchin
revenue bill. The document, bristling
with amendments OF every sort. was
delivered TO experts to be whipped into
slape for the final reprinting. This
WI he accomplished between now and
TUESDAY. when the committee Will
b,vc trc revised measure before 1t and
VII set about preparing its report.
Chairman Simmons tonight in an
rouncing that his committee had COM
p,eted its work said that so far as he
was able to ascertain there would be
but one report on the measure. He
said the Republican members OF the
committee would take occasion to
voice their opposition to the inclusion
IN this enactment of a revenue law
for 1919. but did not believe there
would be a minority report on II.
In the formulation of the bill Sena-
for simmons said the party line had
not obtruded itself except when the
Eepublicans unanimously voiced dis
appreciation of framing two tax bills
in one.
G., @. y. Ready for Fight.
The open Republican threat that no
revenue bin will he allowed to pass
containing the two in one plan of as
sessing taxes for this year on one
basis and for next year on another, so
that an extra session of Congress
until Republican control can he post
poned as long as possible, still holds
good. Not only the revenue measure
but the yitally necessary appropriation
bills will be talked to death il the Ad-
minstration persists in this attempt
Republican Senators reiterated to-
uieht.
democratic Senators insist on the
other hand that no revenue bill whlch
does not contain the 1919 tax pro-
visions will be allowed to pass. IL
9th stand by their colors the country
will be thrown back on the present law
which does not provide sufficient rev.
enue, in the opinion OF the treasury
Department.
The main developments to-day in the
preparation of the new revenue law
we're radical alteration in the postal
rates and the inclusion in the bill oil
p special tax OF 10 per cent. TO be
levied on the net profits of concerns
employing chif2 labor.
Peace Time Postal Rates.
Tho committee voted overwhelm-
irgiS 10 restore peace time rates or
domestic first class mail matter py
striking off the one cent additional
low charged for every ounce OF letter
mail. They also restored the postal
card and private mailing card rates
N ono cent. At present this rate Is
Two cents
In diametrical opposition, to the
principles of postal rates for second
class mail matter advocated by Post
master General Burleson. the commit
to- voted out the zone system of
charges commonly known as the
"nuhlishers tax" They restored the
old rate Of one cent per pound on all
newspaper and periodical mail for
points within "A radius OF 200 miles
from the office of issue.
I'm lieu Of the zone charges for trans
hitting man TO greater distances they
' substituted a postal surtaX of one-half
cent, making the maximum rate one
ana one-half cents pound 10 all parts
of the United States or the insular
Possessions of the United States.
Under the revision the new rates
bon for first and second class matter
will 20 into effect July /, 1919.
TaN Put On Child Labor.
The anti-Child labor provisions
alopted by the committee to-day pro-
V'dss that all mines and quarries en-
NoHng children under 16 years, and
al mills, Carneries, workshops and
factories employing children under II
ears Of age, or children between the
ages Of l6 years and II years, for
more than eight hours per day, or
WORE than six days a week. or after I
D. NJ. or before A. ". shall be sub
l"'tcd TO tax Of 10 per cent. of the
'nNr" net profits received or accrued
curing the taxable year in which. the
'mpoyment OF children has been I'm
q. way permitted
4ho measure is designed to act as
deterrent to the growing practice
particularly in Southern cotton mills
whereby children OF school age are
maze hreadwinners of improvident or
Ndolent parents and the prey of un-
Fcrhpulous exploitation by their en-
l""'ers The practice, II is said by
''" proponents of the reform. has beer
increasing in the South, particularly
J. North Carolina and Georgia since
me recent decision OF the Supreme
''iii Of the United States that the
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