Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 180, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1918 — PLAN TAX OF $24,000 ON WILSON [ARTICLE]

PLAN TAX OF $24,000 ON WILSON

Washington, D. C., Aug. 7.—The ways and means committee.af, the house desires President Wilson to pay a tax of $24,000 as his part of the great war’s financial burden. The committee agreed upon this toV day while working on the income tax section of the $8,000,000,000 war revenue bill. Not only would the president be taxed, under the sections agreed upon today, but Supreme court justices and all federal judges throughout the nation, and state officers, as well. “There is a great sentiment all over the country that no one should be exempted from taxation,” said Claude Xitchin, chairman of the committee, when the day’s work was over.