The Loup City Northwestern
J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher.
LOUP CITY, . - NEBRASKA
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includes What is Going On at Wailc
ington and in Other Sections of
the Country.
CONGRESS.
Secretary McAdoo of the Treasury
department Will deposit ?2,000,000 in
the national banks of Dayton, O., to
relieve the money shortage resulting
from the flood, accepting government,
state, city and county bonds as se
curity.
Setting aside precedents of more
than a century, President Wilson ap
peared in the halls of congress to de
liver his first executive message in
person. He had announced to demo
cratic congressional leaders that he
would go to the floor of the house
when it convened and there give that
body his views on the tariff.
A bill introduced by Representative
Prouty of Iowa, would provide nation
al banks with over half a billion dol
lars of emergency currency, and in
Judge Prouty’s opinion absolutely
yevent a panic. He says it has the
£pproval of treasury' experts with
whom he has consulted.
New currency reform bills have been
introduced in the house by Repre
sentative Prouty of Iowa, Nelson of
Wisconsin and Palmer of Pennsyl
vania. Congress now has before it
nearly a dozen bills, covering all
branches of banking and currency re
form. but none of these bear the in
dorsement of the official committees
of the two houses or of President
Wilson.
GENERAL.
Woman suffrage was defeated in a
recent election in Michigan.
The twenty-second annual conven
tion of tile Daughters of the Ameri
can Revolution has just closed in
Washington.
Just before inspection drill. Lieuten
ant Bahagdin, N. Y. N. G., had his
quartermaster sergeant sworn in as
a deputy sheriff.
Three attempts are believed to have
seen made within the last ten days to
burn the Young Men's Christian asso
ciation building at Council Bluffs, la.
Addison C. Brown, from 1881 to
1901 judge of the United States dis
trict court for the southern district
af New York, died at his home in
New York of paralysis.
Fumes from a vat of boiling bluing
suffocated William Woertz in Chicago
and overcome three of his fellow em
ployes, who are not expected to re-'
cover.
Mistaken for a burglar, Charles Pen
nington, a commercial traveler whose
home is believed to have been in
Cleveland, was shot and killed in Chi
cago by Harry Farrell, a friend.
Mary Webb, 19 years old, sister of
Robert Webb, the most daring of the
automobile bandits who terrorized
Chicago last winter, will enter a con
vent as atonement for the crimes of
her brother.
I ho sentence in London of three !
years’ penal servitude imposed on Mrs.
Emmeline Pankhurst, the leader of
the militant suffragettes, for inciting
her followers to destroy property has
aroused the militant suffragettes to
fury and they threaten strong repris
als.
The average condition of winter
wheat on April 1 was 91.6 per cent
of a normal, compared with 80.C last
year, 83.3 in 1911 and 86.3 the ten
year average. There was a decline of
1.6 points from December to April
1, compared with an average decline
of 3.6 in the past ten years.
After having hung in an isolated
colonial mansion of Maryland for
more than a century, a portrait of
George Washington, painted In 1794
or 1795, by Gilbert Stuart, has been
sold to a wealthy New York collec
tor. The price paid is said to have
been between $15,000 and $20,000.
Labor unions the country over
nave focused their attention and ef
forts on Sioux City, la., to make it a
closed shop town, asserts C. R. Dott,
secretary of the Sioux City Indus
trial association, an organization of
business men having for its purpose
the opposition of this movement.
The Canadian Pacific railway has
announced that it will soon begin con
struction of the longest tunnel in
America. The tunnel will be built
through Kicking Horse pass in the
Rock mountains and will be sixteen
miles long, costing $14,000,000.
Hundreds of Turkish soldiers who
survived the siege of Adrianople are
dying of exhaustion, dysentery and
cholera in the concentration camp in
that city, according to the corre
spondent of the Ixmdon Daily Tele
graph.
Hundreds of corporations will be
relieved from paying the federal cor
poration tax by a decision of the su
preme court to the effect that corpo
rations leasing all their property
and having no income except that
yielded by the lease, are not “doing
business" and therefore are not sub
ject to the tax.
Failure has overtaken the German
Arctic expedition under Lieutenant
Schroeder-Stranz. Most of the mem
bers are believel to have died on the
Ice from the exposure and scurvy,
and the commander-in-chief is miss
ing.
