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THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1916- DEMOCRATS CAUCUS : ON REVENUE BILL Propose to Reduce the Income Tax Exemption on the In comes of Moderate Size. REVISE WINE SCHEDULE . Washington, Aug. 10. Senate democrats will meet in caucus to night to consider finance committee amendments to the house revenue bill, including the proposal to reduce the income tax exemption, the pro posed increase in the tax on the large inheritances ranging up to 10 per cent on estates of $5,000,000 and a proposal agreed to laec night to con tinue in effect many of the present stamp taxes. The finance committee democrats yesterday voted approval of the stamp tax proposal and added to the house bill the following stamp taxes: Bonds, debentures and certificates of indebtedness, a tax of S cents on each $100 of face value; express and freight receipts, 1 cent each; tele graph and telephone messages, 1 cent each for each message for which a charge of IS cents or more is made; custom house entries not exceeding $100 in value, 25 cents each; succeed ing $100 and not exceeding $500, 50 cents each; exceeding $500, $1: in surance policies, 1 cent on each $1 or fraction amount of premium charged; foreign steamship tickets, if not cost ing to exceed $30, $1; not exceeding $60, $3; more than $60, $5; all tickets costing $10 or less to be exempt from taxation; Pullman car tickets 2 cents each, an increase from 1 cent in existing law. The cgmmittee also decided to re store the existing tax of $5 for each bowling alley or billiard table and amended it so that it will apply to clubs and private places, instead of exclusively to public places. Revision of the wine tax schedule was determined upon, the committee increasing the proposed tax of 2 cents a gallon on grape brandy or wine pirits used in fortification of wines to 55 cents a gallon. A tax of 8 cents gallon upon all still wines was proposed as a substitute for house rates ranging from 4 to 25 cents a gal lon on wines containing from 14 to 24 per cent alcohol. On champagne and sparkling wines the committee retained the house pro posal of a 3-cent tax on each half pint, but increased the proposed tax of 1 cent to 2Vi cents on each half pint of artificially carbonated wine. The committee was unable to reach a conclusion on munitions statistics and will resume delibera tion on that subject today. Aged Farmer Dies As Street Car Hits Wagon on Corner Fred Davis, an elderly farmer and a pioneer of Douglas county, living near Florence, died last evening at the Lord Lister hospital aa the re suit of injuries received when a northbound Sherman avenue car struck the wagon in which he was riding at Capitol avenue and Four teenth street at 3:30 o'clock, throw ing him to the pavement and causing, concussion of the brain and severe lacerations of the scalp, which, to gether with his advanced age of 74 years, made it impossible for him to withstand! the shock. Conductor H. W. Schulx and Mo torman R. E. Abbott were In charge of the car, which did not atop to see what damage had been done. Mr. Davis is survived by a wife and six children, four sons and two daughters. The wife and youngest son, Harry, live at the old home north of Florence; where Mr. Davis settled thirty-five years ago. The other children are George of Kear ney, Fred of Lyman, Colo.; Frank of Los Angeles, Cat; Mrs. Alice Peter son of Kennard, Neb, and Mrs. Emma Taylor of Kearney. Texas Will Break Away From Wilson "Wilson has a very poor chance to carry Texas this fall," said C. B. Bechtold, who has iust finished hia enlistment period in the Third Wis consin regiment of the National Guard, and who passed through Oma ha on his way home. "The Texans are thoroughly dissatisfied with the handling of the Mexican situation, and from all I heard in Texas, Hughes has more than an even chance of oreaKing the solid south this fall." War Summary In Minneapolis Speech Mr. Hughes Straightens Out Secretary Redfield MWI FBOM Till ISONZO tent ladloetee tbat tk anar at tha dak at Aorta U rapldlr follawtac aa tha aotabla mmmm n aj tat Italian, la the casta of tha Austrian su em hold at Oeriiia, with mom 'i te.ee artoam .. 1TAUAN TROOPS an naortM ta (art anr taa Inai, oigaraael pennlac the ntraatte AaaMaaa, wheaa Mf Ma port at Mart, tweatjr-twe aUlea ta taa Math- . wart, la threateaee!. ALONG THB SOHMK, taa British and Fraaeh an aiaklnr alow bat raaaonebl eteadr 11111111 la their laaaattln threats toward BapaaoM aa rereaae. Lest alt at frearh traasa aaoaat forward further la tha Maat wood eater, where tha nat tallbw bam ham aaaa straek la tha ro om! flsattas-. THB BRITISH FBEBBUU oaatlaaaa ta be . azorl4 aarthwar4 from Foalarea, wharo they are etramllag ta latat aaoealeta eoae- . bmuuI at the fcrldge overlooking Baaaaaw. Ther aaaao a aaw advaaas last Bight. ANOTHEB IKPOBTAjr aarraaaa far tha B aula as la Gellehs la aaaeaaoed today. General LotahlUky-a anar has poshed wait af taa Stanlalaa-Koloaoea rail way line and eat the KaoJalaa-Nadreraa rail way at annua. Minneapolis, Minn., Aug. 10. In his speech here, Mr. Hughes said in part: in my srcech at Detroit 1 took occasion to refer to the fact that in a very important bureau, the Bureau of Census, an eminent statistician, a