TTTE MORNING OREGONIAN. AVEDNESDAT, 3IAY 10, 1917.
WAR TAX DEBATE
AND HEARING END
YOUTH HELD, GIRL'S
DEATH IS PROBED
GERMAN CHANCELLOR, WHO REFUSES TO ANNOUNCE
KAISER'S PEACE AIMS.
House Expects Vote by Satur
day in Spite of Flood of
Amendments.
SENATE HEARS PROTESTS
Increase or Second-Class Tostage
and Tax on Print Paper Brlns '
Objections From Publishers
of City and Trade Papers.
"vVASHIXGTOX. May 13. General de
bate on the Jl. 800.000.000 -war revenue
bill closed tonight after five daya of
discussion, and Democratic Leader
Kitchin predicted a final vote some
time Saturday. The bill will be open
to amendment tomorrow an a flood
of proposed changes probably will be
offered. An amendment which would
permit firms to add the amount of
their increased taxes to contracts made
prior to the passage of the law prob
ably will be the most important new
proposal offered by the ways and
means committee.
Vigorous fights will be made against
the excess profits, income and automo
bile taxes and Uie proposed increased
rates on second-class mail. Debate on
the measure- again today centered
largely on the second-class mail matter
section. Representatives Johnson of
South Dakota. Mondell of Wyoming
and Toung of North Dakota spoke
against the proposal, declaring it un
fair to publishers generally.
Kepresentative Johnson proposed a
substitute plan to tax newspapers a
flat rate of 5 per cent on their adver
tising returns. Kepresentative Mon
dell declared the proposed rates would
make it impossible for magazines and
newspapers to maintain their present
general circulation.
Zone Plan Makes Sectionalism.
Representative Young said that If
the Government would pay for the free
advertising given by newspapers the
papers could afford to pay first-class
mail rates.
Representative Mondell, of "Wyoming.
Republican, assailed the second-class
mail increase as an encouragement to
provincialism.
"I do not approve this schedule In
the interest of the newspapers or mag
azines." he said, "but rather as one
who desires all information they con
tain to be National and not sectional
In scope. You endanger that national
ism by the poposals in this bill to es
tablish a zone system.
Vlde Viewpoints Essential.
Dissemination of information is
vastly more Important than revenue or
the welfare of the newspapers or the
magazines. We must have their dif
ferent points of view if we are to con
tinue as a homogeneous people."
Public hearings on the war revenue
bill before the Senate finance commit
tee were concluded today with 'state
ments by the last of more than 100
representatives of industries heard
since Friday in protest against heavy
taxes proposed in the measure. Nearly
all of the witnesses agreed that they
were willing to assist the Government
in every way possible, even to sur
rendering their entire profits, but they
objected to the rates in the bill as con
fiscatory and ruinous.
Newspnpcrs Enter Protest.
Today's hearings were devoted large
ly to further hearing of the protests
of newspapers and periodical publish
ers against the proposed increase In
second-class mail rates and the tax on
print paper.
James Keeley, of the Chicago Her
aid, said that everything that goes into
the manufacture of a newspaper has
advanced in the last year from 10 to
00 per cent.
Marsden Scott, president of the Inter
national Typographical Union, said:
"If you put this into law you are
going to add to the army of unem
ployed and make the situation all the
worse."
Trade Papers In Dancer.
Matthew Woll, president of the In
ternational Allied Printing Trade As
sociation, said there were 275 labor
publications and that the law would
force about half out of existence.
A proposal to substitute a flat tax
of 5 per cent on the advertising car
ried in second-class mail matter for
the proposed mail rate increases was
offered by Representative Johnson,
Republican, of Washington. In its
present form, he said, the bill is de
signed evidently to "punish a few pub
lishers" and its enactment into law
would work a great hardship on many
small publications.
C. K. Kelsey, representing the Youth's
Companion, said that publication paid
the Government last year $39,000 for
postage, but under the new rate it would
pay $164,000, while paper would cost
J94.300 more.
Louis Wiley, of the New York Times,
eaid postage and paper would cost the
Times $1,400,000 more than formerly.
George McAneny, of the Times, declared
the tax confiscatory.
Rubber Industry Heard.
Senator Williams suggested that the
papers should advance their rates. Mr.
McAneny said that was impossible.
Frank P. Glass said there was gossip
to the effect that the tax was a plan
to punlsn the papers.
Representatives of the rubber tire in
dustry were heard next. F. A. Seiber
ling, of Akron, Ohio, said the bill as
drafted was not fair to the rubber in
terests. He proposed that a 5 per
cent uniform tax on rubber be levied.
H.iF. Hotchkiss said there was only
SO days' supply of rubber in the
United States and about 29 days' sup
ply in transit. Rubber manufacturers
formerly carried three months' supply,
lie said.
Amos PInchot, representing an or
ganization known as the American
Committee of War Finance, eaid many
organizations, including farmers and
the United Mine Workers, had indorsed
the committee's suggestion that the
war should be financed from receipts
of the income tax.
