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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-06-03
FREE PORTS TO
STIMULATE US.
FUTURE TRADE
BY L. ". LEEcH

WAslIiNGTON. June 5.-BuHl'
ness America Is urging congress 10
prepare tho country for the war
after tho war for world trade.
The first step was passage OF the
webb law, which permits exporters
10 combine selling agencies abroad
without fear OF antitrust statutes.
Now congress r. asked 90 pro-
vide "froe ports for United States
water front zones into which goods
may be Imported without payment
OF duties or customs inHpec ton. In
these free ports" imported mater
falls may be rehnndled. repacked.
mixed. cleaned or even manufac-
tured. and then exported to other
countries.
Goods sent into the country from
free ports will pay duty OF course.
Tariff policy OF the government Il
not 10 be affected In any way The
purpose Of the free ports" IN TO
handle the worlds trans shipment
business which now amounts TO BILL
lions yearly.
Don't Like Red Tape
Foreign trade viii sail hundreds
OF miles 10 avoid red tape and ex-
pensc 81 "A custom house. Free
trade England has built up much
of her commercial prosperity be-
cause OF this fact
Germany II "a protcciionist coun.
try like America. but before the
war she was cutting inn Hritain's
trans shipment business by main
tanning the old free ports OF Ham
burg. Bremen and Lubcck within
portions OF the harbor fronts Of
these cities trade and manufacture
Is free. The only customs activity
Ia prevention OF smuggling into the
interior.
VIII Recommend -Four
Tho Federal Trade Commission
viii shortly recommend at least
four free ports for the United States
at New York. New Orleans. San
f'raneiRoo and the Canal Zone
Legislation. which probably will
follow the commissions report. will
be drawn 90 provide that any city
may build and operate a free port rs
n public utility Under strict r~xula.
ton BY either the government or the
cities. priyat. corporations will also
be allowed 20 build and operate such
ports and terminals.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1918-05-17

aisbrrGroene fan iplge Suffer | ri.
ntelise WPngoer iii 6~or6rugere, lom
oi9ioer ifriftlig GrtIPring ON, Of
Sufferet oil 6lire brugt libeIuffen.
De for Spltninq, ON of oct, iom
moatte uGre ~ttlouers, efterat Splt.
nin9sti6er er lorbi, bill bGioe leneret
tiIboee til aisbmdnben.
Certificates for Salg al Suffer
poo oerne Woobe uil blioe ornien6t
til aisbmPnoehe I ben nRrmeite
6remtio. Mor boo6er, at Der I'm.
Der beune Sroniug oil blice nof
Tor Spltning, o9 at 6or6ruget boa
iorme 5io fan rebuceres. ioa man
fon nn6goo Den trrenoe Sufferns6
/ Sommermaoreoerne oa 6orbruget
er itsrit. ii
Reglerne ON 6orbrltg al Suffer
or life puoret pna nogen Waa6e.
Ter fan life bruges mere ems ire
Gluo ON Maoueoeu for huer Gerion.
oQ set mcitc, iom fan fiobcs as San
gen. or > Funo / @uer oq Smaobper
o. 10 Tuno / &anooiitrifterre.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1918-05-17
Ara minneiotas
maoitvre

