Show REPUBLICANS MAKE I BITTER An ATTACK ON RE VENUE REVENUE BILL jr r Vr i v WASHINGTON W Aug 23 Debate 23 Debate on the the emergency revenue bill designed tor to raise r is was continued in the senate nate today A resolution by Senator Penrose to send the bill back to the finance finance committee for tor amendment tor to r raise ise an equitable portion of required revenue from a protective t tariff still was as pending An explanation of t the ne necessity e for forthe the he proposed legislation by Senator t Simmons Simmons chairman of the finance committee committee committee com- com and an attack on the m measure asure r. r by by Senator Smoot Republican occupied occupied occupied pied yesterdays yesterday's session of the senate Senator r Smoot asserted yesterday esterday that the Democratic party should be convicted of t attempting to procure votes under false pretenses Insisting that national defense preparedness preparedness pre pre- preparedness and the Mexican situation were altogether r responsible for the ne- ne c of ot special revenue legislation and a pr proposed posed bond issue Senator Simmons declared red Republicans In congress congress congress con con- gress gress had clamored for even greater expenditures for defense and having done this were seeking partisan advantage advantage advantage ad ad- vantage by making false charges of Democratic extravagance extra to the public Smoot opening the Republican assault assault as assault as- as sault on the revenue bill said if the Democratic party were to be retained tn to control of ot the government the country country country coun coun- try would suffer an era of unequaled extravagance combined with inefficiency in inefficiency in- in His attack 4 efficiency unsurpassed Curtis who supported by Senator asserted that the burden of taxation should not be placed on the American people and that revenues should be raised by a protective tariff To prove his contentions that normal appropriations of ot this session are not excessive Simmons submitted treasury department estimates for the year 1917 1017 showing that excluding postal appropriations approprIations appropriations bond Issues already authorized authorized author author- and amounts that will witt not be ex expended expended expended ex- ex revenues must be provided for i disbursements of Of this amount the total appropriated for national na na- defense would aggregate about and the senator submitted other figures to prove that this extraordinary extraordinary ex ex- Unary amount due to preparedness prepared prepared- ness and the Mexican emergency ex exceeded exceeded exceeded ex- ex defense appropriations normal by about |