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Show REDUCnONIOF ONE-FOURTH Original Mellon Schedule Sent to Ways and Means Committee POLITICS BARRED FROM HEARING Representative Old field Protests Pro-tests Against Mixing Politics Poli-tics With Taxes Hearing "WASHINGTON, Oct.. 22. (UP) j A now schedule of normal income , lax rates, slashing alwmt 2.1 per cent from the present schedule was set out in a letter Secretary of Treasury Treas-ury Mellon forwarded to Chairman Green of the house ways and means committee. The new schedule would provide an income tax of one per cent on .$3,000; two per cent on the next . $1,000; three per cent on the next $4,000 and five per cent thereafter. This compares with the original Mellon suggestion of one jer cent on $3,000; three per cent on the next $4,000 and five per cent thereafter. WASHINGTON. Oct., 22. (UP) Following a scries of political lilts with members of the Iowa tax club, the houso ways ami means commit Ice today ordered politics barred from discussion at its hearings hear-ings and instructed future witnesses to confine themselves exclusively to taxes. Representative Old field, I emo-crat, emo-crat, Arkansas, raised (be (Uestion when the committee met for its fourth hearing on the new ..ao.iMrO,-000 ..ao.iMrO,-000 tax reduction bill and asked that no more political arguments be indulged in. "Political discussion is not order before the committee,". Chairman Green. Republican, Iowa, ruled. "I believe all members of the committee, however, encouraged mid j joined with the members of the Iowa tax club in their discussions yesterday, Green said. The Iowans had praised the Mellon Mel-lon plan and claimed that the people 'of their state had sanctioned com- ,! pletely the Coolidge administration ! by giving the present chief oxecu-Itive oxecu-Itive a 100,000 vote plurality in the last election. ' Several speakers denounced com- ; munism and referred to opponents of the Mellon plan as "radicals." i It. B. Lowden, I.owden Machinery company, Fairfield, Iowa, today asked reduction of the present 12',4 per cent capital Stock tax to six or eight per cent. He endorsed the proposal to combine the capital stock with the corporation tax. ' . : f ! .0 , 1 " A y XT 1 I ff I'i -IA 1 I The provincial government of n- (arm, Canada, has named C. A. Magrnlh, above, lo succeed the j late Sir Adam Heck as head of Ontario's LTin.onn.noo hydro- electric system. |