Show NEI NEWS WS REVIEW house debates tax bill gandhi Is assassinated AU all signs pointed to an income tax cut of one kind or another this year a as s the house of representatives clanged the bell for the opening round of crucial election year de bate on that much belabored issue joseph martin rep mass speaker of the house started things off with the assertion that an in come tax slash is in the bag he conceded however that it might not run as high as the 6 5 billion dollars provided in the knutson bill now up for debate but in the end he said the re publican congress would override a presidential veto of the tax bill we send to the white house in order to beat the veto that mr truman might slap on the tax bill however the republicans would have to line up a few democrats to vote on their side to make the feces sary two thirds majority and to bring enough democrats around it was thought the senate republicans would tone down the bill rep robert doughton dem N C ranking democrat on 0 the tax fixing ways and means com commit mit tee po anted out the obvious fact that republicans would have to trim the size of the cut to get anywhere otherwise he said congress will up hold the veto and we will have no tax reduction at all As far as knutson s 6 5 billion dollar measure is concerned GOP congressmen were touting it on the grounds that it would spur business increase production and relieve the price pressure on taxpayers in ad d tion to leaving the government enough revenue for an 11 billion dollar payment on the public debt in the next two years democrats of course take the diametrically opposed view holding that a tax slash that big would force the government to borrow money threaten national security and hin der the european recovery plan upon which aich so much of the current phase of U S foreign policy is founded DEATH gandhi mohandas K gandhi india s I 1 champion peacemaker patient saint was dead it the age of 78 a victim of an asnass n s bullets he died barely two weeks after hindus sikhs ard moslems alike overjoyed at the possibility of peace that gandhi s latest fast had pro cured for their dominions were shouting Gand hiji ki jai long live gandhi in the streets of delhi it was a violent end ng for the mahatma who all his life had preached and practised practiced a philosophy based on an abhorrence of violence A hindu from poona approached him during a prayer meeting and fired three shots into his body from close range to india and to india s hindus to whom rhom gandhi had devoted his life his death was a bitter experience and a shock that left the already turbulent sub continent in an even more complete state of turmoil after the partition of the country into the dominions of india and 0 pakistan gandhi had been the man of strong spirit to whom all three opposing factions hindus moslems and sikhs had looked for guidance and in his last fast of five day duration he had given it to them H had provided the three clashing religious groups with a foundation for peace his action had tended to narrow the schism between mos lems and hindus had lessened the talk of war whether his death would undo the good that the last days of bis his life had accomplished remained for the time being an open question |