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...Russia. Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana is the first to return from there this summer. Representatives Beedy (Me.) and Collins (Miss.) are there low. Senators Ladd (N. D.), King (Utah) and Brookhart (Ia.) (although he announced before leaving America that he would not visit Russia) and Representative Frear (Wis.) are expected there shortly...
...excess profits tax is considered particularly objectionable. Representative Green of Iowa, Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, has been considering a bill to improve the administrative provisions of the revenue law. Mr. Green is not a radical and will probably not be in favor of Representative Frear's proposals, but it is feared that if any revenue bill reaches the floor of the House, at least some of the radical proposals might be attached to it by amendment. The same might happen on the floor of the Senate. So it is possible that no revenue bills, no matter...
Representative Frear, who is one of the more or less radical delegation from Wisconsin, laid out a plan containing the following points...
...Senator Reed Smoot of Utah (who according to seniority rules will in the ordinary course of events be Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee), Senator Watson of Indiana (another member of the Committee) and probably most of the "administration" Republicans. In favor of the tax changes will be Representative Frear and the progressive bloc, probably allied with the Democrats, and, most important of all, Senator La Follette, who next to Senator Smoot is senior member of the Finance Committee, and might possibly (by a coup of the progressives) become its chairman...
...Frear, apostle of La Follette. He stimulates thought on taxation...