Show WILSON PLANS 10 ADDRESS CONGRESS WASHINGTON Sept 9 President Wilson will begin tomorrow the prepara tlon of a message which he plans to read to congress Friday urging the necess ty of emergency revenue Iegls atlon to off set curtailment In customs receipts since the beglnn ng of tl e European war About $100 000 000 must be provided It Is understood the president w I make it c ear that suffic ent revenues for a 1 pur poses are assured but that the m 1 ona of emergency revenue must be raised to prevent a dene t Adm n strat on leaders In. congress al ready have been studying ava ab e sources of Bpec a re enue and have been frequent conference wl h Secretary MAdoo of the t easury department benato S mn ons cha rman of the finance comm t ee has co ope ated with Rep esen at e "Underwood cha rman of t e va s and means committee in t e pre ra nary del be at ons and both ere convinced seve al wee s ago that war revenue wou d be necessary probably to the extent of $100 000 0O0 It was agreed that the wajs and means comm ttee s ou d wor c out a b 1 w ch w 1 be re po ed ea y next week Mr Underwood has asked the presi dent to Ind cate what course he proposed to recommend in rais ng the needed re enues but up to ton ght the pres dent had not done so Sug0est ons have been made that beer wl s y domest c w nes tobacco ra lroad and theater t civets gaso ne patent med c soft dr n s and othe s m a con modjltles be ta ed No ag eement as been reached hov ever by t e ays and n eans comn ttee major ty Tee s sa d to be a war re enue pan h c rests und sc osed in Majo ty Leader Unde wood s m nd H s pu pose s not to ca the comm t ee together un t he president s message has been re ce ved He has w he d th s p an to a od unnecessary d scuss o but be 1 o es t w 1 be s mple enough to a low pa sage w thout de ay T e t easury department reported to da that customs reve ues droppel off about 111 000 000 during August Tda 1 customs rece pts for t at month were $19 431 36 fi ht increases over Au gust 1913 vere shown In internal reve nue and corporat on tax returns but the tota rece pts for t e month were nea lv $10 000 000 ess than in August last year I |