A. P. Ardourel, of Crisman, Colo., rep
resenting independent tungsten pro
ducers, asked that the tariff on that
mineral be increased for protective pur
poses to $10 a unit on 60 tungsten ore.
The revenue bill provides for a duty of
$1.70 a unit.
Th last witness waa C. B. Heming
way, of Washington, a clerk. He said
he desired to speak for 27,000,000 con
sumers in the United States who had
Tiad no voice in the hearing. He de
clared the principle of the revenue bill
was wrong and that any money needed
should be obtained by taxing unused
lands.
SLAYER CHOOSES SHOOTING
Convicted Wife-Murderer Prefers
Bullet to Hanging on July 6.
SALT LAKE CITY, May 15. Choos
ing to be shot rather than hanged.
Howard Deweese, convicted wife slayer,
was sentenced today by Judge Lewis
Brown to die July 6.
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DR. VO- BETH M AN.X.HOLUVGG.
PEACE AllViS SECRET
Chancellor Declines to Dis
cuss Germany's Object.
OFFER IS MADE TO RUSSIA
Friendship May Be Had for Asking,
Says Kaiser's Chancellor, Who
" Defies All Critics Demand
ing Definite Views.
(Continued From First Pase.)
firm this now with, certainty. I am, at
the same time, also expressing the con
viction that the leading statesmen of
the powers which are our allies are
with us.
"I thoroughly and fully understood
the passionate interest of the people
in the war aims and peace conditions.
I understood the call for clearness
which today is addressed to me from
the right and the left. But in the dis
cussion of our war aims the only guid
ing line for me is the early and satis
factory conclusion of the war. Beyond
that I cannot do or say anything."
Scheldennann Is Scored.
"If the general situation forces me
to reserve, as is the case now, I shall
keep this reserve, band no -pressure
either from Herr Scheidermann or Herr
Roesicke will force me from my path.
I shall not allow myself to be led
astray by utterances with which Schei
dermann, at a time when drumfire
sounds on the Aisne and at Arras, be
lieved he could spread among the peo
ple the possibility of a revolution. The
German people will be with me in con
demning such utterances and also
Roesicke's attempt to represent me as
being under the influence of the Social
Democrats.
"I am reproached for being in the
hands of one party, but I am not in the
hands of any party, either the right or
the left. I am glad I can state that
definitely. If I am in the hands of any
one, I am in the hands of my people,
whom alone I have to serve, and all of
whose sons, fighting for the existence
of the nation, are firmly rangd round
the Kaiser, whom they trust and who
trusts them. The Kaiser's word of
August lives unaltered. Roesicke. who
sets himself forward as a particular
protector of this word, had received
in the Kaiser's Easter message the as
surance of the unaltered existence of
the Kaiser's word.
"I trust that the reserve which I
must exercise it would be unscrupu
lous on my part did I not exercise it
will find support from the majority of
the Reichstag and also amongst the
people.
"For a month past unparalleled bat
tles have been waging on the west
front. The entire people, with all its
thoughts and sorrows and feelings, is
with its sons up there, who, with un
exampled tenacity and defiance of
death, resist the daily renewed attacks
of the British and French.
Entente Wish (or Peace Not Seen.
"Even today I see no readiness for
peace on the part of England or France.
i)othing -6 "the abandonment of their
excessive aims of conquest and eco
nomic destruction. Where, then, were
the governments who last Winter
openly stood up before the world in
order to terminate this insane slaugh
ter of peoples? AVere they in London
or Paris? The most recent utterances
which 1 have heard from London de
clare that the war aims which were
announced two years ago remain un
altered. "Even Herr Scheldemann will not
believe that I could meet this declara
tion with a beau geste. Does anyone
believe, in view of the state of mind
of our western enemies, that they
could be induced to conclude peace by
a programme of renunciation?
"It comes to this: Shall I immediately
give our western enemies an assurance
which will enable them to prolong the
war indefinitely without danger of
losses to themselves? Shall I tell these
enemies: 'Come what may, we shall un
der all circumstances be people who re
nounce; we shall not touch the hair of
your head, bjt you who want our lives,
you can, without any risks, continue to
try your luck?"
"Shall I nail down the German em
pire in all directions by a one-sided
formula which only comprises one part
of the total peace conditions, which re
nounces successes won by the blood of
our sons and brothers and leaves all
other matters in suspense?
"No, I will not pursue such a policy.
That would be the basest ingratitude
toward the heroic deeds of our people
at the front and at home; it would per
manently press down our people, to the
smallest worker, in their entire condi
tions of life. It would be equivalent
to surrendering the future of the fath
erland. "Or ought I, conversely, to set forth
a programme of conquest? I decline to
do that' (cries from the Right: 'Wc are
not demanding that'). If it has not
been demanded, then we are of one
opinion.
"I also decline to set forth a pro
gramme of conquest. We did go forth
to war, and we stand in battle now
against almost the whole world, not in
order to make conquests, but exclu
sively to fecur our existence and to
establish firmly the future of the na
tion.. A programme of conquest helps
as little as a programme of reconcilia
tion to'win victory and the war.
