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Show MEASURE PUTS INTO OPERATION MACHINERY FOR COLLECTING ' TAXES THIS YEAR. , v i V Wghor taxes Put Into Effect at Once on Liquor and Luxuries. Railroad and Theatre Ticket 1 So-call- Tax Begina April 1. Washington. Signing of the revenue bill by President Wilson en route to Washington on February 25 puts Into operation the tuuchinery for collecting six billion of tuxes this year, I Uglier tuxes went Into effect at once on liquor and soft drinks, Including near-beegrupejulce, sodnwater and mineral waters, and on tobacco r, . , and luxuries. Anticipating the liniHiuitlon of new taxes, thousands of gallons of whiskey bad been with drawn from government bonded warehouses within the lust week, with tax puld at the old rate of $3.20 a gullon, to escape the higher rate of $0.40 a gallon now effective. .. Articles In the 'luxury" class on which, new taxes went into effect In' elude automobiles and motor accessor ies, pianos, sporting goods, chewing gum, cameras, cundy, firearms, slot machines, toilet Soups and art goods. Tli tux is puld by the manufacturer. Other features of the tux bill which went Into legul effect, but which are retroactive end which consequently are not practically affected by the time of the signing of the bill Include the following: Taxes on Incomes, express profits and war profits; estates and Inherit unces ; and excise tuxes on special bus- inesses, such as brokers, howling at leys, Insurance companies, theutre and .'amusement place proprietors and liquor dealers. Drastic measures to prevent the narcotic drug traffic become effective at once. On April 1, new taxes on railroad and steamship tickets, pipe lines. Insurance, theatre admissions and club dues and a variety of stamp taxes become effective. Levies ngulnst the excess of value of such as articles of dress, will be made after May 1. The soda fouutaln tax becomes effective May 1. Taxes on products of child labor will be Imposed in sixty days. , send-luxurie- , GERMANY, AUSTRIA AND, HUN GARY ARE IN THROES OF 8ERI0US OUTBREAKS. ' - J Ham Lewis Defend League. Washington. The first address In the senate In defense of the proposed constitution of the league of nations was delivered Monday by Senator Lewis of Illinois, Democratic whip, who took Issue with the recent criti-- , darns made by Senators Boruli of Idaho, Republican, and Reed of Missouri, Democrat , la Bone Dry. . Washington Washington. Except for the foreign embassies and legations, Washington went bone dry" on February 20 under a provision of the new revenue law withdrawing the Immunity which the capital heretofore has enjoyed from the Reed amendment forbidding the importation of Intoxicants Into prohi- bition territory. Objectors Spurn Army Pay.' Many conscientious Washington. objectors recently released by the army at Fort Leavenworth have returned the money paid them on discharge, holding that the scruples which prevented them from fighting also forbad e' the acceptance of pay for service. Eating Horse Flesh In Russia. Warsaw. Forty pounds of wheat flour Is being sold at Moscow for 800 rubles, and sugar Is 50 rubles a pound, with both commodities virtually unobtainable. Starving horses which fall In the streets are stripped of their flesh before they are cold. Munich Placed Under Martial Law lowing Aeeaeeination of Premier. Germany Said to Bo Casting About for a Dictator. Fol- Berlin. Germany, Austria and Hungary are In the throes of terrorist revolts a ldeli threuten to make the communist stage of the French revolution look inlld by comparison In Germany the outbreak is thus far confined to Bavaria, whose cupltut, Munich, wus pluccd under martial law following the assassination of Premies Kurt Eisner and the subsequent shooting of nine men, at least four of whom, ipdudlng two cubinct members, are dead, while five other members of the government muy die from their wounds. The situation in Austria is obscure, but ominous reports are filtering through from Vienna indicating the stage has been set there for a slml lnr upheaval. In Ilungury the cnpltal, Budapest, is the seat of a terrorist outbreuk aim liar to the Bavarinn, except that so far no bloodshed bus been reported. The city Is under murtlul law. Government troops are marching on Munich to put down the revolt. . All Germany Is casting about for a dictator, a man of Iron who will fight terror with terror. No one of that caliber Is In the offing now, however, though the new revolution may produce him at any moment campaign