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LUXURIES TAXED. Revenue Bill Covers Wide Range. More Money to Come. Washington, Aug. 3.?A 10 per cent, tax on retail sales of a wide variety of commonly classified luxuries, from jewelry to meerschaum pipes and from smoking jackets to silken hosiery will be recommended to the full house ways and means committee Monday as to the result of today's deliberations of the subcommittee on luxuries. The semiluxuries, goods which are in the class vrrViA^a it ic HiffifMllt tn rtlSMllSTUish TTU^l V AV vs.*?*4 vv%.w v w ? ^ between the real necessity and the real luxury, such as clothing, will be left to a more searching inquiry. < A general revision of the whole ; $8,000,000,000 bill being drafted by . the committee will begin Monday, to determine where increases may be made to make up the present deficiency of a billion and more in the estimated revenue from excess prof- i its and income as so far tentatively agreed upon. Also some doubt is expressed whether the luxury schedule ' can be made to produce all of the $2,000,000,000 allotted to it. "We have been considering tl^e so- 1 called luxuries schedule," said Chair- j man Hull of the ways and means i sub-committee on luxuries after to- 1 day's session. "This concerns a va- , riety of questions and articles. The TT"-. V. ort/1 Pron pVi lllYlirV t.AV is ?iU5UOU auu 4 <vuvu ? J ? based on two schedules of articles, first articles that are luxuries by reason of their nature, such as jewelry, precious stones, goods mounted with precious metals and so on; and second, articles deemed luxuries by reason of the price paid for them, as, for instance, $75 paid for a suit of clothes, instead of $40, where the tax- would rest on the excess over $40. This plan would extend through wearing apparel generally on different bases wrorked out according to trade conditions." The subcommittee today in its & search for taxablte luxuries consider" . ed all forms of jewelry, silk under- , wear, curios and antiques, liveries, art, except where sold by the artists % themselves, tapestry, hunting garments, ladies' driving habits, license } tax on riding academies, cut glass, opera glasses, meershaum and amber pipes, cigar holders and humidors, smoking jackets and lounging robes, furs, but not those merely an incidental part of other clothing, ornamentals lamps, umbrellas, parasols and canes when mounted in precious _ metals and stones, ana line articles. -When the action is not final, a 10 per cent, tax on practically all of these things was agreed upon for ratification by the full committee. * The tax will be put on the retailer selling to the customer, the retailer being expected- to charge enough to cover the tax. The committee in its investigation of taxable luxuries today is understood to have considered also prices j on hotel rooms and meals, and hotel price lists were scrutinized and efforts made to establish definitions separating the expensive from the necessary. War profits tax additional to the excess profits and corporation taxes and the alternative plan to apply / either the excess profits or a war profits plan according to which would yield the most revenue from * each concern, will be again before the full committee next week. President Wilson let it be known informally today that he favored a war Drofits tax in the pending bill but ~ ~ t jnembers of the committee say the president has not communicated with them on the subject. Representative Moore, one of the ranking Republicans on the committee expressed this view tonight: "The higher and larger incomes and probably the excess profits could stand little more than is now contemplated in the pending bill." Charleston to be Great Port. Washington, D. C., Aug 3.?Charleston will be the great port for all the contiguous military area, according to a statement made today by Gen. Gervey, of the general staff of the army, in course of a call at the war department by Senator E. D. Smith, to urge the advisability of expediting the use of the South Carox lina port to relieve the congestion at New York and elsewhere in the North. Gen. Gervey said that Charleston would be one of the bit supply de- | . pots and would be used especially during the winter months. For reasons of a military nature the congestion of the ports of New York and New England has not been corrected as rapidly as was intended. Senator Smith said that he and GenGervey agreed that by a simple process a portion of this congested traffic could be diverted to Norfolk and Charleston, and the senator, who is chairman of the senate Interstate Commerce commission, called this process to the attention of the railroad administration, whose cooperation in the plan would be essential. SUDStaniiai results iu uie near iuture are expected in the way of increased oversea traffic at Charleston. Send it Care of Pershing. - s We see that Berlin triumphantly reports the capture of a number of American wagons, and if we'd known that would be so pleasing we would have sent a cute little red express wagon for the crown prince to take singlehanded.?Grand Rapids Press. LITTLETON COLLEGE. Hot water heat, electric lights and other modern improvements. The 37th annual session will begin Sep4. O Z4-U IC1UUC1 ^Ulll. 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