Not one of the thirty-one battleships
and twenty-four destroyers that con
stituted the fighting force of 127 ves
sels which assembled for review in
New York harbor last October was
ready for war. Captain John Hood,
then captain of the dreadnought Dela
ware, the pennant ship of the fleet,
told the Navy league in Washington.
A heavy snowstorm is raging in
Minnesota.
Several persons have been killed by
a tornado in Missouri recently.
Mrs. Hoke mith, wife of the sena
tor from Georgia, is seriously ill at her
home in Washington, D. C.
While hunting near Carter, Neb.,
James Grover, 11 years old, was shot
and killed.
Hot Springs, Ark . suffered $50,000
damage recently from the worst flood
in years.
Chicago’s share of the net earnings
of the street railway companies for
1912 totals $2,529,902. This is an in
crease of 35^2 per cent over 1911.
By blowing his own breath into the
lungs of a baby for forty minutes, Dr.
Benedict Williams of Bellevue hos
pital, New York, saved the young
ster's life.
The railway strike is becoming
general throughout the whole of
Australia and has assumed serious
proportions. Passenger service is
seriously curtailed.
The Chicago & Eastern Illinois Rail
road company was fined $10,000 by
Federal Judge Carpenter in Chicago
for violating the law prohibiting the
working of employes more than six
teen consecutive hours.
Four soldiers of the Fourteenth
cavalry who have been held under ar
rest at Fort Clark, Tex., since Novem
ber 9 last on a murder charge, will be
turned over to the Texas courts for
trial.
The British government intends af
ter conclusion of the Balkan war, to
approach Germany with a definite plan
to stop the naval ship building pro
grams of the two countries during the
fiscal year 1914-15.
Great Britain has no intention of
following the lead of Washington in
recognizing the Republic of China,
the house of commons was informed
by Francis Dykke Aciand, parlia
mentary under secretary cf foreign
affairs, speaking on behalf of the for
eign office.
Twelve persons were injured, none
fatally, when two coaches and the
mail car on northbound passenger
train No. 10. on the St. Louis & San
Francisco railroad, left the tracks and
turned over two miies north of Lock
wood. Mo. Spreading rails was the
cause
The last hope of the socialists ot
Brussels of intervention by the king
to prevent the great genera! strike
called to enforce the granting by the
government of manhood suffrage now
appears to have disappeared. It is
pointed cut that such action in the ex
isting cercumstances would be un
constitutional.
The little kingdom of Montenegrc
has thrown down the gauntlet to the
six great powers. She declines to
yield to the demand of the powers to
abandon her attempts to gain pos
session of Scutari, and has officially
announced that ■'’there will be no de
parture from an attitude which con
forms to the necessities of the state
of war existing between the allies
and Turkey.”
Direct election of United States
senators by the people was author
ized and made compulsory when the
Connecticut legislature ratified the
constitutional amendment submitted
by congress less than a year ago.
The situation that results throughout
the country, where many legislatures
have adjurned until 1915 is such as
to leave confusion in the minds of
members of the senate as to how the
early steps toward direct election of
senators will be carried out
Basing their figures on reports re
ceived from their field agents through
out the Ohio flood districts, officials
of the Red Cross society, who have
been placed in charge of the relief
work in that state issued a statement
estimating that 454 persons lost their
lives during the last weeks floods. Al
though eleven days have elapsed since
the flood swept the west side of Co
lumbus, 25,000 persons were still be
ing cared for at relief stations. The
number of bodies recovered totals
eighty-six, and there had been no ac
counting for many persons who are
still listed as missing.
SPORT.
Official announcement has been giv
en out that the fourth annual national
clay court tennis tournament will be
held at Omaha week of July 21.
Ebbetts Field, the new $750,000
home of the Brooklyn National league
team, has been formally opened.
The New York Nationals easily de
feated the Baltimore Internationals
12 to 3.
Batting two Kansas City pitchers
hard and taking advantage of two er
rors, the Pittsburg National league
baseball club administered a 14 to 1
defeat to Kansas City players.
Boston defeated New York in the
first game of the season at New York
before a big crowd by a score of 8
to 0.
All of the classic events of former
horse racing days, the Suburban,
Metropolitan and Brooklyn handicaps,
the Lawrence realization and other
fatures, are to be renewed during the
eighteen days racing, which will be
tried at Belmont park. New York, be
ginning on Decoration day.
The Chicago Nationals opened their
local season by beating the Indianapo
lis American association team by a
score of 5 to 2.
