The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-01-04
PLANS
HALF BILLION
TAX GUT
La Toilette Given Stirring Wei
come on His Return to
Lead Battle.
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accomplished dominantIy by giving
the people of small capital larger
tax reduction than Mellon has pro-
posed for them.
The Democrats win many Of them
refuse to go along with the Re-
publican "Progressise" plan on the
ground that 1t goes too far. The
Republican "Progressives,' how
ever win go along with the Demo.
cratic plan because 1t goes at any
rate part Of the way In their direc-
ton.
In Toilette Has Power.
with La Toilette leading and
organizing the Republican PRO
gressivess and holding them to.
gether, there will be an anti-Admin-
istration majority in both houses.
La Toilette was able to do It be-
fore. It il conceded that IL he so
chooses he can do it again now.
His return to the floor of the
Senate was the occasion Of one Of
the most remarkable demonstra.
tions that the Senate has ever
witnessed in our times. Here Is q
man who q few years ago was on
tthe very verge Of being expelled
from the Senate for h . supposedly
anti-war ideas. Now, coming back
to the Senate from his Sick-room,
and taking his old accustomed seat
far down on the center aisle, where
he used to be so lonely and so
Stunned, he was at once surround
ed by successive little groups Of his
colleagues who warmly shook his
hand, patted him on his shoulder,
expressed to him their satisfaction
over his recovery from his illness,
and made 1t perfectly clear to him
and to all the world that he was
an accepted and received colleague
and associate Of them all.
All Give Him Welcome.
Virtually the whole Senate Of the
United States, in delegations Of one
at time. or two or three or four
at a time. visited La Toilette
during the first hour Of his new
present career in the Senate to load
him with expressions of personal
g,Eld will No other such TRIUMPH
of character over obIoquy--or, per-
haps, Of success over former un.
popularity--has been seen In our
times on Capitol Hill.
With this prestige behind him
and with more power now than
ever he had in days gone by. it Is
regarded as inevitable that IL La
Toilette chooses to do so he can
/ Join the Republican "Progressives'
4 na1R$H ~ 20 fvl
which will pass taxation reduc
ton bill not in the Mellon model
but in the model Of the radical
ideals of the South and Northwest
outrightly in favor Of the smaller
tax payer and with scant regard
for the necessities OF large capital
or for the broad interests Of large
new corporation developments.
Such a bill he can pass, and such
a bill he can send to President
Coolidge to accept or to veto. II
will be q bill producing at least ~
large q total Of tax reduction al
Mellon has wanted. It yet. by ac
complishing this reduction through
special preferences and favors foI
the tax payers In the lower brack
! cts. will yield small relief to large
scale business. It will fail accord
ingly to square with one Of tht
principal purposes hat Mel'nF
and Coolidge have had In mind fol
the general advanced bushes:
growth and prosperity. as they SEE
1t. OF the country.
Choice Q Hard One.
The question then win be:
win President Coolidge accept 4
as the best that can be had or will
he veto it as unfair and as iniuri
Gus to industry, In the largest view.
II will be a difficult and EN-
barrassing choice It will be {
choice which may have enormous eff
fects upon the 1924 Presidentia
campaign. It nevertheless, II al
| polite Difference to the Whit,
House may be dismissed. Is nov
| precisely the choice which will b,
pressed upon President Coolidge Il
the present plans Of the Democrats
and of the Republican '+progres
! sives" hold out and II Senator Rob
ert Marion La Follette's health
holds out too.
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