. <itoOlthS.
Inerifd mo too Sfuloer I'll
SfuIoer meb pore Nniereoe Tor at
ninSe ariaen. vi fan life operaoo
Sronfrigc, Guelarb % Stolien pao
SIo1morfen / Mob. 3roit ener llh-
~hcloenhcb. @or Srr pil life blipc
ioo itor Tom ocrcS. iiaatet Sen fun'fe
uiI fnnlmle I'll at loo oct aigisrenoc
Slog. Iaiaepel fan ri boabe at
filnnc aisrc melt FOR Den lTlcS Sag
paa @ruIto al bore rigcrc SiGlpc.
fiber. 90 uounIia ton NJ ~forcbn11c
Nunaer blonbt porc Nulcrcoc pcb at
ifoiic bent NAB.
vi aiue al por Npeoc or ct libct
% let Siicr / SnmmcnIi9nina meb
oercS aamp FOR @ipet - Ell 1onp,
/ huilfcn pore Siolbatcr or mcb.
Nnlcrifa har Def / lin Woqt at fnTffc
Tor licb'c Wilitrrpplocte GrobrinpH
Inter req az ifoiie Wob. Nu or set
TropcIIcnS Simc. % @pcbc or Trs.
ben.
Edablt0ct on al al Nnc0c MAJ
rTrc Iollt inocn t5bc Woi bctr6cr,
at Scr life fan tiIbo9choloca no9ct
AZ DC mluTrcnoc Norroao Tor STb
Tor nGitc Nar. iicllc Me0oclcllc ira
oct rationale Mooiturc. NUitc HIor0
Soohueoc mtoo tooca al hcttc Nora
Nplina. Scnnc Sr6rc blcp pcbtaQct
iom Spnr pao Ncnocn6cIier ira
mango 5Sormcrc / WinncToto, ionl
snifcoc at tiIbogcbolbc uof Npcoc Tor
Sro I'll nUltc Nn-, loact DC bar
plcict at 0isrc Nor otter nnoct.
Gen cncite llnotoacIic ira Rcac.
len ON SnIa al Npcbc girlocr Bin
tcrhpcoc. &c. ION suifcr at loo
Nintcrhpcoc iii Neitcn, fan bolbc til.
bo9c ltof FOR STo. @rumncn iii
hcrnc llnotnlclic cr, al oct fon bll
neOucnbiai al ino %intcrbpebc, ier
SG0 cr %tllglTnNclig AZ Den mlipTrcn.
DC Neit Al %intcrbpcoe blco uIoclce
eocloAt al Sroit.
Si0cu fnr Mel. Ncr1f,tS Mirrr1n.
ia or iorlTnGci ira Ben t'tc Ill ocll
13oc Wfai. Nrbcibct off life ion
tort % lct iom ncntet, % poa Ilcrc
Steocr unr oct inopint fommct iNono
Den lite MAJ. Mooiuret piI ocrior
life onic Dem, ion life haubc inb.
lepcret Sp0oucr til ben Sib, ipnl
5000 Nonrocrs", men hor lorlTn.
get Triitcn mco TO Tiger. Sort fen.
bcs oircfte al Gontn Miooitprcrc iii
Dem, Tom life iripiaig bor aiqipct
Srbberetnina.
Golntn .Wnbitnrcnc hor 'ulb Ma.
bigbcb opcr Spipain0cn, hucr / iii
Gonntp. NQe Snbbcrctniuoer moo
'cnoca til Dem, % Dc pil meboeIc
allc S~plpaninger. ion %snifea.
Npeoc, Npcoe - er Wnoipergar
maolcts 9icrnc hicmmc Tom noe.
: Den Irpgtelige Stamp / SranfriQc.
ion M bnr ponaooet / Here Tiger,
bor onnerifnnif Npcbe pTret Ell al.
9%ierenbe Saftor. Nnuoc oct life pp.
ret for Den, piIoc SplflanbS pUIbiQc
Nrrc hare brlrot igicnncm FOR lru.
&C iibcn. 90 BOG bar ri al Tor.
ificniac 8rllnoc life funnel Icn6e,
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1918-05-17

