Speaker G PEAKER JOHN N. GARNER quelled the house of representa- tive tax rebels and assured the na- tion of tax legislation that would bal- ance the national budget, The members of both parties who had successfully op- posed the sales tax provisions of the bill drafted by the ways and means committee promised to be good and support the new bill introduced by the committee and as a substitute for the sales tax that had been defeated. It all came about when the speaker took the floor and delivered a speech that was a com bination of tempered argument, Im- passioned plex. and camp-meeting ex- hortation. As he whirled into his peroration, an exalted house member- ship answered his appeal for those resolved to lead a new life to arise. En masse the congressmen surged to thelr feet and took the pledge to pass a tax messure that will balance the budget. Then the house settled down to business, The ways and means com- mittee introduced its list of new taxes to take the place of the defeated sales tax, and the various items were ap- proved so rapidly that Acting Chair men Crisp had to stop the offering of items in order to give the engrossing clerks time to draw the various amend- ments. The new levies as provided for In the house bill covers taxes on the following articles with the estimated revenue: Speaker Garner INCOME TAXES REVENUE Individual (increases car ried in bill) $ 112 Increase in normal rate Increase in surtaxes (wartime rates) Lowering surtax exemp- tion from $1000 to £0.000 Corporate tax (12 to 13 as carried in bill) Corporate tax (13 to 1814 per cent)....e.. Corporate tax (15 per cent on consolidated and affiliated returns) Corporate exemptions (lowered $2,000 to $1, 000) Net loss deduction allowed 1031-1833 (pre venting carryover of losses) Administrative Gift tax Estate tax Dividends removing corporate Dividends 000,000 3,000,000 17.000,000 7.000.000 21.000.000 5,000,000 18.000.000 6,000,000 dis- 20,000,000 100.000 000) 20,006 (x) 20,000 000 changes (Sec. 115-B: tax exempt stock) (Sec, 115-D: removing tax exempt corporate stock) Lubricating oil (4 a gallon) Imported petroleum cent a gallon) Malt, wort, grape centrates, ete. Imported coal Telephone and graph messages Capital stock and bonds issues of (10 cents per £100) Admissions over 40 cents (1 cent for each 10 cents or fraction) Safety deposit boxes (10 per ~ent of rent) POSTAGE RATES Increase from 2 to 3 cents In first-class postage 0.000.000 2 000,000 cents 35.000,000 235.000,000 con. 46,000,000 1.500.000 tele 33.000 060 13,000,000 40,000,000 1,000,000 135,000,000 sean EXCISE TAXES Cosmetics (10 per cent) Furs (10 per cent)...... Jewelry (10 per cent)... Beverages (restoration of 1921 rates) “un Matches (4 cents per 1.000) Radios, phonographs 4 per cent) Automobiles 3 cent); trucks (2 per cent) ; accessories (1 per cent) Sporting goods cameras (10 per cent) Chewing gum (5 per cent) Bess sab sass Candy (5 per cent) Mechanical «refrigerators (5 .per cent) ........ Yachts, motorboats, ete, (10 per cent above 815 in value) ......cee00 MISCELLANEOUS Bale of stocks (% per cent, but not less than 4 cents a share) ..... Bonds, transfers of (1.28 of 1 per cent), ...... Conveyances (restoration of war-time rates) ... Bales of produce on ex- changes (6 cents per $100) ..aiviininnivaes Pipe line (15 per cent of carrying charges) 25,000,000 20,000,000 15,000,000 11,000,000 11,000,000 Pesan 11,000,000 57.000,000 4.000.000 8.000.000) 12,000,000 500,000 500,000 75,000,000 13,000,000 10,000,000 6,000,000 15,000,000 Alrplane (5 per cent on manufacturer's price) 2,000,000 Total .eeesssseseness.$ 984,500,000 Amount of savings ex- pected on appropria- tions Amount of expected sav- ings in postal service 243.000,000 20.000,000 Grand total ....eo0...8 Anticipated deficit 1083 $1,241,000,000 Surplus (with pro- posed new savings) $ 16,500,000 The house bill provides for the pay- ment of the levied excise and sales taxes by the manufacturer direct to the government, with the method of collecting the taxes about the same as under the general manufacturers’ sales tax which was rejected. That does not mean, however, that the tax will not be passed along in the form of an Increased price for the mer chandise, and there is nothing In the bill that would prevent the manufac. urer from directly including the tax item in his invoice to the jobber or retailer and so on down the line until it reaches the consumer, The fact that the house has passed a revenue bill does not mean that thig bill is to be the law of the