Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What is a secret? Representative John Nance Garner, Democrat, of Texas, declared that nothing was a secret which was printed in The New York Times, the Chicago Daily Tribune and The New York Commercial. Therefore he objected that the text of Secretary Mellon's bill for tax reduction was kept "secret" by the Ways and Means Committee...
...Committee in accordance with precedent for revenue bills. Nevertheless, there were leaks. Sections of the bill began to appear verbatim in the above papers, which moved Mr. Garner to say: "I think it is an outrage. I do not hesitate to say it is indefensible when Mr. Mellon has given out the practical contents of the bill and three newspapers have published parts of it, for the committee to hold it up. It is unfair to the rest of the press and to the country...
...Democrats in Congress have under way various counter proposals to the Mellon tax reduction. A large block of Democrats favor a soldier bonus, although there is a minority who oppose it. Practically all of them favor tax reduction, but along other lines than those laid down by Secretary Mellon...
Representative Garner, ranking Democratic member of the Ways and Means Committee, is naturally the spokesman of his group in the House. He objects to the Mellon proposal on two chief counts: 1) that it reduces surtaxes on high incomes; 2) that it does not grant to farmers and small tradesmen the benefit of a 25% reduction for "earned income," since that term is limited to "salaries, wages and professional fees...
...added several days later: "Evidence is daily coming to light that the nation-wide propaganda to commit the people and their representatives in Congress to the Mellon tax bill, before all of its provisions were made known, is the result of a huge organized conspiracy on the part of the predatory interests constituting special privilege...