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...income tax, personal and corporate, brand-new for the voteless District of Columbia. The personal tax ran from 2% on $1,000 of taxable income to 7% on upwards...
Almost incredible to these voteless tax payers was the very first amendment made in the bill last week by the House. Offered by Missouri's Cochran, boldly supported by Majority Leader Sam Rayburn, overwhelmingly-and anonymously-voted by all present, the amendment specifically exempted all members and employes of Congress from "be District income...
...House's 46 Speakers since 1789, only one-James K. Polk-ever became President. Many, nonetheless, have left their mark on U. S. history much more indelibly than President Polk. As Speaker- the title is derived from the ancient custom of the House of Commons which, voteless, sent a member to the King to speak for them-men like Henry Clay, James G. Elaine, Joseph Cannon, Champ Clark and Nicholas Longworth have used their authority so effectively as to give the job a lively tradition of being second in importance only to the Presidency itself. Since the departure...
...inappropriately commemorated in Washington, D. C. Payment of the $7,200,000 was made by a check on the Treasury signed by Treasurer of the U. S. Francis Elias Spinner, drawn to the order of Russian Minister Edward de Stoeckl and dated Aug. 1, 1868. When Alaska's voteless Delegate to Congress, Anthony Dimond, last week asked permission to transfer the check to Juneau for permanent display in that capital's Historical Library and Museum, General Accounting Office authorities were forced shamefacedly to announce that the historic draft -long since canceled and filed in the U. S. archives...
Hawaii and Puerto Rico, although voteless, have long contended that they are entitled to equal consideration with Louisiana, Michigan, Colorado or any other State. Delegates from Honolulu are forever pointing out that Hawaii pays more income tax than any of 16 States. But last week U. S. citizens in those islands feared that the House of Representatives regarded them as mere colonies. Whereas New York or Georgia might refine all the sugar they could get their hands on, the House restricted Hawaiian refiners to 3%, Puerto Rico refiners to 16% of their own sugar which they produce for consumption...