Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-09-10
Washington


dicated that the senate will amend
the house revenue bill to make retro
active to January l, 1921, the repeal
of the excess profits tax and the
brackets of the individual income sur
tax above 80 per cent.
The one hundred and sixty-fourth
anniversary of the birth of Marquis
de Lafayette and the seventh ami
versary of the battle of the Marine
were celebrated at Washington.
Recruiting for the regular army
which was practically stopped when
it became evident that congress would
reduce the army to 10000 men, was
ordered resumed by Secretary Weeks
at Washington
A plan to provide pensions for eX-
service men, in lieu of bonus, and to
raise the money therefor by sales
tax, such as the 3 per cent manufac-
turers' sales tax proposed by Senator
Smoot, is reported to be under consid-
GRAFTON by the administration at
Washington.
President Harding at Washington
has signed an order removing III. j..
Scoffington as commissioner of immi-
grafton. Scoffington had refused to re-
sign when asked.
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A Washington dispatch says Fed
eral troops numbering more than
2,1OO are in the West Virginia mine
region, and unless the insurgents dis
perse peacefully to their homes, Gen
eral Bandholtz will assume control of
the five counties where civil authority
has been defed.
An increase of S151, O92, sos in the
public debt during August was an
nounced by the treasury at Washing
ton On July 81 the public debt stood
at 500, I'll ,237, OOS as compared with
S23, O22, 329, 1896 August 81.
Secretary of Commerce Hoover indi-
Gated that President Hardings con-
ference on unemployment will begin
at Washington between September Is
and 20.
President Harding, speaking at the
opening of the fall term of the Army
War college at Washington, declared
that, mo matter where the best as
pirations of the world lead US, there
never may be a time without the
necessity for armed forces"
Decision was reached by the senate
finance committee at Washington to
rewrite the house tax bill so as to in
clude in one document every internal
revenue law on the statute books.
Sporting
Bryan Downey, challenger, fought
Johnny Wilson, champion middle
weight boxer, to a draw at Jersey City
in fast 12-round contest.
lea II, set worlds record In the Lake
George trophy events at Detroit, Mich.
The average for six sprints of one
mile each was SO.56 miles an hour.
Domestic
W. A. Coleman was killed and Harry
Majors of Colorado Springs was in
jured while practicing on the Pixies
peak automobile roadway, near Colo
RADIO Springs, for the Labor day races
there.
Stephen d. Revenal, twenty-four
years old, of Charleston, S. c., was
killed when an airplane which he was
plotting went into a tail spin and fell
500 feet at Houston, Tex. Randolph
III. Clement was injured.
The bodies of Louis Wellenback,
eighty-four years old, and his wife,
Fannie, aged eighty, were found in a
little grocery store at Philadelphia
hacked, slashed and beaten as if by a
maniac.
Advances of as much as SO a bale
carried the price of cotton to ap-
proximately 20 cents a pound on the
distant months in the contract mar
ket at New Orleans. October was the
strongest month.
The Chicago Surface lines, accord
ing to reports filed with the Illinois
commerce commission, covering the
first seven months of this year, have
earned operating profits of $S,512, 515.
A Chicago & Alton train crashed into
q tourist automobile party near Bloom
ington, ILL.,, killing five outright and in
juring the sixth member of the party
American labor was urged ito go for
ward" through organization up to the
&c, 100000 mark" by Samuel GOmpers
in the annual Labor day message.