Evening Star Newspaper, May 20, 1924, Page 11

e THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1924 T HALF-LOAF TAX CUT IS NOW IN PROSPECT Congress Seeking to Salvage Economy Pl'vgnm After Bonus Adds $135,000,000 Expense. TREASURY NOT DISCOURAGED Business Won't Be Worse Off and May Get Some Relief. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Congress having disposed finally of the principle that a bonus is due the ex-service men of the world war, the Dext turn in the tide of events is to the economic situation, which must result from su policy. Will tax reduction be imperiled? Will business gencrally be affected? The administration is not yet pre- Pared to answer those questions, but if no more appropriations are made the outlook will not be discuraging. In other words, the bonus is just one ©f a number of things which the ad- ministration has opposed in connec- tion with its drive for economy. Here 1s the outline of approximate costs: Bursum pension bill, §38.000,0 Postal bill, $100,000,000. McNary-Haugen bill, $200,000,000. Soldier bonus, $135,000,000 Total, $493,000,000. Expense Cut Imperative. The whole program of tax revision has been predicated on the idea of eutting about $40,000.000 from the tax bill of the American people. This means a change of approximately $893,000,000 in il in the fiscal affairs of the government, or nearly a bil- lion dollars. Tt is around und $493.000.000. That is the hell tu the question of whether the tax prozram is now in danger. as much is it the answer s of whether business ted. Abe Martin Says: |Bandits Rob Gypsy |250 WILL ATTEND Ther's lots difference between knowin’ ever'buddy in town an’ bein’ pop’lar. Ther's nobuddy so blind as th’ feller who thinks his straw hat is good enough fer another season. Father Time certainly steps on |it after we git all set an’ ready t’ live. _Gen. Sherman fergot t’ men- tion th’ few years succeedin’ a war. ht. John F. Dille Co.) big a sum as ry Mellon esti- mated would be p le when he laid before the country his original pro- posals, which did not contemplate a bonus or of the other items men- table given above. Of the total sum which can be cut it will ter considerably, o taxpayers of small-sized incomes whether th the reduction is giv. of course there is no tax reduction || at all there are those who fecl that business conditions cannot be ad- affected any more than®they ‘n under the present revenue 1 that the tax proposals of the present vear simply would im- proved the economic condition of the The net effect on the busir tion would be to maintain the quo without change in cither d tion unless a stimulus should © from a_settlement of European prob- the conserva- tive element in the Washington gov- ernment looks at the situation. Economies in Sight. But the chances are that all of the $493,000,000 outlined above will not be spent. Already the Bursum bill has been Kkilled by presidential veto. which was sustained by Congress. The McNary-Haugen bill may suffer the same fate, and there is a likelihood that the postal appropriations will not be as big a calculated at first. All this sho mit of some tax reduction in the but not Upholstering TO UPHOLSTER YOUR 3-PIECE PARLOR SUITC Your F - Made o Furniture e By our experts at prices which are 25 per cent lower than any other concern in Washington. Slip covers made to order. Special low price this month New York Upholstering Co. 619 F St. N.W. Phone. Write or Call Man Will Bring Samples Phone Main 3857 FOOT BURNING | Lies in the Joints || {When Joint-Ease Soaks In| lFoot Agony Gets Out—Quick 9 You can’t zet rid of sore, In- will be given the greater cut, but the lump sum which can be cut from the entire tax bill has been definitely af- ake and eat it, too ment expressed by the Tr Family of $12,000; Victims Attac By the Associated Press. UNIONTOWN, Pa, May 20— Twelve thousand dollars in gold and currency was the prize of four bandits who, posing as officers, early today raided a gypsy tent at Beeson, near here, accord- Ing to reports to county authori- ties. Mr. and Mrs. Ice Western and their seventeen-year-old daughter Anna, occupants of the tent, were attacked by the robbers, who struck them with the butts of their pistols. The bandits then searched a trunk and obtained a bag con- taining the money. As they left the tent the daugh- ter went in pursuit. She was knocked down by one of the rob- bers, suffering cuts on the face. The'men escaped {n an automo- e. struggles now with a revised tax pro- gram. It begins to look as if the tax bill of the country will not be cut by|! much more than half what was orig- inally estimated. Not only has Con- gress shown a tendency to depart from the budget, but the inevitable expenditure for the soldier bonus was not taken into account when the tax bills were passed through both houses of Congress. en the tax bill emerges from conterence it will have to stand the test of the actuaries as to whether it will produce the needed revenues including the soldiers’ bonus. The estimates vary and it is of course impossible at the moment to tell what kind of bill will come out of conference. Some of the serious and extreme cuts in taxes will no doubt be abandoned and more attention will be given to productive rather than vote-getting taxes. Otherwise the bill will be vetoed. Speaking of vetoes, the White House is likely to send a veto to Congress on the immigration bill, which, how- ever, has not enough support to come a law over a veto, in which case a resolution extending the pres- ent act for a year would be passed. The President is not disturbed over the way both houses of Congreas have thwarted his wishes in the bonus. He is learning something new every day—and one thing he has been taught by this experience is that the time to influence individual senators and representatives is not after a veto message has been sent them, but before they actually commit them- selves on the original vote for first passage. Trip #315 Including first cabin accom: tions, meals o Other fares: Secon: shi d cabin 8238 effective to (‘:xcb:r“slu. Eastbound, PANAMA Paciric Line | Fap R. M. HICKS, 1208 F Street N.W.. Mer. Washington Four out of Five is Pyorrhea’s toll Be the one to escape— brush your teeth with Forhan’s Pyorrhea can be successfully fought. You need not pay the price in lost teeth and broken health as four persons out of every five past 40, and thou- PARK CONFERENCE Capital Delegation Plans for Gath- ering in Gettysburg, Pa., May 26-28. 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