land. It is almost certain that the senate will not agree. The senate commit tee is very likely to substitute for the new provisions of the house bill the manufacturers’ sales tax that was rejected by the house, and Jus the revenue bill in that form. hould it do so it wilil mean or fight In the house, then a long conference consideration, and there Is no pros pect for an early adjournment of con gress. Experienced members of both houses are now predicting that there will not be an agreement over a rev enue bill earlier than September. HE Hoover budget will be slashed a quarter of a billion dollars if the house accepts the recommenda- tions already made and to be made by its ppropriations and economy committees, Chairman Joseph W, Byrns (Dem. Tenn.) of the house appropriations committee asserted Just prior to announcing his resig- nation, on a plea of overwork, from the chairmanship of the specic] econ- omy committee, Mr. Byrns said that body will submit recommendations calling for consolidations and econo mies totalling at least 8£75,000.000 and posgibly a sum two or three times that figure. Chairman By thus far conducted by committees handling supply bills disclosed that at least 2150,000,000 could be shaved off the budget figures submitted by President Hoover without in any way impairing the efficiency of the government. The committees plan to slash an additional £30.000,000 from national defense ap- propriations, Mr. Byrns sald. rns sald that hearings the various governmental TORMAN DAVIS, one a can delegates to the Geneva arms conference, arrived In Washington and went into a series of conferences with State depart. ment executives, Al though officials de lined to make public the nature of the dis cussions it was learned that Mr. Davis outlined the ob- stacles which have been encountered in the move to work out a general arms limi tation treaty and re ported to the depart. nent on the plan of action for the future outlined by himself and his associates, As matters now stand, many pressing European problems must be settled before there is the remotest chance for the negotiation of a treaty which carries reductions in land forces, of the Amer. Norman Davis RESIDENT HOOVER announced formally at the regular press con. ference that he is “absolutely opposed to the enactment by congress of addi tional soldiers’ bonus legislation, nnd indiented that he would veto such a bill if passed. The President's state ment follows: “Informal polls of the house of representatives have created appre hension In the country that a further bonus bill of £2.000.000000 or there abouts for World war veterans will be passed, “1 wish to stife again that | am absolutely opposed to any such legis lation, “1 made this position clear at the meeting of the American Leglon In Detroit last September 21, and the Legion has consistently supported that position. 1 do not belleve any such legislation ean become law, “Such action would undo every effort that ¥ being made to reduce government = expenditures and bal. ance the budget. “The first duty of every citizen of the United States 1s to build up and sustain the credit of the United States government, “Such an action would irretrievably undermine it.” EC RETARY Arthur M. Hyde called his depart- ment the “prize boob in th: history of finance,” because of its policy of making virtually unsecured loans to farmers in the face of rapidly mount- ing crop surpluses, “Under present conditions,” Secre- tary Hyde sald “my department is now lending more money on thinner security and sustaining more losses or before in the history of the world, Loans now being made by my depart. ment to small farmers who otherwise could not finance themselves could not tion be called good business.” The Hyde statement was directed at the farm loan policy under which the Agriculture department makes loans to small farmers for economic rea- sons. He asserted that the govern- cases of drought, or floods or calam- ities growing out of natural causes, The current type of loans are unjusti- flable, he said, V ASHINGTON crime is again 'V brought into the limelight as po- lice attempt to locate dren nent Washington fami. les, Mrs. Betty Davidson, grand. daughter of Mark Hanna, demanded po- lice protection follow. ng receipt of a tele phone call threaten- ng injury to her laughter Daisy, six years inless $2,000 was pald. This threat fol. jowed shortly upon thet threatening letters had been received by Mrs, Alice Long- worth, widow of the former speaker, and Sir Wilmott