The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1916-07-06
FOR CONGRESS
From this the Eighth District
PETER STUBBLEFlELD
of Yazoo County.
JOHN H. HOWE
of Kinds.
J. w. COLLIER
of Warren
HON. J. w. COLLIER FOR
REELECTION.

mally announces this week as a
candidate for reelection, subject
to the action of the democratic
voters at the August primary.
Congressman Collier is now in
Washington attending to his
official duties, and, as Congress
is likely to remain in session un-
til the first of September, there
is little or no probability that he
will be able to return home dur
ing the campaign.
1t will be necessary, therefore,
for Mr.. Collier to place his inter-
ests in the hands of his friends,
and it goes without saying, in
each county of the district he
has loyal and enthusiastic friends
who will put forth their earnest
efforts in his behalf, and espe-
cially is this true in Rankin coun-
ty, where he is unusually popu-
lar.
Mr.. Collier has been serving
as representative from this dis
trict since the retirement of
John Sharp Williams, after the
latter was elected to the Senate.
He has been opposed in each
election, and in each election he
has been an easy winner.
That he has made a most eX-
cellent record in Congress is con-
coded even by those who have
opposed Mr.. Collier, and during
the past four years he has won
especial recognition in the party
councils.
In the early part of 1913, just
before Mr.. Wilson took his seat,
the democratic party, in caucus,
elected by ballot, the entire dem
ocratic membership participating
therein, three members Of the
ways and means committee, SO
that there would be a full COM
mittee to frame the new tariff
bill which would include the in
come tax. There were seven
candidates for this position, and
Mr.. Collier was elected on the
first ballot, receiving the major
ity of all the votes cast. This
committee was always the lead
ing committee of the House.
The chairman of this committee
is ex-officio the floor leader of his
party, but in recent years the
power of this committee has
been greatly enlarged. Not only
does it now deal with all matters
pertaining to the raising of the
revenue necessary to carry on
the expenses of the Federal gov
eminent, but this committee now
exercises the power formerly
held by the speaker of the House
and is a committee on commit
tees and selects the other COM
mittees of the House.
Since Mr.. Wilson was elected.
Mr.. Collier and thirteen other
democrats were elected by a
vote of the House to select all of
the standing committees of the
House, to frame the Underwood
tariff bill and to perfect and
bring in the income tax law.
The tariff bill and the income
tax bill, as presented by the
committee of which Mr.. Collier
is member was adopted prac-
tically without amendment by
the Democratic House and there
has never been a vote cast in the
House against any of the COM
mittee selections of the ways
and means committee.
Since Mr.. Collier has been q
member Of this committee, this
committee has framed several
revenue bills, created the ma
chinery for the collection of the
income tax, increased the income
tax rate, framed and perfected
an inheritance tax law and law
relating to the tax Oh munitions
of war and in numberless other
ways provided for the collection
of revenue.
With the exception of the
monies derived from the post
office department and the incon-
siderable amount collected from
the sale Of public lands and fees
from documents in the interior
department, the committee >oi
which Mr.. Collier is a member
has brought into the House ane
perfected the bills by which al
the money is obtained to carry
on the work in the various de
partments of the government
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