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Economy Wave. The inflation battle saw skirmishes on other fronts last week. "Old Muley" Doughton's Ways & Means Committee finally reported a tax bill calling for no more than a $2.1 billion tax increase. The hell with the Treasury's $10.5 billion demand, said the hard-worked committee, our raise is enough. To help the committee along, Pennsylvania's Representative J. Buell Snyder reported that the Army & Navy are ready to cut current expenditures by a whopping $18 billion. That enormous whack took a great deal of sting out of many a patriot's desire...
Chairman Robert ("Old Muley") Doughton immediately drew for his House Ways & Means Committee a heartrending picture of the Administration straining every nerve to make every penny count. Unimpressed, the Committee came up at week's end with several minor amendments which would add a minuscule $1 to $1.5 billion to Federal revenue...
Almost before the Secretary had finished reading his prepared statement, the U.S. Treasury's design for extracting another $10,500,000,000.00 from the U.S. pocketbook was mackerel-dead. Cried Democrat Robert L. ("OF Muley") Doughton, head of the Ways & Means Committee: "Utterly indefensible." Cried Republican Harold Knutson: "How much of it is for revenue and how much is for politics...
...North Carolina's stubborn Representative Robert L. Doughton, chairman of the Ways & Means Committee, loudly demanded simplification of income-tax returns. "Muley" Doughton, who had helped make things complicated for years, now snorted: he himself had had to hire a "tax expert" to help figure out his Sept. 15 return. But he cooled off; a new tax bill would take a long time...
...longest gestation periods any new Congress had ever required. The press went after it hammer & tongs for its inaction while the world burned. But the new 78th poked cautiously along. Besides, there was nothing much to do in the way of legislating on a large scale. "Old Muley" Doughton had the tax bill before his House Ways & Means committee, and after a member had taken sides pro-or-con the Ruml Plan, he could drift on without mental travail-unless he was the serious kind of Congressman who faithfully attended all his committee meetings, answered his mail, ran errands...