GREATEST TAX BILL IN WORLD Six Billion-Dollar War Revenue Measure Complete FINAL ACTION TO COME SOON Bulk Of Revenues Shall Be Secured From Incomes, Corporate And Individual, And War- Excess Profits. Washington. —The six‘billion-dollar War Revenue Bill, the grestest tax measure in the history of the world, was formally presented in the House, It has been six months in the making: bad been passed once by the House, and had been revised twice to meet the transitions from war to peace and from a “wet” to a “dry” nation, Representative Kitahin, the Demo- eratic leader, expects the House to approve the measure—ag®eed to by Benate and House—before adjourn- ment Saturday night, and Senator 8immons, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, will presemt it in the Senate as soon as the House bas acted. Approval of the bill by both houses in the form in which ft was reported by the conferees is con fidently expected by leaders of both parties. The completed measure will not be pent tc France unless the President's departure for home is delayed well beyond the date now set fof his sall- Ing. The President is expected to sign the bill soon after his arrival here In the meantime the internal revenue bureau is proceeding with prepara- tions for collecting 1918 taxes on the basis of the schedules as contained in the measure by the con ferces, Considerable dissatisfaction several conference provisions was evi dent at the Capitol after copies of the final draft had been leaders generally mate enactment port. forecast, but this not bong delay final approval. About onethird of this mated federal expenses is the bill, which, the original § time modifications of the Semate, pro vides that the bulk of revenue be secured from incomes. and individual, and war excess profits Large revenues also are ¢ xpected from intoxicating July 1, when prohibition effective Estmates of the exact revenue turns in prospect vary. Unofficial est! mates published today placed the yield 8t about $6.086.000.000 th's and $4,150,000,000 in 1920. Estimates pre. pared by commitiee, perts Indicating pr this year of about $4.070 000 000, com. pared wit $4.370,000.000 fro existing tax laws, will be made publ tomorrow by Reg regent The $6.070.000000 for based on faxes fiscal year ending July 1 next, includ- {og six months’ re yepues from intoxi- eants. Hedurns endar vear estimated perts at about $5.788,000,000 reported the predicted of the cont Some debate in the Senate was wus expected ic year's esti provided in unif ve add matiy shall corporate beverages until re year and Treasury ex spective h about EX} itive Kitchin Year fa proapective for the present by the wai cal ex- are BRITISH EMBARGO MODIFIED. American Boot And Shoe Dealers Given Equal Chance, London, —At British manufacturers, British import- ers and representatives of American a conference ee AIR a boned SON po am RNY 0 = Naam NRC 7 “ 221A He / tt Hr SHALL NATIONS AND LEAGUE PLAN Little Powers Insist Equal Representation Upon SIGNS OF A DEADLOCK 3 ence—Preamble And Two Articles Of Peace Society Agreed Upon. Although the five great al powers Paris lied and associated directing turned over much of the of nations ques with reference to the becoming knotty have oO com- the Peace Conference work missions, the society tion, especially nations, is a problem, The smaller want full equality 1d also greate: fi Ai50 £41 already out nations, it declared, in a Society of Na- powers than 1 give to then ne ined are faced with a situation taat if each start competition on an equal basis tails will be arranged later. The sonference was arranged by the Amer. preme court of nalions, though. their interests and 3 it not i powers would conzent ment of this sort, and ilar to that at the Peace Conference appears 0 making. The Nations question are hopefu f finding a get S16 probably be the great All Arrange a sifuation sim Hague be In an the So seyit led would al ave $y is believe that 10 second the experts way to the smaller will for of approval at the al The Hague The the constitu tions were upon by the commisaic Con ference appointed ( 3] with that subject, Satisfactory not fall as Elihu & supreme court 800K preamble provisionally greed Peace 5 Th ' announceq wde with v tsa i» Tek The qu of a8 Was m progre other paris of the task on dding representati