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Show THE GRANT8VILLE vehicles, including trucks, payable by manufacturers, producers and Import- WHAT CITIZENS MUST GIVE TO 1 WAR - REVENUES 4 Conferees of ! t Senate and , House Report as to Expenditures Made Necessary. - TAX IS DIVIDED IN EQUITY BURDEN EQUITABLY DIVIDED A8 SEEN WISE BY COMMITTEE APPOINTED. Corporation Will Pay Commensurate Share for the Protection of the Country Statesmen at the Capital Well Satisfied With the Efforts They Have Put Forth. Washington. The Joint conferees on the war revenue bill completed their draft after, two weeks of deliberation. As revised by the conferees the measure has been raised from the levy fixed by the senate of $2,416,670,000 to an aggregate of approximately Chairman 81mmons of the senate finance committee estimated that the Increase made by the con-- , ferees would approach $275,000,000. Profits Tax Modified. The excess war profits tax, as agreed to by the conferees, is a modification of the senate bill, the principal changes being In the maximum and minimum rates of exemption upon which the tax is to be determined. The senate graduated scule of exemptions ran from 6 to 10 iter cent, while the house exemption rate was 8 per cent The conferees adopted the graduated rate of from 7 to 9 per cent The definition of capital, which was a point upon which the conferees argued for days, was modified so as to provide that the actual value of tangible property' paid into a corporation or partnership or Individual business before January 1, 1914, shall be taken as of that date. The proviso as to good will and other intangible property has been somewhat liberalised. As to Invested Capital." .In calculating war excess profits the terms Invested capital" of corporations and partnerships was declared to Include actual cash paid In, actual cash value and other tangible property paid for stock or shares at the time of payment or January 1, 1914, but In no case to exceed the par value of the original securities; paid in or earned surplus and undivided profits used or employed in the business, exclusive of undivided profits earned during the taxable year." The allowance for Intangible assets Includes actual cash value of patents and copyrights paid In for stock or shares at the time of payment good will trademarks, trade brands, franchises if for bone-fid-e payments not to exceed the cash value." It stipulates that such intangible assets exchanged for securities before March 3, 1917, not exceeding 20 per cent of the total, shall be Included at a value not exceeding a fair cash .value at the time of purchase. Postal Increases. X flat Increase on reading matter of 4 cent per pound until July 1, 1919, and Vk cent thereafter was provided. Advertising matter exceeding 5 per cent of the total space would be taxed to 2)4 cents additional until from July 1, 1910, and from )4 to 4)4 cents more until July 1, 1920; and from to 6 cents to 1921 and from 1 cent to 9 cents thereafter. An additional tax of )4 cent per pound until July 1, 1919, and )4 rent i hereafter, on religious, agricultural, fraternal and similar publications was adopted. The 1 cent tax on letters, excepting drop letters and postal cards, was restored by the conferees. A 1 cent additional tax on postal and private mailing cards was added. The mail increases are estimated to raise $90,000,000, and are effective 30 days afetr the passage of th3 act The senate provision exempting from postage leetters written by soldiers and sailors abroad was retained. Railroad Tickets Hit The conferees levied 8 per cent In lieu of the senate rate of 5 and the bouse ante of 10 per cent on pussenger transportation, estimated to raise from t lie compromise levy ahnuot $00,000,-U0- 0 Instead of $37,900,000 under the senate plan. The 3 per cent tax on freight transportation' was retained and the tax on express transportation was Increased so that 1 cent would be levied on each 20 cents paid Instead of each 25 cents. The house 10 per cent tax on Pullman accommdatlons, cut to 5 per cent by U)e senate, was restored and Is estimated to raise $2,700,-000,00- 0. .... ... first-cla- ss In lieu of the house 5 per cent tax on sales of automobiles by manufacturers and the senate federal license tux on owners, the conferees adopted a 3 per cent tax on all motor ers. Taxes of 8 per cent of manufacturers' ales of musical Instruments and Jewelry also were written In, with a tax of )4 cent a foot on motion picture film. New Inheritance Tax. A new system of graduated Inheritance taxes was written Into the bill In lieu of the house plan and despite the senate's rejection of such taxes. The new rates on Inheritances, with those of Americans In military service of 1 exempted, range from per cent on $50,000 estates to 10 per cent on estates of $10,000,000 and one-ha- lf more. The bulk of tbe Increases of between $250,000,000 and $300,000,000 made by the conferees In the senate bill was secured from the postage, public utilities and manufacturing sales section and the new Inheritance taxes. With