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OF from &100. 900 to $500. GOO year
and smaller reductions In the income
taxes Of the two publishers, who,
IL was claimed, have "Aggressively
denounced those opposing IL.
This section OF the progressivee'
statement was as follows:
Give Estimate Ffsures.
The executive committee OF the pro-
eressive Organization of the House
responding TO the demands for the
passage OF Mr.. Melons tax proposals
supported strenuously by the wash
ington Post and Washington Star and
other agencies. with criticisms
against the motives and justification
for any opposition to the Mellon pro.
gram, offers this brief statement al
this time:
THE Mellon program proposing a
reduction in high surtaxes from 50
to IS PER cent. we assert, will re-
tax payments to the Treasur IL Ac-
curate tax statements have been fur.
nished by him and his reported in.
come Is correctly stated, to an amour,
ranging from $1e0, ,o0o to $50a, ,0ee pei
year Ia tax savings to him.
'If Mr.. Melons proposals could b
accepted. we also assert that the tar
sav7ngs to the publisher OF the Wash.
ington Post, Mr.. Mclean. based or
the same conditions affecting state.
rnent as to Mr.. Mellon, would react
an annual amount Of between $u0a 6e1
and 100000 annually, according ts
Kline's estimates OF Mr.. Mclean.
fortune. The estimated savings b,
the adoption OF the Mellon plan te
Mr.. Noyes OF The Washington sta,
on the same basis would preslm.
ably reach from $4,000 to 800, o0t
per year.
Defend TheIf Motfres.
''T this statement Is substans;a11,
correct, II may explain the eaeernes =
with which Secretary Mellon anl
publishers Mclean and Noyes OF m.
washington papers and others wh<
are aggresstveiy supporting the Mel,
ton Of those who differ from him
Onaer the cfrcum stances, it would bt
Well to withhold unwarranted crifi.
cism az to the motives OF the pso.
gressive. members in the Americas
Congress In preserving their nm.
doubted Legislative rights when act.
ing on their own Judgment in mat.
ters OF taxation as we'll as In otAe,
matters m upon which they are called
The revision elone the lines .ue.
being considered both BY senate bro .
gressiVes and some OF the democratf,
senator's: Among members OF bctl
houses there Is talk OF Q modified ex.
cess prodts tax. a tax on the undi.
Saded pronts Of corporations and IN,
creased inheritance taxes.
Announcing his Imposition n the~,
proposals. Senator Watson Of indiana
z republican member OF the Senat,
haAhce committee, declared thar tn,
ground In Congress should be care,
funy surveyed before any tax re
VISION policy actually Is undertaken
with those Of q number of othe
republican leaders in both the 81 aat,
and the House.
Sentiment In favor Of both a re
uuctton OF the taxes and enactuen
OF the eofdters' bonus continued {,
ttol Senator Robinson OF ArRansas
the democratic leader, declared 81
his return to Washington that Con
GTess VIII not be stampeded by th'
very great Influences at work I,
from existing tax burdens can be &C
compfished only by denying just ant
men,"
senator Howell. republican, Nes
easkA. IN the first statement Of hi
sais he ia not % rssara % tax MSsaincaH rsancsso, aHn
ana thS passage OF the bonus as 1r
faYor railroad legislation which vii
DO away with the minimum rate pro
Also measures FOR the relief OF TIL