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Show PARLIAMENT WILL ASSEIWTUESDAy First Serious Attempt to Finance the War Will Be Made During Session. By W. ORTON TEWSON. By Internationa) Ntvn Service, LONDON. Pept. 12. Business of paramount para-mount importance will be dealt with flur-ine flur-ine the parliamentary eppion. which he-pins he-pins Tuesday. One of the most important impor-tant incidents will be the Introduction of I he new British budget. The plan of the chancellor of the exchequer ex-chequer probably will be laid before the house of commons within the next ten days. It will be the first serious aitempt to raise revenue to finance the war. Many rumors of new sources of revenue which the chancellor will tap are current. Among tlie suggested new raxes are: Ta on war profits, extension of the supertax and hroadenhij; of the hssis of the inrJome tax to include wage earn el's; a further taxation on wines, splrlta and imported cigars. The new system of taxation i-s expect-erl expect-erl to yield about Seventy million pounds (1360,000,000). The total reserve for the t nrrent year is only estimated to reach 370,000,000, or in round figures, T60,000 a Hay. This leaves a deficiency of i',."i0n.-f00 i',."i0n.-f00 a day. ami as the ropi of tho wht hv Christ mas may have rfsii from C njion" 000 Lo 000,000 a day. ;i deficiency of at lean! 3,350,000 pounds a day win have to be faced. The greater part of this deficiency will have to bf met iy borrowing', but h considerable con-siderable Iftcreasa in the existing burden of taxation also must be made. Moyd-GeOrge win make an Interesting Ht a lenient on the work of the munition dens rtment. Lord Crewe's cabinet comiplttee, n n-pointed n-pointed to consider the Question of compulsory com-pulsory na t ions I service, ha s completed Its task. It in stated that th report of this committee, siKned by Curgon, wins-ton wins-ton Churchill, Austen Chamberlain and trd Sri borne, recommends national service. ser-vice. This burning question la bound to come up for discussion and decision at an early date. The leaders of the eons rip! lonlst party are those whose names ;i re given above, led by T.loyd -( leorge, The rablnet is understood un-derstood to stand an follows on this question, ques-tion, which now Is the dominant one In the government's seers! councils: i in 'oninii i ted- fjOrd Kitchener; Against compulsion- Mr. Asqulth, Rlr Kdwaid Grey, Mr. nalfour. l-ird Crews, Lord Bifckmaster, Mr. UcKenna, Sir John pimun. Mr. Runclman, fr. llar-court. llar-court. Mr. Bh-rell and Arthur Henderson. I'or compulsion Lord rnnsdowne, Lloyd - Oebrge, Mr. (7hurch4U, Sonar Law, Waiter Tong. A nsteu i 'linmberliifn. Sir VUIwh rd Cs rson and Lord elbome. Disciisflnc the additional budget soon t o be i m i rod need by the govern merit, the 1 tally News soys: The piellon nf a duty on Imports is under consideration. Some think there will he a duty on n general srale on all Imports. If there fl such n dntv ii nil on hi certainly bs imposed oil motor cars and motor bicycles -omlng from A m erica, bu t nothing has been .settled by the cabinet. |