but few exceptions, the new taxes are effective with the passage of the act 8enate Version Stand. t The Income tax section was adopted virtually as written by the senate. The new 2 per cent normal tax on Incomes of more than $2,000 for married persons and $1,000 for single persons Is In addition to the present law exempting incomes of less than $3,000 for single persons and $4,000 for married persons. Thus those between the new low exemption bases and the present exemptions will pay only the 2 per cent tax, but single persons having an Income of $3,000 or more and married persons whose Income Is $4,000 or more would pay the full 4 per cent normal tax. The senate Income provision allowing an additional exemption of $200 for each dependent child to heads of families subject to the present law was retained. The exemption for children, however, does pot apply to those subject to the new deduced taxes with the . $2,000 and $1,000 exemptions, respectively, for married and single persons. Surtax Is Agreed Upon. Surtaxes were agreed upon as follows : One per cent on Income over $5,000 and less than $7,500 ; 2 per cent between $7,500 and $10,000; 8 per cent between $10,000 and $12,500 ; 4 per cent between $12,500 and $15,000 ; 5 per cent between $15,000 and $20,000 ; 7 per cent between $20,000 and $40,000; 10 per 18 per cent between $80,000 and $100,-pcent between $60,000 and $80,000 ; 18 per cent betwtae $80,000 and $100,-00- 0 ; 22 jer cent between $100,000 and $150,000 ; 25 per cent between $150,000 and $200,000; 80 per cent between $200,000 and $250,000; 84 per cent between $250,000 and $300,000; 87 per cent between $300,000 and $500,000; 40 per cent between $500,000 and $750,-00- 0 ; 45 per cent between $750,000 and $1,000,000, and 50 per cent on Incomes exceeding $1,000000. Increased Tax on Whisky. Increased senate rates on whisky apd beer were virtually retained, and that on wines somewhat reduced. The tax on distilled spirits was made $2.10 per gallon when for beverage use and $1 less for industrial purposes, estier mated to raise $135,000,000. The amendment prohibiting Importation of distilled spirits for beverage use was retained. Floor taxes to reach withdrawn liquors were approved. Beer was taxed $1.50 per barrel additional, to raise $46,000,000, an Increase of 25 cents per barrel over the house rate. Present wine taxes were doubled. Taxes on nonalcoholic beverages were compromised. On prepared sirups and extracts the taxes graduated from 5 to 20 cents Instead of from 8 to 12 cents a gallon were adopted. Grape Juice and other soft drinks are taxed 1 cent per gallon, as provided by the senate In reducing the rate of the house. original Senate rates on cigars and cigarettes were retained, but those on snuff were Increased from 4 cents to 5 cents a nt pound. 8tamp Taxes Fixed. Stamp taxes agreed upon are: Bonds of Indebtedness,. 5 cents on each $100. Indemnity and surety bonds, 50 cents. Parcel post packages, 1 cent for ench 25 cents of the cost of transportation. Cnpitnl stock, original Issues, 5 cents per $100. Sales and transfers, 2 cents per $100. Sales of produce on exchange,. 2 cents for each $100 value In merchandise. Drafts, checks payable other than on sight or demand, promissory notes, except bank notes for circulation, and renewals, 2 cents for all sums below $100 and 2 cents for each additional $100 or fraction thereof. Conveyance papers, 50 cents be- tween $100 and $500 and 50 cents for each additional $500. Customs house entries, from 25 cents to $1 ; entry for withdrawal from bonded warehouses, 50 cents. Passenger vessel tickets for ports other than those In the United States, Canada and Mexico, between $10 and $30, $1; between $30 and $00, $3, and above $G0, $5. Voting proxies, 10 cents. Power of attorney, '25 cents. Ploying cards, decks of not more MAIN FEATURES OF NEW REVENUE BILL The war revenue bill, Washington. as finally agreed on by the house and senate conferees provides for the raising of approximately $2,006,320,000, as follows : Income tax $ 842,000,000 Excess profits tax 1,110,000,000 Distilled spirits 133000,000 Rectified spirits 5,000.000 Fermented liquors 48,000,000 10,000,000 Wines, etc. Soft drinks, sirups, etc... 14,000,000 Cigars Cigarettes Tobacco UTAH, NEWS, GRANTSVILLE, .... 8nuff Cigarette papers Freight transportation... Express and parcel post. Passenger transportation Pipe lines Seats and bertha Telegraph and telephone messages Insurance policies (new) Automobiles (sale of)'.. Musical instruments (Bale of) Motion pletuie films Jewelry (sale by manu- facturer) Sporting goods Pleasure boats Perfumes and cosmetics Proprietary medicines .. Cameras Admissions Club dues . . : SchedtiJf A, including playing oanis .'.I?.'