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Fifteen minutes remained before the U. S. Supreme Court closed for the day. Solicitor General Beck, a bit snappish, a trifle overworked, was ready with another case. On behalf of the U. S., he appealed against the decision of the Federal District Court of Western Missouri which upheld the right of the Kansas City Journal-Post to publish lists of income-tax payments...
...Beck arose. His points: 1) The section of the 1924 revenue law which opens tax returns to public inspection does not conflict with Section 3167 of the Revised Statutes which forbids the publication of the returns. For a newspaperman to discover a fact is one thing, to print and publish it quite another; 2) Congress intended that the Commissioner of Internal Revenue should have control over the tax lists, and he had not authorized their publication in newspapers...
...Court seemed to agree with the Senator. The Chief Justice and Justices Sanford, Van Devanter, McReynolds, Holmes began to ply Mr. Beck with embarrassing questions...
...care two straws," said Mr. Beck. He does not care how the case is decided, provided the Court remove the question, once and for all, from the controversy...
Solicitor Beck simply contended that the power to remove is incident to the power to appoint, which power is executive and not legislative in nature...