Evening journal., 1921-11-23
TAX REVISION
Up in SENATE
Vote Will be Taken on Bill
Before Adjournment
Today
HEFLIN-PENROSE
EXCHANGE WORDS

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2s.-A finsi
vote on the tax revision bill will be
taken by the Senate at not later than
8 D. m. today under a unani-
nous consent agreement entered
Into yesterday after the measure had
been under debate for several hours.
Immediately upon its passage the
bill will be sent to the President.
The only important section OF the
bill which will be put into force i'm
mediately upon its becoming law,
however. is that relating to the in
come tax. the other tax changes go
. inc into effect on next January !.
The present surtax rates will be con-
tinued for this calendar year. the
reductions agreed upon by the House
and Senate going into effect in the
next calendar year and being re-
fiected in the actual payments to be
made by the taxpayers in 1928.
Disorder marked the beginning OF
debate today. the climax being
reached in the unusual procedure Of
expunging senatorial remarks from
the record.
The words stricken out we're con-
tained in a verbal clash between
Senators Penrose and Hefiin, Ala
bama. In which Mr.. Penrose referred
to the black darkness OF the state
represented by Mr.. Hefiin. and the
Alabama senator characterized Mr..
Penrose's state as manipulated by
predatory interests"
The clash was preclpitated direct
ly by conversation among Senators
which Mr.. Hefiin claimed disturbed
him in a speech on the Ford-New-
berry senatorial contest. He asked
FOR order. Senator Penrose, who
earlier in the session had declined
, TO permit Mr.. Hefin to have the
floor to continue his speech from
yesterday interjected that he was
mot surprised that Senators did not
care to listen 10 his speech"
The presiding officer called for
order
And I am not surprised" Mr..
Hehin resumed, "at the remark Of
the Senator from Pennsylvania. He
b IS known as the big boss OF the state
OF Pennsylvania and that no Sena-
tor can come here from that state
unless o. KID by him"
Again there was a demand that
business proceed I'm order.
. Mr.. Penrose then said he had no
desire to interrupt Mr.. Heflin,
knowing the black darkness ne rep
4 resented in his state" More SEN
ate rules thereupon we're ~broken.
Senator Cummins. presiding, order
cd Mr.. Hefiin to suspend, but Mr.
Hefin shouted that no state in the
Union was so manipulated by pre-
datory interests as Pennsylvania"
When order was restored Senator
Lenroot, of Wisconsin. made the
motion to expunge the remarks
Senator Poindexter, OF Washington
argued IL was useless TO expung'
the remarks since every one In the
Senate knew that they had been SAID
and that they would be printed II
he newspapers.
The motion. however, was adopted
BY vive voce vote. and with tn,
Imoke clearing. Senator Harrison
Democrat. OF Mississippi. took tn
next step TO restore peace by askini
he Senate to adopt a resolution per
hitting Mr.. Hefiin to continue hi
fpeecn IN Order.
In laying the conference repor
before the Senate. Chairman Pen
.ose. in a formal statement. describ
ID the bill as a temporary make
shift"
The bill" Senator Penrosc soid
does not place the tax system on
stable or scientific basis But It 1
better than the law which it Wi
supersede because OF the reduction
/ of the tax burden and the technica
or administrative improvement
which Il affects.
"As has been said. II is a tenn
porary measure. But nothing bet
ter than a temporary makeshlft wi
c possible until the people OF thi
country give 10 the question OF fed
eral taxation an amount and kind q
study which Il has not yet re ,eivcd
until-in particular-the people be
come convinced OF the sincerity an
truth OF the contention that the pre-
i posal TO reduce excessive tax rates
not designed to relieve the rich an
the profteer. but to avert IN
1 breakdown OF the income tax. ur
shackle business and Increase the "a
] / revenue"
Debate on the measure was oper
i ed by Senator Simmons. OF Mort
/ Z Carolina, ranking Democratic mar
" ager on the part OF the Senate. VIII
reviewed in some detail the change
made in conference. He declare
b that when the conferees got throug
with the bill even some OF the mo-
N prominent OF the Republican mar
ayers, could not conceal their di
N gust" with the measure.
~ The North Carolina senator sa
n that three or four OF the compr,
II mise amendments brought forwai
IA by the Senate agricultural bloc wei
slaughtered" in conference. bi
that some Of them we're retaine
notably the increased surtax rat
4 the capital stock provision and n