Evening Star Newspaper, December 9, 1928, Page 28

28 $389.833 REFUND PAID 0 COUZENS Receipt of Check Ends In- come Tax Dispute Based on Ford Motor Stock. @y the Associated Press. The Treasury's attempt to obtain an additional $10,000,000 income tax pay- ment from Senator Couzens, Republican, ‘Michigan, ended yesterday with the re- ceipt by the Senator of a check for $989,833 from the Government as a refund on his income tax. The refund payment ended a bitterly fought contest between the Govern- ment and the original holders of Ford Motor Co. stock, including Senator Couzens, which started almost four years ago, simultaneously with the pub- iic dispute waged by Secretary Mellon and the Senator over administration of tax matters. Whether that dispute between the Republican leaders which started over the merits of a contention by the Treas- ury head on tax reductions is ended by the termination of the court contest was not clear tonight. Senator Couz- ens still has before the Senate a reso- lution asking for the resignation of Mr. Mellon for maladministration. Sena- tor La Follette, Republican, Wisconsin, also has a resolution asking an inquiry of the Government tax suit against Senator Couzens. Treasury Silent. Treasury officials were silent yester- day on the entire case, word of the re- fund coming from outside sources. It was confirmed by Senator Couzens, whose son collected the Government's check today in Detroit. “This is a concrete piece of evidence,” the Senator said in confirming the re- fund, “of the mismanagement of the Bureau of Internal Revenue under the test Secretary of the Treasury since Alexander Hamilton’s time.” “If Congress is able to compute the entire losses to the Government under such management,” he declared, “it will be found to have run into the hundreds of thousands. It is this power in the Treasury Department to punish any one who disagrees with them which has in- timidated thousands of taxpayers who otherwise would feel free to criticize.” Charges of Government. The Government charged the Ford stockholders had overvalued the orig- inal worth of their stock in computing their profits on sales in 1919, on which taxes were paid in 1920. Five years later, just a few days before the statue of limitations had run, the Government instituted suit for collection of $33,000,- 000 additional tax from the stockhold- ers. This was just at the time Mr. Mel- Jon and the Senator were quarreling, The case was lost by the Government both in the Federal Court and before the Board of Tax Appeals. The board held that in place of the additional as- .sessment _the stockholders were entitled o the refund. Senator Couzens alone paid an in- THE Toa = rw-mieraeie TSR SUNDAY STAR, , GLORIFYING THE CHRISTMAS GIFT,..&:(‘%&&& FTS THAT HOMES WILL TREASUR WASHINGTON, D. 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Rayon Satin Bed Sets, $18.75 come tax of between $7,000,000 and $8,000,000 on his profits from Ford stock 500 New Gift Lamps A beautiful set, indeed, of a high lustrous quality with exquisite tonings of rose, blue, gold, helio and gold! It's half-oval pillow that crosses the entire bed is_deeply BOULDER DAM UNITY IS EXPECTED SOON Conferences Started to Compose California and Arizona Differences. be adjusted. A series of conferences has been started by _those interested in the legis- lation to compose the different views of California and Arizona with regard to tion and construction of without delay. The plan was to bring the two fac- tions together yesterday, buf since a Saturday session had bee: was A the Senate. He expressed hope and favorable action on the measure. GROUP NAMED TO ADVISE AGAINST SLASH IN PAY Federal Bar Committee to Ask No Qut in Salaries of Profes- sional Employes. The executive committee of the Fed- eral Bar Association at a meeting yes- terday afternoon in the office of the nt, W. R. Vallance in the State rtment, appointed a committee consisting of Mr. Vallance, J. E. Dowin, George A. Warren and Thomas G. Shearman, to urge upon Representa- tive Lehlbach, chairman of the House civil service committee; Representative Anthony, chairman of the House ap- committee, and Senator chairman of the Senate civil serv- ice committee, that no reduction be made in the salaries of professional em- as recetved by the Welch bill. It was pointed out, in resolutions adopted, that the salaries paid for pro- fessional services in the Government service as not as high as those paid in private concerns. The next meeting will be held De- gember 18 at the Interior Department when Assistant Attorney General George R. Farnum will deliver an address. $50,000 SUIT FILED. @fan Cites Arrest in Action to Recover Damages. H. L. Rust and Mildred A. 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