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Show DOUBLES TAX ON TOBACCO. Lawmakers See Chance to Raise More Funds for Conduct of War. Washington. Tax of 10 per cent on amounts paid for leased telephone and telegraph lines, including press associations as-sociations and brokerage circuits, a horsepower tax on automobile owners and a doubling of the tobacco taxes on the present law, instead of a higher ranges of rates previously agreed upon, were written into the $S,000,000 revenue bill Thursday by the house ways and means committee. |