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CONFERREES KILL HELL GATE PLAN Ignorc Wilson's Plea for 56.000,000 Channel in Naval Bill. ALL DIFFERENCES FINALLY SETTLED Senate Adopts Amended Measure and Mouse Will Do So Soon. [r___ Thfl TsOWm Burrau 1 W_ \_g. 17. All diTej ences between the two houses of Con | | |1m naval appropriation bill to-day. nnd the I without a rollcall adopted the reacfl report Thc Roaafl is ex ,.e.- ? .1 U adopt it Bithflf to morrow or at tht- ?*?? The la-t ?ct of tho ???*????*? to Ig rflfljaafll f"r the .. .?>?"? ?*?**? priati.m f.-r dredging a thir foot channel from the New York Navy Yard to Long I ? fl" through }Ic'.l (.ate. Thia amendment. v.hich waa inserted Ifl the Senate. was ob jected to by the BoBflfl conferrees. This Ifl the second tnne thil Congrc.s has refused tfl BppTOpriatfl monev to flif the Hell Gatfl channel. The I'.rst was in the rivers and har bors bill. ies Hcll Gate. the items elimi hy the conferrees wcrc *.'00.000 for reflaofllellini tl.e old machine shop ,t Portfliaoatb Navy Yard. $100000 f,,r eatenulng the wharf nt tt. Oriaai "? f0' '?? provements at the ( harleston. S. (_.. 100 f-.r the por criaM marine base for tne Columbia River. ? aa, of South Carolina. an of the Senato Naval fommit tpe ? 1 lamed bv many naval experts for thfl extensiye im* proTementfl ar.d attempts to develop ?ard in the paat,. eon aented to the eliminatioB of a *..'. ". 000 appropriation for his local yard in order Dol tfl hold up the bill. ? -j-,,, ition for the subma ? inc base on the CfllMlhlfl II?Of w-s ,-iit out flflMBflfl flfl offer of ground without cost has been made to Ihe, govaraaaaal . With the amendments apprOTfld M The conferrees. thc total f-r thfl bill now .tands at about $_l_.i .'0.000. Arceptance of The bill without a roll eall aarpriBfld the Senate conferrees who had expected another show af oppeaiUaa frofli the aaaall navy men. Ihe onlv prote.t was that of Senat<-r Clapp. of Minnesota. who said he wiahed to tfproaa m "The Congrcs sionnl Record'' Mfl oppositnn to such extrnvagiint nnd needless expendit urea._ ENROLLS BOATS TILL SEPT. 1 Senretary Daniela Kxtends Time Limit for Training Cruise Offers. Kver since the motor boat division ,,' thc Navul Training Cruise arai formed, and The llfltfl opened for thc enrolment of power boat flWaflflt. ?'" ?ephOfl Daniels. Sccretarv of the Na>>. baa been besreged by letters from men who have erafl Ifl the course of con? struction. bofgiog the enrolment period B_l d. . Mr Daaiflla took nction upon the>c pleaa' j-es terday. ordering the listsI tfl remain open until .cptemlur 1. I he man.ruvrts will start Beptl. r a\ HERSHFTELD GOES WEST Hop__* to Im'ure Jewish Kefugers Not to Migrate Kast. Isidore Herahrield, who recently re turned from work among the Jews al Poland. started yisterdjiy to aid thfl Jewish refugecs ifl Scattle ar.d San Francisco. ln the last year thousnnds of immi grants. driven from Russia by The war, have landed on Thc Paci'ic Coast. Rlfl Hebrew Shelterir.g and Immigrant Aid Association hopes to induce the rctu -,;,. ni the Wflfll ?B? not at? tempt t? conn Justice Daly's Will Filed. I'nder the arill of ex-.lustirc -loflflph F Daly, ot the Bapreaie Goart, filed rroty, tha Roman Catholic Orphan Aayluaa and St. Viacaat'a Hospital will . .ch recoivfl 1*00. The lariat Iflfl hu ! law 1-brarv to his son. Kdward Hanil i ton Dalv. "and made other apoeific ba ' quesis to member-; of hi* family. Hll wife. Mra Mary Louisc Daly, and his ; children are The rcsiduary legatecs. -? Youth Shot; Mother-in-law Held. In a rough-and-tumble battle which threw the neighborhood into conimo t on yflatortay, Mrs. Nfltti* Karl, of 111 Riehardaoa Street, Williamflborf, ^hot her young son-in-law, John \at.i relli, throuth the left jaw, according to the police. Yaranelli was taken tfl Bt Catherine's Hospital and Mrs. Karl, who up Yaranelli started the qaarrol, i waa locked up. New York Harbor Is Inspected By House Committee Members Eleven Representatives Take Trip About City in Police Boat and Discuss Improvements of Shipping Facili? ties at Chamber of Commerce Luncheon. , n _M?be_1 of tho RlTfl-fl and Harbor, CoflBflaittea ol the House of | Reprrser.ta-.:v, lunched at the Cham- [ b.r of Commerce yeaterday afternoon followinj. a trip around NflW York Har? bor in the police boat Patrol yester? day morning. Several of the speakers who addr. I ' *-'"pst8 de' fended the co-,- *w v______?!. tion ' ', polit;, nto the matter of ap-l i : ? tiona. , , . Ju'V ma.n' CZC man of the eom J N,"'v -^ bad nol ?