The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-22
HARDING SEEKING
WAY TO END EVILS
OF UNJUST TAXES
Burden Must Be Lifted and
War Debt Cut at Same
Time.
PROFITS LEVY TO Go
Leaders in All Branches of
Industry Are Being Con-
suited in Marion.
CABINET Is DISCUSSED
J. NJ. Dixon, Governor-Elect Of
Montana, Is Urged for the
Interior Post.
CABINET is DISCUSSED

speciai Despatch to TIE NEW YORK HERALD.
MARION, Ohio, Dec. 21.-TaXation Is
occupying the mind of President-elect
Harding whenever he can take time
from studying his Cabinet problem ana
from his slowly forming plan LOT
new foreign policy. Probably it would
be more accurate to say he studles
the Cabinet field and adds a brick mere
and there to his world ASSOCIATION
project whenever he can take ume OIL
from puzzling over the taxation PROB
lem
It can be stated authoritatively that
the President-eect believes the prop
lem OF reducing the drain on the
American pocketbook while adopting
n safe and satisfactory scheme Tor re-
duction of the war debt is the biggest
of the many problems that confronts
him. On this problem he is seeking
counsel from financial and economic
experts in active business life and In
the chairs of the universities. lie is
acquiring digests of opinion from
chambers of commerce and mer-
chants associations.
There is scarcely a field or American
industry that he has not drawn lnlor-
nation from. The result is likely 10 pc
within the next few weeks. settled pol-
lev in the mind of the President-elect
as to how inequalities and inJustices OF
taxation can be eliminated. There Is
reason to believe that he consuiteu
Charles @. Dawes Of Chicago very iuiiy
as regards these matters when MI
Dawes was hers yesterday.
The President-elect indicates that he
considers the present excess profits tax
an unnecessary burden and handicap 10
business and that the tax must 60
There is some reason for belief that ne
fayors n different graduation of the in
come tag TO produce additional revenue,
and that he believes this graduation can
be secured with an actual lessening ,ol
the strain by the present system OF in
como tax apportionment- Oeher IDEAS
! in connection with taxation which are
\ occupying the consideration of the Pres
/ ident-elect are the feasibility OF excise
| taxes upon certain articles or luxury
! and a tax upon undistributed earnings.
/ MIR. Harding will have the Leadership,
| In building a new tariff law which VIII
not only be framed to protect American
labor as we'll as industry. but VIII be
designed for an income producer as well,
a money getter that may ease up the
strain caused by other forms of taxa
ton that have not set well with busi-
ness or with the people generally
IT can be stated that the President
elect approaches the whole question OF
Federal taxation in a friendly spirit
toward business. He takes the view
that the prosperity OF business is every
body's prosperity. believing that unless
the processes of buying and selling at
reasonable profit to the seller can be
facilitated in the United states tho whole
economic structure is shaky.
The President elect hal two visitors
to-day Senator Miles Poindexter az
Washington and Gov. Edwin p. Morrow
OF Kentucky. Both men talked Cabinet
with the President elect each making
recommendations. Senator Poindexter
said
"The Western States. especially those
concerned with reclamation. have an
intimate interest in the operations OF
the Interior Department which con-
vInces them that they are entitled to
special consideration in naming that
particular member of the Cabinet. In
behalf of them and a widespread senti-
ment oil over the trans Missouri country.
very earnestly recommended the APP
continent Of former Senator Joseph M.
Dixon of Montana, to the Interior port
folio.
1T is true that Senator Dixon. who
was chairman of the Progressive Ma
tionaI Committee in 1919. has just been
lected Governor OF Montana on the