Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-09-19

TdlSeO Dy the government through tdA
alton is inflexible and any opinion thai
fore congress can eventuate as {
means of reducing the federal surtaa
cannot be rcconciled with the nations
financial requirements, it was stateC
in Great Falls Sunday by United
States Senator Thomas J. Walsh
Four and one -half billions Of dollars
must be raised and the congress is not
now wrestling with the problem Of
reducing the amount, but with shift.
ing the burden of it.
Final enactment of legislation now
proposed would increase. rather than
decrease, fedral taxes in certain in
stances. with the increase falling on
the smaller incomes, Senator Walsh
stated. Reduction of the maximum
levy now assessed against large in
comes to 80 per sent would inevitably
create discrepancy that could be met
incomes.
Misses Chinook Hearing.
Senator Walsh came to Montana to
attend the session of the international
Joint commission at Chinook last
week. regarding the division of Milk
river -Aaters but was unable to ar
rive there before the commission left
for Lethbridge. He has twice ad-
dressed the commission on matters in
controversy between the United States
and Canada over the division of the
waters of the Milk and st. Mary
rivers. and stated Sunday that had he
reached Chinook while the commission
was in session it would probably have
been Impossible for him to furnish any
information not already transmitted.
A proposal for the erection Of stor-
age reservoir for the impounding Ct
flood waters was made to water U.s. rs
in the Milk river district by Senator
Walsh six months ago, but the land
holders then took the position that he
cost would be prohibitive. The plan
was again revived at Chinook and is
said to have been favored at ! later
meeting at Lethbridge.
Senator Walsh will return to Wash
ington this week. Tax legislation now
under consideration cannot, IN the sen
ator's opinion. be completed much be-
any change will affect taxes collected
N 1922 is still predetermined.
Writes Of Trip.
In a letter released while Senator
Walsh was at Havre, be gives an ac-
count of his recent attendance at the
nter-Parliamentary union at Stock
holm. The purpose Of the organlza..
ton and the predominant features of
the Stockholm meeting are thus de-
scribed in Senator Walsh's letter, in
part:
'The ultimate purpose Of the Inter-
Parliamentary union is to secure peace
by bringing together as many as may
assemble. of the members Of such
bodies for the discussion of means TO
avert, ameliorate or remove dlscord
among the nations or to promote inter-
course between, or cooperation among
them.
sour party consisted. in addition to
myself. of Senator's Mckinley of Hi
nois and Robinson of Arkansas. and
Representatives Slayden Of Texas
Barley of Kentucky. Brooks and
Britten of Illinois and Montague of
Virginia. and Mrs. Montague. Con
gresham Britten will be remembered
BY many Montana people. among whom
he lived for number of years. as the
representative of the Congress Con-
struction Co. which erected the federal
building and the Montana club in
Sail With Legionnaires.
The outward trip was made on the
good ship George Washington, bound
for Bremen. the ship that carried
President Wilson to and from the
peace conference 1t was enlivened by
the presence among the passengers of
over hundred representatives of the
American Legion. including many of
it's principal officers, making pill
gr:mage to the battle fields. Among
them was DR.. Foster of Livingston,
and the wife of Captain A. l.. Helwig,
who was Miss Mary McEvily. reared
in Helena, and now after years Of
training in Paris, renowned singer as
well as the author Of a number of
books As we boarded the ship at her
diers who fell in France were being
On the following Sunday in midoccan
services in honor of the dead were
conducted under the auspices Of the
Legionnaire passengers on our boat.
1--WE carried eleven hundred in the !
steerage destined to Germany and all
parts of central Europe. some pro-
Tossing q purpose never to return. a
determination most of them have,
doubtless, reconsidered by this time.
Germans Welcome Ship.
1.-The George Washington was one
of the units of the North German
Lloyd fleet. She was accordingly pro-
ceeding to her original home port. a !
fact Of which due notice had been !!
taken. for she was welcomed as she |,
steamed into the slip at Bremerhaven
by boisterous throng estimated at |
twenyt thousand, that gave every man
Hesitation of joy, apparently untinged !
with either regret or resentment, that
by the fortunes of the war the own
ership of the noble ship had passed to
the government of the great republic,
whose entry into the struggle had re-
suited SO disastrously for their coun-
try. Much of the jubilation was due
no doubt. to the. reunion of friends
and relatives long separated, and more
to the re-establishment of a regular
passenger service between the port
pnd the United States, circumstance
The Importance of which was not over
looked in view of the depressed state
Of the carrying trade upon which the
prosperity Of Bremen SO lprgely de-
ponds.