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THE MORNING OREGONIAN. SATURDAY", SEPTEMBER 19, 1914. DEMOC ATS WORRY e OVER WAR TAX BILL How to Raise $100,000,000 and Cause Least Disgruntle ment Is Problem. FIRST PLANS ABANDONED Effort to Ielay Action to Keep Issue Oat of Fall Campaign Futile and Some Are .Certain to Have to Explain. OREGONTAN NEWS BUREAU, "Wash ington. Sept. 18. Democrats in Con gress are gravely concerned over the war revenue bill, now pending, as there is little relish for the measure which the President insists shall be pasted speedily, in order to add $100,000,000 to the revenue of the government. It is the political effect of this enactment that causes concern, for the Democrats know they must shoulder the responsi bility for any increased burden placed upon the people. Aa in the tariff fight. Democratic senators and representatives are try ing to shift onto the President full re sponsibility for the war tax, and more than that, they have maneuvered so as to make the President responsible tor the character of tax imposed, by requiring. "White House sanction before presenting their bill for consideration. The object of this maneuver, of course, is to relieve individual senators Rnd representatives of responsibility. For no matter what articles are taxed by the pending bill when it reaches its final form and becomes a law, there will be disgruntlement, and at least some of those who are going before the people this Fall asking endorse ment will have considerable explaining to do. Congress Favors Delay. Had Congress been allowed to have its way, the war tax bill would have been postponed until the regular ses sion, beginning December 7, it being the judgment of politicians that the war tax be kept out of the campaign as an issue. The President, however, refused to view the question from the political standpoint. "When the politicians found they could not avoid the passage of the war revenue bill, they set about devising means of raising $100,000,000 that would create the least dissention among the voters. But the plan first devised, to increase the rate of tax on incomes, and to tax incomes as low as $2,000 a year, failed to receive the President's endorsement, and for two reasons: First, such a tax would not provide revenue before next July, and, second ly, the President thought such a tax would be harder to defend on the stump than some other forms of tax. Then the ways and means committee fcvrned to the proposal to place a three per cent tax on freight, which in turn was abandoned. Price Advance Feared The contemplated freight tax was (ought vigorously because of the prob able increase in prices that would fol low the taxing of freight. The leaders feared dealers would advance prices and allege that they were compelled 1o do so because of the freight tax, and notwithstanding the best efforts the Government might put forth It probably would be impossible to pre viit such a general advance In retail prices. For instance, a 3 per cent tax on bu rst, when figured by the pound, would be so infinitesimal as to go unnoticed, yet politicians of experience were aware that the sugar trust would not absorb the tax, and they knew full well sVt jobbers and retailers alike would TjHies on the tax to the consumer, with the result that the consumer probably would pay even more than the actual tax and the dealer would reap an ex tra profit. The tax on beer, of course, does not occasion the protest that other forms of tax would arouse. "Whisky Tax Headed Off. At one stage the Southerners, domi nating both branches of Congress, had headed off the tax on whisky, which is largely a product of the Southern States; these same men headed off the proposal to tax tobacco, and by the same token were the strongest advo cates of increasing the income tax. which falls heaviest upon the states of the North. Indications are that the Senate will consume several weeks in discussing the war tax, and incident to that dis cussion there will be a revival of the tariff generally, as the two subjects are closely related, the present deficit resulting from the failure of the Un derwood law, in time of war at least, to produce sufficient revenue to run the Government. PRISONERS J0 BE LISTED Germany Prepares to