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...first place, there is the proposal that there be a bonus and a partial tax reduction. The Republican insurgents and a good proportion of the regulars of both parties favor this proposal, and there is no doubt that it will break party lines. The success of this proposal will depend entirely on whether a bonus bill can be passed- and that hinges on two or three votes one way or another to pass or defeat passage of a bonus over the President's assumed veto...
...regarded as certain that the Ways and Means Committee of the House would take up the case of a soldier bonus before considering Secretary Mellon's tax reduction plan. When the Committee met in its first session, a motion was made to consider tax reduction first. At once the advocates of the bonus made five counter propositions-for considering the bonus first, for considering the bonus when Congress reassembles on Jan. 3, etc.-and all five, were defeated...
...vote was 15 to 8, 14 Republicans and two Democrats voting for immediate consideration of tax reduction, six Democrats and one Re- publican insurgent (Frear of Wisconsin) voting "bonus first," and two members absent...
...than ever it has been in the past. . . . The President's message is largely a counsel of dormancy. Nowhere is there the stimulating call for progress." His program, as far as outlined in his speech, is: 1) "Action"; 2) Tax reduction, especially on earned income; 3) a soldier bonus; 4) opposition to the Administration's lack of "constructive thought" on the railway question. He, too, has entered for the South Dakota primaries...
Such inconsistency is to be expected when the aims of the movement are altered from one session to the next. Its protest at one time takes the form of a bonus bloc, then of a farm bloc, and now a railroad bloc. The present phase, the railroad bloc, like those preceeding it, lacks unity as to personnel and policies. The Wisconsin-Minnesota group seems to predominate, huddled together behind La Follette who has produced no clear-cut plan for administering the railroads...