Show INC INCOME ME TAX IN GERMANY Secretary of Treasury Says Budget Must Provide More Income Berlin The The reichstag on Tuesday 5 I passed the second third readings of the war credit of marks which the government had ad requested re re- re- re quested Only nineteen Socialists voted vote in the negative k Before the vote was taken Friedrich Friedrich Fried- Fried j rich August Karl Geyer read a brief stat statement ment on behalf of the the Socialist minority explaining their negative negativeS S vote yote while Friedrich Ebert the Socialist So So- l leader ader spoke in behalf of the I Socialist majority and announced S amid mid loud applause that his wing of th party would vote Yes 3 The discussion was opened by Dr Karl Hefferich ich secretary of the imperial im im- im penal treasury who announced that S S the next budget could not be balanced without additional income and that pr proposals for income taxation were being drafted for submission to the thc S reichstag |