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Speaker Garner in Dramatic Speech Quells House Sales
Tax Rebels —Substitute for Defeated Sales
Tax Is Quickly Passed.
SPEAKER JOHN N. GARNER
quelled the house of representa
tive tax rebels and assured the na
tion of tax legislation that would bal
ance the national
budget. The members
of both parties who
had successfully op
posed the sales tax
provisions of the bill
drafted by the ways
and means committee
promised to be good
and support the new
bill introduced by the
committee and as a
substitute for the
sales tax that had
been defeated.
It all came about
Speaker
Garner
when the speaker took the floor and
delivered a speech that was a com
bination of tempered argument, Im
passioned plea and camp-meeting ex
hortation. As he whirled into his
peroration, an exalted house member
ship answered his appeal for those
resolved to lead a new life to arise.
En masse the congressmen surged to
their feet and took the pledge to pass
a tax measure that will balance the
budget
Then the house settled down to
business. The ways and means com
mittee introduced Its list of new taxes
to take the place of the defeated sales
tax, and the various items were ap
proved so rapidly that Acting Chair
man Crisp had to stop the offering of
items In order to give the engrossing
clerks time to draw the various amend
ments.
The new levies as provided for In
the house bill covers taxes on the
following articles with the estimated
revenue: '
INCOME TAXES
REVENUE (
Individual (increases car-
ried in bill) $ 112,000,000 ,
Increase in normal rate 3,000,000
Increase in surtaxes (
(wartime rates) 17,000,000 (
Lowering surtax exemp- ।
tion from SIO,OOO to
$6,000 7,000,000
Corporate tax (12 to 13
as carried in bill) .. 21,000,000
Corporate tax (13 to
13W per cent)....... 5.000,000
Corporate tax (15 per
cent on consolidated
and affiliated returns) 18,000,000
Corporate exemptions
(lowered $2,000 to sl,-
000) 6,000,000
Net loss deduction dis-
allowed 1931-1933 (pre
venting carryover of
losses) 20,000,000
Administrative changes 100,000,000
Gift tax 20,000,000
Estate tax 20,000,000
Dividends (Sec. 115-B:
removing tax exempt
corporate stock) 9,000,000
Dividends (Sec. 115-D:
removing tax exempt
corporate stock) 2,000,000
Lubricating oil (4 cents
a gallon) 35,000,000
Imported petroleum (1
cent a gallon) 25,000,000
Malt, wort, grape con-
centrates, etc 46,000,000
Imported coal 1,500,000
Telephone and tele-
graph messages 33,000,000
Capital stock and bonds
issues of (10 cents per
$100) 13,000,000
Admissions over 45 cents
(1 cent for each 10
cents or fraction) .... 40,000,000
Safety deposit boxes (10
per cent of rent) .... 1,000,000
POSTAGE RATES
Increase from 2 to 3
cents in first-class
postage 135,000,000
EXCISE TAXES
Cosmetics (10 per cent) 25,000,000
Furs (10 per cent) 20,000,000
Jewelry (10 per cent).. 15,000,000
Beverages (restoration of
1921 rates) 11,000,000
Matches (4 epnts per
1,000) 11,000,000
Radios, phonographs (5
per cent) 11,000,000
Automobiles (3 per
cent); trucks (2 per
cent); accessories (1
per cent) 57,000,000
Sporting goods and
cameras (10 per cent) 4,000,000
'Chewing gum (5 per
cent) 3,000,000
Candy (5 per cent) .... 12,000,000
Mechanical refrigerators
(5 per cent) 4,500,000
Yachts, motorboats, etc.
(10 per cent above sls
in value) 500,000
MISCELLANEOUS
Sale of stocks (% per
cent,‘but not less than
4 cents a share) 75,000,000
Bonds, transfers of (1-28
of 1 per cent) 13,000,000
Conveyances (restoration
of war-time rates) ... 10,000,000
Sales of produce on ex
changes (5 cents per
$100) 6,000,000
Pipe line (15 per cent
of carrying charges) 15,000,000
Airplane (5 per cent on
manufacturer's price) 2,000,000
Total $ 984,500,000
Amount of savings ex
pected on appropria
tions 243,000,000
Amount of expected sav-
ings in postal service 30,000,000
Grand total $1,257,500,000
Anticipated deficit 1933 $1,241,000,000
Surplus (with pro-
posed new savings) $ 16,500,000
The house bill provides for the pay
ment of the levied excise and sales
taxes by the manufacturer direct to
the government, with the method of
collecting the taxes about the same
as under the general manufacturers'
sales tax which was rejected. That
does not mean, however, that the tax
will not be passed along in the form
of an Increased price for the mer
chandise, and there is nothing in the
bill that would prevent the manufac
urer from directly including the tax
item in his invoice to the jobber or
retailer and so on down the line until
It reaches the consumer.