hoob ri ifitIoe 6doe ieitot ! oct iib.
tie, mcoeit5 ri poa iomnte lib bar
brl9t Tor nteaet 3peoe Der biemme.
Stllingen / De MI fomtitellbe Tiger
nil rare pocrit fritiif. 0ette er in
gen tom SoIemoaoe: Def er ben
ns9nc SienbS aierning. Ge aqteres
Sc mac opbuoe al lin araft. ON De
fol fuune itaa liz MOB Iienoen. I'll
Imerito fan uao ircm meo Sirlo,
Tom forIlodr. Wfcit Tor at flTn1pe
mau &c hare Mao; oct nil iiae Spe.
&c; for @reb or set uigtl9ltc. Ira
MI % til Igreue beApnocr at be-
ties, fan nj life ifoiic Nuehc uoen
pcb al mare. llocu at Iparc poo
Npchcn ioo meqet. Tom oct pao no
gcn Wanoc or muliNt, fan ~ life
ueutc Scir Tor oen iiorc SnQ, boor
Tor nj flTmpcr. 9&cocrIoq oil urrt
Dor &orrrc oQ Sfom.
@rla ino lioct Nueoc. lonl SET cr
muIiqt Nuaholoningcn fon oQ mnn
flare iia men bnIponbct Vunh 0pc
ocntcI ON lllcu Tor bpcr Verion /
TontiIicn. Ger or mango Nuahol6.
ninqcr Tom iIct life brliqcr noaet
0pcocmcl. CiicntIigc Spiicitco2r
noo beQrrnoic ii9 til oeu 'nmmc
Nirngoc for hpcr 2t Miaal. Sc fer.
ucrcr, Nnn9c 0otelcr % Hcitnurn
iiouer flnrcr iiN uoen At BRUCE no.
get Nucbemcl
Sor hOcr @nna man tlaber Nucoc.
mel. mno mon firbc m;n0lt li0c me
oct AZ eli onocn Sort Mel. Get or
Mnbcu. icm nil piuoc ariger, %
Nucoc or Sopcoioacr.
4
SptTllingcu Al Mcliorrooo / Sto.
ten or / 'liIo @dna. Wnbiturct far
itoitebt ielacnoc ,<nitrnftioner til
W%ooitnrcrnc / bc ioritleaiRc Goum
tier on hpob sc hnr at 1isrc, c'tCr
al sc hor 'noct Cplpauiuq ON Nfci.
bcholoninQcrnc;
"Npia Wtclct blcu flebt otter iitC
Sonnor 1918, fol airbnronbcn cI
Ter Mellcrcl tnlc oct tiIboac % be.
toIc inmIuc Yri2, iom aiebcrcu be.
tnltc. Aisbmnrocn CHER Wrqcrcl,
hapbc life Net Ill al iUlNc mere cu>
nof for eli Woolcb % mo tnqC
M'elci tlIboge Tor iommc Nria. hnl,
iif.
Nuia Wclct blcu flebt rsr ben
lite &oIutor 1918, bco alebmuu.
bcrc inQc oct tiIbolc Ill g~iUlbcnbC
W~nrfc0apTrbi, ON &c fnn Qrcic set.
@pia aisbmTuocnc fife fan NrciC
oct, gip pcofonunenbc Nuaiur eller
NuSmor Ct Vcruit, Tom lfol unocr.
~ifriuc9 al Gountncts MoOinrcr. %
Iom lfal Crflrre, at oct or oeofum.
mcnoc tIQoot al bolbc .... rs.
Sucbcnlcl iii IlSpoiitiou Tor Nab.
itpret. Dtcn set or tiQaot al bruaC
al bette Mel Ter Yunb ON Wonuc
Den for hpcr (criou. men life mere
Npia noacu ncatcr al u0Icucrc De.
cltcr Sorlnuqcnoc al Gountucts
Mooitprcr, clcr on Der ioreliaQcr
@epie Tor, at nogcll bar ncqtct al
gipc Oplparinq ON SperifloebcboIb.
ringer, ifoI Sogen mcIoea til Viao.
itpret."
Suffer for SpltninQ piI pUre a
ioo unocr WinoitrrctS Spinr. Nior
uil lnoisrc en- Sronina, huorcitcl
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1918-05-17

sanr ce '0rnner 1eres eubRrivasn. rens
bslii Foii' ener eorinnsisnins. Iei e. mi.
.sri CT feres lrie @euse / almtnsel,se grs0s
% Ri fan life pGre aniOariise lor ssass. ion
bl.y borie pea SeIeu.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-17
CANNOT Get HIM
Ebert Sees No Way of Punish
ing wilhelm for Crime.
Is Optimistic for Future
Wants Food for the People.

London, Dec. IT british wireless
service) Frederick Ebert, Socialist
premier of Germany declared in an
interview yesterday that he did not
know of any legal method by which
William Hohenzollern's surrender
could be forced.
It cannot think of any provision in
law upon which the former emperor
would have to be given up" he said.
But this is not a question which
closely concerns US. We have sep
arated ourselves from him AMI now
desire only that guilt for the out
break of the war should be finally
fixed in order that he may be exposed,
once for all"
Asked as to his view of the future.
Ebert replied:
81 am optimistic. but you must re-
member that our influence upon the
course of events is limited. We can
not create bread for the German peo-
pie. If the nation is allowed to starve.
then the inevitable will follow. That
a nation can be brought to a desper-
ate pass and burst thru all restraints
have been shown by the experience in
the past year. Our old system came to
the ground as a result Of Russian
events which it, itself provoked. II
is poor consolation however that, in
falling. one drags ones enemy to the
ground. To us any other solution
would be prefera ble."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-17

