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Show INCOME TAX IN GERMANY. Secretary of Treasury Says Budget Must Provide More Income. Berlin. The reichstag on Tuesday passed the second third readings o the war credit of 10,000,0000,000 marks, which the government had requested. re-quested. Only nineteen Socialists voted in the negative. Before the vote was taken. Fried-rich Fried-rich August Karl Geyer read a brief statement on behalf of the Socialist minority, explaining their negative vote, while Friedrich Ebert, the Socialist So-cialist leader, spoke in behalf of the Socialist majority, and announced amid loud applause that his wing of the party would vote "Yes." The discussion w-as opened by Dr. Karl Hefferieh, secretary of the imperial im-perial treasury, who announced that the next budget could not be balanced without additional income, and that proposals for income taxation were being drafted for submission to the reichstag. |