Faster base ball than has ever been
seen' is premised for the season of
1913 by Preident B. B. Johnson of
the Chicago American league.
The county commissioners of Lan
caster county, Neb., by unanimous
vote, adopted a resolution granting
the Lincoln team of the Western
league permission to play baseball on
Sunday at any place in the county
outside the incorporated cities and
villages.
Walter Frantz, last season with
Topeka and Wichita, has signed to
play first base for San Antonio.
Senator Norris favors a reduction
in the duty on wheat, but opposes
free flour as proposed by the. Under
wood bill.
The Salt Lake team of the Union
Base Ball association defeated the
Chinese team at Salt Lake by a score
of 13 to 6.
Miss Marie Wagner, holder of the
woman’s indoor lawn tennis cham
pionship, defeated Mrs. C. M. Beard,
former western champion in New
York
mom imf
ON MANY ITEMS
K Concise Statement of the
Changes Made by New
Bill.
COMMODITIES ON FREE LIST
Rates Raised on Some Luxuries—Raw
Wool Placed on Free List and Sugar
Given Heavy Reduction—Farm
Products Reduced.
Washington.—Important changes In
rates on variety of commodities in the
new tariff bill now before congress
follow:
Barley malt, from 45 cents to 25
cents a bushel.
Buckwheat, from 15 cents to 8 cents
a bushel.
Oats, from 15 cents to 10 cents a
bushel.
Rice, cleaned, from 2 cents to 1 cent
a pound.
Wheat, from 25 cents to 10 cents a
bushel.
Butter, from 6 cents to 3 cents a
pound.
Cheese, from 6 cents a pound to 20
per cent ad valorem.
Beans, from 45 cents to 25 cents a
pound.
Eggs, from 5 cents to 2 cents per
dozen.
Nursery cuttings and seedlings,
from 25 per cent to 15 per cent.
Fresh vegetables, from 25 per cent
to 15 per cent.
Apples, peaches, etc., from 25 cents'
to 10 cents a bushel.
Raisins, from 2*4 cents to 2 cents
a pound.
Lemons—Present rate 1 *4 cents
pound, proposed rate 17 cents for
package under 1*4 cubic feet. 35
cents for package up to 2*4 cubic
feet. 70 cents for package up to 5
cubic feet, *4 cent a pound for lemons
In bulk or in larger packages.
Oranges, limes, grapefruit, etc.—
Present rate 1 cent pound, proposed
rate same as for lemons.
Pineapples, from 8 cents to 6 cents
a cubic foot capacity of barrels or
packages, from $S to $5 a tliouasnd in
bulk.
Chocolate and cocoa—Present rate
when valued from 15 cents to 24
cents. cents a pound and 10 per
cent ad valorem additional; proposed
rate 8 per cent ad valorem.
Value of Raw Wool a Factor.
Woolen manufactured goods and
clothing—Present tariff rates are
based in many cases on value of raw
wool. Comparison is here made with
the equivalent ad valorem duties as
previously estimated by the ways and
means committee on wool prices in
1910:
Combed wool and tops, from 105
per cent to 15 per cent.
Cloths, knit fabrics, felts and manu
factured goods, from 97 per cent to
35 per cent.
Suspenders, ribbons, bindings, etc.,
from S3 per cent to 35 per cent.
Cotton manufactures:
Curtains, table covers, etc., from 50
to 35 per cent.
Garters, suspenders, etc., from 45
per cent to 25 per cent.
Table cloths, from 40 to 25 per
cent.
Lace curtains, etc., from 50 to 45
per cent.
Miscellaneous cotton goods, from 45
to 30 per cent.
Earthenware and Glassware.
Cement from 8 cents a hundred
pounds to 5 per cent ad valorem.
Lime from 5 cents a hundred
pounds to 5 per cent ad valorem.
China clay, a ton, from $2.50 to
$1.25.
Fuller's earth, manufactured, from
$3 to $1.50 a ton.
Mica, manufactured, from 6 cents
and 20 per cent additional a pound to
30 per cent ad valorem.
Chinaware, decorated, from 60 per
cent to 55 per cent ad valorem:
chinaware, plain white, from 55 per
cent to 50 per cent ad valorem.
Cut and decorated glass from 60
per cent to 45 per cent ad valorem.
Mirrors from 11 cents and 25 cents
a square foot to 7 cents and 13 cents
a square foot.
