The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-04
HOUSE PASSES
TAX BILL; GOES
TO BALL GAME
Billion Dollar Measure to
Balance Budget Ready
for Senate.
NOT EVEN RECORD VOTE
ThunderouS Chorus of
Ayes GreetS Question
After Tariff Battle.
Press

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON. June 4-The
house today passed the completed
S1,1l9, 900 900 budget balancing tax
bill, speeding the new revenue meas
ure along the road to final enact
ment.
Only the necessity for formal SEN
ate approval now remains between
the bill and its dispatch to the
White House for President Hoover's
signature.
The measure, most drastic OF
peace-time tax bills, will put into
operation scores of special levies-
including higher income taxes-cal-
culated by the treasury to provide
sufficient revenue to place the fed
eral government on pay-as-it-goes
basis.
No Record Vote
Despite threats of opposition to
the revenue measure, the bill finally
was approved without even the for
mality of record vote.
Speaker John N. Garner put the
question and a thunderous chorus
of ayes" answered. No one in
opposition rose TO challenge the
vote or ask for a record roll call.
The house adjourned Immediate
ly after the vote, members rushing
out of the chamber in order to reach
the local ball park where Demo-
cratic and Republican congressional
baseball teams are battling for the
house championship.
Bitter disputes over tariff items
today slowed down final house
action.
Majority Leader Henry T. Raj
ney applied the spark which set of
the oratorical explosion when he
bolted his own leadership to al. ok
the import duties levied in the dill
upon lumber, coal, copper and oil.
Charges Surrendered
The house conferees, Rainey
said. had surrendered" to the sem
ate on the tariff items. and imper-
lied American foreign trade by
antagonizing Canada with a heavy
duty on lumber.
Rainey was answered in a bitter
partisan speech by Representative
Allen T. Treadway (Rep., MSss),
who shouted down an avalanche a.
Democratic boos and Kisses to re-
ply.
The tariff items in the tax bill.
n e1f -.
party in a position where it never
can criticise the Republicans again
for their high tariff principles.
Acting Chairman Charles r. Crisp
Of the ways and means committee
presented the tax bill, when the
house convened two hours earlier
than usual, under a rule calling
for three hours of debate. Crisp
asked approval of the bill, even If
some of its levies we're obnoxious"
Predicts Market War
Rainey next took the floor to fay
the tariff items in the revenue bill.
Because of these, he said, he had
not felt free to sign the conference
report.
He predicted the lumber industry
would suffer from the tariff as
Canada will begin to compete with
us on the world markets"
These tariff provisions. ne said,
will complete the ruin Of our for
eign trade that the Hawley- Smoot
act started"
Treadway, answering Rainey. was
palapably angry when Representa-
tive George Huddleston Dem. Ala1
accused him of stirring up the
"booes" by injecting partisan poll
tics into the discussion" replied:
The partisan politics in the house
come from the fact that the Speak
er is trying to run for the presi-
dency."
Crisp Is AppIauded
Further shots disrupted proceed
ings.
Crisp drew applause from the Re-
publican side Of the house when he
referred to his advocacy of the gen.
eral manufacturers sales tax.
The completed revenue bill, he
said contains s457 100000 Of special
sales taxes on selected articles, in
stead Of the general sales lew
broad IN base and more equitable"
contained in the original committee
bill.
IF you levied tax of 100 per cent
on incomes under present condi-
tons" he said, you could not get
enough money to balance the bud
get. Thus, congress was forced to
lay some kind Of taxes that are
sales taxes"