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Show DOUBLE TAXES ON TOBACCO. Billiard and Pool Parlors Also Will Have to Stand for Raise. Washington. Doubling of the present pres-ent special taxes on manufacturers of tobacco, cigars and cigarets and increased in-creased taxation of brokers, theaters and other amusements, billiard and pool parlors, bowling alleys and capitalization capit-alization of corporations were agreed on by the house ways and means committee com-mittee Thursday In framing the .$800.-000,000 .$800.-000,000 revenue bill. A new tax of V per cent on retail sales of mail order houses doing more than $100,000 annual an-nual business was adopted. Pullman seats and berths and passenger rates will be subject to a uniform tax ot I per cent. Stamp taxes were undisturbed. |