Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-08-20
Washington

Home brew" not intended for sale
would be protected from search and
seizure by prohibition officers under
an amendment to the anti-beer bill
adopted by the national house of rep
resentatives before it sent the meas
ure to conference. ...
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Re
publican leader of the senate and
chairman of the senate foreign rela-
tons committee, will be a member of
the American commission at the COM
ing conference on disarmament and
Pacific policies, it was officially an
nOunced at the White House.
The senate interstate commerce
committee refused TO call William G.
McAdoo, former director general of
railroads, to give expert testimony"
on the administrations railroad fund
ing bill.
There are 5,735.OOO persons out of
work, according to official estimates
submitted by Secretary of Labor Davis
to the United States senate, m re-
Spouse to a senate resolution request
ing information regarding unemplOy-
ment in this country.
President Harding asked congress
for 100000 to defray expenses for
the disarmament conference.
Republican members of the house
In caucus at Washington voted to post
pone until January l, 1922, repeal OF
the excess profits tax and the higher
brackets of the income SurtaXes, to-
gether with the ) per cent increase in
the corporation tax. The house ways
and means committee had made these
provisions of the new tax bill retro
active to January 1, 1921. The vote
to overturn the committee action was
90 to 81. Following the caucus the
bill was introduced in the house.
World trade debtors increased their
obligations to American business con-
Germs by 81, 500,O0O,O00 in the last fiscal
mates given out at Washington showed
that this tremendous buying of Ameri-
can goods on credit basis had further
swollen Americas favorable trade
balance against the world to 4,50O,-
100000.
By unanimous consent the United
States senate agreed to vote on Oc-
tOber 10 on the BOrah bill providing
for free tolls on American cOastwise
vessels using the Panama canal. If
the senate is not in session on that
day it was understood the vote will
be taken the first day after it is con-
vened.
An official statement explaining the
administration tax revision program
was issued at the White House. It
declares that "the aim was to estab-
lish methods that would raise the
needed revenue within a reasonable
certainty, make collections sure and
inexpensive and properly adjust the
burden among all classes of the COM
munity"
New federal prohibition directors
were announced by Commissioner
Blair at Washington as follows: Ari-
IONA, NJ e. Cassidy of Bisbee Michi-
gan, James r. Davis of Lansing; Min
nesota, Siguard B. Quale of Wilmer !;
Vermont, Collins Willard Grakes Of
Bennington.
Increased appropriations for citi-
zens' training camps will be asked
next year because of "the tremendous
success" of this summers work, Gen
eral Pershing, chief of staff, an
nounced at Washington after an in
spection tour of Camps Meade, jack
son, Knox, Grant and Smelling.
Secretary of Commerce Herbert
Hoover has announced the appoint
ment of Allan G.. Goldsmith of Mil
waukee, Wis, as head of the western
European division of the Department
of Commerce.