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Democratic Representative Doughton: A loose harangue from a sour, disappointed has-been...
...admitted to see the ceremony. That privilege was reserved for cameramen, newsreelmen and some 30 honored guests. With the bill's true authors, Senator Wagner and Representative David Lewis, at his right and left, with Madame Secretary Perkins behind him and with the Bill's foster father, Representative Doughton, in a position of proximate importance, the President read off a statement concluding: "If the Senate and the House . . . had done nothing more than pass this Bill, the session would be regarded as historic for all time...
...Senate Finance Committee Chairman Pat Harrison, not Share-the-Wealther Huey Long, in fact hardly anyone except the rawboned, 6 ft.-2 in. North Carolina mountaineer who is Chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee had a good word to say in public for the measure. Against Chairman Doughton's loyal but half-hearted defense rose the critical outcry of thousands of Republicans, businessmen, plain citizens. Declared Republican Ways & Means Committeemen in their minority report...
...President's multimillionaire plan into a general tax bill did great credit to the Roosevelt acumen. He had spoken only for taxing the very rich. The rest had followed of its own accord. He pointedly told his press conference that he had not agreed with Chairman Doughton to put any taxes upon "little fellows": he had merely told Congress to write its own bill, promised that the Treasury would supply facts and figures, recommend nothing. Thus his political position was perfect: his Treasury would be replenished by new taxes, the "Share-the-Wealthers" would be silenced and Congress...
When Ways & Means hearings on the tax bill began this week, not even a tentative scale of taxes was available to the public. This did not bother Chairman Doughton unduly. "There is no use drawing a bill," said he, "just to shoot it down...