ssie7sal1ss; pigs. ~ 500 ls-s:
ATTLE.xeceipts 1929 No soS ,.tl t..;
steers. $1sooG2O.1o; dressed beef steers.
s15@@1s0o: western steers. sa2oo@ 9. 1s ~;
400; neifers. s7nOaia2S;. 'stockers and
feeders. nOo@l5.oo; bulls. ss.5o9o0;
sIIEEP@Seceipts 1000. Market strong:
Lambs, $12O0G 1525;~ yearlinEs, $1,000
$50; stockers and feeSers. se.So@7oo.
Kansas City Stock Yards. Dec. 16.-Cattle
receipts today were 1000 head; market msrset
market Sc to 15c higher. closing weak. top
S1I.55 Sheep and lamb supply 400, mar
ket loo to loo higher, top lambs &1S1A
BEEF CATTLE.
The special lot of fancy yearlings today
consisted of II head of Herefords averaging
around 200 lbs. and the price Soo.25 il the
G hes sale eveS made on the
The market has been strong each day since
packer requirements and falling receipt
prospects look favorable for feeders Well
finished steers sell at $40 to $3.50. but
$3.50 and weigh o4O to loco lbs No steers
Of any merit sell to killers under $12. Cow
Guiding Gamers, choice heavy one $40 to
$40 with exceptions up to $14. Medium
cows including range cows, bring $I.25 to
$40, Gamers $500 to 1925 veals S11 to $3.50
STOCKERS AND FEEDERS.
There Is such n large demand for cattle
| to pasture Kansas and Oklahoma whent
| fields. that stocks and feeders sell strong
constantly and are - cents higher than n
| week ago, feeders at $11 to SIS, stockers 81
, to SIS.
HOGS.
| Packers are shipping hogs from northern
| markets where they are plentiful to Fort
| Worth where they are scarce. in order o
use every faculty they have for mnnufnc-
| turing pork product. About 1000 hogs
| passed thru here Inst week from st. Paul
| and 500 City en- route to Fort Worth. Re-
ceipts here are quickly taken and prices
weight hogs today at 81 SO. heavies s1I.5o.
Lights S1I.So. bulk Of sales 81 to $11.i0.
The average price Is stu 10 to Is cents
above the authorized minimum Of $17.10 FOR
Kansas City. Stock pigs are uneven but
/ most sales Of desirable pigs on the open
1 market are at $3.50 to $14.2J.
| SHEEP AND LANBS.
The lambs at $15.l6 today were not
choice. which kind would bring 10 TO- 20
cents more. Fat ewes reached So 40 last
week aud good ones are ,quotabIe that high
! to S1alo, but there are few available. FRt
lambs usually acquire popularity during
the holiday season and higher prices are
expected. ]. A. RICKART.
| Market Correspondent
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-17
FAVORED THE HUN
Berger Ordered Editors To
~PIay Up Berlin"
So Say the Witnesses at His
Trial Today.

Chicago, Dec. 17-Victor Berger,
Socialist congressman-elect and one OF
the five defendants in tho Socialist
trial here. gave instructions to his edi-
tors to play up" Berlin and other
German dispatches in his Milwaukee
Leader, according to testimony in the
Berger trial Monday.
The statement made by Edward
Harris. former managing editor OF tho
Leader and now an editor OF the Mil
waukee Journal.
"Berger's instructions to me were
that Berlin dispatches were always to
be used as leads to Stories" Harris
declared. He told me to use nothing
offensive to the reader, however" said
Harris.
Headlines were built to bring out
the Berlin phase of the news, Harris
said.
h Harris said that he and three other
editors on the Leader, growing afraid
that Berger's policy would cause them
trouble, severed their connections with
the paper. Before leaving the Leader.
however. he said, the four prepared
a protest which they sent to Berger.
He said they wrote that the policy was
Unreasonable or so near it that prose-
cution is likely to follow" .=.-
Berger replied, Harris said, shat
he was the responsible head of the
paper and there wouldn't be any trou-
BILE any way"
On one occasion, Harris testified.
Berger reprimanded him for printing q
news dispatch which appeared to favor
the allies. The policy of Berger in
giving prominence to German news
began soon after the war began, Har-
ris declared.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-17
LOOKS TO FUTURE
Governors Are Told Schools
Must Do Better Work.
Governor Brumbaugh Tells Of
What They Must Do.

