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Show BROKERS WILL IT Froblem of "War Time" Revenue Is Subject for Debate in House. WASHINGTON, Sept. S.Stock brokers who have protested against a proposed special tax of $50 a year will not escape assessment. Democrats of the' ways and .means committee determined deter-mined today to include them in the war revenue bill which is now being, perfected. per-fected. Arguments that brokers should not j be taxed because stock exchanges now are closed were not regarded as sufficient suffi-cient to entitle brokers to exemption, inasmuch as it is probable that the exchanges ex-changes again will be operating before tho need for war revenue has passed. Perfection of the revenue- bill was not completed today. Stamp tax rates will be taken up tomorrow. Few changes are contemplated in the stamp lax rates as levied during the Spanish-American Spanish-American war, though the matter of eliminating checks is still undetermined. The commitfee today approved the additional tax of "0 cents a barrel ou beer, the tax of 2 cents a gallon on gasoline and the special taxes on bankers, bank-ers, brokers and tobacco dealers. It is proposed to fix the wine tax at 14 cents a gallon on dry wines and 20 cents on sweet wines. The matter was left open, however, in order to give the California vrine growers, headed by Theodoro A. Boll, an oportunity to file a statement wilh the committee tomorrow. tomor-row. Republican, members of the house voted unanimously in open conference 1 tonight a declaration that with proper retrenchment in government expenditures expendi-tures there would bo no necessity for war revenue legislation. Minority Leader Mann advised t lie "Republicans to voi? against the whole war revenue tax proposition as iin-nceessarv. iin-nceessarv. This will be the minority programme when the war revenue bill is brought into 1 lie house, and it accords ac-cords wilh th;it already adopted by the sen at e. The lalk tonight varied all the way from discussion of the balance of trade to nVminrintion of the TVinoeratic tariff as the c:nisr of bread lines. "Representative "Represen-tative "Frir of Wisconsin charged that congress, and not llir president, was to i blame. "Representative Greene nf Massachusetts, Mas-sachusetts, 'caucus ehairmnu, insisted that the responsibility rented squarely upon the president. "Representative Lonrnot of Wisconsin favored, and "Representative Roberts of Massachusetts moved, that "Ropr-enta-tive Mann introduce a joint resolution tomorrow to provide for ioint enn-aresfional enn-aresfional varing of all wending appropriation appro-priation bills and npropriations for the current vear. "Republican Leader Mann declared this was useless as a minoriiv proposition, and it was voted down. The house wn vs and niean cnmmit-' cnmmit-' tee decided to increase the t .1 x on drv v.-;.w (l 11 cents a slLm l'"'d:iv. the j .-i-Himent b-'ing that the onginaT pro posal of 12 cents was too low as compared com-pared with a tax of 20 cents on sweet wines. More protests were lodged today with Democrats on the committee against the proposed tax on domestic wiues in the war revenue bill. Chairman Underwood announced there was no disposition to change the jdan of taxing sweet wines 20 cents a gallon. Representatives of California wine growers are in "Washington, "Wash-ington, but so far have not had a formal for-mal hearing. Tbe committee decided to eliminate the minimum tax contained in the Spanish war revenue law on bankers. The law levied a tax of $50 on bankers with capital and surplus not exceeding $25,000 and $2 a thousand additional. The proposed bill will fix the bankers' tax at tho flat rate of $2 per thousand of capital and surplus. |