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Chairman Robert L. Doughton last week kept the members of his House Ways & Means Committee with their ears to the grindstone. Their job was to listen strenuously, so that no one could complain that he had been denied a hearing on the New Deal's plan to rearrange corporation taxes in order to encourage the declaration of dividends (TiME, March...
...against about everything in it," declared Chairman Doughton. "Then you could not be for it, could...
...gives the House of Representatives sole power to originate bills raising revenue. House rules give the sole power to prepare tax bills to the Ways & Means Committee. Last week, therefore, the full Ways & Means Committee sat down to do its constitutional duty. But neither buzzard-bald Chairman Robert L. Doughton nor any of his colleagues were fooled by these solemn delegations of power. They knew that whatever bill they recommended and the House passed would, as always, be rewritten by a captious Senate. This relieved North Carolina's Doughton of much responsibility, more brain work. His chief...
...expedite matters Chairman Doughton last week personally undertook to weed out and allot time to those representatives of the tax-paying public who wanted to air their views before the Ways & Means Committee. Growled Republican Committeeman Allen Treadway of Massachusetts: "Any attempt to prevent the general public being heard to the fullest extent is certain to meet with severe condemnation." But the hearings went ahead with one main objective: to report a tax bill to the House by April...
...House Ways & Means Committee. President Roosevelt in press conference explained that there would be a new tax bill but not new taxes-only substitute taxes-to pay for substitute AAA, that the question of taxes to pay the Bonus was still under study. Not a little disgusted was Chairman Doughton of the Ways & Means Committee, where all tax bills are supposed to be born. Said this aged North Carolina Democrat: "It seems strange the President does not tell us before he tells the Press. . . . It would be better to postpone a tax bill to next year if they can wait...