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Show PIllOILL ENDS Speaker Clark Makes Closing Clos-ing Argument for the Measure. By International News Service. WAS KING-TON, July S. General debate de-bate on the Democratic revenue bill was concluded in the house today and the measure will be taken up for detailed consideration on Mondav. The closing of general debate found the house with about a score of members on the floor and the leaders determined to postpone consideration of all proposed pro-posed amendments to the measure until Monday. The house will devote seven hours to the, bill on Monday and will begin the final vote on the "measure at o o'clock Monday afternoon. Representative Represen-tative Cordell Hull, who framed the income, in-come, inheritance and munitions tax in the bill, and Speaker Champ Clarke made the closing arguments for the measure. Representative Hull made a lengthy, detailed explanation of the direct di-rect tax features of the bill and declared de-clared that the measure was the most "equitable system of taxation that could be devised.' ' Speaker Clark was particularly emphatic em-phatic in his speech in support of the munitions tax sections of the bill. ' This agitatiou for preparedness, ' 1 he said, "is responsible for the greater part of the necessity for additional government gov-ernment revenues. The European war precipitated this question of preparedness. prepared-ness. It started the whole country thinking and talkine about military and naval preparation. No set of men in the history of the world ever made so much money as the American munitions manufacturers man-ufacturers have made during the past two years. It is now right and proper that they should be made to give a share of their profits to pay the expenses ex-penses of that preparedness which will in turn put money into their pockets." |