man of conspicous expertness and fitness for the place, has been retired, and a man has been appointed in his place without qualifications for that important tecnnicai worn, zou must know how important that census bu reau is. In the proper collation of those statistics is furnished the oppor tunity for many investigators to de tect important tendencies in our life. it is a work that must be done ex pertly. ' "Now, my statement that E. Dana Durand was retired, as I said, in effect,, and his place given to a poli tician, has been challenged by Secre tary Redfield. Secretary Redfield telegraphs me that I was greatly mis informed. He says 'Durand was not removed or retired, but resigned vol untarily, urlasked. I was glad to en dorse him for present employment.' "In that same speech i referred to a technical bureau known as the coast ami geodetic survey, and to the fact that in place of an eminent scien tist there has been appointed a man whom I regarded as without proper qualifications. After Couple of Yean. "After he had been there a couple of years he wss put in charge of the coast and geodetic survey. Now the adiministration say he is a wonder fully competent man. "Then he goes on to refer to the ensuing year where there were 104 appointments. In twenty approval was not requested; twenty-two met with the approval of the civil service commission and sixty-two without. "And I have as ummary which gives the matter to a latler date, and they are three or four out of the way in the total because of the difference in date, as I assume, which is furnished by the national civil service reform league. And there it states that in the first three years of this admini strationMarch 4. 1913 to March 4, 1916 the executive issued a total of 239 special exceptions. It is then added, that up to and including June 24, 1916, there have been issued a total of 279. It is then said that out of the 279 the civil service commission has concurred in seventy-one; that the commission has not concurred in 143 and the commission's attitude is not recorded in a total of sixty-five cases. ' j ' , Special Exemptions. ! "In that speech I called attention to the manner in which the principle of our civil service laws had been disre garded, and after going over a number of matters which I shall not now un dertake to repeat, I referred to the special exemptions by executive order on the operation of the civil service rules; that is, appointments taken out of the civil service by executive order. "I stated that in the year ending about April 1916, there had been re moved from the operation of the civil service rules by special executive ex emption, about 104. That of those 104, twenty were appointed without requesting the opinion of the civil service commission, that in twenty two cases, the civil service commis sion was asked for ita opinion and approved, and that in sixty-two cases, the executive order was made directlv in the teeth of the disapproval of the civil service commission. Why The Objections? "Unfortunately in the published re port of those remarks, by running two aentences together, that state ment was made to refer to the coast and geodetic survey. I had just re ferred to that bureau in connection with the appointment previously de scribed. 1 had not intended that tnis mention should relate to that bureau. And the department very properly objects to that construction being put upon it. This was wholly uninten tional. "But I stand by the statement which I thought I made, which I now make, that there was in that year, ending about April, 1916. 104 of these executive exemptions; that sixty-two of those were made against the advice of the civil service commission, and twenty of them without requesting the judgment of the commission. My authority for that statement is a very excellent review of this particular matter by Representative Gillette of Massachusetts. He reviews first, the two years preceding, and it is said there that in the first two years of the present administration, there were 137 personal appointments au thorized by executive order, which waived the requirements of Che civil service. In all except eighteen of those 137 the executive requested the judgment of the civil service com mission. Forty-one were approved by the commission. Seventy-eight were appointed against the judgment of the civil service commission. Then he goes on to refer to the ensuing year where there were 104 appoint-, ments." , Hughes 1 Party Man. In his speech at the Auditorium to night Mr. Hughes said: I am a strong party man. I be lieve in party organization as an es sential agency of republican govern ment out l believe in party organi zation as the servant of a democratic people; and I stand as the represen tative ot a party in order that through that essential instrumentality I may serve all the men and women ot the United States. "I believe that there is no reason able man in the progressive party Had Bilious Attacks. "My son nineteen years of age suf fered frequently from bilious attacks. My Itusband brought home a bottle of Chamberlain's Tablets and began giving them to him. They helped him right away. He began to eat heartily and picked up right along," writes Mrs. Thomae Campbell, Kirlc ville, N. Y. Obtainable everywhere. Advertisement Persistent Advertising Is the Road o Success. FIBRE SUITCASES Our stock of fibre suit cases is extensive. We have them with nd without straps. All nicely lined. Some with shirt and waist pockets. Good locks and fasten ings, strong corners and re-in-forced edges. Our prices are all you could possibly ask And range $1.25, $1.75, $2.25 $3.50, Etc. Wa Like Small Rap.tr Jobs. Freling & Steinle "OraahVi Bait Senate Builder. 