The fact that the house has passed
a revenue bill does not mean that
this bill is to be the law of the land.
It is almost certain that the senate
will not agree. The senate commit
tee is very likely to substitute for the
new provisions of the house bill the
manufacturers’ sales tax that was
rejected by the house, and pass the
revenue bill in that form. Should it
do so it will mean another fight in
the house, then a long conference
consideration, and there is no pros
pect for an early adjournment of con
gress. Experienced members of both
houses are now predicting that there
will not be an agreement over a rev
enue bill earlier than September.
THE Hoover budget will be slashed
a quarter of a billion dollars if
the house accepts the recommenda
tions already made and to .be made
by its appropriations and economy
committees, Chairman Joseph W.
Byrns' (Dem., Tenn.) of the house
appropriations committee asserted.
Just prior to announcing his resig
nation, on a plea of overwork, from
the chairmanship of the special econ
omy committee, Mr. Byrns said that
body will submit recommendations
calling for consolidations and econo
mies totalling at least $75,000,000 and
possibly a sum two or three times that
figure.
Chairman Byrns said that hearings
thus far conducted by the various
committees handling governmental
supply bills disclosed that at least
$150,000,000 could be shaved off the
budget figures submitted by President
Hoover without in any way impairing
the efficiency of the government. The
committees plan to slash an additional
$30,000,000 from national defense ap
propriations, Mr. Byrns said.
NORMAN DAVIS, <me of the Amer
can delegates to the Geneva arms
conference, arrived in Washington
and went into a series of conferences
with State depart
ment executives. Al
though officials de
clined to make public
the nature of the dis
cussions it was
learned that Mr.
Davis outlined the ob
stacles which have
been encountered in
the move to work out
a general arms limi
tation treaty and re
ported to the depart
ment on the plan of
action for the future
4 " 1
sm
Norman
Davis
outlined by himself and his associates.
As matters now stand, many pressing
European problems must be settled
before there Is the remotest chance
for the negotiation of a treaty which
carries reductions in land forces.
PRESIDENT HOOVER announced
formally at the regular press con
ference that be is “absolutely opposed
to the enactment by congress of addi
tional soldiers’ bonus legislation, and
indicated that he would veto such a
bill If passed. The President’s state
ment follows:
"Informal polls of the house of
representatives have created appre
hension in the country that a further
bonus bill of $2,000,000,000 or there
abouts for World war veterans will be
passed.
“I wish to state again that I am
absolutely opposed to any such legis
lation.
“I made this position clear at the
meeting of the American Legion in
Detroit last September 21, and the
Legion has consistently supported that
position. I do not believe any such
legislation can become law.
“Such action would undo every
effort that is being made to reduce
government expenditures and bal
ance the budget.
“The first duty of every citizen of
the United States is to build up and
sustain the credit of the United States
government.
“Such an action would irretrievably
undermine it.”
THE BULLETIN, IRWINTON, GEORGIA
SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE
Arthur M. Hyde called his depart
ment the "prize boob in th? history
of finance,” because of its policy of
making virtually unsecured loans to
farmers in the face of rapidly mount
ing crop surpluses.
“Under present conditions,” Secre
tary Hyde said "my department is
now lending mere money on thinner
security and sustaining more losses
than any organization ever has done
before In the history of the world.
Loans now being made by my depart
ment to small farmers who otherwise
could not finance themselves could not
by the furthest stretch of the imagina
tion be called good business.”
The Hyde statement was directed at
the farm loan policy under which the
Agriculture department makes loans
to small farmers for economic rea
sons. He asserted that the govern
ment should not go into the business
of making loans to farmers except in
cases of drought, or floods or calam
ities growing out of natural causes.
The current type of loans are unjusti
fiable, he said.
WASHINGTON crime is again
brought into the limelight as po
lice attempt to locate extortionists
who have threatened harm to the chll-
dren of three promi
nent Washington fami
lies.
Mrs. Betty Hanna
Davidson, grand
daughter of Mark
Hanna, demanded po
lice protection follow
ing receipt of a tele
phone call threaten
ing injury to her
daughter Daisy, six
years old, unless
$2,000 was paid.
