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chairman of the House Committee
on Civil Service.
Representative Emanuel Celler
CD New York, also has offered
several measures dealing with
post office employees, one Of which
would provide for an increase in
pay for virtually all of those in
the postal service and another
which would raise the compensa'
ton OF janitors and other lower
bracket post office employees.
Retirement Measure
He also is sponsoring legisla-
ton which would permit any Gov
ernment employe to retire volun-
tarily after 80 years Of service,
regardless Of age, and another
making more flexible the laws
regulating the reappointment OF
employees to regular positions in
Government service.
Creation of a department Of ma
tional defense, a department OF
science, art and literature and a
national bureau of fine arts are
proposed in measures offered on
the opening day Of Congress.
Creation of department Of ma
tional defense, proposed in a bill
offered by Representative Gerald
Boileau CP.) of Wisconsin contem-
plates the consolidation of the
Army, Navy and Marine Corps into
one departmental agency with but
one Cabinet officer representing
the three groups.
Representative william I. Siro-
vich CD Of New York, chairman
of the House Committee on Pat
ents, is sponsoring the measure
designed to create a department
of science, art and literature. Un-
der it would be placed such agen-
cies as the Bureau of Standards,
the Patent Office and the copy
right division as we'll as various
other governmental groups now
dealing with arts of all kinds.
Fine Arts Bureau
The proposal for the creation OF
8 national bureau of fine arts is
sponsored by Representative AL
lard H. GaSque CD of South Caro-
lima.
Representative Carl Mapes (R0
Of Michigan today had placed be-
fore the House five measures call
ing for increased taxes in the Dis
trict and repeating the all-but-for-
gotten 60-40 governing the Federal
contribution to the District.
The probability that action may
come on his, or some other pro-
posal, that will repeal the inactive
6O-4O law is seen in view Of the
fact that a report is due within a
few days from the Presidents COM
mittee studying local fiscal rela-
tions. In this report, recommea-
dation will be carried, it is eX-
pected, setting definitely just how
much Of the local financial burden
the Federal Government should
carry. Action on this no doubt
will repeal the old dormant 60-40
law.
Income Tax Plan
One of his measures would
repeal the present intangible per-
sonal property tax law, which,
he believes, is virtually nonpro-
ductive, and would substitute an
income tax. It is believed
scarcely possible, however, that
Congress will enact an income
tax law for the District, as there
is very little sentiment on Capt.
tol Hill for this type Of local
taxation.
Another would provide an In
heritance tax in the District, and
likewise, it is believed to have
little chance of gaining congreS-
Sional approval.
The other two, however, seem
likely to find support in Confress.
One would raise the local gaSo-
line tax by cents a gallon,
thus making the tax 4 cents a
gallon and the other contem-
plates a registration tax for au-
tomobiles based on weight.