Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-12-21 | Page 8 | Senate Debate Halts Measure

SENATElTBATE HfiLTSIEASURE War Revenue Bill, How- i ever, Is Expected to Pass the Senate Today. i U'aSHIXGT' 'N, Dec 20. Although re-' re-' newal today Of general senate debate halted progress on the war revenue bill, Senator Simmons, chairman of the finance : eunmiUtee, announced that an effort W'Uitd be made to p :; the measure be-fore be-fore adjournnirui tomorrow with resorLto a niybt sessf"n j ,' nei-essHry. Iepublican leaders, however, expressed the belief t ha. L tlie mcasuro would go over until Morday. react lea ily all of today's session was ' devoted to discussion, the principal speaker speak-er boin;-,' Senator Jones Qf New Mexico and Senator Thomas of Colorado, both .Democrats. The former declared tlie bill ; contained many inequalities and injustices which handicap tlie conduct, of business, and said the j arty which permits such injustices in-justices to continue would be driven from power. Speakinp In support of his substitute measure, Senator Thomas declared the watchword lw this congress should be "i e trench men I. frugality and economy." Adoption of a federal budget system was Urpcd by the senator. Senator Thomas opposed granting the re i ommeni'iatlons made by Secretary Dan- iels for Increased naval appropriations, i declaring "every dollar placed In a battleship battle-ship is a dolUir'wa-sted." Submarines and seaplanes, he said, had revolutionized naval na-val warfare and he declared that, had the war continued six months longer every (lernran warship at Kiel would have, been destroyed by the "myriad of airplanes earryinu Americans that would have I swept the air." Tomorrow Senator Simmons hopes to obtain a vote on the committee amendments amend-ments providing for a ? 4,000. 000. 000 tax in 1920, the section which Republicans are opposing. Senator McKeNar, Democrat of Ten-! Ten-! nessee, announced that he would demand i a separate vote before final passage of 1 tho bill, on the postal section tentatively , accepted by tho senate late yesterday proposing pro-posing the repeal of the present zone system sys-tem for second-class mail and substltut- ing a 1-eent-a-pound rate within 150 miles and lVa cents heyond.