Evening star., 1935-08-05
Senate Plans to Begin
Hearings on New Meas
ure Tomorrow.
JACKSON WILL APPEAR
TO EXPLAIN POLICIES
c. of C. Asks to Be Heard in 0p-
position C. 0. P. Move to
Pigeon Hole Easily Beaten.
BY JOHN c. HENRY.


The belated administration tax bill,
imposing increased levies on high in
dividual and corporation incomes and
on inheritanceS and gifts, was passed
by the House early this afternoon and
sent to the Senate. The vote was an
nOunced as 282 to &c.
The action came after the House
easily beat down a Republican at
tempt to pigeOn-hole the tax measure
in the Ways and Means Committee.
There was not even a standing vote
on this motion. made by Representa-
tive Treadwsy, Republican, of Massa-
chuSettS, ranking minority member Of
the committee
Eighteen Democrats declined to fol-
low the majority leadership in ap-
proval Of the legislation and regis
tered their votes against the bill They
were balanced exactly, however, b.
an equal number of Republicans who
voted for passage of the measure.
Democrats Jump Lines.
The Democrats jumping party lines
were Biermann and Wearin of Iowa.
Bland. Burch. Darden. Smith and
Robertson Of Virginia. Dempsey Of New
Mexico, Gavagan of New York, Gran
field Of Massachusetts. Greever Of
wyoming. Jenckes of Indiana, Klebcrg
Of Texas, Lamneck Of Ohio, Lanham
Of Texas, Russell of Massachusetts,
Smith OF West Virginia and Dutphin
Of New Jersey.
The Republicans who followed the
Democratic leadership were: Andre
sen, Minnesota; Brewster. Maine:
Burdick and Lemke of North Dakota
Carlson, Guyer, Hope and Lambert
son of Kansas: Ekwall oregon; Gil
christ, Gwynne and Thurston OF
Iowa; Marcantonio of New York;
Mott of Oregon; Pittenger Of Min
neSota; Rich of Pennsylvania: Stefan
of Nebraska and welch of California
Seven Progressives and three Farm
er-LaboriteS, full delegations of these
parties. all voted in favor of the bill.
The ProgreSsives are Amlie, Sauthoff.
Witherow, Boileau. Schneider, Hull
and Gehrmann. all of Wisconsin The
Farmer-LaboriteS are Lundeen, Kvale
and Buckler, all of Minnesota.
Meanwhile, on the Senate side OF
| the Capitol it was announced that
the Finance Committee will delay un-
til tomorrow its further consideration
Of the House bill. At that time, it is
| expected that Robert H. jackson,
counsel for the Bureau of Internal
Revenue, will appear to discuss tech
nicalities of the pending measure and
tax policy.
c. Of c. to Be Heard.
| Representatives OF the United
States Chamber of Commerce have
requested an opportunity to be heard
in opposition to the bill, and it is
expected that they will appear be-
fore the committee Wednesday.
1t is the hope of the committee to
complete hearings on that day. and
to get at the actual drafting of it's
version of the bill by Friday. Judg-
ing from the tenor of the question
ing by committee members during
hearings last week, it Is considered
likely that several major changes will
be made in the bill as passed by the
| House
In the latter form, the legislation
departs in several respects from the
recommendations made to Congress
by President Roosevelt Among the
ma jor differences is that the increase
in surtax rates starts with the $50
900 income bracket instead of the
81 ,000, 900 bracket: that the gradua-
tion Of corporation income taxes is
in a range Of l per cent only instead
Of per cent; that provision is made
for new excess profits taxes, but that
none is made for inter-company divi-
dend taxes, and that corporations are
allowed tax exemption up to S per
cent Of their net income on gifts to
charity.
President Overruled.
The latter revision, approved at
the suggestion of the House Com
mittee during consideration Of the
measure on the floor Saturday, is in
direct contradiction to the expressed
wishes of President Roosevelt. 1t
was estimated by some that such
exemption would decrease revenue
from the bill by $50 100000. In the
form submitted to the House, the
legislation was expected to produce
an additional $27O. 900 900 in revenue.
As the bill headed out of the House
toward the Senate, Senator Barbour.
Republican, of New Jersey, opened an
attack on it.
Votes, and votes alone, are the
objective of this half-baked measure"
he said in . statement.
mo Relation to Income"
Declaring the bill "has no relation
to making income meet outgo, but is
intended to accomplish some weird
social objective" Barbour continued:
Never in the history Of this country
has a more fiagrant proposal to violate
all these tenetS (of sound taxation)
and to misuse the taxing power come
ICoa TIL no-o