Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-09-10

now 0uTk6 dIlu dIlcy 1lOt Oliiy
want Norris elected-they want
Carpenter defeated. They might
not admit it, but either would far
prefer the election of the regular Re-
publican, Robert G. Simmons, to a
victory by Carpenter-especially as
the Democratic majority in the up
per house will be top-heavy for the
next two years anyhow, regardless
of what may happen in this cleo
ton.
Attacked Mullen
Carpenter has made himself par
ticularly obnoxious to Farley and
Burke by attacking Arthur F. Null
len. 1t will be recalled that Mullen
was a Democratic national COM
mitteeman for many years until the
famous purge of the committee
the assertion at the White House
that members of the national COM
mittee should not hold federal Of
fees, and should not lobby!
Aimed at somebody else, it hit
both Farley and Mullen, much to
the distress of the White House.
Mullen did not want to resign,
thought the clamor was foolish, but,
the White House having spoken,
the reporters kept after him. So
he finally did,
Mullen kept right on represent
ing this and that interest in Wash
ington, his influence being impaired
not one whit by the mere fact that
he had resigned. Public Works Adj
ministrator Harold S. Ickes resent
ed the size of some fees Mullen
was demanding from PWA prof.
ects, and wanted to cut couple
of them from $4,000 to some I'M
named reasonable figure.
But Mullen sued. The project
did not fight in court, and Mullen
collected.
Mullen is by way of being Jim
Farley's lieutenant. Burke is by
way of being Mullen's lieutenant.
He was put in as national commit
teeman in Mullen's place when Null
len resigned.
So when Carpenter hits Mullen,
talking about his lobbying, his fees,
ETC., he hits both Farley and Burke.
All of which adds considerably to
such gayety as can exist in oven
like Nebraska. ...,5l.
Add to Debt
Between three and four billion
dollars will be added to the nation
al debt next year if the promise is
kept that was made after the spec
tacular White House conference be-
tween President Roosevelt, Secre-
tary of the Treasury Henry Nor
genthau, Jr., Chairman Pat Harri-
son of the senate finance commit
tee, and Chairman Robert l..
Doughton, of the house ways and
means committee is kept.
The only alternative is for the
government simply to eliminate
federal relief appropriations next
year-not cut them down, but cut
them out. No one either politically
or economically minded believes
the administration has the slightest
thought of doing this.
Which leaves the situation where
it was. The present tax law, after
it's revision toward the end of the
last session, was calculated to do
certain specific things. The addi-
tional revenue it was to provide
was to make up the loss of the AAA
processing taxes, to make up the
one year already passed in which
those processing taxes had not
been received, and to make up the
additional cost of payment of the
bonus some years ahead of pre-
vious calculations.
This means that the present tax
law was and is calculated to bal
ance the federal get-except for
relief appropriations.
Relief appropriations include
WPA, PWA, CCC, the Tugwell re-
settlement, and half a dozen other
spending agencies. They are rum
ming at the rate of between three
and four billion dollars a year.
So the calculation was that the
total of taxes taken in each year
would meet all other government
expenses, but that those for relief
should be classified as emergency,
and should be paid for by going in
to debt-selling additional bonds
on which interest must be paid.
Much Opposition
incidentally, it is this very last
point on which Father Coughlin and
Representative William Lemke,
candidate for President on the
Coughlin ticket, are most bitter.
They believe that such expenditures
should be financed with paper mon
ey issued by the Treasury, to be re-
deemed when the government de-
sires, but on which no interest
should be paid in the meantime.
Incidentally lots of people would
favor this plan, which would so
greatly reduce the tax burden now
and the much greater tax burden to
come-regardless of any promises
which may be made-if it were not
for fear that, once embarked on a
career of printing press money, the
government could not stop. They
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