Salary Bills Are First Grist at Lawmakers’ Mill
Three measures provide funds for the expense account of the session. The bills aim to finance travel, per diem, and clerical costs, with details outlined for the legislature’s running of its business.
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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1919
Page
1
Three measures provide funds for the expense account of the session. The bills aim to finance travel, per diem, and clerical costs, with details outlined for the legislature’s running of its business.
Helena reports the first house bills seek 160000 for tal lage and per diem, 490000 for officials, 65000 for clerks, and 15000 for dental costs. Senate names committees. Speaker Belden names more in the House. Contests to be heard, taxation and county-creation measures loom large with new counties eyed and a state tax commission proposed.
National park boosts, railroads pawn markets and finance notes. Veterans praised a fallen comrade. Reports on Troubles in Europe include Telleau Wood and a plan trip to Helena. A woman is acquitted amid perjury cases and smaller quotas in Western drives.
London dispatch reports the Globe published a document claiming to be the Sinn Fein constitution for Ireland. It asserts Ireland’s sovereign independence, calls for international recognition, and outlines measures including a national civil service, a stock exchange, consular service, mercantile marine, and public works to reform education and abolish the poor law system.
Special note from Paris reports Britain will appoint three delegates for each dominion including Canada Australia New Zealand and South Africa as part of the La Liberte coverage.
Flood conditions persist as river levels reach record highs since the current surge began, crippling navigation and bringing traffic to a standstill. Authorities warn of continued disruption and urge motorists to seek alternate routes as crews assess closures.
In Cincinnati news, U S fuel officials plan to press West Virginia lawmakers to pass a strict gas conservation law. They cite wasteful national gas use and the potential relocation of lampblack plants to Montana, seeking to protect city energy supplies as investigations into West Virginia’s industrial gas consumption are released.
New York report of January testimony by Stanwood Menken former president of the National Security League before a congressional committee. He accused members of Congress of log-rolling and misusing funds to gain votes, citing the Bar Harbor post office project as an example and asserting many lawmakers were instrumental in pushing through misappropriations for personal use.
Dec 9. A Turkey that Medina lay ellately the hes will be New.seemres syndicate which we commune banking today offered at public sale 40,000,000 of American Telegraph and Telegraph company five percent notes and 25,000,000 of New York Telephone 30-year sinking fund per cent debenture bonds announced the closing of the books this afternoon with a heavy oversubscription.
A Prague dispatch reports Vilna fallen to Bolsheviks with thousands driving out Polish militia and civilians massacred. A youth named Alois Stastny, 18, attempted to assassinate Premier Kramarz in Prague but the shot failed. plan allegedly decided at a recent meeting. Amsterdam dispatch says German forces recaptured the Bentschen railway junction from the Poles. conflicting reports say Poles held most of Bentschen while Germans controlled the station.
Berlin faced a grave crisis as government troops secured all public buildings and entered the capital in force. Rioting Spartacan factions swept through Dresden Brunswick Dusseldorf Essen and Dortmund with clashes and casualties reported. Government gunfire targeted the chancellor's palace and central districts as unrest spread across the Ruhr region.
Berlin newspapers report intensifying street fighting as government troops and police move to quell Spartacist and Independent Socialist uprisings. Ebert pledges defense of order, while workers rally to back revolutionary action amid reports of upheaval at major rail hubs and the Brandenburg Gate.
Officials report a man in Nogales Arizona has been arrested after posing as Captain Archie Roosevelt, according to a Department of Justice message received today. The suspect, linked to Albuquerque and San Jay, faces federal charges for fraudulent impersonation.
Washington confirms final War Revenue bill terms setting corporate income tax at 12 percent for 1919 earnings and 10 percent thereafter, with 6 percent undistributed dividends tax removed. The accord lowers the corporate rate from proposed 8 percent to 10 percent for later years, allows deductions for intercompany dividends, and limits personal service corporation exemptions while preserving four installments for payment. Individual tax filing threshold set at net income of 1000 or more.
New York January 9 A strike by marine workers has paralyzed traffic in New York harbor with thousands imperiled unless routes can supply food. A conciliation board will arbitrate between boat owners and employers as a settlement begins. Weather forecasts predict partly cloudy skies with improving eastern conditions into the weekend.
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