This threat fol
lowed shortly upon
IK'
Alice
Longworth
the disclosure that threatening letters
had been received by Mrs. Alice Long
worth, widow of the former speaker,
and Sir Wilmott Lewis, Washington
correspondent for a London newspa
per. The letters threatened harm to
Paulina Longworth, seven years old
and probably the best known child,
next to the Lindbergh baby, in the
United States, and to Wilmott Lewis,
Jr., five years old.
WITH a vigorous denunciation of
the “disease of overtaxation,”
business leaders of the Middle West,
at a meeting in Chicago, joined in a
protest against excessive appropria
tions by congress. Federal waste and
extravagance were bitterly attacked.
Some fifty representatives of cities
in 17 states attended the meeting
which was called by the Chicago As
sociation of Commerce. A resolution
was adopted which called upon con
gress to recognize the emergency In
national affairs and to avoid taking
any steps which might jeopardize the
credit of the government. A number
of speakers declared that the busi
ness and commerce of the nation
could not recover unless a balanced
federal budget is adopted.
A RECOMMENDATION against de
velopment of the navigation and
irrigation phases of the $772,000,000
Columbia river development project at
this time was included in a report
submitted to the secretary of war for
transmission to congress by Maj. Gen.
Lytle Brown, chief of engineers.
While recommending that the sum
of $16,000,000 should be expended by
the government for the construction
of locks and other aids to navigation
in the Columbia river when private
or state interests are ready to develop
water power. Major General Brown
took the position that the time was
not ripe for the spending of any con
siderable amount of federal money on
this huge project
THE Missouri Democratic state con
vention at St. Louis instructed its
54 delegates to the national conven
tion to vote for former United States
Senator James A. Reed as long as he
has a chance to secure the nomination
for President. Missouri’s delegation
will have 36 votes. Gov. Franklin D.
Roosevelt is the second choice of the
instructed delegation.
Governor Roosevelt is the choice
of the lowa Democratic convention.
The 26 delegates were instructed to
“use all honorable means” to bring
about his nomination.
STILL hale and hearty, Maj. Gen.
Adolphus W. Greely celebrated his
eighty-eighth birthday anniversary In
Washington. His friend. Brig. Gen.
Davis L. Brainard,
chatted with him, re
calling memories of
the Arctic tragedy
that shocked the
world 48 years ago.
Together they had
laid on the ice of
Cape Sabine in 1884
within whispering
distance of the Icy
death that claimed 18
of the party of 25.
Brainard was his top
sergeant. They are
the only survivors of the seven who
were taken from the cape June 23,
1884, after ten months of privation
and suffering, during which Greely,
then a lieutenant, observed his for
tieth anniversary.
A TREATY between the United
States and Canada for the con
struction of the St. Lawrence water
way may be ready for signature soon.
William D. Berridge, Canadian min
ister, is now ready to negotiate. It
only remains to secure the consent
of the respective governments. Then
the treaty will be written.
(©. 1932, Western Newspaper Union.)
Who Was j
Who?
By Louise M. Comstock ;
WE
WE? Is there anyone who was
alive and able to read the news
papers on May 30, 1927, to whom that
word is not magic, recalling the glamor ,
and excitement with which the world
received the news that Charles Lind- ,
bergh, in the monoplane the Spirit of
St Louis, had made the world’s first
nonstop flight across the Atlantic?
All during the hectic days that fol
lowed that historic flight, when Lind
bergh was being paraded and feted
and called upon to make speeches, he
frequently used the plural pronoun
"we” in speaking of his trip. Ambas
sador Herrick explained to the news
papermen that the flyer used “we” to
refer to himself and his trusty plane,
and the idea captivated popular fancy.
The very fact that Lindbergh had
made the trip alone somehow assigned
to his plane a share in his triumph
and an association with him that was
almost human. Lindbergh became the
“Lone Eagle,” and Lindbergh flying the
Spirit of St Louis became just "we.”
Consequently it might, perhaps, be just
a bit difficult to convince Lindbergh’s
millions of admirers that, as a matter
of fact, he didn’t use “we” in that
sense at all. His own explanation is
that he used it to indicate himself and
the backers of his flight, Major Rob
ertson of the Robertson Aircraft Co.,
Harry Knight and the other business
men of St. Louis who financed and
supported the history-making flight
BRODIE
THE first “brodie” in history was
performed by Steve Brodie himself,
who in 1886 leaped f»om Brooklyn
bridge into East river and into a prom
inent place for the next fifty years in
our slang vocabulary.
