The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1924-03-20

gress to pass a simple resolution
which would have reduced by 25 per
cent before March Is the income tax
of probably 100000 of taxpayers.
The Democrats would not permit it.
They feared too great political advan-
tage for the Republican party Had
| there been unanimous consent, the res
olution could easily have been passed,
but if the Democrats were to oppose
objections the time would be too short.
And the Democrats did. Presumably
! there will be tax reduction at this
session, but everyone had to pay the
full rates March Is, because the
Democrats deliberately blocked imme-
date reduction.
But members of Congress, Repub-
licans and Democrats alike, are pre-
| pairing to rush through a bonus bill
which will cost the country nearly
$4,000, 0,000-$1, 972 100000 to be
exact. And unless President Coolidge
vetoes it, and possibly if he does, that
bill will become a law. Why? Be
cause, primarily, Congressman be-
lieve it will make votes for themselves
to pass the measure, think that the
eX-soldiers who would benefit by the
bonus will work hard for the reelec1
ton of those who vote for the bonus
bill, whereas the general TAXPAYER,
while approving reduction of the in
come tax, would not take off his coat
and vote for the reelection of the men
who made such reduction possible.
Secretary Mellon and the Treasury
statisticians have analysed the tax
bill passed by the House. They find
that it would convert an annual sur
plus of 1896, 100000 into a deficit of
/ S55, 100000. The President is urging
the Senate to act from conscientious
as distinguished from political
principles and remodel the bill until
| it accords with the recommendation
of Secretary Mellon. Once more the
conscientiousness and common-sense
Of the Congress are to be tried out
in competition with the personal, sell
fish political ambitions of the Con-
gressmen. The correspondent who
would venture to predict the outcome
would be foolhardy indeed.
Bedtime stories by Roxie Stinson"
would be an appropriate title for the
scandalOus testimony" being broad
casted to the world by Senator Bur-
ton K. Wheeler and his hand-picked
committee Investigating" Attorney
General Daugherty. Not one word of
| evidence which would be admitted in
a court has been presented thus far.
Instead miss" Roxie Stinson has
done all the testifying, under the guild
ance Of Senator Wheeler. "Miss"
! StinsOn is the divorced wife of Jesse
Smith, friend Of Mr.. Daugherty. He
committed suicide in Mr. Daugherty's
I apartment here about a year age.
! Miss" Stinson testifes that, although
she had been for some time divorced
from Mr.. Smith and had assumed her
maiden name, it was Mr.. Smiths GUS
/ tom to come back to Ohio and spend
his week-ends with her; that he al
ways brought at least a suitcase full
of whiskey, part Of which he gave
to her. She says that on these occa-
sions their relations were perfectly
conventional" but that the stories
Mr.. Smith told her were highly scan
dalous And that is the sort of thirg
which formal committee of the I'm
tied States Senate has been listening
to for several days. Jesse Smith is, of
course dead; so that whatever "Miss'
Stinson says he told her about Mr..
Daugherty, or anyone else, must go
unchallenged All this leads the New
York Tribune, under the heading,
after Mire, Slime" to remark: CAT
ter the nlire of Senator Walsh's at
tacks upon guilty and innocent in the
oil investigation, Senator Wheeler's
nosing amid irrelevant gossip touch
ing dead men who cannot face their
accuser is, it must be agreed, the
next logical step"
AS predicted in these letters, once
Edward Mclean was permitted by
Senator Walsh to take the witness
stand he explained away all the mys
teries which had attached to his pri-
vate kilograms which the committee
had made public and which had crea-
ted so much sensation. His tesla
mony punctured all the Walsh bub-
bles. He told frankly of his agree
ment to aid Secretary Fall by saying
he had loaned Fall the 100000 which
Fall had been asked to account for.
Aside from that, there was no sensa-
ton left; as Walsh well knew there
would not be. Walsh is now assidu-
ously hunting for another sensation
! FINANCING OF THE PUB
Lie SCHOOLS OF GARRETT