Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-16
S289,77O,O0O SLASH
IN TAXES By.HOUSE
Mellon and Committee Defied
by CoaIition-BilI Goes
to Senate.

By the Associated Press.
A product of clashing wills and
freighted with controversy, the new
tax bill stood today on the doorstep of
the Senate finance committee.
1t arrived there during the night,
speeded toward the second lap of its
legislative steeplechase by the House
with vote of 366 to "a that climaxed
a week of hectic and partisan assay
ing of the public's pocketbook.
AS it faced today the gamut of the
Senate committee and beyond that the
troublous Senate itself, the measure
would reduce the Treasury's revenue
by $2S9, 9,770,0O0
The wide spread between that figure
and the 1892 ,735, 900 reduction proposed
by the ways and means committee,
which drafted the bill, and the $780,
900 600 maximum fixed by Secretary
Mellon. was eloquent testimony to
Democratic opp0rtunism and Demo
cratic Republican coalition that gained
the upper hand in the final skirmish-
ing in the House.
Consideration of the House tax bill
by the Senate finance committee prob
ably will be deferred until after the
Christmas Mondays.
Garner Expects Senate Boost.
With many of its provisions bearing
little resemblance to the Treasury's
original recommendations, and differ
ing radically in sports from the form
in which it came from the ways and
means committee. the bill now would
deprive the Government of $64, 200
more revenue than the Treasury had
proposed. 1t goes to the other end OF
the Capitol with a prediction from
Representative Garner of Texas. rank
ing Democrat on the ways and means
committee, that its reduction would be
raised to a half a billion by the Senate.
The print of Gamers long-experi-
enced hand stands out among those OF
the many that juggled the bilFs mass
of figures. 1t was Garner who. al
though speaking only for the minority,
put through two of the three impor'
tant amendments which at the last
found Republican leaders figuring
vainly to strike out The Garner
amendments affect corporations, their
taxes and methods of filing returns.
while the third. by Representative Nc
Laughlin, Republican, of Michigan,
and member of the ways and means
committee, would repeal the tax on
automobile sales.
Adopted earlier in the week under
rules that prevented a roll call vote,
the three changes were cemented into
the bill yesterday with sufficient Re
publicans joining the Democrats TO
carry the issue. The vote on the
automobile tax repeal was 24o to l5l,
about a score of Republicans voting
with the minority party.
Coalition Votes Reduction.
A similar coalition supported the
Garner amendments, 212 to ISL, on
the corporation tax, and 210 to 187 on
the proposal to have corporations and
their subsidiaries file separate instead
of joint returns.
Instead of the fiat rate of liz per
cent tax or corporations with net tax
! able incomes of $4,000 or less, as pro-
posed by the committee, the Garner
amendment establishes brackets of
lower rates on income groups from
SIS 900 down to $4,000.
In desperation. after their failure
to upset the three amendments, Re-
publican leaders then sought to send
the measure back to the committee. a
move which,. If successful, would have
undone much of the work already ac-
complished The House willed other
wise. however. and defeated the
motion. by Representative Bacharach.
Republican. New Jersey. 301 to 80.
Chairman Green of the committee was
one of those who opposed returning
tho hill tO it's trainers