.? War estate tfx. ..... Virgin jsiand produces. First class mail matter. . Second class mall matter 10,000,000 20,000,000 25,000.000 1,500,000 200,000 77,500,000 16,000,000 55,000,000 4.500,000 2,250,000 7.000,000 5,000,000 40,000,000 4,300,000 3,000,000 4,500,000 1,200,000 500,000 1,900,000 3,000,000 750,000 50,000,000 1,200,000 30,000,000 5,000,000 20,000 60,000,000 14,000,000 x. Total INLAND NORTHWEST BROKEN While hunting near Lewiston, Mont., John Lu Fountain shot and killed Sulmislivan Berger, his brother-in-lataking him for a coyote. E. L. Brown of St. 1uul, Minn., well known in the west unit northwest, lius been named president of the Denver k Itlo Grande railroad, succeeding 11. Woman Tells How $5 Worth' of Pinkhams Compound Made Her WdL m . coi-pu- s displace-irregularitie- der oi Emily Kelly". Information comes ropj Southern California of the recent marriage of the former Mrs. E. A. Montgomery, e widow of the millionaire mining of Nevada, and Fred P. Sargent, real estate deuler of Venice, Cal. A reward of $250 has been posted for the arrest and conviction of Sam Julch, whom, it is alleged, murdered Anthony Wells at Ely, Nevada, September 8. The fugitive is a Servian, 85 years old and weighs 210 pounds. The Industrial commission has awarded Sum Lahti the sum of $531 for the loss' of his Index finger of his left hand. Inlitl was employed In one of the Tonopuh mines and received the Injury Muy 30 of this mug-nat- . Me-lun- ls lndls-trlbute- IN HEALTH U. Mudge, who resigned. farms all broken dawn Tima, nWa. Two women and a limn were In- In health from adisplacement One of my lady friends tame to stantly killed at Pacific City, WosIl, see me and she adwhen a Puget Sound Electric railway vised me to com-imiistruck au 00 miles hour, train, running tlrliig Lvdia the auto In which they were riding. E. PiukWs 10-V4gu ear-ol- d son y William Harper, the table Compound of Mr. und Mrs. John J. Harper, of Big and to use Lydia E. Timber, Mont., was dragged to Ills Pinkhams Sanative death when Ills foot caught in a rope Wash. I began takattached to the suddle of Ills horse. ing your remedies Journeying half way around the and took $8. 00 worth to world, from Tanglers, Morocco, and in two months Reno, Gordon Coutts, an artist of rewas a well woman nown, appeared in court Inst week to after three doctors said I never would diopitose the motion of his wife for stand np straight again. I was a midvorce. wife for seYen years and I recommended Two serious accidents euded the the Vegetable Compound to every wo-t- o take before birth and af ter motorcycle und automobile races at the state fair grounds ut Helena, Mont. One man was killed, three are lu hospitals, and one of the injured ms I will be delighted to anewer them. probably will die. was filed -- MraJENNli MOTES, 842 ELNorth St, A writ of liubeus ( week hist by George Green, attorney Lima, Ohio. s, Women wbo suffer from for W. A. Nagel, Rawhide, Nevada, ner-- , postuiuster, who bus been under arrest. or bearing-dow- n for some time charged with the mur-- than 64 cards, an additional 5 cents on the present rates. Taxes on life insurance, eliminated from the house bill In the senate, were amended and reinserted, raising about $5,000,000. Effective November 1 the new taxes on new Insurance policies Issued are 8 cents per $100 or fraction thereof on life Insurance and 1 cent per $1 on the premium charged . on marine, casualty, fire and inland year. A Nevada Jury has awarded Marie Insurances. . A. Nichols $2900 damages against the Amusement taxes agreed upon profor vide that all persons entering places Western Union Telegraph company telea of in the delivery of amusement free, except employees alleged delay and official on duty and children un- gram which carried the news of the der twelve, would pay a tax rate of 1 death of the plaintiffs father in New cent on each 10 cents or fraction York. L. Mclnnls of Gardeiy?rvllle, Nethereof of the admission charge. This tax also would apply to cabarets and vada, recently left for San Francisco to similar performances where the cost enlist In a forestry regiment for servof entertainment Is included In other ice In France. His three brothers, C. costs, such as service. Holders of an- & Mclnnls, Will Mclnnls und Sam nual box seats would pay 10 per cent of Reno, fill have been accepted of the annual rental. Nickel theaters under the selective draft and shows, rides and other outdoor One thousand one hundred, dollars park amusements with a maximum ad- from half an acre of ground is an unmission of 10 cents and benefit enter- usual crop, but that is the amouut tainments and agricultural fairs were Harry Raymond, truck gardener of exempted. Stevensville, Mont., received frofii 10 After November 1, 1917, members of rows of tomatoes 273 feet long. The all clubs, except fraternal orders, pay- patch yielded 11,000 pounds. ing more than $12 annual dues would Unable to tell how he was hurt, W. be subject to a 10 per cent tax. E. Preston, a laborer living at WadsExemptions Are Allowed. was taken to the hospital, sufOn excess profits the conferees worth, the effects of fractures of from fering agreed upon a minimum deduction of the and leg bones. He was found hip 7 per cent and a maximum of 10 per railroad track about near the lying cent, Instead of the 6 to 10 per cent Wadsworth. a from mile half senate. fixed by the Other exempDr. of case