WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 2G J 916.
LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER
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SHERRY THE A TRE Today ONLY
J. Rufus Wallingford and Blackie Daw in
"A TRAP FOR TRAPP"
i . v "THE YELLOW PERIL"
Neal of the Navy , ' '
'TINKERING WITH TROUBLE"
Comedy
TO-MORROW Nance O'Neal in "A Woman's Past"
'nday & Saturday
The last two days of the real sale. We w ill place on sale these last two days the
most wonderful bargains ever heard of a real cleanup. Now if you want a
Suit, Coat or Dress in fact any ready-to-wear garment now is your chance.
EFFORT TO IMPOSE TAXES
SHOWS VERY LITTLE PROGRESS
' Washington, D. C, Jan. 24. Con
gress has come no nearer reaching
a conclusion on how to raise addition
el revenues for the Federal Govern
ment than on the day it convened
nearly two months ago. So far as
the Democrats members of the ways
and means committee of the House
are concerned and it is from that
the revenue measure must orginate
'they have progressed only to the point
where they know what they do not
want. That which they have re
jected includes practically the entire
suggestion made by the President in
his annual message.
The ways and means committee
therefore will not recommend taxing
the following articles: bank checks
automobiles and gasoline engines,
manufacturers of iron and steel, pig
iron.
Of course in advocating that these
commodities be taxed in order to pro
duce additional revenues with which
to carry on the business of the Gov
ernment Congress knew and almost
everyone else knew that the President
was merely espousing the ideas ad
vanced by Secretary of the Treasury
McAdoo. It was from his son-in-law
that he obtained the estimates which
tended to show that the tax on these
articles, together with one duty to be
obtained from sugar, provided the free
sugar provision of the Underwood
tariff law be resoinded, would sup
plement the existing revenues to such
an extent that all of the activities of
the Government, including the na-
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vied on without causing a deficit as
at'present.
The Democrats of the House ways
and means committee are perfectly
willing to accept the estimates of the
President and Secretary McAdoo con
cerning the amount of money that it
is necessary to raise. It simplifies
their problem somewhat if they have
to rase only $112,000,000. instead of
the much larger sum which the Re
publicans believe will be necessary.
They would rather take their chances
politically of reenacting the em
ergency revenue bill passed at the last
session and extended at the present
session so as to expire June 30, than to
tinker with the tariff or try new
schemes for amassing the $80,000,000
a year which that law yields. But
they are very much at sea over the
question of how to raise $112,000,000.
In the meetings of the committee
on ways' and means several sugges
tions have been made, the most pro
minent of which are the following:
Increase the excise tax on spirts, wine
and beer; increase the income tax; In
augurate a federal inheritance tax.
These suggestions ' have been put
up to the secretary McAdoo, and by
him presumably to the President, and
they are thinking-them over. Until
they hear definitely from the White
House on this subject, it is not likely
that the Democrats of the committee
will proceed very far with their ef
forts to construct a revenue bill. In
the mean time, however, the members
of the committee are "feeling out"
their fellow partisans in the House on
the general subject of revenue leg
i islation, ;
j Strange to say, there is opposition
among the prohibitionists to increas
' ing the tax on whisky, beer and wines.
I The argument they use is that by
I making the Government more and
I more dependent upon (he liquor in
; terests for the revenues, the stronger
will be the hold of those interests up
on the political machinery, and it will
postpone the day when nationwide
.prohibition can be accomplished, as it
will also make it more difficult to
conduct the campaigns against the
saloons in the States, counties and
cities. In other words the prohibi
tionists say that with the Federal
Government largely dependent upon
the liquor interests for revenues, the
inevitable result would" be that in the
prohibition fights throughout the
country the power of the Federal ma
chine would be on the side of the sa
loons as a mere matter of protecting
the revenue.
There is also a wide divergence of
opinion among Democratic members
I of the House over the proposed in
J crease of the income tax. The Presi
j dent in his message of December 7
I Suggested that the present limits of
' exemption in the present income tax
I law might be lowered and that the
figure at which the surtax is imposed
1 be also made less, but a poll of the
Democratic members of the ways and
i means committee discloses that the
, majority at least is decidedly opposed
,to taxing smaller incomes. The idea
of most of the Democratic member$uf
the committee seems to be that only
the -rich should be taxed and the
I scheme that is most talked of is to
1 increase the surtax on incomes, be-
ginning at $20,000 a year, so that on
i incomes of $1,000,000 or more at
i least one third will be coyered into the
J federal treasury In the form of a tax.
