The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-28

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Diego.
July Fl.
Votes for the Food Control Bill, ap-
propriating 1852, 100000.
Supports an appropriation Of $780,
100000 for aviation.
July 20.
Favors bill to relieve entrymen of
desert land when they enter the naval
or military service.
July 2e.
Asserting that money is more need
ed for war purposes, LaFollette votes
against the River and Harbor Appro-
priation Bill, during the war.
Supports amendment giving presi-
dent power to limit expenditures on
rivers and harbors during war, to ac-
tual necessities. Amendment defeat
ed
August 20.
LaFollette supports bill to provide
an air craft station for the navy at
the cost of $15O,OOO.
September II.
Votes for an act to secure the sec
recy of patents on war inventions dur
ing the conflict.
September II.
Favors the organization Of an air
craft board and a hundred thousand
dollar appropriation for the same.
Supports an act called 1.-THE Trad
ing with the Enemy Actp making it
unlawful to carry on business with an
alien enemy.
J September 10.
Supports an act providing for the
appointment of twenty chaplains at
large for the army.
September is.
Votes for the bill authorizing the
second bond issue giving the secre-
tary of the treasury, with the approx
al of the president, the power to bor-
row $685. 45,64O for war expendi-
lures, and to issue other certificates
of indebtedness, up to four billion
dollars and war saving stamps up to
two billion dollars.
| Several amendments proposed by
LaFoIlette to limit the rate of inter
est to four percent, to issue bonds in
sums of twenty dollars or multiples
Thereof, and to tax incomes derived
from bonds were defeated.
September rs.
LaFollette supports the second big
appropriation for the war, totalling
1886 ,666,016.
October 4.
Supports bill permitting public land
afldavits to be taken before military
officers.
Votes for act providing insurance
for military forces and for injured sol
diers and dependents involving an ap-
preparation of $176,25O,O0O.
October 5.
Supports a measure providing for
commissions in the army for medical
and dental corps.
Votes to fix Communication price of
the navy ration.
! Votes to establish ratings for arti-
sans in the army.
Supports an act empowering the pres
ident to use cavalry as artillery regi-
ments.
Favors a bill permitting vessels of
foreign registration engaged in coast
wise shipping to be admitted to Amer
lean registration.
Supports an act granting six
months pay as gratuity to families
of deceased officers and making same
applicable to all retired officers re-
entering active service.
Favors act extending morality and
liquor sections of army draft law to
the navy.
October 6.
LaFollette supports bill facilitat-
ing the purchase of land for the Ord
nance Department.
From the close of August to about
mid-September, 1917, Congress was
busy with the war revenue measure.
During all this time LaFollette was
busily at work in an effort to raise
the maximum sum of money with
which to wage the war on the basis
fof levying higher tax rates on war
profits and big incomes rather than
on the incomess Of the middle and
lower groups of capitalists. LaFol-
lette's proposals in this direction were
of course, defeated by the spokesman
OF the uppermost crust of the capital
list class. But none of "Bob's" amend
ments aimed at preventing the i'm
perialists from getting war funds. He
aimed only at transferring the bur-
dens of war to the biggest capitalists
from the lower group of exploiters.