*? !n,t . ince he had b. come head al , the comn:" . ? nimendation of BJ ,Rh VV'h0Sfc haadi all ra. !?? Murray Hulbert aaict New York wa ? ? ' -ir not maki: . %'' at Washing? ton, ! four he.ar" taiaiag to N'ew York Harbor withm thfl last thirty Among those who pointed out neerts ?bor an.l a-ked for the co opera- government with the state wns Commander Ji ITflher, of the! .-... Navy. He said a cirele , 250 r: I the harbor em! the comn.. I - of the nation j and thal thfl duty of the navy to pr port. . rs who Bpohe were E. FL Outer ?he Chamber of g T. Rush. president '. of the Rush Terminal; R. A. C. Smith.; Ci.mr: - l and Ferries; j ? of the New I and Navi- . ? . .1 -hn H.. ]. irbora Com* i ramittea present laclud Sparkmaa, chair? man; Pi ter I ' Ho, H. G I>uprc, Thomas ' Murray Hul hart, William Kettner, Thomas J. Bcnlly. ' Samuel M. Taylor an.l Alien T. Treadway. Among thi ' the lunch? eon were _ r Praah L Dowl-. ing, William F< owei Morgan, Joaeph j R. Morrell, J ;!- ? ?-. Dei vaa, W. A. Kerr.p ? st, Thomas G. M. Thomaa, I Louis J. Ti. Henry A. Meyer. | Navy League U rges Defence Commission N'avy , n y< Bfl editorial in il "S.-a i ? ? it con- i ? - '1,000,- I ? been dl vision cf whn ? an'a mind. "It believei ? I skilled or? ganization for a great aatioa ould take in T.and tbe build l ? a navy, and tt.at CoagTOBi de the funds on th. "I ... ..;ue believes that tl " plans of tbi ahould aupplemert i mented by those of tha Wai nd that ould be a'1 fl ly by tht- national policiei whieh r.st ia th. Lake Hopatcong ?1 NEXT S_NDAY-AI_o Every ? I Sunday and Hol.day i.t. w. :j_ Bt. I s.i i . LflMity Bt 9 Ot. Lt J.ckaon A.* , Jcm.v Uiy. 9.17 a. oa. Lt. Broad IfltOM, N*waia, r . _)a. o. Atlantic City fl_9 RA _TTTtTTTBiflT flTra *" *-,WV .. r.iiir-dli*-, Al?B. 2* Lt. W.ZUOt - ?- . L. I.il.*.!, _r._.0O: Laar* Jaiat..' Arrcu*. J*r??. C_?, K 17; Lf. Bru, : Utees, Mav-ffl. I-Oi a.ca. HARD COAL NO SMOKE COMFORT , handi nf the State Department. Th it three preat department.-; which have to do with war may be eoSrdi r.ated and that the wh<Me problem nf fence may be properly pr? r-ented to CongTI il defence commi "The league holds that advancement i . whereby m< n of n ability may pain at an earlier flgfl ; *hat'require unusual talen' na that s-hould be iaitiatfld without delay." TAX BILL TO LIFT INSURANCE RATES Democratic Caucus Cuts Out Clause Exemptiug Death Payments. RESERVE, TOO, MUST FIGURE AS INCOME Republicans Will Fight What They Regard as Blow .at Policy Holders. I ,.m Iflfl Trlhun- lliir.an I WashiTipton. Aug. 17. Life insurance pren.uims may bfl bflflBtfld aa ? result (.f a provision inscrted by the Dcmo rriitic caucus in the new revenue bill, Republican Senator*. declared to-day. This provision voutd present the in raraaflfl companies, in computing the ineomei ?B which they must pay a two per cent corporation income tax, from ing dflath losses paid. li woald also prevent their deducting BBBafl paid to persons giving up their Boliflifll in return for their cash sur reader values. team the amount car? ried to reaerve, held against any calam Hy. could not be doducted from the iipoiini of income on which thia tax would hflVfl tfl he paid. AJ paflflfld hy Ihfl House, the bill con? tinued an exeinplion appiicahle espe cially to insurance companies which WOBld have permitted death payments and cash surrender payments to have been deducted. This was stricken out i by the Democratic cauru- 111 the Senate, 'appeanntr in the list of exemption.