May lift tax off luxuries
Washington Feb 10 Chairman Kitchin of the House Ways and Means committee announced that after President Wilson signs the war revenue bill he will introduce a resolution to repeal the luxury tax on wearing apparel. The 10 percent levy begins May 1 1919 on hats stockings neckties shirts waists and most apparel. The National Retail Dry Goods Association urged repeal. Senator Lodge voiced preliminary protest against the tax.
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Washington
Witchin
House
Ways and Means Committee
Wilson
Kkitchin
National Retail Dry Goods Association
Lodge
Women Ask Wilson for Place at Peace Table
Paris February 10 A delegation of women suffragists from the allied powers presented a resolution to President Wilson requesting women’s representation at the peace conference. The American delegation included Mrs J Borden Harriman Mrs Juliet Barrett Rublee and Miss Katharine B Davis. French suffrage leaders have recently demanded representation as well.
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Paris
Wilson
Associated Powers
J. Borden Harriman
Juliet Barrett Rublee
Katharine B. Davis
Not Even Cider in New Hampshire Sparks Heavy Proposals
Concord New Hampshire February 10 amendments to the Lewis law threaten to tighten access to intoxicants, remove cider concessions, and expand penalties. The proposed changes deregulate private alcohol in homes, bar cider and patent medicines, and tighten enforcement with stricter penalties. The measure shifts toward state control and bans various transport and possession practices, drawing mixed reactions from farmers, anti saloon advocates, and lawmakers.
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Concord
N. H
New Hampshire
Sahara
Jamaica
House of Correction
Kipling
Suffrage Fails by One Vote in Senate
The final roll call shows 55 senators voting for adoption of the suffrage resolution, one short of two thirds, with 29 voting against. The brief debate preceded the vote that officially killed the resolution the House had adopted on Jan 10, 1918, by 274 to 136.
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Ashurst
Culberson
Jerry
Gore
Henderson
Johnson
South Dakota
Jones
New Mexico
Kendrick
Kirby
Lewis
McVellar
Myers
Nugent
Pittman
Pollock
Ransdell
Robinson
Shafroth
Sheppard
Smith
Arizona
Thomas
Thompson
Vardaman
Walsh
Calder
Colt
Cumming
Curtis
Fernald
France
Frelinghuysen
Grenna
Harding
California
Washington
Kellogg
Kenyon
la Follette
Lemroot
McCumber
McNary
Nelson
New
Norris
Page
Poindexter
Sherman
Michigan
Smoot
Spencer
Sterling
Sutherland
Townsend
Warren
Watson
Bankhead
Beckham
Kletcher
Gay
Hardwick
Hitchcock
Martin
Virginia
Overman
Pomerone
Salisbury
Simmons
Georgia
South Carolina
Swanson
Trammell
Underwood
Williams
Wolecott
Baird
Borah
Brandegee
Dillingham
Hale
Lodge
McLean
Moses
Penrose
Wadsworth
Weeks
Chamberlain
Oregon
Kentucky
Reed
Missouri
Goff
West Virginia
Owen
Oklahoma
Shields
Tennessee
Hollis
New Hampshire
King
Utah
Knox
Pennsylvania
Ana Phelon
Maryland
Senate
Susan G. Anthony
Benet
South
House
No Demonstration Defeat of Measure in Senate Vote
Crowds of women watched as the measure failed in the Senate with no dramatic incidents. Leaders prepared statements criticize the action and vow to renew the fight in the next Congress. Carrie Chapman Catt called the nation dishonored and Anna Howard Shaw lamented Congress failing democracy.
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Senate
Carrie Chapman Catt
Anna Howard Shaw
Association
United States Congress
Suffrage Fight Off in Massachusetts House
The U S Senate blocked the Anthony amendment prompting Massachusetts legislators to end a planned debate on woman suffrage. Daggett filed petitions on school vote rights and federal suffrage, while Newton’s Powers reported a Senate result and urged committee referral despite opposition from Brennan and Abbott.
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United States Senate
Massachusetts House of Representatives
Daggett
Somerville
Massachusetts
Powers
Newton
Congress
Anthony
Senate
Committee On Rules
Brennan
Boston
Abbott
Haverhill
House Debates Order Referred to Rules Committee
Mr Underhill of Somerville urged defeating the order on the spot. The measure was sent to the rules committee by a vote of 128 to 29 after a roll call was refused.
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House
Underhill
Somerville
Committee On Rules
Disorders in Berlin Again
Reports from Berlin and London describe Saturday clashes as troops and sailors led by ex Police Chief Fichhorn fired on demonstrators at Alexander Platz. Casualties range up to eight dead and 54 wounded in Berlin and six killed, fourteen wounded in a later Berlin report. Order was restored by nightfall.
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Zurich
Berlin
Fichhorn
Alexander Platz
London
U S Commissioner Aids Biddeford Mills Dispute
Thomas J Williams a Washington labor department commissioner arrived in Biddeford Me to mediate a dispute between Pepperell and York mill management and workers He will seek an agreement While strikers sought agents both firms were away Employees were paid off today and committees failed to meet local representatives
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Biddeford
Thomas J. Williams
Department of F Bor
Washington
Pepperell
York Mills
Williams
Secretary Glass seeks expanded powers for Liberty bonds and loans
Secretary Glass asked Congress to raise the Victory Liberty Loan authorization to 10 billion dollars and set flexible interest terms, allow up to 10 billion in notes maturing in five years, extend WF wartime lending powers, and widen tax exemptions. He proposed a Treasury draft bill to enable these changes and support postwar finance and exports.
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Washington
Glass
Congress
Treasury
War Finance Corporation
Rotary Glass
Secretary of the Treasury
Letter to Chairman Kitchin on Trouss Ways and Means
A correspondence addressed to Chairman Kitchin of the House Ways and Means Committee discusses financial policy and legislative direction. The note reflects ongoing fiscal concerns and seeks clarification or action on proposed measures.
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Kitchin
The
Trouss Ways and Means Committee
Secretary Glass Seeks Broad Liberty Loan Authority
Secretary Glass asks Congress to grant wide authority to continue loans to allies after the war and to exempt Liberty bonds from income surtaxes and War Finance Corp bonds held abroad. He says terms cannot be set in advance during readjustment and Congress must act by March 4. He notes the Victory Liberty Loan likely cannot succeed under existing laws.
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War Finance Corporation
Glass
Kitchin
Congress
United States
Food Administration
Woman's body found after drowning in well at home
In Blackstone, Mrs. Mary Harris, 55, hauled rocks from a stone wall into a dooryard well to break ice then plunged in fully dressed. Her husband and searchers found her body at 5 a.m. after she left despondently last night. The rocks lay in shallow water.
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Blackstone
Mary Harris
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Franklin
Dallo Lach
Wertheimer Bros
Baltimore, MD
Keeley Institute Mpave
Portland
Gale & Kent
Gale & Kent Merchant Tailors
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Rock of Gibraltar
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