Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-11
SEATING OF Ware
D|SPLACES TARIFF
Postponement of Action or
Pennsylvania Sought by
Administration Leaders.
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temporarily for argument on the pri-
GRITTY of the Norris resolution calling
for an immediate showdown in the
long-pending Ware contest.
Senator Harrison, Democrat, Missis-
sippi, made the principal speech for the
Simmons proposal, saying 1t involved
no desire to do any injustice to a cor
poration by revealing its financial
status to a competitor.
He said the country was complain
ing of what he termed the secrecy"
that surrounded the revision of the
House bill by the finance committee
majority and demanded that the votes
taken on each item in the executive
sessions of that group be spread on the
public record.
COuzenS Cites Examples.
In proposing his amendment, Senator
CouzenS said the Senate should be as
much concern about the profits of i'm
porters as it is about earnings Of manu-
facturers. He cited examples where i'm
porters had brought in cheap foreign
goods and marked up retail prices as
high as 1900 per cent, pocketing the
profits and giving consumers no OPP
portunity to buy the articles for what
they were worth.
Statements of Democrats raising a
doubt as to the need of increased duties
prompted him to vote for the tax data
proposal, he said.
Also speaking for the resolution,
Senator Walsh, Democrat, MaSsachu-
sets, said the "say-so of a petitioner"
was not the evidence upon which to
base tariff reviSions. They should be
founded on the solemn sworn financial
statements" of the petitioners, filed
when the tariff was not before Congress,
he said.
Contending it was absolutely self
evident that the tax statistics were rele-
want to the subject at hand. Senator
La Toilette, Republican, Wisconsin, said
he believed the returns would show
wide discrepancies when compared with
figures furnished by corporations to
; financial publications.
He denied the contention of Senators
Smoot and Reed that the information
sought already was available in business
manuals, declaring the Aluminium Co.
OF America, of which Secretary Mellon
was director before he entered the
Treasury Department, was not among
those companies providing these publi-
cations with balance sheets and income
accounts.
Text of Resolution.
The text of the Simmons resolution
follows:
Resolved, that the committee on
finance is directed forthwith to request
the Secretary of the Treasury, pursuant
TO the authority vested in it under the
internal revenue laws, to furnish the
committee at the earliest practicable
date statement in detail for each of
the taxable years of 1922 to 1923, in
elusive, of
The profits or losses, as the case
may b., and separate statement for
each OF said years of each of the fol-
lowing items:
Gross sales from trading or manu-
featuring less goods returned, and any
allowances or discounts from the sale
and price.
"A-Inventory at beginning and close
Of each year.
"B-Merchandise bought for sale each
year.
Cost of manufacturing or other
wise producing goods, separately, %
salaries and wages exclusive OF com,
pensation of officers, (2) material and
supplies, 90 compensation of officers,
and separately the total amount for
each year returns are made as shown
by the information filed, giving the de-
terminable income of $1,000 or more
per single person, $500 or more per
married person, classified as follows, Ca
salaries (b) wages, exclusive OF COM
pensation Of officers, of the tax payers
whose names the committee, or the ma
jority or minority members thereof,
may from time to time during the con-
sideration by the Congress of the pend
ing tariff legislation transmit to the
Secretary as being the names OF tax
payers whose business is, in the opinion
of the committee, or of the majority or
minority members thereof, affected by
the pending tariff legislation.
I'm so far as such profits or losses |
are contained in or shown by the in
come tax and capital stock tax returns
of such taxpayers, segregated so far as
may be possible, to show the profits |
or losses, as the case may be, in the |
several branches or departments Of the |
business of such taxpayers"
Those voting for the resolution were;
Republicans-Blaine, Borah. Brookhart, |
Capper, Couzens, Frazier Glenn. How
Nary, Norris, Nye, Pine, Robinson of !
Indiana, Sackett, Schall, Steiwer,
Thomas of Idaho and Vandenberg-21 |
Observation-Disclosures, Barley, Black, |
Brock, Broussard Connally, Dill, Fletch- |
er, George, Glass, Harris, Harrison,
Hayden, Hefiin, King, Mcclellan, Over.
man, Pittman Ransdell, Robinson OF
Arkansas, Sheppard, Simmons. Steck,
OWdnSoIl, 1ldlihueh' Ay0lASo, WoSHA'
Walsh of Massachusetts,, Walsh of Mon
tana and Wheeler-30.
Against the resolution: Republicans
Allen, Bingham, Dale, Edge. FeSs,
Gillett, Golf, Goldsborough, Gould,
Greene, Hale, Hastings, Hatfield, Hebert,
Kean, Reyes, Metcalf, Moses, Patter-
son, Phipps. Shortridge, Smoot. Town.
send, Walcott, Warren, Waterman and
Watson-27.
Democrats-None.