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Show ILL DAY FIGHT IN HOUSE OVER SOP SILL, Republicans, Insurgents and Democrats Explain Their Proposals. WAR PROFITS TAX BILL DENOUNCED Rep. Clarke Gives Gentle Reminder Re-minder to Republicans on "Playing Politics. WASHINGTON, April 27. The fight over tho method of raising almost two billion dollars for soldier relief legislation legis-lation precipitated an all-day debate in the house today during which Republicans Re-publicans on one side and the combinational combi-national Democrats and insurgent Republicans Re-publicans on the other explained their proposals. . . Rep. Johnson, Republican, South Dakota, announced that seventy-five Republican "insurgents" favored a retroactive re-troactive "war profits" tax Instead of a sales tax, proposed by Republicans. His statement, if borne out later, would Indicate an upset of the Republican Re-publican program to pass the biil Monday Mon-day without permitting action on the "war profits" tax proposal. Representative1 Represen-tative1 Garner, of Texas, Democratic whip, predicted Lhat the result of the Republican caucus Friday night would be to "whip" the insurgents into line. War Profit3 Bill Acsailed. Mr. Johnson gnd Rep. Henry Raincy, Democrat, of Illinois, introduced today the "war profits" tax bill, which would place an eighty per cent levy on the increase of net income during tho last four years over that of the pre-war period-' The plan was attacked attack-ed by Rep. Green, of Iowa, and Long-worth, Long-worth, Ohio, Republicans, who declared declar-ed It would "levy taxes on taxca" and that the excess earnings of Individuals iand corporations during the war had already been taxed more than fifty per cent "To accept this plan means there will be no soldier legislation," declared Mr. Longworth, adding that it would "kill the soldiers' bill." Besides the levy on sales, which, he said, "would not raise much," Mr, Longworth said all stock exchange transactions were to be taxed, while the existing levy on tobacco, incomes and real estate sales were to be increased. in-creased. Democratic Leader Warns Republicans Rep. Clarke, Democratic leader, and Garner, Democrat, demanded that opportunity op-portunity be given to amend tho bill. Mr. Clark recalled the parliamentary revolution of 1910 and gave gentle "warning" that the Republicans were "entering on the same kind of conduct con-duct that led to tho upset of their machine., ma-chine., then." ' '.. Mr." Garner said tho Republicans were "playing politics" with the legislation legis-lation and would not pass it until after the election. Congress ought never to pass a bill, declared Mr. Clark, in this connection, "out of which more irritation than revenue rev-enue is to come." nn |