Exchange In formation With Great Britain. LONDON, Sept. 18 The official press bureau says the government has received information that the German government is prepared to communi cate lists of British prisoners in their hands in return for similar informa tion as to German prisoners here. It is contemplated that such lists, which will include information as to the physical condition of the prisoners, will be interchanged periodically. Arrangements also are being made for the transmission to Germany of letters, parcels and money for prison ers. The German government intends to permit correspondence between British prisoners and their friends in England. The Austrian government, it is an nounced, intends to grant similar facilities. ACADEMY CHANCES OPEN 'senator Lane to Hold Examination for Army and Navy Appointments. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, Sept. 18. Senator Lane, having one vacancy each to till at the West Point Military Academy and the An napolis Naval Academy, today an nounced he would base his appoint ments on competitive examinations to be held at the Oregon Agricultural Col lege under the direction of President Kerr. All candidates seeking these appoint ments will be permitted to take the ex aminations. The naval academy exam inations will be held October 2 and 3: the West Point examinations October 9 and 10. Mai. where the Imperial Opera opened September I. "As far as the famine is concerned, I received private letters that roost prices of the necessaries of life, after a short rise, dropped to a normal level, but some of the foodstuffs like eggs and sugar became cheaper on account of the impossibilily of their exporta tion. "Generally speaking, the most pat riotic spirit Inspires the whole nation; the antagonism of classes and parties, the quarrels and jealousies of different nationalities disappeared as by en chantment. The mobilization in Austria-Hungary, with the solo exception of some Servian districts, took place amid unbounded enthusiasm of the population. The reserves, even of classes not called in, mustered so much strength that In one case an infantry regiment could have taken the field with 10,000 men. All rumore or news of mutiny, or the surrender of Slav regiments, of the shooting of Slav regiments or leaders, or the disaffection of the Socialists, are slan derous inventions. The fifty million Austrians and Hungarians will fight to the last for the existence of their country and for their beloved Em peror and King." WAR RISK TERMS GIVEN FEDERAL BUREAU HAY REFUSE EXCEPTIONAL, HAZZARDS. Special Arrangements Must Be Ap plied For on Cargo Going; to Porta of Belligerents. WASHINGTON, Sept 18. War risk insurance will not be granted by the Federal Bureau here to vessels bound for ports on the North Sea between the latitudes of Christiana and Amsterdam, on the Kattegat or Baltic Sea, or adja cent waters, to ports on the Adriatic, or Black Sea, or on the Bosphorus, without special application and rates. "Owing to the exceptional hazzards involved," Director Delancy announced tonight, "we will consider these spe cial ports only when application is made to the bureau and it reserves the right to Itself to decline any risks to these ports, or if accepted to name such rates as may seem in Its judg ment adequate." Mr. Delancy announced that rates on cargo between ports of the United States and Its possessions or any non belligerent country in the Western hemisphere would be one-half of 1 per cent; to non-belligerent ports not north of Havre or east of Sicily, 1 per cent; to all . other ports. 1 per cent.' On vessels between United States ports or its possessions or non-belligerents In Western hemisphere, one-half of 1 per cent; to non-belligerent ports not north of Havre or east of Sicily, three quarters of 1 per cent; other ports, 1 per cent. Time policies will be issued, for 90 days only at a 2 per cent rate, or In special cases 1 per cent. The rates are all subject to change without notice. FRENCH GREER DEPEW SIDEWHISKERS OF EX-SENATOR CLASS HIM WITH BRITISH. VICTORIES CALLED MYTHS (Continued From First Pare.) element in the reports of newspaper men not allowed at the front Condi tions are normal in the Austrian cap "Long Live Entente Cordial," Greeting of