1803 Famam St and no devout and strong organiza tion man in the republican party who hold to the great ideals of the honor and prosperity and efficiency of this nation, who cannot with a good con science support my candidacy. "We have come from many lands Here in the northwest we know that Americanism is a thing of the spirit and not of the flesh. Wherever a man is born, if he is a naturalized American citizen of the United States he is heartily an American citizen with American ideals; with Amer ican hopes, ready to give, live and die for the United States. For American Sentiment. "I desire to see a reinforcement of the American sentiment in that con sciousness of unity which displaces all possibility of division. We must have that inner feeling of intense loyalty. What is there to divide us? "We are a united people and only through that dominant sense of unity and of loyalty can we find the force to cope with the problems of the twentieth century. "There was no excuse for permit ting our regular army to remain at so low a point that it could not perform military duty without summoning men unprepared for service from the length and breadth of the land. This is not a spectacle of a prepared na tion. That is a condition for which I hold the administration responsible. "Consider for a moment the facts. It was only about a year and a half ago that certain patriotic citizens were directing attention to the need of preparedness, to the need of the enlargement of our regular army, and the president of the United States formally expressed his opinion that such persons were nervous, excited, that there was no real occasion for alarm; that there were no conditions which made it a matter to be consid ered as a real exigency. Torch of Another Leader. 1 "Then there came the torch of an other leader. What a change in- sen timent was wrought over night in the councils of the- administration; that was a feeling that an exigency did exist and that something should be done; that it was no longer nerv ousness, but prudence, caution and foresight which required immediate action. 'There was an able secretary of war, and he devoted himself with as tuteness to the problem and he worked out a plan. He thought he had pinned the administration so that it would stsy put. I don't believe you could pin the administration to any policy that would stay put. "Well, the matter got so bad that it was presented to congress. Only a few months ago it was formally stated that our present demand called for this forthwith: Raising the rrn1nr irtnv frnm its total nn naoer although it was in fact somewhat less of about 105,000 to 141,000 and a citizen reserve of 400,000 trained by federal authority in the annual in stallments of 133,000 each. Did Not Stay Put. 'That was to be regarded as essen tial. Now, how long did that stay put? Why, within a short time the plan was abandoned; the secretary of war resigned, and in his correspondence with the president he practically pointed out what he regarded as the inexcusable abandonment I don't use the exact words, but this was the substance of it of a program deemed to be necessary. "Now, why was it abandoned? We have had a great deal of talk about executive leadership, not conspicuous then, when American preparedness was in issue. Why was it necessary to go through the land dealing with the subject when congress had its mind open to know the executive wiil? "On the contrary, there was what I regard as a backdown; a change of front. It had always seemed to me most regrettable that it was a change of front under a conception of par tisan expediency. We had as a result something which is fraught with much mystery. "In the first place, under the army reorganization bill we have a paper army of 178,000, but an actual army t 41.. r: 1 1 1 . lur me ustai year cnaing june ju, 1917. of about 110.000 and about 15 . 000 more in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918. We have, then, to rely upun tne National uuara. "For the boys who have gone for ward uncomplainingly to the duty to which they were called and have been riUXATED IRON w drueaist about it. Drug Storei always carry It la itock. Increased etronfth of deltoato, nervous, run down paopl 200 per cent In ten day. In many Instance. 