Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-20

of the most important news OF
the world for the seven days
ended April 10:
THE BRITISH EMPIRE.-The most
important business of the past week was
the presentation to the House Of Com
mons of the British budget for the fiscal
year ending March 81, 1881. 1t calls for
total expenditures of about the equiva-
lent of 1886, 600, 900, more by about
S265, loo, 900 than the total OF the last
fiscal years receipts, more by about
SOS, 700 600 than the original estimate
of revenue for the last fiscal year. Mr..
Snowden allows certain protective duties
(the safeguarding" duties) to lapse
during the current fiscal year, but tter-
ribly against the grain. for he is thor
ough-paced free trader) he is con-
strained by the condition of the treas
ury to maintain the more important
"McKenna" duties Chiefly on automo-
bile products and yielding about $50
900 900 Year,.
1t is thus seen that Mr.. Snowden was
compelled to find a tidy sum of new
money" partly to liquidate the late f1s-
cal years deficit of about $72,60O 600,
partly to replace relinquished sources
of revenue, partly to offset decline In
yield of certain revenue sources, but
chiefly to finance new social and elee-
mosynary legislation.
Whence the new money? From
increase of the standard rate" of in
come tax from four shilling to four
shillings and sixpence in the pound.
From very considerable increases, on
| graduated scale, of the supertaxes on
excess Of income above $4,000 (reach-
ing 71a shillings in the pound, or the
equivalent of $3.50 per 500, on excess
above $3.50. 000). From substantial grad
| uated increase of the death duties (es-
| tates of $10,000,000 and larger taxed
at so instead of the former 40 per cent?
| and from increase of the beer tax by
shillings per barrel. AS to the last,
the brewers promise that the increase
of the tax will not be passed on to the
| consumer, whether by increase OF cost
or debasement of quality, but no doubt
| the attitude of Hodge and AIRY Is Mis-
sourian.
AS to the increase of the standard
| income tax rate, Mr.. Snowden was at
] earnest pains to point out that 1t will
affect not more than a quarter OF the
| $3.50 900 income tax payers. 1t VIII not
| affect single persons with incomes be-
| low $2.500, nor married persons with
| children with incomes below $4,000.
! The vast majority of income tax pay
ers pay only from to shillings In the
| pound.
It is. then. as Mr. Snowden asserts,
"a poor mans budget" 1t is well to
quote, as of first-class significance, Mr..
Snowden's conclusion:
I'm making this budget, have placed
burdens on the shoulders best able to
bear them. I have placed no direct
| tax on industry and have not taken
from the poorest of the land any part
! of their inadequate means. This new
| taxation does not mean deprivation OF
| necessities nor even of the reasonable
| luxuries and amenities of life for any
body. I am merely asking that a
! favored section of the community shall
contribute to the needs of the state in
! proportion to the benefits which the
state has conferred on them"
Arrests continue of persons, who, re-
sponsive to Mahatma Gandhis incite-
ments have violated the salt monopoly
Yet, from whatever motives the Britt
ish government refrains from arreStine
the Mahatma. The latter is now agi-
tating for boycott of foreign cloth
which adds to the unhappiness of Lam
cashire, where the cotton textiles indus
try is in its worst slump since the Amer
lean Civil War.
Among those imprisoned for violation
of the salt monopoly are Pandit Java
harlal Nehru, president of the All-India
National Congress Che has received q
six months prison sentence), son of the
famous Pandit Motilal Nehru and j. M
Sen Gupta. mayor of Calcutta. Tit
popular comment was wild rioting II
Calcutta on the 18th, in the course o.
which trolley cars and fire engin,
were wrecked and l European fire.
man was killed and 10 others were in.
iured by a mob gone quite wild anC
armed with wooden slaves and the like
Troops were modified but after des'
perate battling, the police mastered ths
situation The police showed extraor'
binary self-control, only one shot beins
fired and that in absolutely necessar!
self-defense.
On the 10th Calcutta resumed riotine
and other cities took 1t up, especial,
Karachi and Poona. At Karachi moi
estimated at 10000, surrounded tht
court house in which six National Con
gress violators of the salt tax are being
the latter were at length constrained II
fire. One native was killed anc
SO persons, including European police
sergeants, were injured In the bust.
ness. Fifty or so casualties at Calcutta
including is police badly hurt; armoreC
cars patrol the streets.
Violations of the salt monopoly con
tinue on a considerable scale and man,
arrests were made, but no rioting on the
18th or 18th reported.
II v
GERMANY April Ia, in hight
J exciting Reichstag session, the govern
nent secured passage Of Ito entire i'm