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Show oo mdjuud rites inojimi Passenger, or Freight Transportation Trans-portation to Remain Stable Other Taxes Raised. WASHINGTON, July 29 Decision against any increase in passenger or freight transportation rates;- majority sentiment favoring a tax on both import im-port and export trade If constitutional, constitution-al, and postponement of consideration of increased taxes on liquors and other oth-er beverages were announced today by the house ways and means committee commit-tee which is framing the $S,000,000,000 revenue bill. Tho committee deferred action as to extending the pipe-line tax so as to include companies piping their own products and also as to increasing taxes tax-es on life, marino and casualty insurance. insur-ance. Representative Henry T. Rainey of Illinois, acting chairman of the committee com-mittee in the absence of chairman Kitchin who is detained at his home by illness, tonight in a summary of the committee's work said: "We discussed tho matter of transportation trans-portation of oils by pipe lines, and wc did not agree on any proposition. We arc going to return to that later. At present pipe lines if operating as common com-mon carriers aro taxed five per cent on the amount paid for the transportation. transpor-tation. The, matter of whether this tax shall apply when carrying for themselves will be investigated further. fur-ther. "We also took up the question of Insurance; life insurance, marine insurance in-surance and casualty insurance. The sentiment if the committee favored increases in-creases but we passed tho proposition to be considered later when we receive re-ceive more information which we have called upon tho treasury department to assemble for us. "We did not do anything about beverages bev-erages at all. We determined to postpone post-pone the question of tax on beverages until the very last of all tho items. The committee does not know whether it is going to increase the tax or not, on account of tho temperance proposition, and the possibility of the country go--lng bono dry." nn |