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The 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.
A bonus bill may, however, be considered before work on the tax reduction bill is completed. The House Republicans have called a caucus on the bonus question for Jan. 10. Chairman Green of the Ways and Means Committee explained:
"The logical order of committee procedure should be to take up first the administrative features of the Treasury bill; then to determine whether a bonus bill is to be considered and reported; and therefore in accordance with the determination of these two matters to make the reduction in taxation accordingly...
Some 50 of the 344 pages of the tax reduction bill were gone over by the Committee before the Christmas recess. The administrative features of the bill will therefore probably have been surveyed by the time of the Republican caucus. Then the question of precedence is likely to be settled...
Representative A. Piatt Andrew, a Massachusetts Republican, questioned the statement of Secretary Mellon that a bonus would prevent reduction of taxation for many years. Mr. Andrew quoted the estimates of cost, prepared when the last bonus bill was before Congress, to show that the average cost for the first four...