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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1917.
Senate Rejects Taxes of 70
and 65 Per Cent After
Tart Debate Clashes.
USES OF BILLIONS ASKED
New-lands Demands to Know How
Appropriations Are Spent Borah
Declares No One Knows What
Allies Do With Borrowings..
WAHINGTON, Sept. 3. The Senate
tpent today's holiday in the. sharpest
clashes of Its fight over war profits
taxation and again decisively defeated
proposal.- of the hlgii tax advocates.
Senator La Follette's maximum
amend, ent for war profits taxes pro
posing: a. flat increase of 70 per cent
over existing rates, was rejected by a
vote of 55 to 20. Another by the Wis
consin Senator for a 65 per cent in
crease was defeated 53 to 17.
McNary Vote for Tax.
Senators voting: for the La Follette
amendment-were: Ac'iurst. Borah, Bra
dy, Gore, Gronna, Hollls, Hustlng.
Johnson, of California; Johnson, of
South Dakota; Jones, of Washington;
Kenyon, Kjig, La Follette, McKellar,
McNary, Norris, Thompson, Tr&mmell,
Vardaman.
The final vote on the war profits sec
tion is to be taken Wednesday, but
the bill's p ovision as now written for
an Increase of about one-third . to
$1,060,000,000, is expected to stand.
Tomorrow another amendment by Sen
ator La Follette for a 60 per cent gross
levy will come up, together with a
complete substitute proposed br Sena
tor Hollis for the finance committee's
compromise provision.
La Follette Gains Recruits.
But three recruits were gained in
today's voting by the high tax advo
cates in addition to the 17 who voted
Saturday for Senator Johnson's maxi
mum proposal of an 80 per cent tax.
Senators King, McKellar and Trammell
voted for both of the La Follette pro
posals. A few additions are expected on
other pending amendments for various
flat taxes down to 48 per cent, but
Senator Borah said today, after the
vote on Senator La Follette's maximum
amendment, that the bill probably
would go to the President bearing its
present total tax levy of $2,500,000,000.
Many Phases Discussed.
Many phases of the war situation
were discussed during the seven-hour
debate. Senator La Follette delivered
another vigorous speech for higher
rates on what he termed "blood profits."
His remarks caused Senator Simmons,
chairman of the finance committee, to
suggest that the Wisconsin Senator
was attempting to "hoodwink" the
Senate, and provoked two hot clashes
in which both Senators were declared
out of order by the presiding officer.
Senator La Follette contended that
the committee's new plan would not
Increase the tax burden of great cor
porations, but would exempt their
large surpluses. This was vehemently
denied by Senator Simmons.
Corporations Are Taxed More.
Senator Simmons declared that under
the bill as it now stands at least halt
the corporations of the country will
be taxed more than before, the tax
alone of the steel corporation amount
ing to $183,734,000 this year, while the
tax to be paid by the Dupont Powder
Company will be $10,000,000 more and
that of the General Motors $1,500,000.
The net increase to be paid by 20 lead
ing corporations of the country will
amount to $21,136,000. he said.
Senator Borah addressed the Senate
at length in favor of a tax of at least
60 per cent.
"This bill probably will finally pro
vide $2,500,000,000 in taxes." he said.
"There is no record in history of such
a shrinking from duty by a legislative
body. Congress has met this war with
courage and amplitude of means, but
when we meet taxation we shrink from
performance of our manifest duty.
"Is $2,500,000,000 In taxes the stand
ard of patriotism that men of wealth
are willing to contribute to the war?
I do not believe It.
Johnson Cites Steel Profits.
"After business efficiency Is pro
tected I would take every dollar over
$10,000 of the Income of every man In
the United States."
Senator Johnson called attention to
the fact that Chairman Simmons made
the statement that the profits of the
eteel corporation this year would be
$490,000,000; that the tax proposed to be
levied on that corporation would
amount to but $183,000,000.
Senator Newlands interrupted to say
xnat, according to Chairman Kitchin,
of the House ways and means commit
tee, $23,000,000,000 are to be appropri
ated this year, of which $7,000,000,000
are to go to the allies and $7,000,000,000
are to be expended in the conduct of
the war. He asked, what is to be
done with the remaining $9,000,000,000
appropriated.
Smoot Details Expenses.
Regarding the loans that have been
made to the allies. Senator Borah de
dared that no living soul knows to
whom that money was loaned, how
It is being used or anything else
about it.
A detailed statement, showing the
amount of appropriations already
made this year by Congress, was made
by Senator Smoot, replying to Sen
ator Borah. A total appropriation of
$19,005,583,107 is to be made, he said,
of which $7,000,000,000 will go to the
allles.thus leaving $12,005,583,107.
