Senate Democrats Win tax Fight
Senate Democrats held their tax schedule against two Republican efforts to alter rates as final passage nears. Debates closed with a 46 to 39 vote denying a 40 percent maximum and a 47 to 36 rejection of a 25 percent compromise. Other tax provisions were rapidly disposed of as Norbeck pressed a McNary Haugen farm bill amendment.
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Finance Committee
Mellon
Norbeck
South Dakota
Treasury
Speed
Pennsylvania
Glass
Virginia
The
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Bootleggers Union Opposes 2.75 Percent Beer Legalization
A New York bootleggers union meeting in May adopted resolutions protesting changes to the Volstead act. Delegates from Atlantic Coast locals urged Representative Griffin to oppose legislation that would legalize 2.75 percent beer, warning it would undermine a vital industry and threaten members’ liberty. The petition, filed with the House, was sent to the judiciary committee.
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Atlantic Coast
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Judiciary Committee
Coolidge Rebuked On Jap Exclusion Vote Divides House
The House rejected the Japanese exclusion provision 191 to 171, sending the immigration bill back to conference. Conferees will seek to shift the exclusion date from July 1 to March 7, 1926, amid White House wishes for March 1 and diplomatic talks with Japan.
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Coolidge
Japan
Congress
Johnson
Immigration Committee
Pacific States
West
Representative Longworth
Representative Moore
Virginia
Baker
California
Sabath
Illinois
Representative Garrett
White House
Disarmament Parley Abandoned for the Summer
Washington reports that President Coolidge does not expect an arms conference this summer. He states that a definite settlement of European reparations should precede any such gathering and expects no prospect of settlement for several months.
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Washington
Coolidge
Germany Tries To Buy Munitions
Paris dispatch reports a Hamburg Berlin firm sought a price for 1,000,000 rifles with bayonets and 1,000,000 cartridges to be shipped to a German port. The supplier claimed the arms were for a friendly Entente member, and the British firm notified the government, taking no action to fulfill the order.
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le Matin
Hamburg
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Entente
Brooklyn Woman Seeks Absolute Divorce in Countess Case
Mrs Madeline Helen Modica of Brooklyn has filed for absolute divorce from Emanuel Victor Modiva amid a prior suit against Countess Roger de Perigny for half a million dollars claiming alienation of her husband’s affections. The husband, an Newark automobile salesman, was served with papers in the divorce action in Brooklyn and testified on custody of their 16 month old daughter. Photographs show Modica with the baby and the Countess de Perigny nearby.
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Brooklyn
Roger de Perigny
Emanuel Victor Modiva
Newark, N. J
Phen
Owen
Moadien
P. Walsh
Mra
Modiea
de Perigny
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