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Show 1JWAR TAX BILL PASSES HOOSE I Greatly Increases Surtaxes on I Incomes Above $40,000 I Business Making Protests. I WASHINGTON, May 23. The war I revenuo bill, framed to bring into the 1 treasury $1,800,000,000 through new I taxation during tho coming year, H passed tho house by a voto of 329 to II 76 late today in almost the same form 1 that it was prosentcd by the ways and ISJ means committee two weekB ago. U All tho opposing votes were cast by H Republicans, although there aro many I mombers of tho democratic sido H strongly opposed to certain sections H of the measure. Virtually redrafting 1 of tho bill In Uio senate la regarded as certain. Material changes already H aro contemplated by the senate finance H committee as a result of public hear-9 hear-9 ings held during tho long debate in M tho house. Final passage of tho bill H probably cannot be accomplished in H less than a month. 1 Outstanding features of tho bill aro H tho greatly Increased income, Inher- Itance, excess profits, liquor and cigar IP and tobacco taxes, virtual abolition of H the present customs free list and a 10) ffl per cent addition to existing tariffs, I M now taxes on manufacturers, amuse-n amuse-n ments, clubs, public utilities and in-I in-I suranco. a far-reaching stamp tax and H a greatly increased second-class mall j matter rate, based on tho parcel post H zono system. H Differs on Four Points, ffi In only four particulars docs tho H measure now differ substantially from V the nriirinnl draft. Surtaxes on in comes above $40,000 havo been increased in-creased about one-fourth above the committee schedule. Several articles, including print paper and pulp and gold and silver, slated for a 10 per cent duty, have been kept on tho free list. Slight reductions In the second-class mall matter rate havo been made. A proposed 5 per cent tax on all advertising, adver-tising, except newspaper and periodical, periodi-cal, is eliminated. Attacks on the bill in the senate will center around the excess profits, income and manufacturers' taxes and the second-class mall rate increase sections. Business men generally are protesting vigorously against the taxes and virtually every publisher in tho country is opposing the drastically Increased In-creased mail rate. Those voting against the bill today were : Representatives Anthony, Austin, Bacon. Britton, Carter of Massachusetts. Massachu-setts. Chandler of New York, Chandler of Oklahoma, Clark of Pennsylvania, Darrow, Dempsey, Denison, Dowell, Dunn, Edmonds, Benjamin L. Fair-child, Fair-child, l'ocht. Fuller of Illinois; Garland, Gar-land, Good, Goodall, Gould, Graham of Illinois; Graham of Pennsylvania. Gray of New Jersey, Greene of Massachusetts, Massa-chusetts, Hamilton of New York, Heaton, Heintz, Ilersey, Hicks, Hol-lingsworth, Hol-lingsworth, Husted, Hutchinson, Ireland. Ire-land. Juul, Kiess, Kreider, La Guardia. Langley, McArthur, McCormick, Mc-Fadden, Mc-Fadden, McKenzie, McKinley. McLaughlin Mc-Laughlin of Pennsylvania, Madden, Magee, Mann. Meeker. Parker of New York, Piatt, Powers, Pratt, Purnell, Robbins, Roberts, Rodenberg, Rose, Sanders of New York, Sanford, Sella, Slamp. Snell, Strong, Sweat, Swift, Templeton, Vpstal, Waldow, Walsh, Wheeler, Wilson of Illinois, Winslow, Woodyard and Zinlman. i Representatives Glllet, London, Moore of Pennsylvania and Siegel also voted against the bill. |