The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-07-14
AN EXTRA SESSION OF
. CONGRESS IS FORECAST
MUCH PRESSURE is BEING PUT
ON THE PRESIDENT TO IS
SUE AN EARLY CALL.
SEEKS CUT In TAXES
Demand Grows With knowledge of
Extent of Treasury Surplus. Reduc-
ton in Taxes Is the One Thing
That All the Country Wants.


ton in Taxes Is the One Thing
That All the Country Wants.
The smell of real money is as ex-
citing to those who have lot of it as
rabbit is to a dog. Wherever it is
they want to run after it. And it's
their game to get there first
The treasury departments announce
ment that the fiscal year, which ended
June 80, find a $255, 100000 surplus on
hand stirred into immediate action the
great banking interests in New York,
says Frank r. Kent, the political wri-
ter at Washington for the Baltimore
Sun, in an article to that paper. Hardly
had the treasury people themselves
settled on the exact figure before prep
arations were being made to bring
pressure en- the president to call con-
gress into extra session for the pur-
pose of absorbing the $250,000000 by
the quickest possible cut in taxes, an
idea that will find general favor in all
sections.
A Change of Front
A few months ago the business men
enthusiastically engaged in hurting
rocks after the departing congress,
congratulating the country that it was
to have a long breathing spell, point
ing out that if congress met only once
every six or eight years everybody
would be happier and more prosper
Gus.
Today, exactly the same people have
begun to howl that congress has al
ready had long enough vacation, that
it is time it got back on the job and
did something toward relieving the
burdens of the people, that next De-
cember is too long to wait, and the
only thing for Mr.. Coolidge to do is
to call the lazy loafers back to Wash
ington in extra session.
1t is complete change OF front, but
there is certainly an intelligent reason
for it. Unquestionably the most de-
sirable and desired thing in the coun-
try today is reduct5gn in taxes. Ev-
lerybody, big and little, is hungry for
it, Just as unquestionably it will slim
u1ate business and help the general
situation. Concededly, the government
is taking under the present rates very
much more money from the people, by
hundreds of millions, than it needs.
Everybody agrees that. should stop
right away.
The only discernible reason is that
congress is not in session and does not
regularly meet until December LIST.
Plans All Made.
The administration has-or is said
to have-its plans for the tax cut all
made. Mr.. Mellon has outlined his
views of the shape the bill should
take. There will be first reduction OF
the surtax on large incomes to Is per
cent, and upon the smaller incomes as
much as the surplus this year and the
prospects next will allow. Republican
leaders seem in accord. Leading dem
ocrats in the senate have proposed to
out Mellon Mr.. Mellon in the surtax
cut Everything seems set except con-
gress and it, unless sent for, will not
sit for five months.
why waltz" shouts these organs
now. Call h m together and
start them to work The passage Of
a tax bill, they point out is long and
tedious procedure II let alone it will
be next June or July before congress
really gets to grips with the new rev
enue measure. 1t does seem sensible.