Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-01-01
SENATE MAY NOT
BE ABLE To PICK
COMMITTEE HEAD

w A0IllANG lON5 OGC. oU.-- w I'LL q
break in the senate deadlock over the
Craftsmanship Of the interstate COM
merce committee apparently no.
| where in sight, the suggestion that
| other business be taken up after the
| holiday recess unless there is an cleo
! ton on early ballots is beginning to
| find favor among q number of sena-
| tors. Republican and Democratic.
Balloting for a chairman which
continued for ten days before the re-
| cess is the unfinished business on
/! the senate's calendar, but it could be
| dispensed with at any time by a ma
| jority vote. Such action would leave
| the committee without q chairman,
but would not p event it from func-
| tioning since a majority of the mem
Vidual members to take charge Of its
| bers can call it into session.
Under the plan as leaders outlined
it today, the committeeman could Sc
| lect u temporary presiding officer.
| Likewise they could designate indi-
! legislation on the floor of the senate
Several bills introduced since the
| present session began, have. been re-
ferred to the committee, chief among
them the measure for the repeal of
the rate section of the transportation
act. Republican insurgents and some
Democrats desire to go much further
than this; they want the entire law
repealed and will wage their fight on
that basis.
Work Piled Up
Republican leaders appear to be
fairly well convinced that neither
Senator Cummins, of Iowa, the for
mer chairman, nor Senator Couzens,
of Michigan, a new Republican on the
committee can be elected chairman.
Some OF the insurgents on a few bal
lots have thrown their strength to
Senator Smith of South Carolina,
the Democratic candidate, but it is
regarded as doubtful whether he
could be elected even should he draw
the full support of the insurgents.
With the Christmas recess over
there will be much activity at the
senate end at the capitol. Scores of
bills and resolutions are pending be.
fore committees and several impor.
tant Investigations will be put un-
der way.
With The Russian and world court
questions before it, the foreign rela-
lions committee will be one of the
busiest. The investigation of the
Russian situation will be on the basis
of a resolution by Senator Borah,
Republican, Idaho, proposing recog-
milton of the Soviet government and
it probably will be conducted by a
subcommittee in the usual custom,
would be headed by Senator Borah
as author of the resolution.
Besides the Russian inquiry other
investigation in prospect include
those into campaign expenditures in
| the recent Texas senatorial election;
the alleged use of propaganda to con-
| troll the action of congress and in.
fluence the foreign policy Of the gov
| eminent; the expenditures of the fed
eraI farm loan board and the employ
ment of attorneys by the shipping
! board and the department of justice.
Bonus Proposal
! With Republican members of the
house who are former service men
! pressing for early action on the sol
der bonus, Representative Rainey, of
| Illinois, a Democrat on the hose
| ways and means committee, came
out today with a proposal that pay
ment of adjustment compensation be
| financed by restoration of the excess
profits tax and increase of the sur
! tax rates on incomes. He declared
these levies would provide more than
enough funds for a bonus and at the
same time general tax reduction
could be put into effect.
The Republican war veterans who
are circulating petitions for a con-
| ference of house Republicans on Jan.
uary, 10, with view to putting the
! majority membership on record in
favor of a house vote on the bonus
/ before February !, continued today
to obtain signatures. They plan to
file the petitions when the house re-
! conVenes Thursday, a week before
the proposed party conference.
Mr.. Rainey, one of the most out
| spoken proponents of bonus legisla-
ton in the house, said he favored q
maximum surtax rate of 65 per cent
| on net income exceeding $500
| Such levy with one on the excess
profits of corporations. he declared
Ishould be assigned as victory taxes. 4"
The proposed schedules, he added.
could either be made a part of the
bonus bill or incorporated in the tax
bill.
IF we could apply the surtax
rates, l suggest to the incomes Of
four NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. D. Rockefel.
Ter, Henry Ford, William Wrigley,
Jr., and Secretary Mellon-and an
excess profits tax to the corpora
/ tons in which they are interested
and in addition place a tariff on the
chjcle Mr.. Wrigley uses in making
chewing gum" said Mr.. Rainey.
there would be plenty of money in
the treasury to pay a bonus
Nnou Hoaripos