Steve started out as professional
walker. But he lost the money he
made walking long distances tn record ।
time, tried bootblacking and for some 1
years was a street car conductor. All
this, however, was very boring for
such a sportsman as Steve. So Steve ।
proceeded to lose even more money
playing the horses. In 1886, according ।
to his own story, he was offered $25
to jump off High bridge. He did it,
and placed the $25 on a horse named
Bill Green to win $420. About that
time a man named Odium had lost his
life jumping from Brooklyn bridge.
Steve said the jump really was an
easy one and was bet SIOO he wouldn't
do it Said Steve, “I’d rather be dead
than broke, any day,” and decided to
try for the hundred. He took out
SI,OOO life insurance, gave his wife
final instructions, and on July 23
' jumped off Brooklyn bridge and land
ed without a scratch. The life insur
-1 ance company, incensed at this care
less risk of their SI,OOO, made him take
back his premium and canceled the
policy 1
From then on Steve Brodie was a
professional jumper. For a time he
earned SIOO a week tn a melodrama
called “Blackmail” in which his part
necessitated diving from a great height
1 into a trap below.
...
THE WILD MEN OF BORNEO
i
THERE were two of them, it seems,
"Waino and Plutano, the only orig
inal wild men of Borneo,” according
to Professor Hutchins, “lecturer” at
old Austin and Stone’s in Boston. The
, open-mouthed crowd, led on by his
story of how old Captain Hammond
, landed at Borneo and after a terrific
, battle captured the two specimens of
natives within, paid out the 12% cents’
admission fee and passed eagerly In
side. What they saw were two dwarfs,
, not much more than three feet high
apiece, whose long fair hair and beards,
and features were obviously Teutonic,
who howled and grunted in true wild
’ man style and performed amazing
feats of strength.
Just who Waino and Plutano were
we will never know. They were born
about 1825, it is said, of some German
( farming family living near Weston,
’ Mass., which did not care to claim
as its own two circus freaks. Deaf
mutes and of sluggish mentality, they
led a secluded youth. Their public
life began under the management of
i H. A. O. Warner, veteran showman of
i Waltham, who accompanied them on
I the road and gave them a home dur
। ing off seasons. Dressed in tights and
trained to roar and shake their strag
| gllng beards at curious little boys, the
odd pair were enormously successful
! as wild men. It is said they were at
; one time receiving S6OO a week for
showing. Waino died in 1902. Plu
tano, though crippled by injuries re
ceived when he tried to lift a fat man
( from the audience, lost his balance and
fell, with the 300 pounds on top of
’ him, lived until 1912.
(©. 1932. Western Newspaper Union.)
The Radio in Alaska
Alaskans have one advantage in ra
dio reception. By the time most folks
I in the eastern states are too drowsy to
- listen longer to the microphone artists.
- in Alaska it is yet early evening. When
it is ten o’clock in Alaska practically
. all the well-known regular programs
’ have ceased and the announcers have
t said adieus. Then Alaskans change
i their dials about and receive strange
music and stranger announcements
from Japan and China.
Gen. Greely
Iceberg
By JANNIS PARKER
(© by MeClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
(WNU Service)
LOU and Harrison were engaged ;and
Lou’s heart was heavy for Con
chita, the dancer, was doing what Lou
herself had longed to do: break up
the ice floes in Harrison.
Even before Conchita had undulated
into the picture Lou had been anxious.
For instance, at seven on Valentine’s
evening Harrison, tall, lean, and with
a frigid demeanor, had arrived to es
cort her to a friend's party. He had
stooped, his kiss the quick, detached
sort of caress that filled her with
anxiety.
“You look woe-be-gonA BKVe I over
looked something fearfully important,
little sentimentalist?” he had asked.
On the correct finger of Lou’s left
hand a gorgeous emerald twinkled.
Harrison had asked her to marry him.
“I’m just being silly,”. Lou had
smiled wanly.
He had pinched her cheek. This was
not the attitude Lou wanted. She
didn’t want him to chuckle. She
wanted him to feel stirred, Intent'.
She wanted his clear eyes to glow.
But they were two frozen pools.
"Harrison, why can’t you be a little
more ... oh, I don’t know.” Her
hands had fallen limply to her sides.
He had sought to seal her lips with
another calm, undemonstrative kiss.
“I’m not a movie actor, you know,
Lou.”
“Who asked you to act?” Lou had
demanded. “I want you to mean it.”
