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Show SENATE'S TAX PLAN DISPLEASES HOUSE Income Advocates Refuse to Accept Programme of Up-per Up-per Branch Solons. Income tax advoca Us of the house of representatives have decided tha f t hey are not goins to accept the compromise tax and revenue programme decided upon at a joint conference held at the Hotel t'tah Sunda y, and to this end -ailed a house caucus behind clusod doors at noon yesterday at 'which the subject was discussed. dis-cussed. The income tax advocates declare that the house decided at Ibis caucus to refuse re-fuse to accept the senate programme and to Insist .upon resurrection cf the Pae, income tax- bill, which was killed by the senate Saturday. Members of the conservative con-servative tax faction of the houe sa y the house was divided fifty-fifty on the matter and that no actual decision was reached aa to the course of the house in relation to the compromise tax plan. Representative n. 1). McKay of Weber, who is one of the leaders lor an income tax bill, asked the governor to call a special spe-cial session of the legislature immedi-ately immedi-ately following the present session for the purpose of considering a tax programme and for the ult i mate pnasage of a n income in-come tax bill. The governor gave him no answer on the matter, however. Mr. Mc-Kav Mc-Kav declares that if a special session is called an income tax bill will be passed, and he was emphatic in his declaration that an income tax law will be enacted by this legislature. McKay was the author of a motion before be-fore the caucus yesterdav that the house stand flat-footed" and solid in favor of an income tax bill and nsrainst the proposition proposi-tion of the senate and joint committee. Just what the result of the vote on this motion was is a matter of conjecture in view of the fact that about half the members mem-bers fay it was carried and the other half declare' tt was not carried and that the house stood about half and half on the matter of rejecting the compromise programme pro-gramme and Insisting upon resurrection of the incnnie tax bid. The result is that the house Is appar-entlv appar-entlv in the air in regard to the matter and fust what action will be taken on the penal e progi am me when it reaches the house remains to be seen. |