The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-01-31
.ST|RS MINORITY
TO ANGRY FIGHT
Kitchin's Gibes Add to the
DenunciatiOn on Ground
of Extravaganza
UNDERWOOD TARIFF
COST S246, 900, 900
Speakers Claim That De
mand for Additional Revenues Is Re-
suit Of disagreement and Unsound
Economic Features.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 31.-Attacking
the administration S sectional revenue
bill as the acme of Southern hog com
bine tax lodging, Republican leaders
IN the house yesterday picked ~ the
gauntlet tauntingly flung by Represent
ative kitchin of Scotland Neck, n C.
kitehin had told his Democratic col
leagues in caucus. and repeated the
substance of the taunt in the house
that the inheritance and excess profits
taxes imposed in the bill would fall
largely north of Mason and Dixon s
line and would make the sections of the
country whose statesmen clamored most
persist entity for preparedness pay the
bills for increases in the army and
navy
Republican speakers showed that the
revenues raised b. the bill are necessi-
tated, not by Preparedness measures
alone, but by Democratic extravaganza,
misgovernment and unsOund economic
features
Z" Now them said Kitchin, "this
excess profits tax bill for the main part
will be paid b. nan, Democrats and
Republicans, in every section of the
country. who were loud clamorists for
preparedness, who in every shape. fash
ion and form demanded of their repre-
sentatives here and at the other end
Of the Capitol these immensely in
creased appropriations for The army
and navy. The man who pays tax
under this bin and under the bill of
last session viii know that he is not
paving il for pork barrels under the
river and harbor bill, or for any SINH
| lar purpose, but he is paving it for
what he desired and what he demand
! ed, namely, for an increased appropria
| ton for preparedness.
! while many of the men who will
| pay this tax were loud in their de
mands for increased preparedness, anC
many perhaps will protest violently
! profits tax. they will know that every
/ dollar is going for the very purpose fol
which they shout d.
Virtually all of the time was con
sumcd in Republican attacks on tn
(, bin. Representative Fordney, in charg,
of the Republican tima, has beer
swamped with requests for time, Will,
| Chairman Kitchin, leading the Demo
Gratis. has found that while he can hav'
| the votes because the President want
them. there will be few attempts on hi
side of the aisle to defend the inequali
ti>s of the measure.
Republicans attacked the bin and tn
condition which the bill seeks to NEE
on the ground that it represented tn
direct result of the abandonment of tn
policy Of protective, revenu1 produc
ing tariff - of what Representative
Sloan, Nebraska, characterized as 18th
high cost of disagreement and o
the control of the government by sec
tion which under direct taxation is i
position to direct the expenditure 0
revenues collected from other section
of III countrr.
Dealing with the tariff question Rel
resentative FordneE, ranking Republ
can on the way and means committee
announced that the Republican tart
experts would spend the next three Q
four weeks whipping together a hi
which would represent in substance tn
kind of a protective tariff for whic
the Republican party stands today
81 know there are many gentlene
on that side of the house who woul
rather vote for Il bill of that kind t,
day or tomorrow than for the bill no
before the house, he said eff tn
Payne rate had been in effect durin
the calendar year 1916 there would hay
been placed in the Treasury as custom
dues $246, 49,, 900 in addition to II
amounts collected under the Unde
wood tariff law.
Representative Fordney enumerate
thu following items as representing
mart the useless expenditures for whic