other t ves powers to the commisaion, if was add od, is being The text of official announcement reads discussed commisgio tk f met at Hotel commencod det A preamble and discusaad ie league © Crillon led disen iQ relnln saCiF tions de its aj two a exis wer ’ were their and provisionally agreed upon. Satis wes made in regard parts The tion of adding representatives of oth er powers to the commission also was discussed Among the subjects which the 8n. prame has turned committees is that of the conflicting the smaller nations tory progress E 1« other of the draft ques Council over ft« of the of the British Government. ———— | — i ——— in C/ ¥T LOSE ON WHEAT. Cost To Consumer, However, To Be Dictated By Law. . Washington. — While the farmer would be pald the $2.26 government guarantee for the 1918 wheat crop, the wheat would be sold to ihe consumer 8 a price to be dictated by the law of supply and demand, under legisia- tion approved by the Mouse Agricul ture Committee. The government would lose the difference between the purchase and sale prices, FARMER BANDITS HOLD YP BANK. Masked Robberts Escape With $4,000; Overlook $100,000, Wireoling, W. Va-—Three masked bandits held up the cashier and two other employes of the Bank of Fulton, mear here, and escaped in a waiting automobile with $4,000 in cash. More than $100,000 in money and bonds was overlooked by the robbers when they looted the vault. — © 88 KILLED IN BREMEN, Paris. —A dispatch from Bremen an- _ sounces that during the fghting in that city 86 persons were killed and i { i ; to be taken from enemy couniries. [It is the design of the Supreme Council that such questions as these be ad- ultimately in harmony with the principles of the "society of na tions, it Is explained, but pendnz the completion of the organization of that society it has been found expedient to arrange for a full hearing of all these claims. It is expected that the same course will be followed with the claims of Irredenta proper, including the Dal. matian coast, which are to be heard next by the Supreme Council. This method of work gives the mem- bers of the Society of Nations Com. mittee a better opportunity to hasten their work, Indications are that this gystem will make it possible to get the Society of Nations’ pian out of committee and before the plenary con. ference within the 10 days remaining of President Wilson's stay in France. sii 5200 MET VIOLENT DEATH. 273 Homicides And 772 Suicides In Gotham Last Year, New York Approximately 5,200 persona met violent death In this city last year, according to the annual re. port of the ohief medical examiner just made public. There were 273 homicides and 772 suicides, a slight decrease compared with 1917, ’ —————--w Camp at Friedrichsfelde When The Hospital He Was Extremely Emaciated And Covered With Vermin, accord one ofl Fulham in Henry the Lae which A the coroner London verdict, ing of cials, guest in tichard Roberts, aged 18, ated prisoner War, valion He Wis a4 native Hoberts was admitted to the Fulham Military Lo smounted to > 2 yy @ ” mangiaugite: returned against German Waa $0 a the case of Private of a died OL 8 repatri of who of Carparvon Hospital on December 25 gd the only official news they that he from Friedrichafelds Came he boat Major Charles Gres the soldier the stated emaciated and Lt &kin at the bad seed ad Mission, emely he was ju tional was 1918, #h he Aken Pp and had been 1¢ German lines evel constructing OYerwork 16 men of had been Apa; the hard wo He expinined 3 loved carryin heavy ral shoulders hat a number weak and ex 1d heen nt of # 1 want fO0 aust we the weig! wed 1 wd of exhau Carnegie | rissioner ars take Roberis’ him too 1 New and we Year's ied on no Ot Captain Carnegie Dicksd at the hoapiial, who had made th i mortem examination, st body ever seen one in his and that m 104 pounds, He was verminous, was absent entirely from tissues, and muscles were wasted. The heart was only onehaifl the normal size. There was recent tuberculosis on the lungs, death being due to rapid and acute tuberculosis, which the wit WAS ore ema ence, the an weighed onl the the months, It was should dle in this way, and one would not think it possible that one man could serve another as this poor fellow had been served. The foreman of the coroner's jury, after consultation with his colleagues, paid: : “We consider that it is a case of wilful murder by German ofliciale.” o————" Al A BAS MRS, ROOSEVELT SAILS. She Will Visit Quentin's Grave In France, Then Go To Italy. New York.