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Show HIGHER TAXES START WITH THE NEW YEAR Parisians Celebrate by Studying the System Adopted by Government. PARTS. Jan. 1, 1:30 p. m. Parisians hean the new year by studying tiie new war taxes, instead of making the usual exchange of visiting cards and calls. Both houses of parliament, in a special Sunday session that continued until New Year's eve. worked on the new system of taxes in order to make it effective at the beginning be-ginning of 1P17. The salient features of the new order of thines from the viewpoint of the average, aver-age, citizen are a .1-cent instead of a 2-cnt 2-cnt domestic postage; a in io por cent increase of the tax on tobacco and cigars, and a tax of P to 50 centimes on theater rickets, graduated according to the price of the seats ; more mostly teles rams and Increased charefs upon beverages and certain provisions. The now postage rate? are causing the cratest perturbation. T'lobahly not one-half one-half the people, in posting their letters this morn in not iced that an additional sou was required. In addition to the new govern ment taxes, residents of Paris discovered this morn in tr tiia t all t a x iea h fares had tieen advanced a'nnm 10 per 'ent overnight. The offif iul New Year's ceremonies were limited to calls hv the presidents of the senate and chamber upon President Presi-dent Poincare. who returned the visits. Otherwise the festivities were mostly confined con-fined to families having soldiers at home on leave. At the front every soldier received ex- ! tra rations of ham, wine, champacne, ' igars and oranges, while the officers revived re-vived double rations. |