Upon an with blood and Iron alone do the German people at present pin their faint hopes for salvation from the most terrible civil war the world has seen. anti-terrori- PRESIDENT HAS CLOSE CALL. Ship on Which He Was Returning Home Narrowly Eacapea Grounding. The presidents ship and Its , Boston. destroyer escort, the Harding, lost their bearings In the heavy fog and rain off the Massachusetts coust Sunday afternoon while running for Boston light and came within perhaps 1000 yards of grounding off the beach at Thatchers Island, Cape Anne. Warning came Just In time to prevent an accident Troops and passengers piled on deck, but there was no President Wilson appeared panic. quite unconcern eth Bryan Illness Reports Denied. Washington. Reports that former Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan was seriously 111 here were denied Monday by bis friends. They explained that Mr. Bryan had been suffering from a cold but that his condition was very much Improved. Provides Army of 538,498. Washington. Provisions for a temporary army of 538,408 officers and men after next July 1, as recommended by the war department were Inserted in the bllllon-dolla- r army appropriation measure Monday by a senate military subcommittee. Rail Traffic In Baden Suspended. Berlin. Spartacnns are In possession of the telegraph system In Baden and railway traffic la that state has been suspended, says a dispatch from Karlsruhe to the Lokal Anzelger. STEPHEN PICHON i Fraternal Bodies Organize Congress. Chlcugo. The American Fraternal congress was organized February 22, by representatives of fraternal Insurance societies with an aggregate membership of 3,800,000. A. R. Talbot of Lincoln, Neb. was chosen president. Nationa, and Urging Senator, to Support Proposition. TIFT RAPS FOES OF Salt Lake City. Delegates Washington. On the first day of his return to the capital, President Wilson Mountain congress for a put In more than ten hours at his desk, nutlons at a meeting here KutUr bills and Joint afternoon adopted resolutions signing twenty-righ- t resolutions, making a score of nomin- Ing that pcaccC liberty uml jU( ations, discussing government business among the nutlons of the world for three hours with his cabinet, and be established by a league of winding up the days work by a con- and approving the projmsed union' ference on the legislative situation set forth at tho Purls peace confer W. R. Wulluce wus elected chui with Democratic leader Martin, ut which the president announced his de- of the Mountain congress resiling cision not to cull nn extra session of committee, widely Included the foil, congress until uftcr his return from Ing: , . Utah John C. Cutler, William i Europe. President Wilson was suhl to fed it Simon Bumherger, C, W. y Nil-ley- , his duty to renmln In Europe until the was concluded. treaty of The president suld he would return to Paris Immediately after March 4, and was positive that he would not call an extraordinary session of congress until he returns," Senator Martin He did not state the dute of said. his return, nor did he authorize me to quote him In respect to that point but my personal opinion and Judgment Is that there l no reasonable expectation of his being back prior to June Wiliams, Noble Warrum, Georgy bert Smith, Alfrd W. Agee, opi Mrs. Emetine Wells, J. Will Knight E. Ilurvey, Dr. K. G. Peterson, Lo J. W. Funk, Itlclimond ; W. It. Wall Rev. Peter A. Simpkin,' Di; Krnea DECLARES "SMALL AMERICANS" GENERAL PILSUDSKI CONTINUED Smith. IN HIS POST OF DICTATOR OF SMALL VISION HAVE . Idaho John W. Hart, Rigby; Pi OF THE NATION. SENATE SEATS. Standrod, Pocatello; Murk Austlr h . burg., Wyoming Cnarles D. Carey, i Declaree That Former President in Addreu at San Premier Paderewski enne; K. II. Iludsell, Rawlins; I the Country Needs a Larger Army Francieco Condemns- - Senators Cora B. Wanunmker, Itixk Springs. and Compulsory Service to Who Have Opposed League Following are the resolution of Nations Plan. Fight Anarchy. Senator Martin was accompanied to adopted : , , , the White House by Senator Simmons We the delegates to die .'Gun' San Francisco. Former President Warsaw. Tlte second Important of North Carolina, chairman of the congress of the League t Enfn William II. Taft, addressing the clos- meeting of Europes newest parliafinance committee. They conferred Peace from the states of L'mli, Id. ing session Thursday night February ment the Polish national assembly, for nearly an hour with the executive, and Wyoming,' desire to expma 20, of the Pacific