Marble, rough, from 65 cents to 50
cents a cubic foot.
Marble articles from 50 per cent to
15 per cent ad valorem.
Granite and building stone, dressed,
from 50 per cent to 25 per cent ad
valorem.
Iron, steel and metal products:
Reduction on Automobiles.
Automobiles and motorcycles, 45 per
cent to 40 per cent.
Ferromanganese, from $2.50 a ton
to 15 per cent.
Round iron from $6 to $12 a ton to
8 per cent.
Iron and steel forgings from 30
per cent to 15 per cent.
Ball and roller bearings from 45 to
S5 per cent.
Sheet steel or iron, now $6 to $18,
cut to 20 per cent.
Tin plate, now $24 a ton, cut to 20
per cent.
Shotguns and rifles, now $2.25 to
$10 each, changed to 35 per cent.
Table and kitchen ware, from 40 to
25 per cent.
Steam engines, printing presses,
machine tools, from 30 to 15 per cent.
Embroidering and lace making ma
chines, now free, made dutiable at 25
per cent.
The schedule carries a blanket
clause that articles or wares not spe
cially mentioned shall pay 50 per cent.
if wholly or partly of platinum, gold
or Bilver, and 25 per cent, if wholly or
in chief value composed of iron, steel,
lead, copper, nickel, * pewter, zinc,
aluminum or other metal. Tableware,
penknives and watch movements are
required to bear the names of the
manufacturer and country of origin.
Lead bearing ore, from cents a
pound to half a cent.
As to Aluminum and Lead. ,
Aluminum, from 7 cents a pound to
25 per cent.
Antimony, from 1 cent a pound to
10 per cent.
Lead bullion, from 2 1-3 cents a
pound to 25 per cent.
Nickel pigs, from 6 cents a pound to
10 per cent.
Chemicals, oils and paints:
Alkali:, and compounds, from 25 per
cent, ad valorem to 15 per cent.
Alum, etc., from >4 cent a pound to
15 per cent, ad valorem.
Bleaching powder, from 1-5 cent to
1-10 cent a pound.
Fruit oils and essences, from $1 a
pound to 20 per cent, ad valorem.
Flaxseed and linseed oil, from 15
cents a gallon to 12 cents.
Cod. seal and white oil, from 7 certs
a gallon to 5 cents.
Crude opium, from $1.50 a pound to
$3.
Prepared opium, from $2 a pound
to $4.
Ocher and ocher earths: Present,
rates range from V* cent to % cent
a pound; proposed rate 5 per cent, ad
valorem.
Orange mineral, from 3Y* cents a
pound to 25 per cent.
Zinc oxide, from 1 cent a pound to
10 per cent.
Paints, colors, etc., from 30 per
cent, to 15 per cent.
White lead, from 3 cents a pound to
25 per cent.
Sponges, front 20 per cent, to 10 per
cert.
Reduction in Silk Goods.
Chiffons, clothing, ready-made, ar
ticles of wearing apparel of every de
scription, including knit goods, from
60 per cent, to 50 per cent, ad va
lorem.
Woven fabrics, from 50 per cent, to
45 per cent, ad valorem.
Beltings, cords, tassles, ribbons of
artificial and imitation silk or horse
hair, front 45 cents a pound and 60 per
cent, ad valorem additional, to CO per
cent, ad valorem.
Lumber and wood:
Veneers, from 20 to 15 per cent.
Osier or willow for basketmakers'
use, from 25 per cent, to 10 per cent.
Willow furniture, from 45 to 25 per
j cent.
Details of the Sugar Schedule.
The sugar schedule eliminates the
Dutch standard of color and reduces
the basic rate on sugar testing by the
polariscope not above 75 degrees from
.95 cent a pound to .71 cent a pound.
For each additional degree shown by
the polariscopic test the additional
rate is reduced from thirty-five one
thousandth of 1 cent a pound to
twenty-six one-thousandths of 1 cent
a pound.
The other items in the cane sugar
section are changed as follows: Mo
lasses testing not above 40 degrees,
from 20 to 15 per cent, ad valorem;
testing above 40 and not above 56 de
grees, from 3 cents to 2*4 cents a gal
lon; testing above 56 degrees, from 6
cents to 4% cents a gallon. At the
end of the section the following clause
is added; "Provided that three years
after the day when this act shall take
effect the articles hereinbefore enum
erated in this paragraph shall there
after be admitted free of duty."