Annapolis, Nd. Dec. 17.-Schools in
the future must do more to educate
both the foreign and native born pop
ulation and to train men and women
in trades said Gov Martin G. Brum-
baugh, of Pennsylvania, in an address
before the conference of governors
here.
THE school must widen its sphere
OF e.r,s SERVICE ;, said, said Gov. Brumhaugn.
grant within five years master the
English language or leave the coun-
try. We shall be wise IL we at once
establish continuation school and en-
force attendance therein of all youths
above the age of fourteen who are
employed legally in industry.
Each citizen. man or woman,
should master definite trade and
schools should be a position to train
these branches. We are wasteful and
extrava gent people. The schools must
teach thrift and train our people to
set new policy of National loyalty
and must be aggressively moral"
Governor Brumbaugh denounced
the past practice of sending youths
to German universities.
Governor r. 1. Manning of South
Carolina, addressed the governors at
tending the annual governors confer
ence in session here today. The con-
ference is devoted to discussion of re-
adjustment policies.
Governor Fred Gardner of Missouri,
presided at the session this morning
and Governor Theodore G.. Bilbo of
Mississippi, has charge of the after
noon. The speakers for the day in
Guided:
T Governor Emmett d. Boyle, Ne
vada; Governor elect Thomas E.
Campbell, Arizona: Governor L. Lister
Washington; Governor r. G. Pleasant
Louisiana, and Governor James Whit
combe, Oregon.
The reception at the executive man.
sion Monday night was brilliant af-
fair. All of the governors. many OF
whom were accompanied by their
wives. were received by Governor and
Mrs. Harrington.
Tonight the governors, governors
elect and lieutenant governors OF, ev-
cry state in the union except SIX will
be guests of the Press club of Balti-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-17
ermany Is Cropping in POliti-
cal Darkness Just Now.
ike Industry With the Owners
All Taken Away.
hopes ON THIS week
Meetings Billed for the Week
< Over the Country.
Public Seems To Be Back of the
neutrality-suspicious..

= Berlin, Dec. IA (delayed).-Ger-
many is cropping in a political semi
chaos. She can be compared to a
huge industry from which the owners
have been removed. leaving the work.
Rrs in control. Every department is
&tom force of habit. while self-dele-
gated leaders cautiously attempt to
0rganize things.
- The greatest hopes are centered in
Next weeks developments. Soviets of
abe entire country will meet Monday,
while the reichstag will be convoked
aAter in response to the call of its
president, Kostantin Fehrenbach. The
people hope and expect that both
meetings will pledge their undivided
gppport of the Ebert-1aase govern
Ment which is regarded as the leading
fHctor for a socialistic republic Such
support, IL is believed will enable the
peoples council to call constituent
assembly before the extended armis-
flee expires on January /.
-. The public seems to be entirely be-
mind the Socialist-Republican party.
Rhich includes the ma jority Socialists
under Chancellor Ebert and Philip
sScheidemann. combined with the min
DIRTY Socialists under Hugo Haase,
wilhelm Ditmann and Richard Barth.
Junlcrs Arc Submerged.
e. The junker party appears to be
Npinion is that the junkers hope to
retain enough land to provide an in
GONE that will enable them to retire.
and that they are willing to give up
participation in the government to &C
complish this.
- The Spartacus group, led by Carl
Idebknecht, represents an element
That is unimportant numerically, but
d noisy and makes trouble. They
Favor setting up an entirely Social
Kpvernment which would be prac-
kcally Bolshevik in practice. Their
ranks are, being dangerously increased,
However. by recruits from among the
ranks of discharged soldiers and the
1apidly growing army of unemployed
1.-The great mass of Berliners. as well
hs other Germans, is holding back i'm
Patiently. expecting developments OF
the necessary support of a provisional
government with constitution that
you'd enable them to participate in
political affairs.
Il Demand Stronger Action.
-. The Bourgeoisie and the newspa-
lpers demand stronger action from
Ebert and Haase, but probably would
Fupport any government capable oil
dnsuring peace, order and food.
=, The revolution seems to have elirni-
mated the. word "verboten' from the
German language. There is an atmos-
pf1ere of lack of restraint wherever
one goes. Everyone is disposed to dc
llst as he pleases.
= The recent disorders, in which
Spartacus forces clashed with govern
ment troops, have entirely disap-
9eared. There is still an occasiona
free-for-all between the rival factions
but there is no shooting and the dam.
age usually is limited to few BLACK
eyes and broken noses
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-17
BAD WEATHER COMING
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CONTINUED from Page One.)
nasty weather. 1t was slated for to-
day bat did not arrive. Flora says.
however, that it will come during the
night, probably starting with rain
which will change to snow before
morning.
Heavy SHOWS were reported this
morning from the Panhandle in Texas.
Also Colorado and southwest Nebraska
report snow. Western Kansls was not
heard from this morning but accord
ing to Flora it is probable that some
snow fell there.
The lowest temperature reported in
the United States in the last "a hours
was IA above zero in Montana. The
lowest temperature in the last "a hours
here occurred at $50 O'Clock this
morning when the mercury registered
36 degrees. It was expected to go to
AS this afternoon Tomorrow tenn
peratures will range between 80
and 40.
The extremes on record for this
date were Ga in 1889 and ! above
zero in 1901. The wind at 10 o'clock
this morning was blowing at the rate
of two miles an hour from the eas St
At the sarrc hour the tempe r:ture
rSgist cred Il degrees
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-17
ALL CASUALTIES DUE
Pcrslling Says Last Will Be in De-
cemocr 20 and ~.

