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Show REPEAIi OF OLD TAX ! ON GRAIN IS ASKED i WASHINGTON, TVb. 20.-Kopeal of' the old Spanish war tax on mixed corn and wheat flour is being advocated in : congress as one means of increasing the breadstuff supply and chocking the increasing in-creasing prices of wheat flour and bread. The ways and menus commit.!".-Monday commit.!".-Monday will consider koprosontnt iv" VollmerH bill for thnt purpose-. A sim- I ilnr bill hits beeu introduced in the senate. I Some r Tpertfl predict It. will reduce tho cost of flour ono dollar n barrel and : increase the supply twenty per ecntv Members from corn (dates nro preying j the measures. j Tho tnx wns laid us a revenue moas-iito moas-iito during the Spanish war, ami its re ' peal always was opposed, |