Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-12-02

| 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 1928 on income Of
the calendar year 1922.
The individual taxpayer will get the
benefit of increased exemptions APP
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 1211a per cent fiat
corporation income tax for the excess
profits tax and the present normal
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 65, repeal of number Of
miscellaneous taxes and imposition
Of some new manufacturers taxes.
Il MONT RELY, governor Of Por-
LIE to Rico, arrived in New York
the other day, and almost Immediately
afterward Senior Cordova- Davila, resi-
dent commissioner from the island in
Washington, received cabled instruc-
lions from San Juan to request Presi-
dent Harding to remove the governor
from Office for injudfcious and indis-
Greet actions. Among the specific
charges against Rely are:
He publicly declared himself leader
Of the insuIar Republican party and
the "friend of the Socialist party"
Annulled the moral power" of
judges by announcing they would be
removed if 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"
DPLOMATIC relations between the
II 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 as 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 it 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.
TN BELFAST, too, there has been ser1-
4 GUS rioting, resulting in the death of
a 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
NeiIl, accuses the British government
of organizing "the most horrible of all
the kinds Of war in Ireland-a war
as fanatical as 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 a wild time in the Indian city.
A score of persons were killed, hum
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.
/ Iy next year. It purposes to produce
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