The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-26

the con1ereeS Will act specify and
rush the measure to President
Eisenhower. The deadline for the
Presidents signature is next
Wednesday midnight.
Some Identical Cuts
Both branches voted identical
cuts on many items, so they are
certain to be in the final compro-
mise version.
They include furS, jewelry, hand
bags and luggage, cosmetics, sport
ing goods, admission tickets to
movies costing over 60 cents, train
bus-plane passenger fares, tele-
phone bills, telegraph charges,
mechanical pens and pencils,
lighters and electric light bulbs.
Millikin and other Republican
leaders predicted the President
will sign the bill, although the
administration urged against the
excise cuts.
The billion-donar loss in revenue
will add that much to the $780,
000, 900 deficit already forecast for
the new financial year starting
July l.
The bill also extends for a year,
to April 4, 1855, a series of 1851
increases in major excuses. These
will bring in 81, O77, OOO, 900 in added
revenue. But the President had
counted on this in figuring his next
years budget. Involved are auto
mobiles and trucks, gasoline, to-
bacco, liquor and beer.
Senate Changes
AS the House passed the mea-
sure, it cut variety of excuses
by 912 million dollars. The Senate
eliminated few House reductions,
but made other big ones of its own.
The House voted reductions for
admissions to horse, dog tracks;
to night clubs and other caba-
rets, and for club dues, safety
deposit boxes and pistols. The Sen
ate rejected these. They will have
to be threshed out in conference.
The two biggest items in dispute
will be a 100-million-dollar slash
voted by the Senate on such house
hold appliances as refrigerators,
stoves and electric irons and 65-
million-dollar cut through wiping
out of the admissions tax on movie
tickets and others costing less than
so cents. The House voted to cut
the admissions levy from 20 to 10
per cent.
Some congressional sources indi-
Gated one likely compromise on
this might be to eliminate the re-
duction on appliances but to accept
the Senate provision on the lower
priced tickets.
Heavy Cuts Deplored
Senators Byrd (D-Va) and Will
liams (R-DeD won a surprising
amount of support in the Senate
last night for a move to knock out
all of the cuts in the bill except
the PIT million on admissions.
They charged it was irresponsi-
BILE to cut taxes heavily in the
present perilous world situation
and with the budget unbalanced
this wear and npYt
Byrd argued that highly secret
Armed Services Committee brief
ing yesterday on the nations de-
lenses indicated the country may
be facing heavier spending for its
protection in a hydrogen-bomb,
jet-plane age.
The Byrd-Williams amendment
lost 54-36.
The Senate beat down by larger
votes efforts of a group of Demo-
cratic senators to cut auto excuses
from 10 to 7 per cent, an aggre-
gate of 275 million dollars, and to
trim 80 million by cutting in half
the 10 per cent levieS on television
and radio sets and monographs.
The auto proposal lost 1925; the
radio-TV one, 64-23.
Sen. Douglas (D-IlD and other
sponsors argued these were
needed stimulus to business and
employment in an economic down.
swing. They got some Republican
support, notably from Sen. Cape
hart (R-Ind).
However, most of the Democrat
ic argument in the final debate
was centered on an attempt to pin
down the administration position
On the cuts.
Majority Leader Knowland (R-
Calif) said he was sure the Presi-
dent would sign the bill and that
to this extent he favored it. Sen.
SaltoRstaH (R-Mass) said it was
his understanding from White
House meetings that the admins
tration fought the cuts Just as
hard as they could"