The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1921-10-19
CAPITOL CULLINGS

Washington, Oct. 10. THE hsca
policy of this administration is the
rock upon which the Republican par
ty is splitting i'm Congress and upon
which it will split throughout the
nation if the administration plans
are carried out.
The word policy" is used fgura'
7 lively, for the proposed procedure in
matters of taxation particularly, in
wolves no policy that includes either
the principles of finance or econo
mics Scheme is the better word, fol
1t amounts solely to a scheme to re-
lieve profteering corporations of q
just tax and shift that burden UNI
Justly upon the already overburden-
ed small taxpayer. including the
smaller corporations.
This split among Republicans in
the Senate is so much in view that
even the Presidents Washington
newspaper mouhpiece is compelled to
take note of it. After citing a pro-
posed coalition between the Progress
sive Republicans and Democrats on
the tax bill and the alleged plan of
the Democrats to vote for a sales tax
amendment and then vote against
the bill in company with Republic
cans opposed to the sales tax, the
Washington Post says:
Either horn of the dilemma
threatens disaster to the Republican
party. in whose ranks the split of
discord is daily growing wider. The
present situation at the Capital is
disclosing to public view fact
which cannot much longer be con-
cealed, that the Republican party to-
day is not functioning smoothly and
efficiently because il is no longer
thinging as a unit. Its members are
as far apart as the poles on some of
the greatest questions underlying
what is attempted to be made into
definite policy.
The bonds which held its COM
ponent parts together during the
when Republicans of all
shades of opinion were actuated by
common opposition to what became
'inown as wisconsin are to-day
fl
Of the situation from the party's
point of view is not that the party
IS not working tremendously, but
hat the fundamental differences be-
.ween Republicans are to-day as
great, if not actually greater, than
hey were in 1912"
And then. as if to show the help
iUl and constructive efforts OF the
Democrats in behalf Of honest taxa
ion. the Post adds:
THE Democrats have seized this
opportunity to propose to the Pro-
'ressive Republicans certain definite
nto the pending tax bill to make it
more acceptable to both
All of this, mind you, comes from !
newspaper, accepted as the admin
stration organ at the Capital, which
aithfully chronicles the activities OF
he administration, political and So
ial, including the marvellous feats
# Budget Commissioner Dawes and
lis invisible savings" the goings
nut and comings in of the valiant
'rigadier General Sawyer. the diver
ions of Laddie Boy and the bull
up. with the editorial page liberal
y spread over with the lemon merin-
ue of adulation.
However, the Post is to be COM
limented upon the accuracy of it's 7
ision and the holiness to point
Ut "a fact which cannot much long +;
r be concealed"
democratic Constructive Tax Amend
ments
The proposed Democratic amend
rents TO the pending tax bill were Y
resented by Senator Simmons of
,orth Carolina, in an enlightening
peech dealing with the repeal or
notification of existing taxes and
he imposition of new taxes. The
rogram as stated by him is as fol-
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