Lewis, Washington correspondent for a London newspa- per. The letiers threatened harm to Paulina Lor years old and prob ably the known child, next to the Lir baby, In the United States, and to Wilmott Lewis, Jr, five yeirs old \ ITH a vigorous denunciation of ; the “disvase of overtaxation™ West, joined In & essive appropria- Federal waste and bitterly attrcked, represent of cities ie 17 states attended meeting which wes called by the Chicago As sociation of Commerce, A wns adopted which ealled upon con gress to recognize the emergency In national and to avoid taking any steps which might jeopardize the credit of the ent. A number of speakers : the busi- ness and com ree of the nation could not recover federal budget Huinna old, Alice Longworth the disclosure igworth, seven best dbergh jers of the Middle business len at a meeting in Chi protest against exc tions by congress, extravagance fifty cago, were Some atives the resolution affairs governm RECOMMENDATION velopment of the pavigat irrigation phases of £772.000 000 Columbia river development project at this time wis Included In a report submitted to the secretary of war for transmission to congress by Mal. Gen Lytle Brown, chief of While recommending of 216.000.0006 should be expended by the government for the construction of locks and other aids to navigation in the bia river when private or state interests are ready to develop water power, Major Generel Brown took the position that the time was not ripe for the spending of any con- siderable amount of federal money on this huge project, the engineers that the sum Colun HE Missourl Democratic state con vention at St. Louis instructed its 54 delegates to the national conven tion to vote for former United States Senator James A. Reed as long as he has a chance to secure the nomination for President. Missouri's delegation will have 38 votes instructed delegation, Governor Roosevelt of the lowa Democratic convention. The 26 delegates about his nomination, TILL hale and hearty, Mal. Washington, His friend, Davis IL. Brainard, chatted with him, re calling memories of the Arctic tragedy that shecked the world 48 years ago. Together they had laid on the fce of Cape Sabine In 1884 within whispering distance of the ley death that claimed 18 of the party of 24, Brainard was his top sergeant. They are the only survivors of the seven who were taken from the cape June 23, 1884, after ten months of privation and suffering, during which Greely, then & lieutenant, observed his for. tieth anniversary. Brig. Gen. Gen. Greely TREATY between the United States and Canada for the can- struction of the 8t. Lawrence water way may be ready for signature soon, William DD. Herridge, Canadian min. ister, is now ready to negotiate. It only remains to secure the consent of the respective governments, Then the treaty will be written, (®, 1932, Western Newipapsr Union.) ‘Not Good Policy to Grind Feeds North Carolina Expert Is Emphatic on Matter of Roughage. It 1s not necessary to grind the roughages ordinarily used for live stock feed, and certainly it Is poor economy to do so with all feeds as low in price as they are now, “We have come in contact recently with much misleading propaganda in regard to the advantages of grinding feeds for live stock,” says L, I. Case, animal husbandryman at North Caro- lina State college, “Some of this ma- terial is finding its way Into the agri- cultural press and much of It Is be- ing disseminated by salesmen of feed terested in selling thelr product. 1 re overheard a salesman who was giving a demonstration of his ma- chine say that the grinding of corn stover would make it 100 per cent di- gestible, Such a statement is ridicu- lous on its face, because corn stover at best Is only about 50 per cent di- gestible and no amount of grinding will make it any more so” Mr. Case says no hard and fast rules may be laid down for every farm but generally speaking it does not pay to grind roughage, He says that live stock men engaged in research at the experiment stations of the Unplited States Department of Agriculture are shout 100 per cent In agreement on this, In feeding beef cattle where hogs are to follow the beeves, it does not pay even to grind corn, Old feeders know this by experience and the majority of them feed broken ear corn or shelled corn, says Mr. Case. About the same thing is true In feeding corn to hogs, Numerous feeding trials prove conclu- sively that there is little saving In feeding ground to hogs in place i oorn ed corn. of ear