Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-04-15
Hundreds of Bills and Res0lu-
tons Are introduced in the
Lower House.
TO RUSH SOLDIER AID
Deferred Compensation for Service
Men Is First on List for Law
Makers Action-Tariff Bill
introduced.

Washington-Th sixty-seventh Con-
gresS convened with few departures
from time honored precedent.
Appointment of committees to notify
the president Of the assembling OF the
extraordinary session, reelection OF
Speaker Gillett and other Republican
officers of the House, introduction OF
hundreds of bills and resolutions in
| the House and organization affairs
were the principal features of the ses-
sion. The Senate which was organ
, lied by the Republicans at the extra
session last month, was in session only
20 minutes, but the House Organiza-
tion required several hours. Crowds of
spectators thronged both Senate and
House galleries.
The Senate also will get down to
business when bills and resolutions are
to be introduced and debate begun on
the $25,000,000 Colombian treaty. Sen
ator Lodge, Massachusetts. Republican
leader, gave notice that he would move
the initial speech in behalf of ratifica-
ton He will be followed by Senator
Kellogg, Minnesota, Republican, OPP
ponent of the treaty and by Senator
Pomerene, Ohio Democrat and Knox,
Pennsylvania, Republican in its sup
port.
Tax Question Uppermost.
While the five way" plan of vet
eran organization for deferred com
pensatiOn to service men became
House bill No. i, the tax question was
foremost in the legislative proposals.
Representative LongwOrth Of Ohio
proposed the straight repeal of excess
profits and war profits taxation. The
suggestion was repeated by Represen-
tatives Bacharach of New Jersey, and
Mott of New York, who proposed i'm
position of gross sales taxes at one per
cent rates. The Bacharach measure
also suggested reduction of normal in
come tax rates to per cent, and ap-
plication Of the surtax to incomes
above $1,000, with maximum rate OF
40 per cent.
Soldier Aid Bill Pushed.
Chairman Fordney of the ways and
means committee, bringing forward
the service mems comps cation pro-
posal, which provides for alterlE tives
between each payment, land settle
ment, insurance, vocational education
and home building, left out taxation
proposals, but Representative Gallivan,
Democrat of Massachusetts, put in an
exact duplicate of the bill as it passed
the House last session. In further aid
to veterans, Representative Sweet, Re-
publican of Iowa, introduced a bill to
consolidate all boards and bureaus
having to do with soldier rehabilita-
ton, and Representative Fees, Repub.
lican of Ohio suggested exemption
from income taxes of all payments to
veterans undergoing vocational train
ing.
Tariff Bill introduced
The emergency tariff bill introduced
is to be the first business of the House.
Debate is to start Wednesday and
leaders hope for prompt passage.
In the opening preliminaries the
overwhelming Republican majorities
of % in the Senate and about ITO in
the House worked with precision
Speaker Gillett was reelected 298 to
1872, with Representative Kitchin,
North Carolina, Democratic floor
leader, his perfunctory opponent. Rep
resentative London, New York, the
only Socialist member, voted "pre-
sent" The Republicans also bowled
over an attempt by Representative
Flood, Virginia Democrat, to investi-
gate the election of Representative
Richard e. Bird, Kansas, Republican,.
who it was alleged spent in excess of
$4,000 in his election campaign