Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-09-03 | Page 1 | Congress will Work on Three War Measures

CONGRESS WILL lift ON THE WAR MEASURES Revenue Bill Is Expected to Pass the Senate and Be in Conference Before Saturday Sat-urday Night. HOUSE TO FINISH WITH BOND ISSUE Also the Soldiers' and Sailors' Sail-ors' Insurance Proposition; Upper Chamber Will Be in Session Today. WASHINGTON, Sept. 2. Congress works this week on three great war measures, mea-sures, the $11,538,945,460 war bond and certificates, the $3,000,000,000 revenue and the $176,000,000 soldiers' and sailors' insurance in-surance bills. The revenue bill may be sent to conference by the senate before Saturday night, by which time the other measures will have been passed by the house. Republicans of the house will oppose a few minor features of the bond bill and seek to amend it so as to provide for a war expenditures board, and optional insurance in-surance features of the insurance measure will be subjected to attack, but both probably will pass about as they were drawn by Secretary McAdoo and accepted by the house committee. Disregarding the labor day holiday, the senate will continue to work tomorrow on the war profits sections of the revenue bill, with the intention of disposing of it not later than Wednesday. The house adjourned ad-journed yesterday to reconvene Tuesday for consideration of the bond bill. It will be passed probably Wednesday and the insurance measure will follow. The climax in the senate fight over the war profits taxation approaches, with both high and low tax factions claiming victory. The former tonight expressed confidence of substltuwng a flat levy of at least 40 or 50 per cent on war profits. Committee leaders, however, are confident that the compromise provision now written writ-ten into the bill will stand. When the final vote on the section is taken, consideration con-sideration of the income tax provisions will begin under an agreement to dispose dis-pose of them Friday. After sending the tax bill to conference there probably will be short but sharp disctisslon of peace on resolutions of Senators La Follette and Sherman suggesting sug-gesting promulgation of peace terms. The senate leaders expect to have the resolutions reso-lutions overwhelmingly defeated. Few leaders see much hope of adjournment adjourn-ment before October.