—Mrs. Theodore Roose- velit, widow of the former Presideni, was among the pascongers on the French liner Lorralne, which sailed from here Wednesday, She will visit the grave of her son, Lisutenant Quen. tin Roosevelt, who was killed in an lane battle over the German lines, and also plans to spend several weeks with her sister, Miss Emily Carew, who is doing war work in Italy. I RAIL SOLUTION Would Put a Few Big Lines Under Strict Supervision QUESTION OF FAIR RETURN Director - General Urges Five-Year Control Before Senate Committee Immediate Release Of Roads Next Best Solution. Washington. — Exaggerated com: plaint against Government railroad operation, growing oul of a natural reaction from war-timn patriotic ten sion, is a “psychologieal factor” which makes it difficult at this time to de: way problem, Director-General sald in testifying interstate Commerce Committee, This is tant Hines said, wernment | tion either be extended years and time given for calm turned before the Senale one impo: reason, Mr. why GO should eration the roads private ent 21-month period expires or management before the : “1 do not belleve there ig anything ! substantial in the argument thai a | five-year extension of Government op mean Gov “ Mr Hi said, believe in Gov- I believe there radically recon | eration would necessarily ernment ownersiip, Oona not i ernment ownership. {| can form of structed private own be a th such ud the Lae wi rahip { cloge Government supervision, ing {| ing Government representation on as give 11 +¢% aii tae Dene the of Lhe preserve the benefits | boards of directors will and labor Government ame will : rir by f i priv ‘ + { public ownership and at Lime of gelf-inter nitia § haped tion of part of the 1 the next “If this i gait will be that months’ period wil no aciua there will a 4 and in all prob then have there will be and then for an extension of time ability the time will extended.” 0 WASHINGTON Departure from France of nine ships, which will dock at New York, Phila delphia or Newport News in the next three weeks with approximately 400 | offfoers and 7.200 men from the Amer. ican Expeditionary Force, was an: nounced by the War Department, In a partial agreement reached by Confereea on the informal war con tracts the Senate managers vielded and struck from the bill the plan for an appeliate commission to pass upon awards of government officials. Divergent views of action to be taken by Congress for making good the government guarantee of $2.26 a bushel for wheat of the 1919 crop were given at the House Agriculture Com- mittee hearing. Leon O. Fisher, of New York, see ond vicegresident of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, became head of the Insurance Department of the War Risk Bureau. Warning was issued by the Treas. ury Secret Service that a counterfeit $20 Federal Reserve note 4s In circula tion. Bweeping investigation of Bolshevik, I. W. W. and other propaganda was ordered unanimously by the Senate. ¥ THE PEAGE PACT a Delegates Recognize the Need of Getting it in Shape ———————— LEAGUE PLANS ARE READY Members Of The Conference Show Anxious Desire To Secure Prac- tical Results Before President Wilson Leaves For Home, Paris A feverish haste is marking the proceedings of the peace delegates in the few days remaining before the return President Wilson to the United The most of States, .0 be ereated and which have aroused the aspiration cially the little ones of their neighbols for the territory definitely although that coun has post. jeigium, desired ruined be claim also would not HE The pond his Belgians President trip to he greatly he their and inspect and industries the Ay ¥ f 3 ¥ 3 1 of thelr for Justice The Fre glad if the sould have heen glum, but if could his visits to nch Have only Bel aration President tO able go he The h France. msaller devastated French feeling this as in in his declaration that the pan blockad« definitely. More have inued garded as necessary that sien should be continued in demands, however! President's con it % Paris re the associ sted powers shall waen © been done o getiie torial disputes by endeavoring U