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Show MAYS TAKES STIO " 01 MP PEP, TAX Criticises Commercial Club for Action Taken by It in Matter. Special to The Tribune. WASHINGTON, July 2S. Representative Representa-tive Mays yesterday placed in the record a number of protests received by him from copper producers and commercial bodies against the proposed tax on copper cop-per and copper products. The protests include letters and telegrams from ihe Silver King Consolidated Mining company. Ctah chapter American Mining congress, Bingham & Garfield Railway company, Salt Lake City Commercial club, Salt Lake Democratic county committee and R. C. Gemmell. Mr. Mays also placed on tlie record copies of bis response to these protests, in which he justifies his attitude in not assisting in efforts to eliminate the tax provision from the revenue bill. In his response to the Democratic county committee, com-mittee, he says in part: These great copper industries have been exceedingly fortunate during this crisis in the affairs of the world, and the ways and means committee, in imposing the tax. felt that those enterprises en-terprises that have profited so greatly by the war should help bear the burdens of preparing against disasters that might follow a war waged upon us. It occurred )to me that it was in bad taste for the Salt Lake Commercial Commer-cial club, after urging larger appropriations appro-priations for Fort Douglas, for military mili-tary training camps, for militia aero yquadrons, as well as for vast general gen-eral expenditures for the army and navy, to offer vigorous protest against a measure seeking to raise the rev-, rev-, en ue required" from the sources best able to pay. A Republican member of the senate finance committee said today he probably would recommend the elimination of the Copper tax provision. This action would be taken, he said, not for economy, but for political reasons. It has been reported re-ported to the Democrats of the committee commit-tee that should the copper tax be retained Democracy would snrely lose the states of Montana, Nevada, Utah and Arizona in the coming campaign and the Democratic Demo-cratic candidates for the senate in these states would surely be defeated. The bill providing for the issuance of patens to gilsonite lands within the former for-mer Uncompahgre reservation in Utah, reached on the house calendar yesterday for consideration, was delayed by Representative Rep-resentative Mays, who asked that the bill be passed over without prejudice and retain re-tain its place on the unanimous consent calendar. |