*. j from tax. How the House Hill Reada. Th- laagaagfl Ifl the House bill ap? piicahle to insurance companies was Bfl ! follow l "And in the c.ise of insurance com ! panies the net additions, if any, re ; quired hy IflW tfl bfl made within the to rflflflTTfl fandfl and thfl sums other than iiridflndi paid withia lh? year on policy and annuity contracts." The vital words. flcpuhliean Senators declared. are: "The sums other than I dividends paid within the year on pol ? i annaity contracts." liderlflg dividends on insurance policiei as a partial refund on the amount* of premmms paid by the pol? icy holder*, thflflfl Senators belicv-* that they fhould also actually be exempte.l fron tax. There was Bfl prea; amount t.f objection to that, but Republican Senators are preparmp to flfhl whfll they regard as an BUWarrantfld raid on life insaraacfl policy holders. Senator "vYadswort h\ View. "The total receipts of a life insurance eOBtpflBy are :.>.t itfl income," declared r WfldflWOrth, of New York, to day. in dUcuaaing this proriflioa. "The ? tended to he letried on the m bat if it il fair as drawn It , be eqafllly fair to tax a merenant ? totfll amount of BIOBfly he take-i i:i for the sale of poods. without hIIow inp hirn to deduct what he was obliged to pay out for those poods. The insur? ance compni.y dei b raoney. It tak?a ? fl*? and it pn;. s out money. Sure II 1 caah surrender pay should he dedaetad from the re hefore a tax ifl Bl Mflflfld. ;.]so seems to me ah-url to tnx the Bmoanf ot' BiOBfly tranaferred by a .- ? r,. eompany to its reaerrc ba a part come. The company is prudentlv laying aside a percentage of K.,ded as income. This levy even ap "lies tfl the reserve* of mutual life in BUraaflfl companies." Revenue BiTl Section Hits at Allied Ban |**r..m Th? TrlMin* ?*???? 1 Washington. Aug. 17. The Adminia tmtioa is concen.ed over a MCttoB flf Ihe revenue bill, as approved by the Democratic eaaeaa, which looaii to na H,,r..l pnncpHlly at the Allies M ? retaliatory measure. lh.s section pro vi.Ir- that whenever any country shall ,,r..h..hit the importation <if any ar? ticles from the United States th* 1 rea ident miv forbid the importation from that country of Mimlar articles, or other articles if that country should ?,,i flBMii inallar articles. The section was drawn. it was saifl to dav. to prOTldfl a cluh with which to thrcaten the Allied "hun on lux ure- " This ban would prohibit or eut dowfl by two thirds the importa? tion of "luxiiries" ifl order tfl keep as much monev at home as poflfliblfl. Thfl retaliatory section reads: "That whenever any country, flfl* pendencv or colony shall prohibit the importation of any artiele. the product Bf the soil or industry of tbe Unltflfl States and not injurious tn health or morals, the President, within his dis eretioti. shall hnve power to prohibit. dflring the period such prohibition is in force, the importation into the United States of similar articles or. in Pflflf the Cnited States does not im porl similar articles from that eOUfl* trv. then flthfll articles. the products Of ';uch country, dependency or colony. LOSES WATERWINGS; DIES noy Taken from Newark Canal by 1'oliceman Too I.ate. Dsniel C (artipan's water winps got away from his yesterday when the boy was learning to awim in the Mor I -UM] at PlBBfl Street, Newark Joseph MeLflUghlln, fourteen ye.ir* old, Of llf> Walnut Street, heard his cries nnd jumped ia. Although two years older than Daniel. he was much liphter and was havinp hard work suppoi'.np him when there was a clatter of hoofs and Mounted I'atrolman Ccarcy ap peared. Fearey plunped in and manaped to get both boys to shore. McLaughlin was revived, hut Carrignn did not re spond to the pulmotor. His home was at 85 Nicholson Street. You can "bank" on it That the facts it Gives you are facts Read it daily The Jonrnal of Commeree Five Centa All News Stands (Jr at Your Home THE POOR FISH T, IINK of the poor fish! Think of the hard winter and how they have Btruggled for you to come with your plump, nourishing bait! Think of them and then don't take a Tribune along with you on your vacation this summer or you'll forget all about what's expected of an angler. But if you're selfish and can't think of anything but yourself and your own peaee of mind, slip over to your newsdealer and tell him where you'll be in the country. Tell your newsdealer where to have your Tribune sent. 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