Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-11-02
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Washington
By vote of SO to % the senate at
Washington adopted a finance COM
mittee amendment providing for a fiat
corporation income tax of ID per cent,
effective next January 1. The rate
agreed upon by the house was 1919
per cent.
BY a margin of one vote the Walsh
amendment, proposing a graduated in
come tax on corporations was rejected
by the senate at Washington. The
vote was 80 to 81, with ten Republic
ans standing with the solid Demo
cratic minority for the amendment.
House privileges and elections COM
mittee No. 1 agreed to recommend to
the house at Washington that Repre-
sentative L. B. Rainey of the Seventh
Alabama district be given his seat.
President Harding at Washington
will issue the proclamation of peace
between the United States and the
central powers within week, after
which the question of amnesty for war
prisoners will be taken up.
Official announcement was made at
Washington that the first session Of
the armament conference will be held
Saturday, November L, instead of
Armistice day, owing to the full pro-
gram Of exercises there on November
IL.
Representative Thomas L. BlantOn
of Texas apOlogized to the house at
Washington for the publication in the
Congressional Record of October % of
Objectionable matter which led to eff
forts to eXpel him.
The Treasury department at Wash
ington has taken all possible steps to
expedite the issuance Of permits to
sell beer as medicine, and it should be
on sale within a short time, Secretary
Mellon announced.
Payment of $7,OOO,O0O was made by
the railroad administration at Wash
ington to the Pullman company in set
Element of all claims of that company
against the government growing out
of federal railway operation.
President Harding's address in Bir-
mingham on the race question was de-
scribed as an unfortunate and mis-
chievous utterance" by Senator Har
rison of Mississippi in a formal state
ment at Washington.
Representative Thomas L. PlaDtOn
was publicly reprimanded by Speaker
Gillett at Washington, in compliance
with a vote of cenSure passed by the
house because of "Obscene matter"
which the Texas representative caused
to be printed in the Congressional
Record.
Issuance of permits to brewers for
the manufacture of medical beer I'M
der the new treasury regulations will
proceed with promptness and dispatch,
Internal Revenue Commissioner Blair
at Washington says.
The senate at Washington adopted.
without change, the section of the
finance committee bill repeating the
excess profits tax OH January 1, 1922.
No record vote was taken.
Scores of native Haitians were killed
by direct order of Z. S. marines when
the natives rebelled at enforced work
in building roads, Maj. T. G. Turner
Of the corps told the senate commit
tee at Washington.
For the fourth consecutive fiscal
year the Panama canal in 1921 showed
a profit, according to official reports
received at Washington. The excess
in receipts over expenditures was ST.
712.OOO.