Offer Is Made to Russia.
"As regards our eastern neighbor,
Russia. I have already recently spoken.
It appears as if new Russia 'had de
clined for herself these violent plans
of conquest. AVhether Russia will or
can act in the tame sense on her allies
I am unable to estimate. Doubtless
England, with the assistance of ' her
allies, is employing all her efforts to
keep Russia harnessed to England's
war chariot and to traverse Russian
wishes for the speedy restoration t
the world's peace.
"If. however, Russia wants to pre
vent further bloodshed and renounces
all violent plans of conquest ' for her
self; if she wishes to restore durable
relations of peaceful life side by side
with us, then surely it is a matter of
course that we share this wish, will
not disturb the permanent relationship
In the future and will not rend-er its
development impossible by demands,
which, indeed, do not accord with the
freedom of nations and would deposit
in the Russian nation the germ, of
enmity. (Thunderous applause.)
"I doubt not that an agreement,
aiming exclusively at a mutual under
standing, could be attained, which ex
cludes every thought of oppression and
which would leave behind no sting
and no discord."
Germany's 4200 plants make electric
power available for about three-fourths
of its population.
Preliminary Report From Ex
amining Physicians Is
Cause of Arrest.
GIRL TAKEN ILL ON CAR
Coroner Quotes Prisoner as Saying
"That Stutr Couldn't Hart Her;
Doctor Said It Wouldn't."
Prisoner Is Reticent.
August Waltenberg, the man who
was with pretty Miss Anna Ranqulsrt.
when she dropped dead after descend
ing from a streetcar near her home
last Monday night, was arrested late
last night by Deputy Coroner Smith and
Deputy Sheriff Rodney Hurlburt, and
will be held in the. County Jail during
the Investigation of the cause of the
girl's death.
The arrest was precipitated by a pre
liminary report from Dr. Robert L.
Benson and Dr. Frank R. Menne. who
are testing the contents of her stomach
for poisons. While the report is by ho
means complete. Coroner Dammasch
said last night that the investigation
showed reasons why she might have
been taking drugs.
Miss Ranqulst. who was only IS years
old, lived at 6604 Sixtieth avenue
Southeast. Waltenbcrg is about 30
years old
Girl Taken III on Car.
The girl and Waltenberg were ac
companied by Mrs. Ranqulst when the
former was taken ill. The party had
just descended from a Woodstock
streetcar near the Ranqulst home. Miss
Ranquist was carried, unconscious, to
a drugstore, but she was dead before
a physician arrived.
Coroner Dammasch began an inves
tigation at once. Examination of the
girl's body caused the authorities to
question Waltenberg. Dr. Dammasch
asked him if he had given her anything
which might have poisoned her.
Prisoner lit Reticent.
"Oh, that atuff couldn't have hurt
her. The doctor said it woudn't," the
Coroner says Waltenberg replied. After
that statement the prisoner refused to
speak further, and would not tell what
"stuff" he referred to, or who the doc
tor was.
The authorities did not know Wal
tenberg's name or address until last
night, when they went to the Ranquist
home and demanded that the girl's
mother tell them. She directed them to
Waltenberg's room at Sixteenth and
Johnson streets. The man is an em
ploye of the Northwest Steel Company.
Miss Ranquist was born iii Oregon
and lived at her present address for
two and one-half years.
PROUD PALATE IS FATAL
Man Who Wanted Potatoes and Eggs
Gets Jail Sentence.
VANCOUVER. Wash.. May 15. (Spe
cial.) Ordinary things to eat were not
goo'd enough tf Frank Everett, a middle-aged
itinerant, who was in the
residence district Sunday begging; for
potatoes and eggs.
He was arrested and taken before
W. S. T. Derr, Police Magistrate, who
sentenced htm to five days in Jail.
Clarke to Build 4 Miles or Roads.
VANCOUVER. Wash.. May 15. (Spe
cial.) Clarke County will build four
miles of road at an estimated cost of
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There are Serges, Gabardines and Wool Poplins navy blue and
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Ship Machinery to Be Assembled.
ASTORIA, Or.. May 15. (Special.)
The Port of Astoria Commission re
ceived a letter this morning from the
Federal Shipping Board, in which the
latter said it plans to assemble ma
chinery here for installation In the new
wooden ships. It asked for full infor
mation regarding wharfage charges and
facilities.
Rockefeller Takes $5,000,000 Bond-
NEW YORK, May 15. John D. Rock
efeller has subscribed for $5,000,000 of
the Government Liberty Loan bonds. It
was announced today.
Port to Install Power -Plant.
ASTORIA. Or., May 15. (Special.)
To obviate the charge of $778 a month
which the local electric company asked
for power for operating the machinery
at the port elevator and coal bunkers
the Port of Astoria Commission de
cided today to install its own power
plant.
For motorists who smoke, a new
electric torch is equipped with a cigar
liirhter on one side.
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