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...conferees agreed. They reported the bill in this form. The House took it up. The Administration Republicans stood behind it. But the Democrats and west-coast Republicans were unalterably opposed. Republican Leader Longworth turned to the California delegation: "You have won your long fight for Japanese exclusion. Why imperil your victory by rejecting this report or sending it back for conference? The people of the U. S. are in favor of restricting immigration. A vote against this report is a vote against restrictive immigration as proposed...
...Joint Conference took the bill up once more. The date "March 1, 1925," was changed to "July 1, 1924." in which form it was deemed likely of acceptance. But there was truth in Mr. Longworth's remarks. President Coolidge may feel obliged to veto the entire bill in the interest of international amity
Placing the Simmons rates in the tax bill was not necessarily final, but regular Republicans doubted their ability to remove them. So, barring unexpected alterations, when the Senate passes the tax reduction bill, the joint conference will have to decide between the Longworth rates (which the House approved) and the Simmons rates. The resulting compromise will probably be the final form of the bill...
This Democratic Senatorial version differs from the Longworth compromise accepted by the House (TIME, March 10) hardly enough to warrant its recognition as a peculiarly Democratic measure. It has the same principle of reducing the tax more on small incomes than...
...Longworth Simmons...