The George Smitten, tions are $3,000 for corporations and la who Reno dentist charged with as$6,000 for Indlvldauls. Corporations, to avoid the Ceresola A. J. partnerships and Individuals having sisting no capital stock would pay a flat rate conscrlptive draft by extracting eight of S per cent on net profits in excess perfectly good molars from Ceresolas of $3,000 for corporations and $6,000 mouth has been taken under advisement by the federal grand Jury. for Individuals and partnerships. A Nevada physician for the last Miscellaneous income tax amendments inserted by the senate - were twenty-fou- r years has been enjoying all the rights aud privileges of a nativgenerally adopted, including the citizen aud only made the Jones amendment for a tax of e-born d 10 per cent on -- corporations' discovery within the lust few days surplus, without allowance that he is a British subject. He has for Income taxes paid. The 10 per made application for citizenship. cent tax would not apply to undisChoice fat hogs reached thehlghest tributed Income actually invested or price ever recorded in the Rocky employed In business or Invested in mountain states when they touched 19 federal securities after September 1, cents per pound at the North Balt 1917, and 5 per cent penalty for sur- Lake market on October 4. The deplus retained but' not employed is pro- mand continues strong, with the marvided. all coming and crying for1 ket In making provision for administra- more.taking tion and collection of the new and James Mayberry, pioneer resident existing taxes the conferees provided and one of the most widely known men that the special tax of 12)4 per cent on war munitions manufactures shall in Nevada, died lust week at his home takbe reduced to 10 per cent, but re- In Reno. Few men in Nevada have develtained to January 1, 1918. It now en a more active Interest In Its closer touch, with yields about $29,000,000 annually tfnd opment or been in conditions throughout the commonthe senate had proposed Its repeal. wealth than was Mr. Mayberry. The body of J. W. Woods, a locomoGARFIELD FIXES COAL PRICES tive fireman, was found near his Mont. Officers Fuel Administrator Announces Final home at WhlteUsh, to the home of bloodstains M'ho traced BindBe Decision, Which Will also a locomotive fireJohn Tliuma, on All Dealers. ing man, arrested Mrs. Tliuma, and deAdministrator clared she admitted having shot Fuel Washington. Garfield announced regulations, effec- Woods, when he climbed into the wintive at once, for the limitation of the dow of her home. retail prices of bituminous and an"Billy McCarthy, commonly known ns the Anheuser Kid" and formerly a thracite coal throughout the country. The fuel administration has fixed. notorious character In Butte, Mont., In the conclusions arrived at, not the during the famous und spectacular batspecific price which the retail dealer tles between the will be allowed to charge the con- and the Illnze-Clar- k factions for politsumer, but the gross margin which ical and mining control of that region, the retail dealer will be allowed to add died Inst week in the Reno city Jail, a to the average wholesale cost of his victim of drugs and tuberculosis. coal In making retail prices. so-call- DOWN ic properties of the contained in Lydia & Pinkhams Vegetable Compound A; Might Work We are extending tod many speeches In the Congressional Record. Whats the remedy, senator? When a member gets tired let him eontluue his speech by means of a graphophonC." How's This? We offer $100.00 for any case of catarrh that cannot bo cured by HA LI8 CATARRH MEDICINE. HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE Is taken Internally and acta throuch the Blood on tho Mucoua Surfaces of the System. Sold by druggists for over forty yearn Price 75c. Testimonials free. F. J. Cheney A Co., Toledo, Ohio. Apology Accepted. There Is a good story of J. M. "Barrie In Douglas Sladen's Twenty. Years of My Life. It appears that the talented author of The Little Minister, having promised to be present at a dinner of the Authors' dub, was late, for which ho apologized. He had, he explained, been to the wrong club. He had never been to the Authors' before, he said, so ho asked a policeman the way. From the way he pronounced tho word, the policeman thought he meant Arthur's dub, and to Arthurs according Barrie was directed. When he got there he found It a very grand place. The club porter looked him up and down, and said : The servants' entrance Is round tho comer. It took the normal courage of a Scotsman (adds Mr. Bladen) to tell that story ; but It was Inimitably fanny, told in Barries broad Doric. Exchange. Hor Skill. "So Mrs. Tart has that husband of hers tamed, has the?" I should say she had. She's got him that tame that the takes money out of his hand without him snapping at her. flerce-tem-pere- d Once in a while there is a man so good natnred that he is nice to his wifes relatives. Many a convincing political speaker cant get a hearing at home. O People at because they like it ana they know its good for them |