Show WAR REVENUE TAXES House Committee Will Consider Question Ques-tion of Reducing Them Washington Nov Representative Payne of New York chairman of the Ways and Means committee had a conference with the President yesterday yester-day Mr Payne said after leaving the White House that he would call a meetIng meet-Ing of the Republicans of his committee for November 20th to outline a partial programme for legislative work In the House at the approaching session One of lie matters to come before this meeting will be the proposed reduction re-duction of war revenue taxes He did not think however that the reduction would exceed 15000000 or less than onefifth of the present revenues from that source Much he thought would depend on the state of affairs in the Philippines when the bill came up for consideration considera-tion If a considerable army had to be maintained there for any length of time It might be thought wise not to cut down the revenues too much There were however a number of Items in the present law that might be wisely eliminated and these would receive attention at-tention Mr Payne said he thought the ship subsidy bill would be taken up and an effort made to pass it at the coming session |