The color had come tinging into her
cheeks.
“I’m a frigid cuss, I know. Yet you
and my law practice are my world."
Adoring every fair crispy curling
hair in his head, she rebuked herself.
He was marvelous and she loved him.
She mustn’t expect a typically legal
mind to express poignant romance.
Midge, whose party they attended,
wanted to charter a cab and see how
the rest of the world lived.
Never will Lou forget that night.
At first she was an Inwardly seething
torrent of excitement. Then her heart
was being eaten out for she had seen
Conchita’s burning Latin eyes were
bringing out fascinated lights from Im
penetrable Harrison’s.
The case was dingy. There had been
a raucous clamor, but apparently the
regular patrons felt chagrined for they
surveyed the beautifully attired vis
itors, snorted, and lapsed into a sullen
silence. The proprietor, however,
rubbed his pudgy hands delightedly
and whispered excitedly to his star
performer.
“Conchita, we have ver’ swell cus
tomers tonight You will dance your
best.”
“Conchita always dances superbly,
peeg!” That lady snapped her lac
quered fingers. “Are not our regular
customers more than these pork who
come only to jeer?”
The Mexican orchestra throbbed In
a low, pulsing rhythm. With a clack
of her castanets Conchita, a living
flame, stood poised in the middle of
the floor. Professional that she was,
her long sloe eyes wandered heavy
lidded over her audience, picking a
worthy one to whom to dedicate her
dance. The drowsiness of her eyes
vanished as they lighted on the cool,
flawless features of Harrison.
Lou’s devoted little heart sank. The
rhumba rhythms beat inflictingly on
her conservative ears. With a catch In
her throat she had to admit she had
never seen Harrison so stimulated.
The whirling, insinuating dance
halted abruptly. The dancer pressed
a long sweet kiss on her vivid finger
tips, blew it straight to Harrison, and
tossed to him the rose which had
nestled in her inky hair.
"Harrison feels shaken,” observed
Midge. “He’s trembling like a leaf.”
Lou was trembling, too. She dared
not lift her hurt, bewildered eyes.
Nightly Harrison frequented the
case. Lou, shaken almost beyond en
durance, lay between cool sheets and
prayed, not for her own forlorn heart,
but that splendid man and brilliant at
torney that he was, he might not be
horribly uprooted.
Then she summoned her frail cour
age and went to the place herself. She
left, pale, trembling, but contentedly
wiping her red-rimmed eyes while Con
chita’s gay laugh bounded after her.
That night, steadfast love seeping
from his eyes, Harrison took Lou
gently in his arms, - then kissed her
quivering mouth almost roughly in his
fervency.
"Lou darling, let’s get married right
away!”
In his sturdy embrace Lou felt ex
alted. Her happiness welled over.
Why should she tell him Conchita had
admitted she was only playing with
him? It would make him feel tainted,
cheapened.
"He one big ice-berg,” Conchita had
flaunted. "Conchita have no place for
ice-bergs.”
“But you've melted him!” Lou had
insisted.
Conchita had stood, her fist's dug into
her shapely hips. “When ice-berg Is
melted, what is It? Big puddle. Con
chita have no use for puddles either.”
So Lou thanked her; for she as
signed to Conchita what she felt she
had not been able to do for herself,
since ice cannot melt ice.
As the sweetness of her clinging to
him, and the clean scent of her hair
filled him, Harrison decided not to
tell her of Conchita. How he had
recognized the woman as a missing
witness In one of his cases. This
lovely, dainty Lou he adored. Why
fill her innocent mind with a sordid
case of a cabaret dancer?
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H*HI3EQKu3uI
The Subtle Sex
The Dear Daughter (affectionate
ly)—Papa, you wouldn’t like me to
leave you, would you?
Her Proud Papa (fondly)—lndeed
I would not, my darling.
“Well, then, I’ll marry Bob. He
doesn’t mind living here.”
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Dolly—ls your husband good .to
you, dearie?
Polly—l’ll say. He says if I lose
my job I won’t need to make any
more payments on his car.
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“I was in poor
shape not long
ago, had pains
in my back and
limbs and some
days I had pains
all over. I had
to give up work
for some time
as I was hardly able to walk at
times,” said Roy L. Lang, 131 Strat
ton St. “I lost considerable weight,
as I had no appetite and was not
able to get much rest at night. 1
did not get the slightest relief from
anything I took until I was advised
to. take Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical
Discovery and it certainly worked
like a charm—only a few bottles
seemed to straighten me out."
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