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President Garner announced its defeat
without calling for the "noes."
The seven votes in opposition on
final passage were Barbour, Dick1n-
son, Hale, Hastings, Hebert, Keyes
and Townsend, all Republicans.
Roll Call on Passage.
Those voting for passage were:
Democrats-Adams, Ashurst, Bach
man, Bailey, Bankhead, Barkley,
Bone, Brown, Byrd, Byrnes, Clark,
Connally, Costigan, Dill, Duffy, Har-
rison, Hatch, Hayden, King, Lewis,
Logan, Lonergan, Long. McGill, NC
Kellar. Murphy, Nicely, OMahoney,
Overton, Pope. Reynolds. Russell,
Sheppard, Stephens, Thompson, Van
NuyS, Wagner and WaSh-38.
Republicans for-Capper, Couzens,
Cutting, Davis, Frazier, Gibson, La
Toilette, McNary, Norris, Nye, Rob-
inson (Indiana), Schall, Steiwer and
Vandenberg-14.
-ShipStead-l.
Grand total for-53.
Those paired or announced for the
bill included Black, Borah, Coolidge,
Dieterich, Wheeler, Fletcher, Tram
nell.
Those paired or announced against
the bill included Goldsborough, Hat
field, White and Patterson.
Another important vote of the day
was one of So to 10 to refuse to re-
consider the Borah amendment ap-
proved yesterday repeating the pres
ent privilege of corporations to file
consolidated returns for themselves
and subsidiaries.
Borah said this privilege was main
tanned distinctly for the benefit Of
the great holding companies"
Senator King, Democrat, of Utah,
won approval of an amendment elm
mating the excise tax on candy.
Compulsory publicity for all in
come tax returns was voted Al to "a
by the Senate.
Senator La Toilette, Republican, of
Wisconsin, author of the proposal,
aided by Senator Norris, Republican,
of Nebraska, fought doggedly for the
proposal, the latter contending its real
purpose was to increase the honest
revenue of the Government"
This won't hurt a single citizen
and will bring millions of dollars into
the Treasury" Norris said.
La Toilette argued it would do
more to bring about the filing of
honest returns, more to prevent legal
lied forms Of tax lodging, than all
devices worked out by experts"
Publicity Change Vote.
The roll call on the publicity amend
ment follows:
Republicans for: Borah, Capper,
Couzens, Cutting, Dickinson, Frazier,
johnson, La Toilette, Norris, Nye, Pat
terson and Robinson Gndiana)-12.
Democrats for: Adams, AshurSt,
Bachman, Bone, Brown. Bulkley, Bu-
low, Caraway, Clark, Connally, Cos
tigan, Dill, Duffy, Erickson, George,
Gore, Hatch, Hayden, Logan, Long,
McKellar, Neely, O'Mahoney. Overton,
Pope, Reynolds. Sheppard and Thomas
(Oklahoma) )-28.
Farmer-Labor for: Shipstead-1.
Grand total for: Al.
Republicans against: Barbour, Carey,
Davis, Fess, Goldsborough, Hale, Hast
ings, Hebert, Keyes, McNary, Metcalf.
Schall, Steiwer, Townsend and VAN
denberg-15.
Democrats against: Bailey. Bank
head, Barkley. Byrd, Byrnes. Coolidge,
Copeland, Glass, Harrison, King,
Lewis, Lonergan, McGill. Murphy,
Smith, Thomas CUtah), Van Nuys,
Wagner and Walsh-19.
Grand total against: "a.
Main Section of Amendment.
The following is the main section
of the publicity amendment as
adopted by the Senate:
Returns made under this Gncome
taxi title upon which the tax has
been determined by the commits
sioner (of internal revenue) shall
constitute public records and shall
be open to public examination and
inspection under rules and regula-
tions promulgated by the Secretary
(of the Treasury and approved by
the President.
Whenever return is open to the
inspection of any person certified
copy thereof shall, upon request, be
furnished to any person under rules
and regulations prescribed by the
commissioner with the approval Of
the Secretary. The commissioner
may prescribe a reasonable fee for
furnishing such copy"
Earlier in the day approval was
given a finance committee provision
reducing from S to l cent per $100
the stamp tax on sales of produce
for future delivery. The committee
had reported this tax was "se-
riouSly interfering" with normal busi-
ness transactions on the commodity
exchanges.