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Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1921-10-14
ALTERS TAX MEASURE
Senate Body Accepts Amend
ments to Proposed Bill.
Repeal Of All Transportation Levies
Favored by Majority Of Finance
Committee.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. to the
tax bill proposing repeal of all trans
portation taxes, including those on Gil
by pipe lines and on parcel post pack
ages, maximum surtax rate of so
per cent and increased estate taxes
were approved by majority members
of the Senate finance committee.
The majority also approved amend
ments for retention of the corporation
capital stock tax and for repeal of the
$4,000 exemption allowed corporations
in the case of corporations having an
nual net incomes in excess of $4,000.
A fiat tax of $6.40 a gallon on dis
titled spirits also was agreed upon, but
with proviso that there would be a
rebate Of 1920 a gallon where it was
shown to the satisfaction Of the COM
missioner of internal revenue that the
spirits were used for manufacturing
or medicinal PURPOSES. ''S "&
Excise taxes proposed for repeal
under another amendment include the
rates on sporting goods, chewing gum,
electric fans, thermos bottles, smok-
ing and hunting equipment, moving
picture films, toilet soaps and powders,
Photographic apparatus and accesso.
ries, furs and perfumes and cosmetics.
The tax on works of art would be re-
duced from 10 to per cent, the tax
on candy made per cent fiat and the
additional taxes proposed on hotel
rooms and office furniture of hard
woods eliminated -..-
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1921-10-14
AGE IN MINNESOTA

According to the census of 1920, 31.1
per cent or over three-tenths Of the peo-
pie in the State of Minnesota, are eth
er infants or children under Is years of
age; go per cent are young people Is
to 10 years old; 1873 per cent are men
and women in the prime of life, being
from 20 to "A years old; while 2O.8 per
cent, being As years Of age and over,
are we'll along in middle life If they
have not reached old age. !.
The urban population as compared
with the rural shows some rather strik-
ing differences in age, the percentage
20 to A years of age being 43.7 for the
urban population as compared with $40
for the rural, while the percentage un-
der Is years of age is 1858 in the ur.
ban population as against 34.6 in the
Z rural These differences may indicate
larger families of children in the coun.
try than in the city, but more nrobab.
~ indicate also the effect, Of Che immi-
grafton to the city Of foreigners and al
40 OF native population coming from
the country and thereby increasing the
activesadult population of the cities at
the expense Of, the rural districts.
Almost three-6fths Of the population,
57.S per cent, are old enough to vote,
being 81 or over; and in this class the
men outnumber the women in the ratio
lo Of: IL to 100. The males of military
age, IS to A, constitute 42.3 per cent
s'of the male populat ion1 and 22.l per cent
Of the total population.