Troops mm American on Train Stepa Passes Parts. . - , . ml NEW YORK Sept 18. Chauncev M. Depew, ex-United States Senator from New York, arrived from Liverpool today on me tsaitic. "I was In Geneva when the trouble began," he said. "One morning I went to the bank and found I could get no money. We got the last train that left Switzerland for three weeks. "Twenty minutes after crossing the border Into France we stopped at a station. There was a sign there about two fet square calling the troops for mobilization. The station agent said tne notice had been posted about 20 minutes. We picked up men joining the colors on the way to Paris until our train could hold no more. "Whenever I stuck my head out into a corridor the soldiers would set up a cheer on seeing my sidewhlskers. They mistook me for an Englishman and said in French: 'Long live the entente cordial.' "We stayed in Paris a week and then left for Boulogne. We were obliged to crowd Into a coach as best we could. I sat on the runninsrboard all the way." BELGIAN GUNS INFERIOR Soldier Says German Artillery Had Three Times Range. NEW YORK, Sept 18. Paul Van de Velde. of Dallas, Tex., for 34 days a lieutenant in the Belgium army and already a veteran of the battles of Haelen, Heuton, St Margaret. Tirel mont and the fighting before Liege, ar rived today on the steamer Cretic. Mr. Van de Velde was visiting his parents in Belgium when the war started, and he enlisted as a reservist The Belgians were seriously handi capped in the early fighting by artillery inferior to that of the Germans, Mr. Van de Velde said, and added: "Our guns were effective at only about one-third the range of the Ger mans. The Belgians also had to await the arrival of ammunition from France after the fighting started. In the early battles German aeroplanes worked considerable havoc, especially at night but the powerful lights set up in the forts removed the menace." Mr. Van de Velde was released from service in the Belgian army, as were other . volunteers from the United States, in order that they might return to their business. POSTMASTERS ARE NAMED Civil Service Announcements Add to Oregon List. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Sept 18 As a result of civil service examinations, the following fourth-class postmasters have been ap pointed in Oregon: Frank E. Waakey. Lime; Albert B. Chap man. Lowerbridge; Alva I.. Brown. McKln leyl Melville T. Frisgell, McKenzle Bridge; Thomas Scott. Melrose; H. O. G. Iahlin, Mercer; Rush R. Clarke. Millwood; Cardie E. Akerley, Minerva: Mellen E. Coburn, Point Terrace; David "Williams, Princeton; James E. Grieve, Prospect; Loss Taylor, Reed; Joseph Lyon. Reedsport; John E. Holly, Riverview; Alpnonse Venator, Venator; Hugh A. Carter, Winberry; Monroe H. Gordon, Beablo; Ella M. Kyser, Kyser; Mattle E. Thompson, Lake Creek; James VV. Mast, Lee; Frank L. McNeil, Lehman: Elmer L. SSherrlll, 4 yherrlll: John T. Sallee, Star; E. A. Vonderhellen, Wellen. - Maud P. Fuller was appointed post master at Ellisport Wash., vice H. O. Fuller, removed. Leonard Talbott was confirmed to day as postmaster at Toppenlsh, Wash., to succeed Charles W. Grant, removed. Japan's most expert wrestlers are men who have inherited their ability from ancestors who made wrestling a profession for generations. Saturday Economies in Girls' and Boys' App ar el Boys All Wool School Suits Special $3.98 . Regular Price $5.00 and $6.50 Splendid serviceable suits, extra well made and finished, made of all wool materials, in fancy mixtures, diagonals and stripes, in grays, tans and browns. These suits come with one and two pairs of pants, full lined and taped seams. The coats are lined with an extra quality of serge lining. Sizes 9 to 18 years. Lipman, Wolfe Store Will Be Closed All Day Monday Jewish Holiday man "MoreUnaiso of c Mcrit Onj' Remarkable Sale of Children's Dresses Regular Prices $6.50 to $10.00. Saturday $3.95 All-wool challis, in dotted, figured designs, and plain colors, rose broad cloth and white serges, in the prettiest of styles for the girl from 6 to 14 years. They are made long Russian, . low-belted, Norfolk and Peter Thompson styles, also with regulation waistline. The trimmings are in greatest variety, consisting of velvet, silk braid, fancy' buttons, and "collars of lace or embroidery. Ages 6 to 14 years. For the Middy Blouse Girl Middies Selling Regularly at $1.75. Special 89c For school wear there is noth ing prettier and more practical than a skirt and middy, and in this sale will be found middy blouses of finest galatea. made on becoming lines, and finished perfectly. They are made with wide belt at the bottom, short sleeves, turn-down collar, and are trimmed with revere on collar, cuffs and pocket of navy, Copen or red material. Sizes 8 to 20 years. Boys' Suits With Two Pairs of Pants $5.00 and $6.50 These suits are made of an extra fine quality of all-wool cloth in fancy mixtures and plaids, made in new styles for Fall wear, with box and knife-pleated coats, sewed-down belts, patch pockets. Both coat and pants are full lined, with the best quality of material. For service and appearance, you cannot find the equal of these suits at this price. They come in sizes 6 to 1 7 years. Girls' 3-Piece School Suits $6.95 Selling Regularly at $13.50 These suits come in what is generally called "shoe-top length, made to fit girls from 8 to 16 years old. They are made of diagonal tweeds, serges, tan Bedford cord and white corduroy, in weights just right for Autumn wear. Coats are in box, Nor folk and belted styles, and the one-piece dress is made with pleats, set-in sleeves, panel skirts, braid and button trimming. Girls' All Wool School Dresses Very Special $2.45 Selling Regularly From $6.00 to $9.75. Made of all-wool sponged and shrunk serges, in navy and brown, light and dark all-wool challis, and fancy plaids and stripes. Ordinarily at this price you would expect to find cheap workmanship and mate rial, but these dresses are exceptional. The materials are excellent in quality and made for hard wear, and they could not be finished with more painstaking care if made at home. At this pnee will be found one and two-piece sailor and Peter Thompson dresses, and many other pretty styles for school wear. They come in sizes 6 to 14 years. A Complete Assortment of Girls' New Fall Coats $4.95 to $16.95 The materials are boucle. heavy broadcloth, cheviot, striped zibe Iine, plaids and velvets, in the most attractive youthful styles, in cluding the new military and cape coats. They have collars of velvet or plush, convertible or revere ef fects, trimmed with novelty buttons. For girls from 8 to 14 years. Boys Tapeless Blouses 50c, $1.00, $1.50 Of Flannels, fancy striped or plain colors, of soisettes, madras, percales and sateen, in all desir able colors. Made with golf or detachable collars, in sizes 6 to 1 4 years. $1.00 Corduroy Pants Special 69c lizes 4 to 1 7 years. Made of mouse-colored corduroy of an extra quality for hard usage. In knicker bocker style with taped seams. Boys' Fine Rain Coats Regular Price $10.00 to $12.50. Special $7.50 Boys best raincoats in fancy cloth finish, in brown, tan and blue mix tures, also plain tan. An extra fine coat, made in regulation style, with set-in sleeves. These coats are cut full and perfectly tailored. A New Style in Girls' Regulation Peter Thompson Dresses $15.00 and $16.50 These dresses are made on straight lines, instead of bloused. and havs box-pleated tunic or straight skirts. Waists with or without shaped yokes, and set-in sleeves pleated at the wrist. The sailor collar, cuffs and wide belt below the waist line are trimmed with braid. Shield and arm embroidered with emblem. Sizes 1 5 and 1 7 -years. Gapes and Coats for Rainy Days $1.75 Girls' Rain Capes $1.25 Of striped rubber. Made with plaid silk lined hood attached and arm slits. Sizes 6 to 14 years. Girls' Rain Coats $5.00 We have a complete line of rubberized red or blue sateen cloth and tan slicker coats for girls, also black and white checks. They are made loose box fashion or belt-back style, with high and convertible collars that may be buttoned closely around the neck, and with detach able hood. Sizes 6 to 1 4 years. New Suits for Junior Girls ' $25.00 Suits for dress and school wear, in all the newest styles brought out this Fall red ingotes, country club styles, models with high and low wide belts. Skirts made in long tunic and the new yoke fashions. They have collars and cuffs of the material, or of velvet, and are trimmed with novelty and velvet