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Show HUNDRED MILLION ADDITIONAL TAXES THE WAR REVENUE MEASURE APPROVED BY SENATE BY VOTE OF 34 TO 22. Southern Senators Make Vlgoroua Fight to Postpone Action Upon Measure by Coalition With the Republicans. Washington. The administration war revenue bill, levying approximately approximate-ly $100,000,000 additional taxes to meet the emergency caused by the war in Europe, was passed by the senate Saturday Sat-urday night, 34 to 22, after southern Democrats, in coalition with the Republicans Re-publicans of the senate, fought to indefinitely in-definitely postpone Consideration of the measure because cotton relief legislation leg-islation had been decisively defeated. Democratic leaders, by a supreme effort ef-fort In the climax of the cotton fight, gathered their faltering forces, and, spurring them on with eloquent appeals ap-peals for party solidarity, defeated the coalition, in its move to indefinitely postpone action, thirty-two to twenty-five. twenty-five. Senators Clark of Arkansas, Smith of Georgia, Smith of South Carolina, Caro-lina, Vardaman and White, were the Democratic senators who fought to the end, 'voting with the Republicans to postpone action. This would have killed the bill for the present session of congress. Despite urgent pleas of Senators Williams, stone, Shively and James, who demanded united Democratic support sup-port for a Democratic measure fos- tered by the administration, these five southern senators, under a storm of oratorical denunciation, persisted to the last ditch in their determination that the bill should contain some cot ton relief provision. ; The enlivening contest that marked the passage of the bill foreshadowed the end of the long-drawn-out session o,: congress, which has kept flags flying fly-ing almost continuously for the past two years. The vote on the revenue bill followed fol-lowed party lines with one exception. Senator Lane of Oregon, Democrat, voting against it. |
