War Tax On Foreigners.

New York Times 100 years ago today, June 5, 1913:
Reichstag Budget Committee Votes It, Despite Protests.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    BERLIN, June 4.— The Budget Committee of the Reichstag decided today that foreigners residing and making a living in Germany were liable to taxation under the new Military Contribution bill. Several members of the committee said that, when the nature of the bill was considered, it would be unfair to compel foreigners to contribute, but their objections were overruled.
    The attempt of the Socialists to make possessions held in mortmain and also church property liable to taxation was defeated on the ground that no theoretical questions were to be raised in connection with this nonrecurring levy, and that, when one deducted from the property held in mortmain all the sums devoted to charities of various kinds, the balance would hardly be worth taxing.