The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1924-02-28
GARNER TAX
BILL APPROVED
222 to 1876 Vote for Democratic
Plan Follows Rejection of Mel
lon and Fraar Schedules.
HOPE FOR Treasury BILL
Committee OF Whcle Sjdet~ecks Is,
244 to 1852, but Change OF IL Would
Give Victo7y-Ccolidoe
May Veto,

Washington.-In the first test vote
on the tax bill the House, sitting as a
COMMITTEE Of the whole, voted down
the Mellon income tax rate and sub
stituted the Garner or Democratic,
plan for them. The vote. which put
the Garner plan in tue tax bill was 222
to 1856 Eighteen Republicans, mostly
members Of the radical group, voted
with the Democrats.
The Garner plan provides lower
normal tax rates than the Mellon
plan and runs the surfaces up to a
maximum of A per cent on incomes
of $4,000 or more. while the maxi
mum Of the Mellon plan is 25 per
cent. The Garner plan provides rates
of 2 per cent on the first $4,000 Of
taxable income; per cent on the next
$4,000, and per cent on all income
above that SurtaXes begin with 1
per cent on income between $4,000
and $4,000. 1t eXempts from tax the
first 50 600 CT income of single persons
and the first $4,000 of income of mar
ried persons.
The whole House is sitting as a com
mittee, with Representative Graham
Qll) in the chair, to consider and
perfect the tax bill, and the vote was
not a record one by name. A roll
call vote on the Garner plan will be
demanded when the bill comes up for
final passage in the House proper.
Representative Longworth (Ohio), Re,
publican leader, will try to muster
enough votes to put the Mellon plan
back in the bill. A change of four
teen votes would give the Mellon plan
victory.
Twelve Republicans, three Demo
Gratis and one Socialist were absent
One Democrat, Deal Wa), did not
vote. With all present the majority
still would have been in favor of the
Garner plan.
If some of the votes for the Garner
plan and against the Mellon plan do
not change the tax bill will go to the
Senate carrying q full set OF Demo
cratic income tax rates. The Senate
may restore the Mellon plan. Demo
cratic leaders in the Senate are dis
posed to cut the Garner surtaX rates
to a maximum of 30 per cent.
House leaders on the Republican side
believe President Coolidge will veto
the tax bill if it goes to the White
House in anything like its present
form. They say the Garner rates
would bring a Treasury deficit Of
$500, 100000 year.
Although the Garner plan was voted
into the bill by margin of just TWEEN
ty-six votes, the Mellon plan was voted
down pa to 1852, about forty Republi
cans, including Chairman Green
Qowa), Of the Ways and Means Com
mittee, voting with the Democrats
against it.
The Frear plan, proposed by Repre-
sentative Frear CWis) and embodying
the ideas of radical Republicans, was
voted down, 254 to 46.
p" Voting came after a day of spirited
debate. 1t was closed by agreement
and the vote on the three plans taken
one after the other. By parliament
airy Vancouver Representative Mad
den (Ill), won a vote on the Mellon
plan first. He presented a substitute
for the income tax sections of the bill
prepared by Representative Bacon
IN. ". 1t carried the Mellon plan
18th the change of single figure to
make it different from the bill.
The house was packed and the gal
leries well filled. Mrs. Nicholas Long
worth was in the members gallery I'M
til after all of the votes were taken,
as was Miss Ailsa Mellon, daughter Of
Secretary Mellon.
The preliminary viva voce vote from
each side on the Mellon plan came in a
roar ard there was little to distinguish
the volume. A rising or division vote
was next taken The chairman count
ed 1876 for the amendment and 224
against it, Tellers were demanded
and their count was 1852 for the amend
ment and 244 against it, and it was
lost.