coust congress of was held on February 21 and was discussing In detail the congestion of opinion on the most quM the League to Enforce Feuce, replied marked by the formal turning over by legislation In congress. . of the hour. to his critics and opponents of the General Joseph Iilsudskl of his author- -- Further tluyi the formal statement The armies of Germany having L plnn for the establishment of a lengue ity as dictator and Its return to him, of the Democratic leader, both sena- repulsed, her fleet given up and all j of nutlons, and referred particularly to subject to the approval of the diet. tors declined to comment on their dis- countries In arms against us and nn open letter addressed to him by Ignace Jan Paderewski, the premier, cussions with the president, but it was surrendered having United States Senator William E. Informed the parliament of the coununderstood that the executive would discretion. It has become the tlul) Borah of Idaho, which questioned the try's situation and asked for a vote vigorously insist that all pending apto a mu. the victorious dcinoe-uclcefficiency of the Monroe doctrine in of confidence in the ministry. hills and other urgent legis- the terms of peacO and bring oi propriation the event the league of nations plun The narrow balconies were crowded lation be enacted before congress adlinong the peoples d sorganized by was adopted. with spectators, while the lower floor journs to provide for alteration of the so that peace, liberty and Justice iu Senator Borah wants to know. In was reserved for the members of the government In the event of his work at niaintuiiiiHl upon be and established Mr. what he calls an open letter, said assembly. The presence of peasants Paris should hold him after July'l, enduring foundation. . a consent to would I whether Taft in national costume, with here and when the new appropriations would be can he We tills believe that Monroe league of nations In which the there priests and rabbis, testified that needed. of a lengve of nations of doctrine is pot recognized. I will the assembly was not ruled by a clique nntion Is an essential part, answer him by saying that I would of landed PERSHING GIVES RETURN ORDER are convinced tliut the constitution nobility. like to have the Monroe doctrine acGeneral Illsudskl, In accepting his covenant for suelt h league as reoc knowledged specifically by .such a appointment as head of the state, All Divisions to First Seventh, Except mended by the league of nnti-- ns m league, but If a recognition of Its prin- elicited applause by saying he accepted Inclusive, to Coma Homo. tnlttee at the peace conference in P, for covenant In contained Is the ciples the felt but him, duty upon noimposed General is well adapted for Aids purpose Pershing, Washington. such a league I would not object to the that he had too arbitrary a tempera- tified the war department on February that in principle It should ho aecep form In which It Is put . ment for a role which required the 20 that divisions now In the American Article X of the covenant drafted ly our people untl ratified b.v the attributes of a statesman. expeditionary forces excepting those ate; and we do most heurtny uppr In Paris extends the Monroe doctrine conciliatory, In a lengthy ad- with to the entire world and gives It tnel Premier Paderewski, regular army designations" would ht the establishment of. a league declared the that dress, country need- be returned to the United States In nations." . backing of the entire world. Conse- ed a large army and compulsory serv- the order of the arrival of their reResolutions fuvorlng establishm-o- f quently It recognizes the Monroe doc- ice to fight Bolshevism. Secondly, he spective divisional headquarters In of a league of nations were adop In am entire I support and trine, said, another effort must be made to France. This was Interpreted as mean- by the Womens Woodrow Wilson c that covenant promote the prosperity of the Refers to "Wild Words." ing that all divisions except the First of Salt I tike at a meeting held Sat and them homes. Land better give Senator ask to like would What I Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth day night of A new state organization Borah Is this: If he insists on the must be secured to peasants who had and Seventh would be returued as font Mon- none and more given to those who had was of Peace the Enforce to was available. Lengue specific acknowledgment shipping roe doctrine In the covenant for the only a little, but land reforms must at .a