The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-05-13
From Capitol Hill
Ey EARL II. LEWIS, NC.
18th Ohio District
The House Passes A Tax Bill


House of Representatives plunged into
the controversial tax question and
| finally succeeded IL passing a tax bill
which is now under consideration by
the Senate. The measure which passed
was a compromise bill, much nearer
in form and purpose to the Republican,
sponsored Carlson Bill than to the Adj
ministration bill reported out by the
Ways and Means Committee. The fight
in the House over the tax question was
hard and close one The Republicans
generally supported the Carlson Bill,
which was a modified version of the
Ruml Plan with protective features
against windfallS and eXorbitant
profits written into it. No one can be
certain what the Senate will enact
by the Senate early this week, then
the differences will he irOned out be-
tween the House and the Senate bills,
and we may look forward soon to
knowing what the new tax law will be.
Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act
The question of The renewal of the
Reciprocal Trades Agreements Act
will be debated in the House of Repre-
Scntatives this week and promises to
be another interesting controversy.
House last Friday in opposition to the
extension Of the Reciprocal Trade
Agreements Act unless certain safe
guards are imposed 10 protect Ameri-
can workers and our American indus
tries. Pointing out that, in reality the
recovery in international trade has
been greater with those nations with
whom the United States has mo agree
menS than it has with those nations
with which we have trade agreements 3:
and that our recovery of international
trade was due to general recovery
throughout the entire world previous
to the beginning of the present war in
Europe, your Congressman cited figures
on exports and imports prepared by
the Department OF Commerce to prove
his assertions.
He proposed that IN amendment to
the bill seeking renewal of the Re
ciproca Trades Agreements Act should
first forbid the lowering of any duty
on any competitive foreign products
which will result IN the entry of these
competitive foreign products into the
domestic market at prices which are
less than the cost of production of like
or similar domestic products. Second,
that no foreign trade agreements shall
be made which reduce the existing
United States tariff duty on any com
petitive foreign agricultural product
when the average wholesale price of
the comparable domestic product is
less than the parity price therefor, as
determined by the Secretary of Agri-
culture. And third, that no trade agree
ment shall become effective before the
expiration of 60 legislative days after
the date of its submission to Congress,
and not thereafter if, during such
period either branch of the Congress
shall have adopted a resolution dis
approving such agreement
Management OF Our War Program
The most recent report of the Senate
Committee to investigate the War Pro
gram is very fortnight and frank i'm
pointing out what Members of Com
various citizens have been saying for
months, namely, that the officials di-
recting the war effort are muddlinS
along without any well-knit OrganiZa-
tion capable of shaping strategy on
the home front. II seems Il most appro-
pirate time To display on the home
front Il little of the team work." 4
term made famous by our countrymen
throughout the world, in the decisions
which shape and are Il part of the
basic war strategy. Senator Truman
and his committee wisely made no eff
fort to StrAighten out the controversy
which developed in the rubber-octanc
GaSoline-rScort vessel program. Neither
Congress NOR th" public can properly
decide issues OF This nature, many of
them of Il secret character. The Ad-
miniSiratiOn certainly ought to Use
some means of setting its house in
order" Immediately. 1t seems that if
the recommendations of the Truman
committee could be accepted by the
President in the spirit in which they
were made, ii would mean the eStab,
lishment of war cabinet worthy of th,
namc
New Regulations For Mailing
To S@rvicemen
Under new regulations issued last