Maple sugar and refined sirups, from
4 to 3 cents a pound.
Glucose or grape sugar, from 1% to
l1/* cents a pound.
Unmanufactured sugar cane, from 20
to 15 per cent.
(A provision placing the articles in
this section on the free list after three
years Is also included.)
Sugar candy .valued at 15 cents a
pound or less from 4 cents a pound
and 15 per cent, ad valorem to 2
cents a pound; valued at more than
15 cents a pound, from 50 to 25 per
cent.
(Cuban sugars by treaty arrange
ments come in at a 20 per cent, reduc
tion from the regular duties.)
Scrap tobacco, taken from a general
classification, at a rate of 55 cents a
pound, and given an individual classi
fication of 35 cents a pound.
Flax, hemp and jute:
Flag, hackled, from 3 to 1% cents a
pound.
Tow and flax, from $20 to $10 a
ton.
Hemp and tow of hemp, from 1 cent
to Vt cent a pound.
Hemp, hackled, from 2 to 1 cent a
pound.
Mattings, Linoleum, Etc.
Floor mattings, from 3% cents to %
cent a square yard.
Linoleum and oilcloth, now classi
fied from 8 cents a square and 25 per
cent., to 10 cents a square yard and
20 per cent, reclassified at the follow
ing rates—plain or stamped linoleum,
30 per cent.; inlaid linoleum, 35 per
cent.; oilcloth, 15 per cent.
Pile fabrics, from 60 to 40 per cent.
Bags or sacks of single jute yarns,
from % cents a pound and 15 per cent,
to 25 per cent.
Paper and Books;
Printing paper (other than paper
commercially known as hand made or
machine hand made paper. Japan pa
per and imitation Japan paper by
whatever name known), unsized, sized
or glued, suitable for the printing of
books and newspapers, but not for cov
ers or bindings, not specially pro
vided for In this section, valued above
2% cents a pound, 12 per cent, ad
valorem: “Provided, however, that if
any country, dependency, province or
ether subdivision of government shall
impose any export duty, export li
cense fee, or other charge of any kind
whatsoever (whether lu form of ad
ditional charge, or license fee, or oth
erwise) upon printing paper, wood pulp
or wood for use in the manufacture of
wood pulp, there shall be imposed
upon printing paper, when imported
either directly or indirectly from such
country, dependency, province, or oth
er subdivision of government, an ad
ditional duty equal to the amount of
such country, dependency, province or
other subdivision of government, upon
printing paper, wood pulp or wood for
use in the manufacture of wood
pulp."
Writing paper, from 3 cents a pound
and 15 per cent, ad valorem to 25 per
cent.
Envelopes, from 20 to 15 per cent.
Books, from 25 per cent, to 15 per
cent.
Photograph albums, from 35 per
cent, to 25 per cent.
Manufactures of paper, from 35 to
25 per cent.
Sundries:
Straw hats, unblocked and un
trimmed, 35 per cent, to 25 per
cent.
Brushes and feather dusters, from
40 to 35 per cent.
Fireworks, from 12 to 10 cents a
pound.
Gunpowder valued at less than 20
cents a pound, from 2 cents to
cent a pound; valued over 20 cents
a pound, from 4 cents to 1 cent a
pound.
Furs. Hats, Gloves.
Furs, dressed on skin, from 20 to 30
per cent.; partly manufactured furs,
from 50 to 40 per cent.; furs for hat
ters’ use, from 20 to 15 per cent.
Hats, bonnets and hoods of felt,
taxed under the classification of the
present law from $1.50 a dozen and 20
per cent, ad valorem to $7 a dozen and
20 per cent., placed in the new bill at
40 per cent, ad valorem.
Women's glace gloves, from $1.25 to
$1 a dozen when not over 14 inches in
length; an additional tax of 25 cents
a dozen for each inch in length over
14 inches.
Woman's kid gloves, from $3 to $2
a dozen, not over 14 inches in length:
an additional 25 cent tax a dozen for
each inch over 14 inches in length.
Cumulative duty on lined gloves,
cotton lined, from $1 to 25 cents a
dozen; silk or wool lined, from $1 to
50 cents a dozen; fur lined, from $1
to $2.
Musical instruments, from 45 to 35
per cent.
Phonographs, from 45 to 25 per
cent.
Photographic plates, from 25 to 15
per cent.
Moving picture films, from 25 to 20
per cent.