meeting held nt 4 p. m. Saturd not be carried out too hastily. league of nations, and If such recog' BUILDING MERCHANT MARINE afternoon in the Tabernacle. Sena as covenant W N. Williams wns elected presto nitlon Is given It In the BORAH DENOUNCES PACT. finally agreed upon In Paris, will he in the Interest of the and Prof. B. It. Lewis secretary. Working Hurley vote for a treaty based upon the coven Tlte new organization Is to tv American Shipper. Declares Proposed League of Nationa ant as finally amended? hnnds of an executive committer the New York. Edward N. Hurley, it Radical Departure. The wild words of Representative prominent citizens of eighteen United States shipWashington. Criticising the league chapman of the Fess and Senators Reed and Iolndex minted on the commit Those board, met business men here statq. Simon Gov. were Bamberger, Joint ter, shot out Into the air on the theory of nations as "the most radical de- ping In the first of a series of conthat the people of this country do not parture" from President Washingtons Tuesday William Spry, Rev. Ieter which he declared would be Cutler, read or that they will accept their bald policies and as spelling the end of the ferences Mont Ferry. W. Mayor Simpkin, statements unquestionably, would be Monroe doctrine, Senator Borah of held In every .section of the country Albert Smith, John A. Wldtsoe, W. of with the obtaining producers object humorous If they were not the utter- Idaho, Republican member of the forWallace and J. Will Knight The In the formances of such eminent and learned eign relations committee, declared in and shippers the committee will be composed the sennte on February 21, that beTore ation of a permanent operating policy nine state gentlemen." prominent women- of the for the American merchant marine. Characterizing as "small Americans" the plan was adopted the American times. various nt named be lwn members of the United States senate people should be allowed to give a verDeclaring that the retail mer. Naval Made. Arrests on dict a Bribery covenant for it who are opposing the In a unique position with regard to Washington. Arrest of two' addileugue of nations, Mr. Tuft made nn of civic affairs, Edward SIR ROWLAND E. PROTHERO tional naval reservists In connection progress Boston retail merchant, especial appeal to the women of with the Investigation of churges of Fllene, the Pacific coast to bring their Infludressed the members of tlte ('onw In behalf on senate the ence to beur bribery In the Third nuval district was rial ctub nt their luncheon Saturday Dnn-ielannounced Tuesday by Secretary of ratification of the league. Certain Reconstruction as It Concerns This makes a total of five men Retail Store. small Americans on the floor of the ... . . , now held. United States senate profess to see dire danger and eventual disaster to Former Presidents Aunt Out the country If we enter luto a league Hi.' Vote to Postpone Strike. Mlllbury, Mass. -- Miss Delia of nations, snhl Mr. Taft. London. The triple alliance of of aunt ftj' Torrey, aged 03 I do not use the term small Amer miners, railway men and transport President William II. Taft, died leans In un Invidious sense, but pimply workers, at a meeting held Tuesday, runry 22 at the Torrey mansion to Imply ttuit these gentlemen have a decided that In view of the serious a brief Illness due to a general bh' small view of America; the provtn I position a strike would necessitate," to down. The only relative ot the rial, selfish view that the highest duty adjourn until a date prior to Murch side was a nephew, Horace Taft of America Is to preserve for our own 15, the day on which the miners no we have which other people, beyond strike notices, expire. Gibbons Pleads Irelands Cause rcaionsibiUty towurd the rest of the world." Itilludolphla. A resolution pfKfi North Dakota to Operate Industries. ed by Cardinal Glblmns, urging Bismarck, N. D. In the presence of peace congress to apply to Iiviun SOLON DEFENDS LOYALTY the state legislature In Joint session, doctrine of national Governor Frazier on February 20 was adopted at the closing aesslnn Folletta Declares He Will a a signed group of hills by which tho Sunday of the convention of the Longer Permit Aspersions. n state-owne- d of lengue program America. race lu Washington. Senator Iut Follette of Industrial enterprises will be Wisconsin vigorously defended his loyput Into operation in North Dakota. Photograph Heroes Gravelalty in a long address Thursday night F' Identified Washington. Every in the