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...Considered at length the Mellon (25% surtax) bill for tax reduction, with its three alternatives; the Green (compromise Republican) 35% surtax measure, the Frear (insurgent Republican) 50% surtax-excess profits tax measure, the Garner (Democratic) 44% surtax measure...
...fact, there are four types of opinion in the Committee: 1) Those Republicans who prefer the Mellon bill as it stands, with a maximum surtax of 25%; 2) those Republicans-including Chairman Green-who want a maximum surtax of 32% to 35%; 3) the insurgent Republicans-led by Representative Frear-who want even higher surtaxes and, as well, excess profits taxes; 4) the Democrats who favor a maximum surtax...
General Wood has exercised his proconsulship over the Philippines, if not to the satisfaction of the natives at least to the satisfaction of the War Department. Nevertheless, a Republican insurgent, Representative Frear of Wisconsin, proposed an inquiry into the General's administration (TIME, Dec. 31). The result was to bring not General Wood, but his two sons into the limelight...
...once Senator Caraway suggested that the proposed Frear investigation be broadened to include the activities of both the younger Woods. And everyone...
Representative Frear, on the younger son: "A probe should be made into some of the reputed Aladdin lamp transactions that finally called for action by the Secretary of War and the President of the United States...