I The inheritance tax idea so far as
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mittee, has not been worked out into
any very definite form yet. The Idea
uppermost in the minds of the Demo
cratic members seem to be that noth
ing should be done to disturb the in
come inheritance taxes now impos
ed in various States, and there is some
talk . of fixing a maximum Federal
inheritance tax with rebates to be
allowed in cases where the State taxes
have also to be paid. '
It is only .possible to discuss the
proposed or suggested revenue leg
islation from thestandpoint of the
administration and of the Democratic
members of the ways and . means
committee. The Republicans of that
committee have not been given a
chance yet to participate in the dis
cussions looking to the framing of a
bill, and furthermore they have no
incentive for formulating a plan of
their own unless they discover that
owing to a split in the Democratic
ranks there is a fchance to put over
o tariff revision bill. At present that
chance looks very slim, and the at
titude of the Republicans is likely to
be critical rather than constructive.
There is just one thing connected
with revenues which the Republican
leaders feel that they may be able to
accomplish at this session and that is
the creation of a tariff commission.
The administration is against it, and
the Democratic leaders in the Hous?i
are against it, but there are a number
of Democratic members from north
ern States who favor the plan, and if
the Republicans can line up thirteen
or fourteen of these they can pass the
bill in the House. It probably
would be defeated in the Senate, how
ever, where the Democratic majority
s stronr than it is in the House
Senate Democrats are watching the
matter of revenue legislation with
much interest, because out of that
struggle will come not only the bill
which must be considered by the
Senate but a crystalization of opinion
among Democrats on this Question
which will enable the Senate Demo
crats to judge how far they can go in
substituting their measure for the
one sent over by the House.
SUITS
Our"en,tire line at from $2.35 to
$8.75. These suits range in price
from $24.75 to $45.00 But we are not
going to carry, over a. single suit, all
must go, so come early on sale Fri
day and Saturday.
COATS
i At real bargains all at less than
one-half price the entire lot to be
sold Friday and Saturday. Coats
that sold from $8.75 to $30.00 now at
prices never before heard oT 95c to
$8.75.
CHILDREN'S COATS
We have about 25 child's Coats left
not a shoddy coat in the lot, but must
close out at once, your choice of any
child's coat in the house for $1.00.
These two last days will be banner days, don't overlook this opportunity
to save money, nothing like it before so come and bring your friends.
E. E. KIRTLEY
Ladies' Ready-to-Wear
The Habit of Taking Cold.
Witfi many people taking cold is a
habit, but fortunately one that is easily
orojcen. Take a cold sponge bath
every morning when you first get out
of bed not ice water, but a tempera
ture of bout 90 degrees F. Also
sleep with your window up. Do this
and you will seldom take cold. When
you do take cold take Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy and get rid of it as
quickly as possible. Obtainable everywhere.
The War is Making Millionaires
Tokio. Jan. 8. (By Mail) The
European war has brought undream
ed of (prosperity to Japan. Evidence of
this is found not only in the enor
mous increase in the gold rederre, but
in the fact that the Japanese news
papers are busy chronicling the rise
of many new made millionaires, who
plunged early in the war and emerged
with riches. The leading shipyards of
Japan have filed orders which will
keep them busy for three years.
Thanks to the withdrawal of German
vessels, Japanese shipping 4s enjoying
the greatest prosperity in its history.
Shipping men atre predicting that
Japan will in a few years have a mer
cantile marine second only to that of
England.' They believe, too, that
ahifppdng is destined to become a
great national industry in Japan. A
Japanese named Noboye Uchlda, who
at the outbreak of the war was a
clerk, saw that a naval war meant a
golden harvest for shipping. He left
his desk and launched a shipping
business, chartering small vessels.
Now he owns four steamers and has
cleared more than 81,000,000. In
Tokio the Yamashita Shipping con
trolled by a business man of that name
has netted $2,500,000. , Japan's gold
reserve has increased by $100,000,000.
She now has in reserve $260,000,000.
Garage Owners to Oppose Wilson
Chicago, Jan. 26. The one cent
per gallon tax on gasoline end fifty
cents per horse power tax on automo
biles, suggested in President Wilson's
last message to congress, will be at
tacked by the Association Garage
owners of America in their second an
nual convention in Chicago today and
tomorrow, according to E. J. McGuirk.
national organizer. The convention
is being held during the Chicago Au
tomobile show. Five hundred garage
men from all parts of the United
States are expected to attend. . The
meeting was preceded by sessions of
the Garage Owners , association of
Illinois, an allied organization '
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that a real remedy for catarrh was
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