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Congressman Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton of North Carolina last week had lived to see a historic phenomenon in Washington. Up before Congress, in election year, was a hefty Federal tax bill. The proposed taxes-an estimated $656,000,000 worth-were for National Defense. The press applauded, cried in effect: "Tax us more!" Congressmen bickered only over details, did not question the need for new taxes. Said Muley Doughton, explaining this miracle: "Everybody is so patriotic...
What made the taxes historic on a second count was that they represented the first real effort by the Roosevelt Administration to arrange the payment of a debt before the money was borrowed. Muley Doughton (as chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee) and Mississippi's Pat Harrison (Senate Finance Committee) sold lukewarm Franklin Roosevelt on this departure from New Deal practice, then wrote the President's ideas into "a bill to provide for the expenses of national preparedness. . . ." Sure to pass, the bill was no less sure to be a mere drop in the enormous bucket...
This week was a proud one for old Blanford Dougherty. One day Congressman Robert ("Old Muley") Doughton and many another bigwig arrived at Boone to help him dedicate a new $150,000 science building. They praised a still greater Dougherty achievement: a system of State support for its public schools that is the envy of every other State in the Union (except tiny Delaware, which has a similar system...
...Curtailed naval appropriations and authorizations so sharply that Ways & Means Chairman Bob Doughton was able to say: "It looks like we won't have a tax bill this year"; voted and sent to the Senate a naval bill totaling $965,722,878 (down $112,693,139 from budget estimates); received from the Naval Affairs Committee a bill to authorize (but not immediately appropriate) $654,902,270 for further expansion...
...takes place on Capitol Hill, in two scenes: 1) in Mr. Doughton's Ways & Means Committee, where a new tax bill is drafted; 2) in Mr. Harrison's Finance Committee, where it is polished up. Act III takes place at the nearest Internal Revenue Bureau office, with citizens waiting in long lines to pay increased taxes...