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...with. And the amount of surplus revenue depends on an estimate. Mr. Mellon of the Treasury Department offered the estimate. According to his estimate, Congress may sanely ask: "Shall we have one?or rather, shall we have the Mellon bill?" To speak of the Garner bill, or of the Longworth compromise (which was passed by the House) or of a soldier bonus would not be sense?pocketbook sense. But the opponents of the regular Republicans?Democrats and insurgents ?do speak of these things and do claim to be sane. Last week they set out to prove their sanity...
...members of Congress were accused of taking various sums of money, presumably as bribes for their influence. The House of Representatives (became agitated. A resolution was proposed directing the Attorney General to furnish the House with the names of the two Congressmen involved and the charges against them. Representative Longworth, Republican Floor Leader, exclaimed: "The discussion of this subject revolts me. ... In either case, by passing this resolution we will have done the one thing that men of honor ought to do when the membership and the honor of their body is assailed." Representative F. J. Garrett, Democratic Floor Leader...
...include the immediate reduction. The next day, it was dubious whether the immediate reduction could be rushed through, because the Democrats were in arms against it. On the third day, several Republican leaders, notably Representative Green, Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, and Representative Longworth, Republican Floor Leader, announced that they were against the attempt for rushing through the special resolution-because it could not be done-so in three days the attempt had practically blown over...
...Frelinghuysen, of New Jersey; Daniel R. Crissinger (Governor of the Federal Reserve Board), Dr. Heber Votaw (brother-in-law of the late President) Amos Kling (brother of Mrs. Harding), Mr. and Mrs. Howard Chandler Christy. In the Executive Gallery were Mrs. Coolidge, the wives of the Cabinet, Mrs. Nicholas Longworth...
...with the tax reduction bill in the House of Representatives. The regular Republicans wanted 25% maximum surtaxes, the Democrats wanted 44% surtaxes and the radicals wanted 50% surtaxes. So Representative Longworth mixed a compromise with 37½% surtaxes. Nobody wanted surtaxes like that, but they had to agree if there was to be porridge. So on the final vote, everybody shouted "Yes" and the bill was passed...