senate on what lie pictured up France In soldier Hand Grenade Kills Children. of an American causes for popular unrest In the Unit FJL miw Ktmtfpn I iua Brussels. Four children are dead be photographed by tlte American ...... V... id States. The senator declared he and twelve Injured nt Opwljk, ten Cross and the picture sent to the would no longer permit aspersions on bun" Sir E. Prothero, on hit reRowland miles northwest of here, as a result of dlers next of ktn. Several his loyalty, cad deelured that Ills sole to British the taken ae cabinet appointment been the explosion of a German hand gre- photogPuphs have aim wus to preserve pure democracy secretary of agriculture, waa raised nade with which they were playing. warded to relatives.1. In tills country. to the peerage. JI-- Imi-ortn- . , rs, n Non-partisa- London. a Washingtons birthday address, to look appealed to good citizens nfter thq Interests, of returning soldiers, some of whom, he said, had been reduced to actual beggary. Westerners Adopt Resolution Ing of Establishment of Leagu,, s. To War on Hookworm. Kingstown, Jamulca. At the request of the government the Rdcketfeller Institute haa sent Dr, Ioweli Gardner here to direct the work of eradicating the hookworm. A census taken here shows that fully 40 per cent of the population Is suffering from the disease. In Vigorously Insists That All Pending Bills and Urgent Appropriation . Legislation be Attended to Be. fore Adjournment dera. Should Aid Returning Soldier. Chicngo. MuJ. Gen. Leonard Wood, MOUNTAIN CONGRESS DECLi. . FOR PARIS PROPOSAL Ta AVERT WARS. -- Troopa to Guard American Properties. Juarez. Mexican federal troopa have been ordered to guard the American mining properties In northern Mexico, It was announced Tuesday, and 200 troops have been stationed at Santa Eulalia, Cuslhuiriachic and Ma- Britain on Precipice. The United Kingdom Is faced with the prospects of civil strife and the house of commons should do everything In Its "power to avert It, 1 Tender Lloyd George deelured In Introducing a bill to constitute n committee to Inquire Into the conditions prevailing In the coni Industry. PRESIDENT WILL NOT CALL AN EXTRA MEETING UNTIL HIS RETURN FROM EUROPE. Stephen Pichon, French foreign min-4atand member of the French peace er delegation. Patrick Henrys Home Destroyed. Nine Killed In Wreck, nttshurg. Nine persons are known to have been killed and seventy-fiv- e others Injured, many fatally, when a B. & O. pnssenger train crashed Into locomotive here Sata double-heude- r .Recognize Paderewski Government Paris. Offletul announcement wad toric home of Putrlck Henry made Friday by representatives of the fax county, about thirty miles from allies at their meeting nt the Quid Lynchburg, wns destroyed by fire d'Orsay of a derision that the ullles which swept the house unelieeked be- should recognize the Polish governcause of frozen water pipes. ment headed by Ignace Paderewski. urday. Clemenceau May Be III Some Time. Champ Clark la Willing. Bavarian Minister Killed. Ladles and gentlemen, Paris. It Is now expected that PreWashington. London. A German wireless mes"Barkis Is w filing I" This wns Speaker mier Clemenceaus absence from the sage received here quotes Philipp Champ Clarks response when he was supreme council of the peace confer- Schledemann, German chancellor, ns to Southence may he prolonged, as his condi- saying that Herr presented Suturday night the Baern Society of Washington as the next tion Is undeniably much worse than varian minister of Rosshnmpter, war, has been of the United States. wus at first reported president killed. Lynchburg, Va. , "Rel Hill," the hisIn Hali- Stockmen on Strike. Rail Revolving Fund Bill Washington. The bill appr-- P '' Io0, 000,000 for the railroad ndHofl0 In trntlon revolving fund Grand Islund, Neb. There was a strike of stockmen here Tuesday. It was a concrete protest against the practice of railroads in forcing shippers of stock to ride In cabooses ot freight trains. carried In IW which provided for federal control, passed by the house Friday. Thompson Wins Renomlnatlon. Wllllnm Halt Mayor Chicago. Thompson was renominated by the R publicans and County Clerk Itohert M. Sweltzer was renominated by the Democrats In Tuesdays mayoralty prl-- j mnrlcs. Both won by big pluralities. Tumulty Not a Candidate-Jersey City, N. J. Joseph ulty, secretary to President I will not he a candidate for the of erotic nomination for governor letter Jersey, he declared in a public here on February 2L the $500,000,000 . T 10 |