The Washington times., 1922-02-28
SALES TAXF0ES
To keep II OUT
/ OF b0NUSB.|LL
Congressman longworth Finds
Ways and Means Commit
tee Cold to Plan.
BY WILLIAM HARD,
Cosnfopolitan News Service.


ind Means Committee Of the House
vote him and other believers in q
sales tax and report a bonus bill
containing no provision as to how
We are going to get the money with
which TO pay the bonus.
I am told in the Senate that IL any
such bill reaches the Senate II will
stay there q long time. Then II II
ever did get through the Senate the
President would veto 1t.
In England, IL there was any such
deadlock between the prime minister
and the House of Commons on any
such important question, there
would soon be either new prime
minister or else an election and a
new House of Commons; and then
the question would get settled.
Meanwhile the House of Lords
would follow the rule laid down for
1t by Gilbert and Sullivan and would
do nothing in par,icular and do II
very well. The English are a slow
people and get their Legislative
have the slowest Legislative system
known to man.
Some ladies are now trying to
add another amendment to our Con-
stitution and some other ladies have
gathered In Washington to prevent
them from doing 1t. This amend
ment says that there shall not exist
in the United States any political
or civil or legal disabilities on ac-
count Of sex"
The members of the Women s
Trade Union League are opposed
to IL. They say that II would pre-
vent Congress from protecting wo-
men in industry, For instance. II
would prevent Congress from forbid
ding women to work in industry for
more than eight hours a day II men
were permitted to work ten hours.
Some other people also say that II
would prevent Congress from rails
ing q draft army consisting en-
tirely of men. They say that under
this amendment the women have to
be put into uniform along with the
men.
The fact Is that nobody would
ever know what this amendment
might mean until nine elderly gen.
Element In the Capitol in room
marked United States Supreme
Court" had taken a slant and a
guess at II six or seven years from
now. The room of the Unitee
States Supreme Court is in between
the floor OF the House of the Rep
resentatives and the floor of the
Senate.
1 suggest that whenever a law or
a constitutional amendment Is pass
ed by the House Of Representatives
It should be VIII seled into the Su'
preme Court room on Its way To
the Senate and that the nine elderly
gentlemen should then and there say
what this young law means and
whether OF not II is a lawful valid
constitutional child. This would
save time in our Government too.
Senator France has introduced the
amendment against female disabili.
ties into the Senate. / commend
this Senator France to the wider
notice of the country. He Is one OF
the few statesmen In Washington
who can be absolutely depended on
! to do what he thinks Is right wheth'
er any other statesman In the Whole
town helps him at 1t or not He Is
for everything he thinks Is liberal
no matter how unpopular.
|
speech throughout the war. He
| thinks that prohibition is illiberal
! and he voted and votes against pro
hibition. He supported and sup
| ports the Idea of open trade with
| Russia. He sympathizes with PEG
pie in distress. l have known him
to go all the way from the Senate
to the Department Of Labor &c
make a personal plea for Just treat
ment for some poor, friendlcsS
alien who was being deportec
harshly and cruelty.
He fought the Versailles treaty
and he is now fighting the Var
treaty, and he will fight the four
| mower treaty because he regards
| them all as imperialistic. He Is
very friendly to labor, but thinks
that labor should cooperate WITH
| capital In a Joint responsibility FOL
| the success Of industry.
He Is well to do and youngisf
looking, and is kept youngish look
| ing by his enthusiasms. Some Of
his colleagues call him wild, and
he sometimes certainly Is, but aloha
with some wild throws he hurts
an awful number of balls straight
over the plate. He deserves watch
ing, and he deserves more rooterf
for his plays.
| OF course, there are a lot OF Sen
ators who get quite wild and ad
vanced and liberal and even redica
when their own interests are in
volved. The country should just no
| tice how eager our statesmen ir
| Washington are to introduce radica
ideas into the operations Of the land
lord business In Washington.
Is there anything more radical
than to have a Government tell .
! man the price at which he must rent
| his property to somebody else? YET
the Senate Ia full of conservative
Senators who eagerly support and
who successfully have established
Just exactly that kind of extreme
radicalism in Washington. These
Senators are renters. They REM
apartments and houses.
| We. therefore, have a Rent Com
mission In Washington to say what
the rents of houses and apartments
shall be. Good thing. probably. But
just suggest to one of these Senators
that there should be a commission e
tell the coal operators at what price.