The Holly chieftain., 1921-12-01

become effective on that date, tax
payers will not get the benefit Of the
changes until they pay their taxes In
the early part Of 1923 on income Of
the calendar year 1922.
The individual taxpayer will get the
benefit of increased exemptions ap-
plying to dependents and to heads OF
families with moderate incomes on
their taxes paid in 1922 on 1921 in
come.
The chief features of the new law
are substitution of a 1871 per cent fiat
corporation income tax for the excess
tax of 10 per cent, retention of pres
ent normal taxes on individual in
comes, but decrease in surtax rates,
the new maximum being so per cent
instead of G5. repeal of n number Of
miscellaneous taxes, and imposition
of some new manufacturers taxes.
U MONT RELY, governor of Por.
LIE to Rico, arrived in New York
the other day, and almost Immediately
afterward Senor CordovnDavila, resi-
dent commissioner from the island in
Washington. received cabled instruc
tlons from San Juan to request Presl-
dent Harding to remove the governor
from office for injudIcious and indis-
Greet actions. Among the specific
charges against Reilly are:
He publicly declared himself leader
Of the insular Republican party and
the friend Of the Socialist party"
Annulled the ''moral power Of
judges by announcing they would be
removed IL a decision was rendered
considered by the governor unjust"
Pardoned criminals ito please So
cialist leaders," and these criminals
Immediately committed new crimes.
Directed or permitted" police to
break up reception organized to greet
Antonio Baroelo, president Of the SEN
ate, and leader of the Unionist party.
''later promoting the police officer
who broke up the demonstration"
Appointed three departmental heads
Opposed to the spirit Of the organic
act and to the laws of Porto Rico"
on recommendation of Corporations
whose directors reside outside Porto
Rico"
DIPLOMATIC relations between the
~ United States and Germany were
resumed last week by exchange Of
ambassadorial calls in Paris and by
the arrival in Washington of Baron
Edmund Won Thermann rs charge
d'affaires to prepare the embassy for
the coming of an ambassador He Is
fitting up the building with furnish
ings plain and inexpensive enough to
suit the most democratic, having
brought most Of them from Berlin.
Any, extravaganza would be incOn-
sistent with the poverty pleas of the
German government, which is now
seeking foreign credits to enable 1t to
pay the reparations and customs in
stallments due the allies early next
year.
The riots and strikes In Berlin, due
to high prices of food and the low
value of the mark, are spreading to
many other parts of the country, and
the government Is said to be in fear
of monarchist and communist upris-
ings. A general strike is threatened
unless those arrested in the riots are
released.
IN BELFAST, too. there has been seri-
Gus rioting, resulting in the death Of
dozen or more persons and the loot
ing of many stores. The clashes.
Judging from the cabled reports. seem
to have been instigated by the Orange
men. Bombs were used freely and
with deadly effect, and the military
was unable to stop the sniping Of the
Sim Fein and Ulster factions. The
speaker Of Dali Eireann, Eoin Mac
Neill, accuses the British government
Of organizing "the most horrible Of nil
the kinds Of war in Ireland-a war
as fanatical MS the religious wars of
the Seventeenth century"
The Irish delegates met with the
British cabinet members on Wednes-
day. but what progress they made was
not made public.
A ND yet more rioting-this time in
"A Bombay. The arrival there Of
the prince Of Wales was the signal for
the outbreak and for four days there
was n wild time In the Indian city.
A score. of persons were killed. hun
dreds wounded and many fires start
ed. In the Malabar district the Brit
ish have been making some progress
against the rebels; several hundred
Moplahs were killed in two engage
ments.