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Show iWOULD lllillf PER CEPJT OF PROFITS Some Senators Propose to Go After Wealth Accumulated Accu-mulated During War. "WASHINGTON, Aug. 25. After a I brief session today the senate recessed J until Moudny without action or debate on the war tax bill. Absence of senators, conferences by both factions in the contest over raising rais-ing income and war profits tax rates , and reluctance to spend the day in per- functory speech making induced leaders lead-ers to agree to the recess. It was learned tocliiy that during the last week, while the dispute over the finance fi-nance committee revision of the bill was before the senate, the committee room was twice broken iuto at night and papers in the custody of Chairman : 1 Simmons were stolen. Proposed amendments and statistics i of treasury experts on the bill are said I to be the only things missing. The police po-lice have gotten no trace of the ma-i ma-i rauders. ! At the conference of senators favor- j ing higher tax rates it was decided to j offer amendments proposing a flat levy 1 of SO per cent of war profits. If rejected re-jected other lesser levies will be proposed pro-posed to secure the possible mnximum. Last vear's total war profits are estimated esti-mated at $X, 000,000,000, and this vear's a m. 00 0.0 00, 000. The bill's provisions now propose a levy of about 26 per cent, or about JroG-,000,000. |