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Representative Longworth of Ohio Ex-Governor Lowden of Illinois Senator Pepper of Pennsylvania Governor Hyde of Missouri Governor Groesbeck of Michigan Ex-Senator Beveridge of Indiana Governor Dixon of Montana Senator Fess of Ohio...
...Nicholas Longworth, Republican Floor Leader in the House, travelled pensively to Pennsylvania to exclaim...
Turning to the discussion of Mr. Longworth, he added...
Last November, Secretary Mellon proposed a plan for tax reduction - first edition. Subsequently the Ways and Means Committee revised the bill and approved it with not many major changes - second edition. The House itself then got to work on the bill and made some considerable alterations, including the Longworth surtax rates (graded up to 37½%). Then the House passed the bill - third edition. Last week the Finance Committee (of the Senate) completed work on the bill and left it again in altered form - fourth edition...
Stationary but not unoccupied, the tax reduction bill remained in the Senate Finance Committee, preparing for its appearance in the upper House. The most important thing which befell the bill was the displacement of the Longworth compromise tax rates (maximum surtax 371/2%) by the original Mellon rates (maximum surtax 25%). This was done by vote of 8 to 7. Two members of the Committee were absent. One of them, Senator LaFollette, would have voted with the Democrats against the change. The other, Senator Medill McCormick of Illinois, Republican, was classified as "uncertain." In their double absence, however, the thing...