Umbrellas and sun shades, from 50
to 30 per cent.
The schedule carries a general pro
vision increasing the duty on manu
factured articles not specifically pro
vided for in the section from 15 to 20
per cent. Unmanufactured articles re
main at 10 per cent.
NEW INCOME TAX
STARTS AT $4,000
Elaborate Provision for Gradu
ated Payment System in
New Tariff Bill.
Washington, D. C.—Included in the
Democratic tariff revision bill is an
income tax section, which would re
quire every resident of the United
States who earns more than $4,000 a
year to pay a tax of 1 per cent, on
his earnings in excess of the exemp
tion. This would not compel the man
who earns only $4,000 to pay a tax.
but it would demand that one who
earned $4,100, for example, pay into
the government treasury an annual
tax of 1 per cent, on $100, or $1.
The bill also would provide higher
rates of taxation for persons with
larger Incomes, adding a surtax of 1
per cent, additional on earnings in ex
cess of $20,000; 2 per cent, additional
on earnings in excess of $50,000, and 3
per cent, additional on earnings in ex
cess of $100,000.
How Surtax Would Be Imposed.
Under the surtax provisions the man
w’ho earns $20,000 would pay to the
government each year at the rate of
1 per cent, on $16,000 ($4,000 exempt),
or $160. If he earns $30,000 he would
pay 1 per cent, on $16,000, and 2 per
cent, on $10,000. making his annual
tax $360. The person with a $50,000
income would pay 1 pfer cent, on $16,
000 and 2 per cent, on $30.000—a total
tax of $760. The man with an income 1
of $100,000 would be required to pay
1 per cent, on $16,000, 2 per cent, on
$30,000, and 3 per cent, on $50,000,
which would he $1,500, bringing his
total income tax to $2,260. Anyone
with a net income of a million
would pay this $2,260 on his first
$100,000 and in addition he would pay
4 per cent, on $900,000, which would
bring his total tax to $38,260.
This bill also would re-enact the
present corporation tax law, imposing
a 1 per cent, tax on the earnings of
corporations, stock companies, insur
ance companies and the like, but it
would exempt partnerships. This is
a flat tax, there being no graduated
scale as the earnings increase. The
few changes from the present corpo
ration tax act, concern chiefly the time
of making returns and the time for
collection.
The bill includes under its provi
sions the property and earnings in this
country of persons who live abroad.
May Bring in $100,000,000.
It is estimated by members of the
ways and means committee that ap
proximately $100,000,000 in revenue
may be derived from this new tax, in
cluding the corporation tax, that
amount making up for the deficit in
revenues to be derived from Import*
by virtue of the greatly reduced tariff
and the transfer fo the free list of
articles that are classed as necessar
ries of living.
Incomes of taxable persons shall
include gains, profits and income de
rived from salaries, wages or com
pensation for personal service of
whatever kind and in whatever form
paid, or from professions, vocations,
business, trade, commerce or sales or
dealings in property, also from inter
est, rent, dividends, securities, includ
ing income from property, income
from but not the value of property
acquired by bequest, devise or de
scent, and also proceeds of life insur
ance policies paid upon death of per
sons insured.
Provision Made for Deductions.
The bill allows as deductions In
computing net income all necessary
expenses actually incurred in carrying
on any business, not including per
sonal living or family expenses, inter
est accrued and payable within the
year by a taxable person on indebted
ness: all national, state, county,
school and municipal taxes, not in
cluding local benefit taxes; losses in
curred in trade or from fires, storms
or shipwreck not compensated by in
surance or otherwise; debts actually
ascertained as worthless and charged
off: also reasonable allowance for
wear and tear on property: but no de
duction will be allowed for expense
of restoration or improvements made
to increase property value.
It excepts also, in computing net in
come. amounts received as dividends
upon the stock of any corporation,
joint stock company, association cr
insurance company which is taxable
upon its net Income under the cor
poration tax provision of the bill.
The bill excludes the compensation
of the president of the United States
during his term, that of judges of the
Supreme and inferior courts of the
United States, and compensation of
all officers and employes of a state or
any political subdivision thereof.
System of Collection Framed.
It establishes a system of collection
of the tax at its source, requiring all
persons, firms, copartnerships, com
panies, corporations, joint stock com
panies. associations or insurance com
panies, and all trustees, executors, ad
ministrators, receivers, etc., and offi
cers and employes of the United
States having the control or disposal
of salaries, wages, interest and other
profits and income of another person
to withhold and pay to the collector
of internal revenue the amount of in
come tax due from such person. All
such , persons or firms are made per
sonally liable for such tax.