Senator Smoot said he believed the
pending bill would raise a great deal
more than $2,500,000,000, considering
increased earnings this year. He com
pared the tax laws of England, France
and Canada, declaring that England's
80 per cent war profits tax would be
equaled in this country by a tax of
46 per cent, when comparative condi
tions are considered. Canada, he said,
levies no income taxes and that her
war profits tax is only 25 per cent.
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SWISS' CHECK EPIDEMIC
Travelers From Germany Forced to
Undergo Medical Examination.
GENEVA. Sept. 3. The Swiss sani
tary authorities at Basel and all along
the German frontier are taking meas
ures to prevent dysentery, typhus and
scarlatina, which prevail in Rhine
towns, from entering Switzerland. All
travelers coming from Germany are
required to undergo medical examina
tion.
American Craft Submarined.
WASHINGTON', Sept. 8. The State
Department was advised today today
of the sinking August 23 of the Amer
ican schooner Carl F. Cressy, of Bath,
Me., by a submarine. The crew of
seven was caved.
DRINK Oil INCREASE
Consumption of Whisky and
Tobacco Breaks Record.
TOTAL TAX $186,563,055
With Other Tax Receipts Added to
Those From Whisky, Cigars, Etc.,
Government's Revenue To
tals $809,393,640.
WASHNGTON, Sept. 3. All previous
American records for consumption of
whisky, cigars, cigarettes and tobacco
apparently went by the boards during
the past fiscal year. The Drelimlnary
report of Commissioner of Internal
Revenue Osborn covering the 12 months
ending June 30, made public today,
shows record tax collections on these
and other articles.
Here are the grand totals of produc
tion upon which taxes were paid:
Distilled spirits from every source
rye, corn, wheat, apples, peaches, pears,
pineapples, oranges, apricots, berries,
prnnes, figs and cherries 164,665.246
gallons, an increase or zt,uuu,uuu gal
lons over the previous year, yielding a
tax-return of $186,563,055.
Cigars Gala In Popularity.
Cigars of all descriptions and weight.
9,216,901,113 approximately 90 per cap
ita, as compared with 8,337,720,530 the
previous year. Cigarettes, 30,&zs,iiS,
538, as compared with 21,087,757,078, an
increase of more than 40 per cent.
Tobacco, chewing and smoking. 445,-
763,206 pounds, an increase of 28.500,
000. Even snuff went to apparent new
high levels of production with 35,377,
751 pounds, an increase of 2,200,000 in
the year.
The return to the Government In
taxes on cigars, cigarettes, tobacco and
snuff was $103,201,592, an increase of
aDDroximately 115.000.000. or 18 per
cent over the previous year. The record
figures indicate great Isation-wiue pros
perity, officials state, ana in tne case
of cigarettes, tremendous growth of
the habit among women.
The production of beer, while ex
ceeding that of the previous year, fell
considerably below the high record of
66,000,000 barrels in 1914. Taxes on
60,729,509 barrels at $1.50 per barrel,
and other taxes on brewers and retail
ers brought the total up to $91,897,193
against $88,771,104.
- Collection Cost Is Low.
Other tax receipts included those on
oleomargarine. $1,995,720: special taxes
on bankers, corporations, brokers, thea
ters, bowling alleys, commission mer
chants, etc., $15,708,733; documentary
stamps and perfumes, $8,926,310; es
tates. $6,076,575; excess profits, $37,176;
munitions, $27,663,940, and miscella
neous, $2,093,853, bringing the total or
dinary receipts up to $44.iz,4iz. in
come taxes of $359,581,228 brought the
grand total, including the Alaskan Rail
ways tax Of $33,256. Up tO 8U9,393,t4U,
as compared with $512,723,288 the year
before. The cost of collecting the reve
nue was approximately $9.53 per $1000,
or .95 per cent, the lowest on record.
WAY IS OPEN TO CAPITAL
(Continued From First Pare.)
religious regard of the Russian popu
lace as the ancient capital of the old
empire, surrounded with the tradition
of Russia's greatness, the triumphs of
Alexander. Catherine and Peter the
Great.
Russia May Benefit.
Furthermore, some Russians of the
new government are said to think that
a German occupation of Riga and even
Petrograd. might be a wholesome ob
ject lesson for the Radical element
which has been hampering tne new
government, and that an experience
under the -military heel of Germany
might convince them of the need of
supporting the government as now
constituted to save their fatherland for
Russia.
(By the Associated Press.)
Riga has been abandoned to the Ger
mans under the threat of an offensive
by land and sea, in which the deciding
stroke on the land side was delivered
by the Germans last Saturday.
Situation Is Critical.
The fate of Riga was virtually sealed
when German troops forced a crossirg
of the Dvina southeast of the city and
began to push northward after making
good their foothold on the right bank
of the stream.