Pcrslling Says Last Will Be in De-
cemocr 20 and ~.
Washington. Dec. II. - General
Pershing cabled the war department
Monday that practically complete re-
DO. of deaths Mn action among the
expeditionary forces should reach the
department by December 20 and of
severely wounded by December 27.
General Pershing said that the num-
Der of unreported casualties in process
of verification at the central records
office of the expeditionary forces on
December IA was 40.440. They were
divided as follows:
wounds, PTS; died of disease, s53; ac-
cidentally killed. 81; severely wounded
in action. 39,371.
These include all suspense cases un-
der investigation, the general said.
Total casualties to November % In
the Thirtieth (Wildcat) division
North Carolina, South Carolina and
Tennessee National Guard) were given
as 1923. The casualties were CLASH
1,16S; died of wounds. 283; died OF
disease, Is; d.ed of other causes. 8;
severely wounded. 1,1S1; wounded,
degree undetermined. sos: slightly
wounded, 1913; missing or captured.
1913.
General Pershing reported that the
number of duplicated casualties dis
covered in the central records office
since November 81 would not operate
to reduce the total for the entire ex-
peditionary forces given in his sum-
mary of that date, as additional cas-
ualties reported more than effset the
duplicates.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-17

Should Come to q Vote BefOr
- the Christmas Holidays.
Senator Penrose Urges Haste
in Handling Measure.

Washington, Dec. -17.-Prompt
passage of the war revenue bill was
urged in the senate today by Senator
Penrose of Pennsylvania. senior Re-
mittee.
Senator Penrose gave his views
when the senate reached the income
tax section which provides for reduc-
ton of rates in 1920; Chairman Sim
mons Of the finance committee in
nounced that every effort would be
made to reach a final vote on the
measure before the holidays.
Senator La. Toilette gave notice that
he would offer later a substitute for
or move for reconsideration of the
dissenting from the provision for
1920. taxes, Senator Penrose urged
early passage of the bill with a view
to revision later. He favored abol-
ishing war excess profits taxes and
substitution of a new system Of fla
income taxes.
Essentially War Measure.
'Tt is because the bill is essentially
a war measure" he said, that I am
willing to support it. 1t has received
more careful thought by far than any
previous internal revenue measure ir
this country. 1t is more clearly ant
consistently drafted and supplied with
WAScT duIIlIiAoIidlASS PioNASiOHS liloi
any other measure.
"I cannot disguise the fact that
feel anxious as to the effect upon the
public of the attempt to apply such
higher rates of income and profit,
taxes as are provided. I am also con-
WINGED that the great body OF intel.
Hgent and patriotic business men an6
taxpayers thruout the land are will
ing to accept these new rates and de-
sire the measure passed.
Call for Legislation.
Undoubtedly many defects will
have to be provided for by remedia
legislation in the future. It seems
however, to be the best that can bt
had at the present time and it is UNI
questionably better than any preced
ing laws. 1t is to be earnestly hoped
that the bill will be passed promptly
The bills rates, Senator Penross
said, reach the limit of endurance ant
only are entitled to support as wal
emergency. He added that tax re-
auctions as government requirement.
shrink during rehabilitation and re
construction, are certain in the future