corn or shell Rye Proved Excellent Feed to Fatten Lamhs nlace along mg with Rye can take its barley, and ot} wer farm grains as an efficient feed for fattening lambs when fed with alfalfa and lin seed meal. That was the conclusion from lamb fmt rried on Minnesota West Cen- whent, tening trials ct Inst fall at the tion, *rof, J. 8, periments, ns efficient Jordan, sing the ex. t rye proved fully as barley or wheat, Several fell mi ley and rye, or oats stated tha 8 Were lures con and was all of these 1 one lot 1 ture conta g ailing. The mixtures gave ahout the sme results as whole rye fed alone, The trials proved that grinding rye was unnecessary and undesirable In vdd reasing t grind. f od requirement and rate of galn. 1 to ind he cost, serenscd the Toes lowered the Yarious ¢ hogs and a h have f igh fe equirement must be expected when rye is fed However, the Morris station found that rre fir ed lambs in a feeding period of 88 days and at a very low cost, whole material destructive ant subject Insect pestis, quarantine regulations and consigning to points In 20 states, was intercepted by plant quarantine inspectors of the United States Department of Agricul ture at Chicago, Council Bluffs, Omaha, Kansas City, Minneapolis, 8t. Paul and St. Louis, in a period of about five months, States Into which some of the ship- ments might have gone without proper inspection but for the vigilance exer. cised at these transfer points were Ar- kansas, California, Colorado, Mstrict of Columbia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Town, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michi gan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Ohlo, Okla- homa, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Wisconsin and Wyoming. Phosphates Help Wheat Wheat yields on six important soil tyeps were increased as high as 11 bushels per acre by the use of manure, nure alone was used the yield in- limestone was applied with the ma- nure the increase was two bushels the above treat ment, the yield was boosted another five bushels, > Towa State college authorities state the phosphate Is used by the plant in the development of grain, so a higher quality is produced ns well as increased yield. The phos phate will increase the protein con- tent, thus improving the feeding value of the whest. Prairie Farmer, Pigs With Spotted Livers Spotted livers In pigs may mean: First, small abscesses, sometimes eansed by foreign objects, Second, flukes, Third, tuberculosis, In the Intter, the spot is full of a sandy ma- terial and usually cuts like grit Healthy hogs may have these in the livers and when we were on govern ment meat inspection duly in the Mid- dle West, It was rare to see a perfect liver. A balanced diet, plenty water, clean surroundings and freedom from parasites will help.—Idaho Farmer. Live Stoek Values Show Heavy Cuts Loss to Farmers, (Prepared by the United #intes Department of Agriculture. )—WNIU Bervice Inventory values of live stock on farms have been marked down nearly three billions of dollars In the last two yeurs, says the bureau of agricul. tural economics, United States Depart- ment of Agriculture, In its February report on the agricultural situation, Total flocks and herds Increased 2 000 on January 1, 1931, 000 on January 1, the bureau. “Thus, the Inventory value of their animals, in a year's time, price decline,” says the bureau, of farm animals ths in numbers last year, The farm value of a horse i8 now $53. There was an Increase of 2.4 per cent In the number of cattle, thus con- since 1028, Dairy cows increased approximately 806,000 head In the year, but the num- ber of young dairy heifers decreased. ued at $40 compared with $57 ago, There were 5,000,000 more hogs on farms January 1 as | year ago. creased 3.000000. The average brought $6.14 on January 1, this year, compared with $11.50 a year Sheep have been increasing in numbe for ten years, an increase of 1.00000 head bein ag reported for last 3 . The average alue of sheep and | Iz January 1 wus £3.40 a hen hog Bounteous Farm Crops Go to Feed Live Stock That live stock feeding Is being de- pended upon this winter to a greater extent than in any recent year for the profitable disposal of bo farm crops is Indicated by the Increasing number of fee pure opesaiively by Ohio farmers led by the Ohio L oper rative yn show that up to December 1 a total of over 31,000 head of feeder cattle, lambs and pigs had y ers In the state hased co Figures jer stock OO associat i been delivere through the two co-operative feeder tast Toledo and Col 1d lots throug! auctions at bus {fogether with CE ari county associ ations, This total ind 10,750 18.875 eattle and uded calves, ‘aah with the 5.200 cattle, 1ased ar of 1030 and the 347 pigs and 11.345 lamba handled during the previous record 1020, Approximately 60 per and lambs purchased which con 048 pigs during the drouth ye 11,721 cattle PEaTres 3 2.400 lambs purct year of ] cent of the cattle this year were financed n.