Menaced also by the attack of a col
umn of Teutonic forces moving from
Mitau. southwest of Rigs, and by the
German naval forces recently reported
hovering in the vicinity of the Gulf of
Riga, the Russian military authorities
evidently considered the city no longer
tenable and decided to evacuate it.
The possible ultimate military eon
sequences of this development are dif
ficult to estimate. The right flank of
the entire Russian western front was
anchored on the Gulf of P.iga at a
point to the west of the city and with
this anchorage apparently lost the pos
sible strategical developments of the
situation seem infinite.
German Purpose Unknown.
'Much depends In purpose of the Ger
mans and the size of the forces at
their disposal for operations In this
war theater. It is too early yet for it
to be made apparent whether they
will be content at present with occupa
tion of the Baltic seaport the Rus
sians have left to them, or If the ad
vantage is to Le pushed and an at
tempt made to swing back the entire
Russian line on this front, creating an
opening for the operation by land and
water with Petrograd as the objective.
During the last year no serious of
fensive was undertaken by the Ger
mans on the northern front, their ener
gies in the eastern war theater being
directed elsewhere in resisting the
Brussiloff offensive and In the Rou
manian campaign.
Ever since the Russian revolution
with its disorganizing effect upon the
Russian armies made the military sit
uation more favorable to the Germans,
there have been hints that a descent
was to be made upon the Russian
northern front, and several alarms
have been sounded in Petrograd that
such an eventuality was pending.
SLAVS leave ruin ev wake
Retreating: Riga Residents Blake
Way to Northeast.
BERLIN, via London. Sept. 3, To
day's official report from the eastern
front says that the German troops are
making progress in accordance with
the plan mapped out.
"After careful preparation," the
statement says, "German divisions on
Sunday morning crossed the Dvina on
both sides of Uxkull. The infantry
crossing was preceded by a heavy bom
bardment of artillery and mine throw
ers. A footing was gained on the
northern bank of the river after a
short fight. .Where the Russians of
fered resistance they were driven back
by vigorous attacks. The movements
of our troops are in progress and are
proceeding according to our plans.
The enemy gave up his position s
west of the Dvina owing to our ad
vance. Our divisions are moving for
ward there also, while fighting with
the Russian rear guard. Dense columns
of every kind are making their way
hastily In a northeasterly direction
along the roads leading out of Riga.
Burning villages and farms mark the
routes taken by the retreating west
wing of the twelfth Russian army.
COSSACK AFFRONT MAY REACT
Correspondent Believes Danger Due
as Result of Order.
LONDON. Sept. 3. The Petrograd
correspondent of the Times predicts
trouble in consequence of the treatment
of the Cossacks by the provisional gov
ernment, and cites the statement that
the rights and privileges of the Don
Cossacks, consecrated by many cen
turies, have been cancelled, their
peculiar elective offices abolished and
government commissaries substituted.
Under this order. General Kale bin, the
Cossack commander, becomes a simple
soldier and, after the Moscow confer
ence at which the anti-Cossack cam
paign began openly, a personal alterca
tion occurred between Premier Keren
sky and General Kalebin.
The Kuban, Terek and Orenberg Cos
sacks have not yet been affected by the
new order but, according to the corre
spondent, the blow that strikes one
Cossack host must be felt by all the 12
armies adhering to the Cossack League.
and it Is to be expected that they will
not tamely submit.
SERBIANS ' ARE REPT7USED
Bulgarians, Co-operating With Ger
mans, Report Inflicting Loss.
AMSTERDAM, via London, Sept. 3.
Repeated attacks by the Serbians on
Dobropolje during the last few days
have been successfully repulsed, cost
ing the attacking force heavy losses.
Bulgarian detachments, co-operating
with the Germans in the Sereth dis
trict of the Roumanian front, entered
the enemy trenches, inflicting severe
losses and capturing 63 prisoners and
seven machine guns, the Bulgarian war
office announced today.
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College President Burled In Home.
ROME. Sept.' 1. The body of Presi
dent Thomas Kennedy, rector of the
American College in Rome, who died
Aujrust 28, has been interred in the
tomb of the American College In the
American Cemetery.
Ida Tarbell's Mother Dies.
TITUSVILLE, Pa., Sept. 8. Esther
McCullough Tarbell. mother of Ida M.
TarbelL'the writer and publicist, died
at her home nere toqay. gra
Military Men to Confer.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3. An inter
national military conference soon will
be held in Paris, according to a cable
gram received today at the Italian
embassy.
Coe College Head Elevated.
NEW YORK, Sept. 3.' The Rev. Dr.
John A. Marquis, president of Coe Col
lege, Cedar Rapids. Ia., has accepted
the office of general secretary of the
board of home missions of the Presby-
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