Putnam patriot., 1924-03-21

With fa1 reduction out Of the hand ? of fhe House for the Sine being. th ? seTdIers Banus arrived this week q hold main attention of the Connectl cut delegation.
 r Mir Tffs0n was one af four mem
 bers of the House ways and mean committee to fife q minority repof , against the bonus bill passed by th lower chamber of Congress. ih Connecticut members lined up, as wa expected. against the bonus on th vote
 Mir Tilson and che others held tha Itax reduction was the paramount issui land that the citizens of the eenntr. demanded that before all else. bonus would postpone this, and Fur thermore would tend to disrupt th' i rderly and beneficial progress Of bust ness. it was contended.
 The bonus bili of Rudolph NoH Haehf of Milford. introduced in the l Heuse by Mr Tils0n, did not figure much in the bill finally reported out by the ways and means committee Therefore. Mr Tilson had no oppor. tunity of deciding whether he would vote for such a bill-a bill postponinR payment of the bonus for 90 years and more, and involving an annual outlay of about s25, ,000, 900 or $3O,- 900. 900 a year for ten years.
 The bonus measure, as passed by the House. is now before the Senate In that body effort will probably be made Co introduce some paid up in- suranee feature Senator Mclean fayors such a plan and would vote for it
 But the general expectation is that the Senate Will give 8 bonus bill Co the president which Calvin Coolidge will veto and which the Senate will not pass over bis veto.
 Mclean Opposes Norbeek Bill
 Over on the Senate side, the Last fortnight, Mclean has been m evi- dence as an opponent of the so=cailed i Norbeck hiii designed ta give aid ta l the farmers of the West
 The Connecticut senator, in debate on The Senate floor. frequently re l ferred Co Connecticut and her dairy l farmers. He maintained that there i Is overpfoduction and that the Nor beck measure would not go ta the root of the trouble He suid that Con neeticut dairy farmers arc now selling their products frequently at lower i than cost. He stated that man iH- vesting S20, 1000 in the dairy busi= ness in Connecticut today would be running ta financial ruin.
 gnr some time | has been the posi- i tian of Mir Mclean that there is overproduetion in the agricultural l field and that farmers particularly need markets instead of credits He asserted. debating with Narris of i Nebraska and others. that the soil and climate in Connecticut Is just us good as in North Dakota. for example. and that his arguments that applied ! tn Connecticut equally applied to the western states.
 Work on Tax Bill
 Mr. Mclean has also been busy on the Senate finance committee which | is toiling with tax reduction This | body Is first taking up the admtnistra- ] tive and n-dehatable. generally speaking. features of the bill.
 Mir Mclean refuses to predict what sort of tax measure will come out of the Senate committee. He is for | the Mellon plan and for the bonus and he states that in general he be- iieves that both can be passed. Bran degee. of course, is for the bonus, also.
 Bridgeport Politics Forward
 The Bridgeport postmaster case jumped into the full Washington lime light with hearings this week before n L. f.s ssfH HRs committee headed by Moses of New Hampshire
 The hearings furnished lots of inter est and a few lively verbal tilts be- tween Benedict Holden of Hartford, representing the interests in Bridge port opposed to the nomination of Arthur t Connor State politics fig ured Holden charged that Connor made valuations reductions aggregat- iur around sS. S.000. 900 during his four years ns Bridgeport tax commissioner These ubatements were made Illegally after the valuation list had been made up and Connor consulted no higher authority in making these reductions said Mr Holden
 Attorney Delaney. representing ] Couaor. Ivcncd up the proceeding. i bv breaking into the testimony at various points He declared that Cnn nor had but followed law and pre- cedent of his predecessors in cutting down valuations
 Too Many investigations
 An array of witnesses were on deck ! for Holden and at times the Senate committee asked Holden to get down to brass taeks and cut out the court procedure We have too many in- VestlEatiens in Che Senate already. said Edge of New Jersey when Hel den spoke about suhpoenaing witness es
 They are easy iu Bridgeport. l would like to liye there" declared uml of south Carolina after some evidence of tax abatement in that cItY Congressman O'Suihvan Was tho only Connecticut congressman oi senator noted at the hearings Ever Merritt. whose nominee was undcl
 fire was absent
 All the Connecticut eongressmeI
 will seek reelection next fall Thb act caused no surprise either in Wash , inrton or Connecticut. but t allow
 the Connecticut political field to bt 2 clarified for the coming battles. , In the film that was shown to were taken from the life of Col ,as5..l l.s. aF 4.,t -. - 4 .l l.