1100 forfeit if It fail! as per full explanation ia large article loon to appear In this paper. Aek your doctor or Sherman A HeCoaneU sworn into the regular army over night for a service that they had not contemplated and which I do not think the National Guard should be called upon to render for those boys I have unstinted praise. But I con demn the system which brought mat ters to that pass. "Then what a spectacle was pre sented. They were not properly equipped when they started; sup plies were not ready for them and some of them suffered in the mode in which they were transported to discharge therr new duties. Why, it was a spectacle showing inefficiency of the first magnitude. "The rights about which there has been so much discussion are in the main plain rights, generally recog nized. But we live in a world in arms. It would be the rankest folly for us to invite insult, for us to invite the disregard of our word by having an obvious condition of unpreparedness. "Preparedness that is reasonable and adequate is not militarism. There is no militarism is this country. But adequate and reasonable prepared ness is an' assurance of our peace. It is the very buttress of our self-respect It is for us to say what we mean and have our word regarded. It means that when such a situation arises as there is on the border of Mexico that we are ready to dis charge our duty without calling men from their peaceful occupations, from the shops and the factories and of fices all over this land. Preparedness a Duty. "Reasonable, adequate prepared ness is a primary and national duty, and if I am elected I propose to see so far as in me lies the power, that duty will be discharged to the credit of the American people. And I am not talking simply or even primarily of numbers. Efficiency is only a mat ter of numbers to a certain extent; thoroughness, the absence of waste, up-to-date methods, the availing of scientific investigation, the determina tion to go forward sensibly and ex pertly with the very advice, cutting out dry rot, insisting upon men equal to their jobs. "This is the kind of preparedness I believe in which will make our ap propriations for military purposes properly spent so that the public will get the benefit of the dollars it gives." Mr. Hughes then reviewed the ad ministration's Mexican policy from the days of Huerta and continued: "We had a wonderful speech the other day in the senate from a spokes man of the administration. He did not like what I said in my answer to the notification. It distressed him. I am glad of it. That was the intention. But there was not a word in it that he or anybody else could answer. He said I am not attempting to quote him, but I am sure I am doing him no violence that we ought to have supported the executive in establish ing Villa on a throne, a government founded on principles of American liberty and justice. Think of that. Then the learned senator condemned the republicans because they had not rushed to the support of the admin istration in making a liberator out of this desperado, Villa. "I want to refer for a moment to the embargo on arms. I do not know that it is a rash statement. I think it is well warranted by the facts to say that any American soldier killed in Mexico, is killed by American bullets that we have let pass over the border." Harding Becomes Head of Federal Reserve Board Washington, Aug. 10. W. P. G. Harding was designated today by President Wilson as governor of the Federal Reserve board, to succeed Charles S. Hamlin, and Paul War burg was named vice governor, to succeed Frederick Delano. The de signations are for one year. Soothes Yonr Coach and Cold. Dr. Bell'a Ptno-Tar-Honey aoothoa tha raw pota, eases oough. kllla cold germa. toe. All druggiata. -Advertisement. DANISH TREATY IS GIYENTO PUBLIC Senator Stone Demands In quiry as to How Confiden tial Information Leaked. WILL RATIFY IT SOON Washington, Aug. 10. Investiga tion of the means by which a confi dential copy of the treaty under which the United States would ac quire the Danish West Indies for $25, 000,000 became public, was demanded in the senate today by Senator Stone, chairman of the foreign relations com mittee. An abstract of the treaty published this morning is believed to have been made from one of twenty-five num bered copies sent to the senate Tues day by the State department, with a letter transmitting a request of the Danish government that the terms of the convention be withheld until the two governments agreed to promul gate them. The department's communication reached the senate in executive ses sion Tuesday and was referred to the foreign relations committee. The treaty probably will be considered by the committee early next week and the administration is confident that it will be ratified before the end of this session of congress. "It is hard for me to believe," said Senator Stone, "that any senator of the United States would give this treaty to the public under the circum stances. Every senator has a right to a copy and to go to the executive clerk and get it. If any senator did, he knows where it has gone. But if he exposed it to the public, he did a dishonorable act and ought to be dis ciplined by the senate." Senator Stone declared he thought the body of correspondents in the senate press gallery would not resort to dishonorable methods in the ac quisition of news. Persistent Advertising Is the Road to Success. HOTELS AND RESORTS. 1 THE PLAZA NEW YORK World's Famous Hotsl Oppoaita Central Park U 59th Street Oete ta All Theatres sad Shop SUMMER GARDEN and Outdoor Ti Cool and Refreshing Place ta Dine WttkfmRmmam 7Msf RED STERRT. Managua! Director ROOMS WITH BATH $3J0 UP Fa II o.b.ci HOTEL PURITAN I The Distinctive Boston House TaVPattanlSOrMorOMeMSt I ointtua aoutis nine worm. 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