Persons or corporations liable to
make return on incomes who fail tc
do so at a specified time, are made
! liable to a fine not exceeding $500 and
the penalty for false or fraudulent re
turns is fixed at $1,000 or imprison
ment not exceeding one year, or both.
"In formulating this additional im
post," said Chairman Underwood in
his report, "the attempt has been
j made to provile not only a source of
revenue, but also a means of redress
ing in some measure the unequal tax
burdens which result from the prac
tice of basing the federal income en
tirely upon customs and internal reve
nue duties. This is a system of tax
ation which inevitably throws the bur
den of supporting the government up
on the shoulders of the consumers.
It correspondingly exempts the men
of larger income, whose consumption
of the ordinary necessaries of life is
subject to tariff taxation in a far less
aggregate degree than is that of small
er income earners, who expend the
greater proportion of their resources
for the ordinary necessaries of life.”
Underwood Defends Plan.
Speaking of the principle of taxa
tion laid down and the graduated sys
tem proposed, Mr. Underwood de
clared:
"The progressive principle already
has been sustained by the Supreme
court of the United States in the in
heritance tax cases and there can be
no doubt that the same principle ap
plies to the income tax included in
this bill and will be fully upheld
should it ever be called into question.
Owing to defects in personal property
taxation, the larger incomes in the
United States have for many years
been able to escape with less than
their share of the general burden of
taxation, and this inequity will be, it
Is believed, in part overcome by the
plan proposed."
The bill provides that all taxable
persons shall be notified of the amount
for which they are liable under the
law on or before the 1st day of June
of each year and assessments must be
paid on or befpre June 30. For delay
in making payments and ten days aft
er notice, there shall be added the
sum of 5 per cent, of the amount of
tax unpaid and interest at the rate of
1 per cent, a month from the time the
tax fell due.
The corporation tax provision. It la
directed, shall be computed upon In
come for the year ending December
31, 1913, and for each calendar year
thereafter. It is provided, however,
that corporations may designate the
last day of any month as the day of
the closing of the fiscal year and may
have the tax computed on the basis
of net Income ending on its designated
day. All labor, agricultural, horti
cultural. fraternal, religious and mu
tual benefit societies are made exempt
from the tax.
Has the Earmarks.
Guide—In front of you Is the na
tional capitol.
Miss Gush—Oh. isn't it angelic?
Mr. Grouch—Angelic? Why, young
woman, how can you speak of it as
being angelic?
Miss Gush—Well, it has wings
hasn’t it?
KfUchen Sink.
The pipe that is hidden from view
should be kept just as clean as the
porcelain part. Greasy water, and lit
tle bits of this and that finding their
way into the pipe soon clog it. This
sometimes occasions a plumber’s bill
and sometimes illness. A sink Btrain
er should be in every sink and all
liquids should be poured through
this, as a protection to the pipe.
Every dish to be washed should be
cleaned of particles of food before
going into the wateb Milk should
never be poured down the sink.
These are preventions, in sink care.
Correctives are clean boiling water
and common washing soda dissolved
id it. A good flushing with this every
two days or so will keep the pipe
sweet and wholesome.
The Things We Hear.
“Ever see Man tell T”
"Yes, once.”
‘In what part?"
“Sherlock in ‘The Merchant of Ven
ua.'
No Child Is Realy Bad.
No child can be really bad if he has
had the right training. If the chil
dren of the world were corralled in a
great field you would find them all
mildness and sweetness.
'If they were born mean and wicked
they would eting like young serpents
or claw and scratch like little tigers,
or bite like wolves.
Instead they coo and play and howl
to stretch their lungs.
If a child of five years is a torment,
if he is cruel to animals, if he is
lacking in respect for older people. It
is because bis mother does not under
stand that a little discipline is a
great kindness.
The indulgent mother who permits
her child to grow into a young demon
is respected by none—least of all by
the child.
For painting wires a Pennsylvania!
has patented two stiff brushes that re
volve against each other as paint is
fed to them by compressed air from
a reservoir.
IMS KILL
STATE DEPARTMENT TO MAKE
RIGID INVESTIGATION.
MAY PROVE TO BE SERIOUS
If Satisfactory Explanation Is Not
Made Mexican Government Will
Be Held Responsible.
