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Show liSSliLBlf" WAR MEASURE Decision Said to Affect Associations As-sociations Handling Vast Sums. AVASrnN'C.TOX. Xov. ll. rnder a ruling rul-ing b- Solicitor JoIhimjh of tho tr.-asury, ooMiTttoriH from the war tax may ho ppv cr.il mlllnni dullard In xi.-efri of the ostium osti-um 1 nuole hy ( 'auvohH. The new rnllnK will require paynirnt of the td.'imp tux on all trunsactioun of building build-ing ami loan af-orla lions throughout tho 1 nltefl States." It In ftuld to affect more trui n tipjfi arHO( latlonA, h;t tiiR nearl 3,0'iiini') mcnihern and handling annually uhout $ I , I f.ri,)u(i,oii'. Th.e opinion of thij solh-itor differs from tht- opinion of tin; commissioner of Internal In-ternal ri'ir-Diin aiid nn a.islMHnt nttornev gi'iiPral, who lnt'-rjr-t-d the rr.vf-iiuo tux hiw of 1.!.. Tin liiiik'tiat'; In hoih tr.e prri-cnt law an.l that of tho Spanish war ihi m is held hy lot) u assix.-ia Hon officers to he id. inn -ah It Is prohuhle Hint nn effort will bt) limdp hy thft h ncl f Ions to fight tin present COnMUKtlOJi of the JhW. H V.ilfc pointed out to-lay thai the t ra usti etiotis to be liixt-d are In smrt II 8 moon' . In-vulvlng In-vulvlng a vast, rminher of dou meniF, nil which would he Mibjf-.-t to t he nib in t drill-. No opinion has ben a-k-d from ttm dep'irtmtfnt of jii-io-., hot If protests' ' ' ' 'r t - : : : are mado officially it is poiijlf tht S'-i rotary McAdoo will k u orstrucikin from t h."- iJcp;i rl rrn-nr. of juM p I Tiife languai,'1- fJ the an in point f i1 - I low?: j Th;it stocks a ml hor.-i.s ifsul hv ro- ' op'-talie Iriiiding and loan nv--o.'i;i - tions or conip.-i r,ies thAt make loenff j on'.v t-i th'-lr m. a :"holderfi shall be QK- empl from U.ti tax herein provided, j Solicitor John Hon hf:ld that under th' I povir-jioii n ii.-Mjf'uitions have no !cM.;diuii except for tiretr own stocks ar. 1 hoird. |