-Ohie Farm- co-operative through the o er. Use Care in Culling When wi low, some been farm flock owners decide that a culling demonstration will be about the right thing to improve the egg returns and cut down the feed bill, But just now Is not a very desirable for culling. Many of the hens which have been fed most of the win ter are about ready to return at least a part of their feed bill. A flock of poor laying ability may represent a chance for some salvage in spring egg money, although such hens should not be used as breeding stock to multiply birds of their type. Of course, which are bet They include nter ns production time son, hens heavy never pay it in other seasons, Hens that have been held three or four years are seldom profitable and such hens may be found in soe arm flocks.—In- diana Farmer's Guide. Agricultural Squibs Few woodlots are so run down that improvement operations are pot prac ticable, » . » Value of live stock on Nevada's farms and ranges declined more than £7.000,000 during 1931, according to the estimate of the Salt Lake City office of the burean of agriculture, - - - Reports from farmers who grow the major portion of the commercial po: tato crop in the United States Indi. cate that the acreage this year will be about 2 per cent below last year, - - » Bees are most famous for their honey-making activities, but In some regions bees are several times as val uable for thelr nid in cross-pollenating fruit trees as for their honey. * & = Increasing the spraying pressure from 400 to 600 pounds made no In. crease in potato yields at the Pitts. ford (N. Y.) tests, - -. » On the average, an eightton yield of silage to the acre ensts about 87.50 a ton: flue tons cost £11; and eleven tons cost $0 a ton. - *. » Government scientists are making fooding tests with lve stock to see how artificially dried hay compares In nutritive value with hay dried nat urally. NOT A LOUD COLOR A woman was having the upper rooms of her house painted and she fancied that the painter was #lacking on the Job, “Painter, are you working? shouted at the foot of the stairs, “Yes, ma'am,” came the reply. “I can’t hear you" “Well, do yer think I'm putting It on with a hammer?” she NO CHARGE FOR WATER Lady-—~What part charge for the water | Milkman--Not a ce for the milk that's In the The Inevitable Ego “A man should think but of his country. “True,” answ “But if a statesman neglects care of going to hope to ation his plans for not of 1 ered ator S himself st patie the gton Star, Amateur Huntsman “Did you hit tl ~ “Yeu t un tin £ “Was it a deer? “1 don't think so, 1 decided that If it wa the most lll-natn fane cf all Its species™ This Way Out Instructor— Well, do you understand car now? Beginner—Perfectly. There's only one thing 1 should like to kno Do yon put the wa in the same ing. answered £ a deer red i and volubly Driving the ter and hole 8g Rapid Adjustment Polly—Isn't It dreadful hadn't been married a they were other, Doliy—Yes isn't that settles down to ma quickly. ¥ a Fe 23 throwing | rried “Marie's hubby calls her a queen.” “Yes. He's just the kind who'd crown her when he gets her home.” Yeah, What About That? Will—All lawyers are crooks, and ought to be shot. Bill—-Now, now, calm yourself, If there were no lawyers, who would pro tect you from the other lawyers? Another Way Out “Have you Doctor Embonpoint's book, ‘How to Get Slim?" Bookseller—No, madam, but will you take Doctor Slender's book, “How to Get Fat” and act against his direc tions? Remarkable Tie Customer] wish to see a tie In which blue predominates. Assistant-—Here's one in which blue predominates, but the purple in it pre dominates even more, 1 think, Genius Father—You lazy boy! What wonld you have done If you had been brough! up among people who lived by the sweat of their brows? Blase Son-1 would have sold them pocket handkerchiefs! A Little Logic “Mother, 1 know why little boys want to fight” “Why is it, dear?” “80 when they get married they can stand getting disappointed.”
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