but tons, and black tailored silk braid. These suits are made of fine French serges, cheviots and checks, in navy blue, brown, green and brown, and black and brown. Ages 15 to 17. Boys' Rubber Capes $1.75 to $2.25 Black rubber capes for boys from 4 to 1 6 years old. Made in military ityle with or without arm slits. Rubber hats to match, 75c. Felt Hats for Boys Regular $1.25 to $2.00, Special 75c Fine French felt hats in gray, black, red, navy. tan. brown and white in regulation and telescope shapes with self bands. Sizes 3 to 12 years. Boys' Caps 35c A special lot of boys school caps of navy blue serge and fancy mixtures, made in band or golf shapes. All sizes. Pattern & Dress Hats For the Little Girls Are Now Here Velvets, velours, chiffons, satins, with trimmings of fur, French flowers and ribbons. $3.95 to $15.00. FOURTH FLOOR New Coats for the Little Tots From 2 to 6 Years Old $3.00, $4.95, $5.95 to $13.50 Attractive little coats of broadcloth, zibeline, velvet, corduroy, boucle. plush, fancy mixtures and checks, trimmed with velvet, plush, corduroy, fur and fancy buttons. The styles are exceptionally pretty, including military, cape and belted fashions. All the colors used this season will be found in this assortment, as the selection is great. FOURTH FLOOR .sJM.,,MMtJMt,tJJMtJ.l,tMtMtJJJtJt i WORST FIGHT DESCRIBED GERMANS REPULSED 10 TIMES IJT ONE KIGHT OX AISHiE. turlng 600 men . and muv mi..n leuses." " Retreating Army Baits to Battle and Only After Five Days' Battle Do Allies Win. LONDON, Sept. 18. The Exchange Telegraph Company's Paris correspond ent, in a dispatch received tonight, says: ' - "An account of the nv days' battle on the Alsne River, which he described as the fiercest in the western theater since the beginning of the war, was given by a French officer who arrived in Paris today. "On the morning of the 14th, the of ficer said, the Germans called a halt, but by afternoon the battle had become general. All the next day the battle was of a ding-dong nature, the Ger mans evidently awaiting reinforce ments, t "During the night, however, they delivered a furious attack on the ex treme left, but the British and FrencB troops gallantly met the onslaught, re pulsing the Germans no fewer than 10 times, with fearful losses. "The Germans still came on. however, seeking to pierce the French line. There had been nothing like it since the be ginning of the campaign. The enemy hurled dense masses of troops at us in a supreme endeavor to check our for ward progress, but when dawn came we still held the position and even had gained ground slightly, "The artillery duel was continued throughout the next day. The morn ing of the 17th again paw desperate fighting. This time we threw the Germans baek some 10 kilometers, eap- PROPERTY OWNERS ACTIVE Citizens Will Fill Pools on East "side at Own Hxpense. As a result of a campaign promoted by the city public works department against stagnant pools of water In the city four property owners on the East Side have agreed to fill the pools at their own expense, the work to be started at once. The four owners and the property to be tilled are John Burgard, two lots at the southwest corner of East Third and East Stark streets, and the south half of block 20 on East Clay, between "Water and East First street; R. S. Far relL for the Chinook Investment Com pany, the north half of block 64 on the south side of East Salmon street, be tween East Second and East Third: the Page Investment Company, the block on the east side of East Second, between East Stark and East Washington streets; the Vancouver Transportation Company, two lots at the corner of Water and East Washington streets. Devotion of Nuns Mentioned. BORDEAUX. Sept. 18. Six nuns in the Convent of St. Charles, at Nancy, are mentioned In army orders for the devotion they displayed in nursing more than 1000 wounded soldiers In their establishment, despite the incessant bombardment since August 24. The sis ters stuck to their posts, while the civil population abandoned the town. 7:30 o'clock Saturday evening and 9 o'clock other evenings is the closing hour for accepting Classified Ads. for proper classifications for the next day's Issue. Classified advertisements ac cepted after-these hours will be run under