The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1921-10-14
SENATE PASSES
FREE CANAL BILL
Measure Giving U. S. Ships Pas
sage O. KID At to 81.
VOTE TO END FREIGHT TAX
Majority Committee Favors Repeal of
All Transportation Tariff in Re-
port-Presdent May Get Bill
This Month.

Washington, Oct. 11.-Despite OPP
position by Senator Lodge, Republican
leader, the senate passed the Borah
bfl providing that no tolls be charged
American vessels passing through the
Panama canal. The vote was AZ
to 81.
Senator Lodge, who is chairman Of
the foreign relations committee, did
not 90 into detail In his protest
against passage of the bill, but said:
"There are compelling reasons why
we should not exercise at this time
our undoubted legal right to remove
tolls as provided in this BILL"
The bill now goes to the house.
where, 1t is expected it will be held
In committee until after the armament
conference which begins November IL.
Those FaVoring Bill.
Those voting for the bill were: AS
hurst, Ball. BOrah. Broussard, Calder.
Cameron, Capper, Cummins, Curtis,
Edge, Elkins, Fernald, France, Ere
linghuysen, Gooding, Harreld, Harri-
son, Johnson, Kellogg, Kendrick,
Ladd, La Toilette, Lenroot, McNary,
Moses, Newberry, Nicholson, Norbeck,
Oddie, Page, Penrose, Poindexter,
Ransdell, Reed Robinson, Shields,
Shortridge, Smoot, Stanley, Suther-
land, Townsend, Underwood, Walsh
(Mass.), Walsh (Mont.), Watson
Und.), Weller, Willis Total AZ.
Voting against the bill: Brandegee,
Caraway, Colt, Culbertson, Dillingham;,
Ernst, Fletcher, Glass, Hale, Harris,
Heflin, Hitchcock, Jones IN. NJ,
Kenyon, Reyes, King, Lodge, McCor-
mick, McCumber, Mcclellan, Mckinley,
Meyers, Nelson, New, 0verton, Pitt
man, Pomerene, Sheppard. Simmons,
Smith, Spencer, Sterling, Trammell,
Wadsworth, Warren, Watson (Ga.),
Williams. Total, 81
o. K. Tax Bill Amendments.
Amendments to the tax bill propos-
ing repeal of all transportation taxes,
including those on oil carried by pipe
lines and on parcel-post packages; a
maximum surtax rate of so per cent
and increased estate taxes were ap-
proved by majority members of the
senate finance committee.
A fiat tax of $6.4O a gallon on dis
titled spirits was also agreed upon,
but with a proviso that there would
be rebate Of $4.2O a gallon where
1t was shown to the satisfaction Of the
commissioner of internal revenue that
the spirits were used for manufac-
turing or medicinal purposes.
The majority also approved amend
ments for retention of the corporation
capital stock tax and for repeal of the
$1,000 exemption allowed corporations
in the case of corporations having
annual net income in excess of $4,000.
Nuisance" Taxes Cut Out.
Excise taxes proposed for repeal un-
der another amendment include the
rates on sporting goods, chewing gum,
electric fans, thermos bottles, smoking
and hunting equipment, moving-pic-
ture films, toilet soaps and powders
Photographic apparatus and Access
series, furs and perfumes and cosmet-
les. The tax on works of art would
be reduced from 10 to 5 per cent, the
tax OH candy made 4 per cent fiat
and the additional taxes proposed on
hotel rooms and on hardwood office
furniture eliminated.
Thus the committee majority not
0T1lU QQnrnuOd oil tho IL
tons agreed upon by senate leaders
last week, but adopted some on it's
own account. The vote on the major
changes was understood to have been
to 4. 1t was said that on the test
vote last Saturday the majority dis
approved by 5 to 4 the proposals for
increased surtax rates and estate
taxes, but these matters were recon-
sidered.
May Reach Harding This Month.
Chairman Penrose, in announcing
the committee action, said the
changes, in his opinion, assured solid
Republican support for the tax bill,
and he reiterated his belief that the
amended measure could be sent to the
President before the end of the month,
commanding practically the unani-
nous support of the majority party in
the senate" he said, "the bill ought
to pass that body at an early date.
do not anticipate any prolonged con-
troversy in conference, so there is
every reason to expect the bill to be-
come a law before the expiration of
the present month";