Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long letter Mr. Mellon presented facts which made Senator McKellar's proposal ridiculous - such as, for example, that the Board of Tax Appeals is already 20,000 cases or three years in arrears. Then after stating with just pride that no one had ever charged corruption against the Bureau of Internal Revenue, he concluded: "The real issue is whether the income tax is to be ad ministered by the executive branch of the government in accordance with every precedent and every sound principle of gov ernment, or is to be turned over to the judicial branch...
...more is lost than gained if for the sake of accomplishing immediately a purpose, no matter how desirable, a fundamental principle of good government and sound practice is violated." Such a philosophic dictum might almost have been taken direct from "greatest" Alexander Hamilton himself. And in enunciating it, Mr. Mellon had to employ almost Hamiltonian courage. For he laid down this principle in a letter opposing additional funds for Prohibition, thus opening himself to further attacks from the Triumphant Drys, who rightly suspect him of less than Anti-Saloon League fervor for Prohibition. He was defending the fundamental principle that...
...taunts of the Wets, a Democratic Senator from Georgia, who is usually harmless, but who is a passionate Dry, arose and said, yes, more money ought to be appropriated to Prohibition, but let it be the reasonable sum of 25 millions, to be spent as Secretary of the Treasury Mellon saw fit. This was the Harris Amendment.* Supported by all Dry Democrats and some Republi cans, it was altered slightly, passed and sent to the House of Representatives for concurrence. The Administration (i.e., President Coolidge and Regular Republicans) controls the House, and it was promptly stated that the House would...
...Harris Amendment was not a part of the League's plan. It had come up suddenly as the solemn rebuke to a joke. Since it gave a fortune to Secretary Mellon, Mr. Mellon had written a letter about it. And Mr. Mellon had said he didn't want the money. Enforcement, wrote he, needed study. Ways must be found to perfect coast guarding, to relieve court congestion (at present 21,000 cases await trial), to improve enforcement personnel. Mr. McBride looked over this letter and was inclined to agree with...
...Bishop Cannon who pounced upon Secretary Mellon's letter, and with a tone of authority which electricity clearly recorded, despatched a long telegram, in part as follows: "Hon. Morris Sheppard, Senate Chamber...