the heading "Too Late to Classify." WILL IS ALSO $20 1CLE SAM CARELESS IX MAKIXO HIS CCRIIENCT. Error Discovered Only After Veracity of Milwaukee Cashier Is Put In Doubtful Position. CHICAGO, Sept. 18. (Special.) Puz zle How can a rol! of bills contain 1300, according to the count of one man, but only $290 by the count of an other and both men be right? While the solution of this question was being sought in the First National Bank of Milwaukee the cashier of the bank became wroth and the man to whom $300 had been counted out stub bornly refused to take the bundle which he said contained only $290. After the bills had been rummaged over for nearly half an hour there came a more minute examination, and then the discovery of a fallacy. In the pack was a note which was of the value of $20 on one side and only $10 on the other. The freak bill reached Chicago today in the posses sion of Theophiie E. Leon, of Normal Park, secretary of the American Nu mismatic Society. The face of the $20 note was shown and the reverse side of the $10 note. The $20 was of the issue of 1907 and was from the Na tional City Bank of Chicago, bearing the signatures of President David R. Forgan and Cashier W. G. McLaury. "The bill, although of the issue of 1907. has come out In the last six weeks and Is Aldrlch-Vreeland currency law money," said Mr. McLaury. "It was printed In that way as the result of carelessness of the engravers. The notes are run off on plates with a $20 at the top and three $10 bills under neath. In plaee ef turning the plate directly over, so that ttje reverse side of the $20 would meet the face side of it, the plate was carelessly up-ended, with the result that the reverse side of of a $10 bill met the $20. This would indicate that there Is another bill in circulation with a $10 face and a $20 reverse side." MANY TO VISIT OREGON Chlcagoan In Letter to Mrs. Voor horst Says 50.0 00 May Come. A letter from C. L. Burton, of Chi cago, to Mrs. Bertha Taylor Voorborst, of the Oregon Commission on the Panama-Pacific Exposition, tells of the organization of a society there for the furtherance of the exposition. Prac tically all present at the meeting, said Mr. Burton, announced their intention of coming through Portland on their way to the exposition. "The Arkansas travelers," the letter continues. Vhave already reserved two full trains. They told me to tell you they would be through Portland and would notify you by wire some time previous to their arrival. There is a great deal of enthusiasm among the various delegates for the Northwest. If the Federation oC State Societies in Portland pushes its work actively X feel certain that it will be the means of bringing 50,000 or more people through Oregon next year." AIRMEN OUT OF GASOLINE Wounded Prisoners Say Germans Are Hampered by . Sliortage. BORDEAUX, Sept. 18. The Troyes correspondent of the Temps has sent the following dispatch: "According to wounded prisoners. t Vi . (Imrmnnn lArnnllinM hVP bren nut out of action through lack of gasoline. 1 The French aviators, on the other hand, have been doing excellent work. One French airman succeeded in drop ping bombs at an important railroad Junction, with the result that ten trains filled with retreating Prussians ft'ere stalled. "In the last convoy of prisoners brought to Troyes were 17 tmperial guardsmen who were captured in the woods near Vitry-le-Francois, depart ment of Marne. Attached to their sleeves by pins were Red Cross insig nia, to which, it is suspected, tbey had no right. They have been sent to a French ambulance corps, where their qualifications may be tested. "Military automobiles report that the country around the battlefield Is teeming with German Btragglers, wio frequently fire on French convovs." LET POSLAM RESTORE YOUR AILING SKIN Just give Poslam a chance Jlo show how greatly It can benefit your Eczema. Itch, caling-Skin, Rash. Pimples, or other skin trouble. It is intense in healing power, antiseptic; cannot pos sibly harm. As soon as spread upon the skin, itching stops. You feel re lief and know that it is doing good. Improvement sttows every day until the trouble with all its ugly manifestations is driven away. Tour drusglst sells Poslam. 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