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...stock dividends, profits undistributed to evade estates and taxes; rapidly progressive taxes on large estates and inheritances and repeal of excessive tariff duties, especially on trust-controlled necessities ot life, and of nuisance taxes on consumption, to relieve the people of the present unjust burden of taxation and compel those who profited by the War to pay their share ot the War costs and to provide the funds for adjusted compensation solemnly pledged to the veterans ot the World...
...they called on all campaign managers to furnish them, every ten days, with reports on expenditures and receipts, including the names of donors. They also asked for all plans for raising funds and names of prospective contributors? this, however, must come voluntarily since the Committee has no power to compel this kind of information. Next they set Chicago as their permanent meeting-place and agreed that at the call of any member the Committee would assemble there...
Bedlam was let loose. Cheers and shouts for Trotzky filled the Opera House. The orchestra tried to compel silence by playing The Internationale, but apparently no one heard it. Throughout the earsplitting demonstration Trotzky sat motionless, his head resting on his hands. Minute followed minute, and still the cheers continued to reverberate from wall to wall until, ten minutes later, Nature conquered the super-vociferous by robbing them of their breath...
Counsel for Mr. Sinclair (Martin W. Littleton, G. T. Stanford, Colonel J. William Zevely and George P. Hoover) filed a demurrer objecting: 1) that the Senate had no authority to compel a man to disclose his private affairs; 2) that the inquiry in question was of a judicial nature and therefore out of the Senate's scope of action; 3) that the Senate Investigating Committee had no jurisdiction because a resolution had been passed as a result of the inquiry, prior to the alleged offense; 4) that the indictment charged no offense...
...Revised Statutes-contempt of the Senate by refusing to testify on the grounds that the Public Lands Committee had no authority to require his testimony. Mr. Sinclair intends to fight the case to the Supreme Court and get a final decision on the power of Congress to compel testimony before its committees. The indictment contains ten counts for refusal to answer ten questions. If found guilty in the course of a year or so, Mr. Sinclair will be liable to a fine of $100 to $1,000 or 30 days to a year in jail, or both. If each refusal...