Washington.—The attention of the
State department which has lately
been given to a vexatious problem
from the wounding of American sol
diers and other American citizens
along the Mexican border is now di
rected toward the serious situation
resulting from the slaying of a petty
officer and a sailor from the United
States cruiser California at Guaymas.
Charles D. Taylor, consular agent at
Guaymas, in reporting the deaths to
the department said a strict investiga
tion was being made.
Shot by Official.
The shooting was done by the chipf
of police of Guaymas and as Ameri
can sailors going ashore in a foreign
country invariably go unarmed, of
ficials here will insist that the cir
cumstances of the slaying be probed
to the bottom.
If the Mexican authorities are un
able to show that there was a provo
cation for the attack by the armed
police, serious consequences may
ensue. It was pointed out that the
double killing might be taken as an
indication of the inadequacy of the
present government and have an in
fluence when the United States gives
further consideration to the question
of recognition of the Huerta govern
ment.
William Wallace Corrie, seaman,
and John C. Klesow, first-class mas
I ter-at-arms, were the two men killed
; in the fight at Guaymas. Rear Admi
] ral Cowles reported to the Navy de
partment by wireless via the San
i tiago station.
Mexico Full of Disorder.
Mexico City.—That the withholding
of official recognition by the United
States materially has weakened the
Huerta government is the opinion
generally expressed by the public and
privately admitted in certain Mexican
official circles.
The new rebel movement has made
greater progress than has the provi
sional government in suppressing in
surgency, and it no longer is a secret
that the condition of the treasury is
such as will not permit the continua
tion of military operations much long
er. Thi3 has been publicly admitted
by the Mexican minister of the in
terior, Garcia Granados.
The chamber of deputies has not
approved the proposed foreign loan,
but its failure to take up this matter
is said to be due to a desire to avoid
further embarrassing the finance de
partment which so far has been un
able to arrange for the flotation of the
loan, notwithstanding recent assur
ances to that effect from London. It
is assumed by the government that its
inability to issue the loan is due di
rectly to nonrecognition by Washing
ton.
Boa* and Crew Lost.
Eugene. Ore.—A message from Flor
ence, Ore., at the mouth of the Slus
law river, stated that the gasoline
schooner Anvil had been wrecked
there “with a crowd aboard.” After
the receipt of this brief word, the
\vires to Florence went down and no
details could be obtained. The Anvil
was a vessel 116 feet long, running
from Protland to Bandon, and had a
crew of twelve men.
Labor Situation Serious.
Brussels.—Belgium stands to lose
$800,000 every day the general strike
lasts, if, as socialists declare and
hope, 50 per cent of the industrial la
borers quit work. This is the esti
mate made by economists.
Want Schedule Modified.
Washington. — President Wilson
is being urged to agree to a modifica
tion in the tariff schedule on sugar to
make it discretionary with the execu
tive at the end of three years whether
sugar should be free.
Gets Husband’s Estate.
Plymouth, Mass.—The will of Rear
Admiral Joseph G. Eaton, filed for
probation, leaves his estate, with the
exception of $600, to bis widow, who
is awaiting trial on charge of having
murdered him.
Fatally Stabs Fellow Prisoner.
Leavenworth, Kas.—Using a knife
he had made from a piece of iron, a
prisoner in the federal penitentiary
here stabbed and fatally wounded Joe
Love, a fellow prisoner.
Oleomargarine for Soldier Boys.
Washington, D. C.—Oleomargarine
may find its way to the mess tables
of the army and navy as a result of a
decision by Commissioner of Internal
Revenue Cabell waiving the tax on
that product when bought by the gov
ernment.
"Jack” Lewis Is Identified.
Chicago. — “Jack" Lewis, charged
with theft of diamonds at Portland
Ore., and Mitwakee, Wis., who is
known also as Weaver B. Clark has
been identified as E. L. C. Von Klein
Smudge Pots Protect Trees
Topeka, Kas.-Hundreds of smudge
pots are burning throughout central
and western Kansas to protect the
fruit buds which are threatened by
frost. In unprotected orchards it was
predicted that the peach crop would
suffer heavily.
Missouri Rises Fifteen Feet
Pierre. S. D.-The Missouri has gene
over the fifteen-foot mark and i. y«
slowly rising. Boat* am operating Jn
many of the streets of Fart Pierre as
a means of transportation.