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...same way with Congress. It removes its black felt political hat, scratches its earnest political head and wonders: "Shall we have Mellon's tax reduction? Shall we have Garner's? Shall we have a bonus?" The sanity of the proceeding depends entirely on how much surplus revenue there is to play with. And the amount of surplus revenue depends on an estimate. Mr. Mellon of the Treasury Department offered the estimate. According to his estimate, Congress may sanely ask: "Shall we have one?or rather, shall we have the Mellon bill?" To speak of the Garner bill...
Representative Garner, senior Democrat on the Ways and Means Committee, ejaculated: "I have never questioned a Treasury estimate before, but in view of the $1,000,000,000 mistake*, while the previous bonus was under consideration, in addition to the errors which have crept into recent estimates, I can place no further confidence in Treasury information. This is a form of immorality which, unfortunately, cannot be punished unless the man happens to be under oath...
...soldier bonus, the idea of which was sidetracked by the House Ways and Means Committee in order to expedite the tax reduction, was again shunted back onto the main line. By a vote of 16 to 4, the Committee decided that a bonus bill would be reported and then fell to quarreling as to what form the bonus would take. The old form of bill with its alternative of insurance, vocational training, farm and home aid, etc., appeared to have been thrown into the discard. Insurance-probably paid up endowment insurance-will apparently be the main feature of the bill...
...colleges in question are Robert College in Constantinople and the University of Beirut in Syria. Both colleges have as their purpose, not the Americanizing of the natives, but furnishing them with cultural and scientific training. The salary will be $600 with all expenses paid and a $75 bonus for the summer vacation...
...take the grip of Wall Street off the Treasury Department .... prompt railway re-forms .... something instead of talk for agriculture .... to reduce internal revenue taxes .... legislation setting up a labor code .... a sound and just tariff measure .... to put the prohibition force under civil service rules .... adjusted compensation [bonus] for veterans...