Show PROGRESSIVE TAX JO CURB TOBACCO TRUST IS PLANNED Scheme Embodied in Proposed Amendment to 10 Underwood J. J l T Tariff riff Bill t f t t t 4 4 t t 1 LI LINES LIS S TIGHTEN G. TG f tX l. l T Washington June Juno C. C President G f i jf Wilson's Wilsons position In support o of tree wool and free freo SJ sugar U- U seems scorns eom 49 4 9 to grow stronger as fiR tho the day of orthe or- or the Senate caucus draws draw nearer The fhe tariff bill will wUl bo put to the thet t acid test teat the there there- and party part leaders lf f now feel terol that tho the President 14 stand w win 11 bo be o supported almost fi unanimously unanimous b by tho part party There Thore- 4 t t IN an Increasing possibility that not moro more than two Democratic Ji f senators will oppose tho the bill to to-t to the endt end 14 f t 4 Free hoes s treo rc lumber free tree fi 4 agricultural products free freo wool Pi and free treo sugar as provided In tho the 4 Underwood bill arc are to stand the administration leaders declare f Lf- Lf 4 and tho probability of ot any amendments amend- amend f 4 ments In the benato to those f items Items' la Is te t 44 44 t t t t t h i J S Juno June In accord S f A with the suggestions of ot Attorney KC I General Senator of or Nebraska a introduced today to- to day daT an antitrust t amendment to the tariff bill bUl which would levi Y a n special p additional excise tax on ona a p. p sliding or graduated scale upon manufacturers of or tobacco cigars cJ ottes and snuff Tho The amendment teeming coming from a member n receive thorough consideration tho the finance committee Sliding Sliding- Scale Sonic Proposed I The Zhe progressive e excise tax proposed O j ld not reach a a. manufacturer un un ll ll he c controlled about 26 5 per cent cont of or the thet t t tal production of or tho articles Over O that amount he ho would be taxed In a scab on tobacco 1 cent cont a a. pound F for the first million pounds j per por or quarter 2 cents a a- pound for tor the second million 1 pounds and so on up to 6 cents cants a aJ at t J pound These graduated taxes would be b- bin In addition to the tha regular S 8 cents a pound tax that all all' manufactures pay f on on tobacco Tho The samo same is true of ot the progressive tax tac on cigars cigarettes and nd snuff Companies of or ordinary alro Izo Izo would ot bo be subject to this tax because It I does not apply to a 4 production below pounds of or tobacco or pounds of ot snuff a a. year so BO that of or the 2700 2100 tobacco companies In the country countr probably Improbably only three would be att affected ct d and nd of ot tho the s three seventy snuff corn com land only three would be taxed In Inthe Inthe Inthe the the matter matteI of ot cigarettes tho the tax would fall only on two or three companies fout out of ot and of oC tho the cigar com com- panics only two have havo a production large enough to bo be taxed 1 Seventy million dollars ollars was the amount mount of r the tho total excise last year ear earon on Son tobacco products and Senator Hitchcock Hitch Hitch- cock ock has estimated that If it the proposed S tax had been levied le on lout last years year's business the tho foreign trust concerns would have havo paid ad additional tax as ns fol- fol 3 Jows owe American Tobacco company 1600 j k I Liggett Meyers Lo Lo- f S. S company compart 14 American I Snuff company compala George V W Helme company Weyman Weman Burton Eurton company I Yield Ilde Large Income t There would also have ha been other companies subject to this tax it if It could be shown that they were under J the same samo ownership or control as an any of ot th the big companies said eald Senator i toda today and In the case of or Lorillard the thc company It would be i subject to n a in much h higher rate or taXation taxation tax taX- atlon If it it should be bo shown that It la Is owned or controlled b by the same samo in interests In- In that are aro back of ot any other company It is 18 probable therefore that this tax In tho the aggregate would reach a year which is so 50 soar large ar e that It would amount to a dissolution dis dissolution dis- dis solution of ot the tho trust It It would yield a handsome Income to tho the treasury treasur and so handicap the trust t that it could not carry out Its Us program of ot crushing Independent in independent In- In dependent companion companies Tho The Io government t already l has s the tilO machinery to enforce this la law Tobacco co and other companies are under government gov KOV- control The per to tax to the point of or destruction Is It Is summary simple and ir- ir It If it succeeds In this tills line of or manufacture t It Jt may suc succeed sneered ed In others oth oth- ers Senator Bomb Borah introduced an amendment amendment amend amend- n ment mt to tho the tariff bill which would bar bartro tro entry all aU goods manufactured wholly or In part by children n under 14 y years ars fars of ot age e or by children under 16 years of or ago age who aro are required to work workmore workmore more than oj eight ht hours a da day or more than forty eight hours hours' a week It also would bar all Imports made wholly who who- I ly 13 or In par part by convict con labor lobor |