Evening star., 1937-06-10
BY JAMES f. CHINN.

The Kennedy omnibus bill to raise
$4,000 900 additional taxes for the Dis
trict was in shape today for considera-
tlor by the House, but whether the
income tax section of the bill pro-
Vldes exemption for members of Con-
gress, Government employees who vote
back home and other legal non-resi-
dents still apparently was in doubt.
Late yesterday the District Commit
tee, on the insistence of Representative
Hull OF Wisconsin that members of
Congress would not vote to tax their
own salaries. was virtually forced 10
adopt an amendment defining legal"
residents Of the District as subject TO
taxation.
However, the section of the bill
which specifically provides for colIec-
ton Of taxes from incomes received in
the District by persons not residents
here still remains. Tax authorities
pointed out today that this section
still would tax salaries of members of
Congress.
DirkSen to Seek Clarity.
ANS pi dl4NE LII hStI. FpDuDIlCdn.
OF Illinois. champion of the income
tax plan, pointed out meanwhile that
ne would make an effort TO have these
provisions clarified in the House be-
fore the bill is finally passed.
AS approved by the full committee
the program is virtually in the shape
in which the special tax subcommittee
noOn1Hp1 ~
exemptions.
Due Up Next Monday.
Chairman Norton of the District
committee announced she would call
the tax bill up in the House Monday,
the next so-Called District dav" and
urge its speedy passage so the Senate
VIII have time to act on it before
July l, the beginning of the new
fiscal year. Mrs. Norton said she be-
lieved public hearings should have
been held on the completed bill, but
the time now is too short to turn
it over to business and civic organiza-
tlonS for critical examination.
A favorable report on the bill was
ordered by the committee only after
it had been attacked from 1890
O'Clock yesterday morning until about
$50 pm. Nearly every attempt to
riddle the bill with amendments was
beaten down, largely because only
nine of the 81 members were present
most of the time, and of those, five
were members of the subcommittee
which framed the tax program.
The income tax plan was the prin-
cipal target of attack. The proposed
business privilege tax with its plan
for taxing gross receipts at 3-5 Of
one per cent also drew considerable
fire, as did a provision that will dump
into the special gasoline tax fund
instead of the general revenues where
the deficit will exist, sum of
81 500. 900 expected to be raised by
motor vehicle weight tax.
Income Plan Amended.
The provision IN the income tax
| plan that would force members OF
Congress to pay the levy, was snlped
at throughout the day. Finally. the
committe agreed to eliminate it on tbs
insistenCe of Hull. On second thought,
however, the committee voted to re-
consider its action, and then proceeded
to restore the provision to the bill.
But Hull did not give up. He vlr-
tually forced the committee then TO
adopt the amendment which stipulates
| the tax shall be levied only upon every
legal resident of the District as
herein defined" But the bill does
not contain a definition of legal
resident There is definition of
resident" which reads; The term
resident in its application to in
dividualS, shall mean any natural