spbhmitted to {1} ae ques f a3 ORO t irreconcilabl of the primary peace al No e« Derm peri hich ¢ declared tt} nnom ed i discrimination shall be CHILD TORTURE ALLEGED. In Georgia Unsound Mind. "hat Mra. Naomi the undenon Deemed Of who is held in 21 on charces of of the inet Human treatment is not ¥ was the declaration made W. E Swanson Ch e in age from 2 to 16 years stories of being forced hy Mrs. Camp. hell to torture babies of 2 and 3 vears and vaving red pepper and rubbed into the raw flesh ing mi dren ranging told furpentine FIRST TO BE DECORATED IN U. 8. Distinguished Service Cross Presented Soldier In Hospital, Washington. — The first Distinguished Service Cross to be presented in thie country to an enlisted man for gal laniry overseas wae worn by Corporel Newell B. Davis, of Rochester, N. Y.. { Company. Twenty-elghth Infantry of the First Divigion, who received the decoration at Waller Reed Hospital, where he ‘s recuperating from wounds, General Pershing elted Davis for res. cuing a wounded comrade at Cantigny in the face of machine gun fire, a WILSON GETS DEGREES. Representatives Of Crocow And Athens Universities Confer Them. Paris President Wilson received a committee of the Society for the Pro tection of Polish Victims, who present od to Mim a manifesto expressing ap preciation of his good offices. He also received delegations from the Univers. ities of Cracow and Athens, who con ferred upon him honorary degrees. 5 5. M335 M3 HS ——————— ALLIED ACTION se — Measure to Be Taken to Bring Huns to Their Senses esp” woo SOME STUMBLING BLOCKS Supreme War Council To Fix An Early Date For The Germans To Carry Out Unfulfilled Conditions Of The Armistice, Paris.—The Allied premiers will fix new terms to be imposed upon Ger. many, whose tactics obstruction and reerimination are said to have reached a climax in a threat made at of off negotiations would break Allies, feeling with the The circles Conference are more position, i" Bapreme War Council will 0 bring them to a sense of {he realities, Marshal will to Treves the for Peace Germans getting 1 that take measures in i# that the for ig expected and more Foch go fix of 17 10 conmuions ' ‘ the art fir third he armistice, It ie re newal council the that the within understood which the ths 2 fulfilled condi. part. none which Al- Germans must out in that ips nave noted this respect s } German merchant » the io were have been sent to certain Official Bulletin, The Supreme Council official bulletin BAYS “The Supreme Council discusse 4 #3 - Lae the extension of the armis. Germany ion SOLDIERS TO HONOR T. R. iil Introduced To Make Roosevelt's Birthday Holiday. Ee] the 8 f¢ Mreodore the date fixed by ex < in Representa. rmickgasaid he had éabled ral of the of COT. remon letter to asking that INC Pershing gent rs be issued for observa by in The birthday of Theodore Roosevelt, October 27 be set aside as a A onal 1 by a bill int: vilueed wesentative Edmonds, of Penn the army Enrope 2 would oliday SEES PAN. AMERICAN NATION. Minister Predicts One Great Confederation. Bolivian the rican tlement be is Suggestion that of the Pan-An to the other dispu the Americans Senor Don Ignacio Calderon, be boundary and extended se of tes nations of made bs in a pamphlet published by the Unit ed States Government. Prediction is made by the Minister that “the day will come when the American republics, instead of guar reling about boundaries, will abolish them and from one great confederation based on the ieals that awsken in our soul the love of liberty. justice and peace, and of whalever iz gener ous, beautiful and divine” A FOR SPECIAL ARMY TRAINING. Baker Asks Congress To Approve Technical Study Plan. Washington. —8ecrelary Daker sub. mitted to Congress lexislation to be included in the new Military Appro- priation bill mmking it possible for the War Department to employ and’ train men for technical positions in its various bureaus and special services By the terms of the provisions two per cent. of the officers of a bureau might be sont to college or commercial institutions, at home dr abroad, at the department's expense to specialize in these subjects, while another would permit various special services of the army to oblain services of prominent technical mon as instreciors, % 4 i *
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