Evening star., 1932-06-01
Britten Plans to
Offer Sales
Levy Again.
CONFEREES GET
MEASURE EARLY
Sl,ll5,OOO,OOO Now
Included in Rev.
enue Schedules.
3 the Associated Press

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The billion dollar tax bill was
sent to conference today between
the Senate and House for adjust
ment of differences between the
two branches. The House did this
by unanimous consent as soon as
the bill reached there from the
Senate, a few minutes after noon.
Thus Congress was speeding to
conclusion its greatest peace-tlme
task-that of balancing off a gap
ing Treasury deficit to preserve
the American dollar from foreign
attacks pictured by President
Hoover.
The House acted unanimously,
not instructing its conferees to
stand by this or that provision of
the original House bill. This will
expedite action by the conference.
House Conferees.
The conferees appointed for the
House are REPRESENTATIVES Collier,
Mississippi. Crisp, Georgia; Rainey
Illinois; Hawley. oregon, and Tread
way, Massachusetts. The latter two
are Republicans; the first three, DEM
ocratS
The Senate conferees. appointed in
the early hours of today just after the
Senate PISSED the bill. are: Senator's
Smoo;. Watson and Reed, Republicans,
and Harrison and King Democrats.
Meetings will get under way without
delav
Meanwhile. it was indicated another
attempt would be made to revive the
controversial general manufacturers
sales tax.
Representative Britten, Republican, cf
Illinois tod newspapermen today he
would use every possible means to
insert the sales tax in the bill. 1t hss
been rejected both by the House and
Senate.
Plans Amendment.
My amendment would let us insert
the sales tax as originally proposed by
the House Ways and Means Committee
and then emand It to eliminate the
necessities of life" Britten said.
What with all our nuisance and
other excise taxes, it seems to me that
We might well put in the sales tax and
get sound and sensible tax bill
Britten later introduced a resolution
providing for a rule which would make
in order a sales tax amendment. He
explained the adoption of the rule
would mean imposition of a 2.25 per
cent tax on the sale Of every article
sold in the United States by large
manufacturer or producer thereof, eX-
cepting foreign and garden products,
be Nd hOnEc
of religious reading, and material man.
ufactured exclusively for use in houses
of worship.
The acceptance of this tax, Britten
said. would provide s400,000000 in reve-
nue. and would make unnecessary any
increase in the existing income tax
rates in either the upper or lower
brackets. 1t would also make unneces-
sary, he said. lot of nuisance taxes
and stamp taxes now carried in the bill,
The revenue measure, designed to
raise S1,115 100000, was passed by the
Senate 20 minutes after midnight at
the conclusion of a l4-hour dramatic
session without parallel in recent Con-
crosses.
Responding to a suddenly planned
and personally delivered plea of Presi-
dent Hoover, the Senate swiftly built up
the bill by s280,o00,000 with the
eleventh hour addition of taxes on
gasoline and electricity and increased
income rates.
Passed Bill. - to IL.
1t turned a deaf ear to the President S
call for a manufacturers sales tax, de-
feating this by the decisive margin of
SO to 81 just before passing the bill by
the even wider margin of - to II.
The bill was dispatched to the House
for a conference to adjust many differ
ences. none of which we're expected to
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