The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1921-02-10
CALLS FOR HALT
ON EXPENDITURES
NJ Other Way 10 Check Taxa
ton, Congressman Says,
WARNING TO REPUBLICANS
Tells His Associates imposition Of
Sales Tax Would Cause Defeat Of
the Party.

Washington, Feb. i0.-Warning the
house that the mounting wave of high
taxation would not roll back without
1 sharp and sweeping reduction in
government expenditures, Chairman
! Good, of the appropriations committee,
declared the time had come to call
halt.
Figures almost too big for cOmpre.
hension by the average man were hurl-
ell over the heads of members as Good,
in dramatic fashion, told Of the vast
sums expended and the growing APP
peal1 for more. There WAS & shout OF
approval when he insisted that the
appropriation bills must he passed be-
fore the change of administrations on
March 4, so that the trainers of new
tariff law may know the amount of
cloth out Of which they must patch the
nations coat.
Laying down the definite policy that
expenses must be cut before there Is
talk of lower taxes, Good insisted that
appropriations for the ye:lr beginning
next July should be kept within 49,
sos. 0O0. 600, virtually the sum recon-
menGed in the big supply measures for
that period.
Goods plea for government economy
was made in presenting he first de-
ficency bill for the present year, car
ryinc a total Of S203,00A, 900. Demo
cratic members OF the committee de-
clared there would be other deficiency
sums, and Representative Byrnes,
Democrat, South Carolina, declared
direc1 appropriations this year already
had passed the $4,000 100000 mark.
This stupendous sum could best be I'M
tlcrstood, Ryrnes added, by the fact
that in order to meet it the govern
mcnt must levy an average tax of $50
on every man, woman and child in
America.
In suggesting methods of raising
revenue without making The burden on
the Individual more severe than it has
been since the early days of the war,
Good said he doubted If q tariff law
could raise more than $500 100000
without disturbing international trade
relations.
Urging repeal of the excess profits
tax. Good said:
1--WE shall not need the revenues that
have been brought in by the excess
profits tax if we will cut down APP
propriations. There is where we can
pause to effect a saving. 1t would be
q system Of economy and the financing
of temporary loans, such as our Ger
tfticates of Indebtedness, The war saw
ingS stamps and the Victory loan. 1t
ought to be done by borrowing money.
rather than by taxing the American
people as we have done in the past
two years.
At this point Good was interrupted
by Representative Oldfieid, Democrat,
Arkansas, who said he fe lred the Re
publican party would impose a sales
tax to take the place IF the one it
wanted to repeal.
"The party that is so foolish as TO
place ii sales tax on the backs and
bellies of the American people, Good
repled, would go down to humili-
ating defeat, because the people OF the
United States would not stand for IT.
Good said a higher tax of $6.4O a
gallon should be imposed on withdraw
al of liquors from bonded warehouses
liquors taken out for medicinal and
used for beverage purposes BY lifting
the tax from $3.50, he figured, tie
treasury revenue would be increased
from S5O,OOO,OOO to $2OO.000,0OO. By
demanding the same AK on the to-
hacco industry that Great Britain col
lects. Good said, treasury receipts from
this commodity would jump from $780,
600 COO to S5O0,00,OOO year. He also
advocated higher tax on passenger
carrying automobiles, figuring on a
revenue from this source OF about
100000 half Of which should 60.
he thought to the roads being used
almost exclusively by such vehicles.