Show HOUSE PASSES BILL I ITO TO REPEAL WAR TAXES r WASHINGTON ASHINGTON Feb 17 The The bill bi to repeal the war taxes was unanimously pa passed sed by the House 28 members voting aye ao WASHINGTON ASHINGTON Feb 17 There There There was a large attendance on on the floor 1001 of the House and gallery galery today in anticipation o of o the debate on t e bill bI to repeal the war revenue taxes Just prior to the ass assembling of the rne House Committee on Rules Hules agreed upon the form of a special rule for the the consideration of the bill bi by the terms of at which It would be brought to a vote ot at at 4 Tock o'clock tomorrow The chaplain In his Invocation prayed that the life of ot R Representative Shepherd of Texas who ho Is dangerously ill After minor i m After gm e spared spared some business had been cleared away Mr Dalzell Dalzel from th the Co Committee on Rules presented presented presented pre pre- the special order agreed agrEed upon by that committee Mr Mr Dalzell Dalzel explained the effect of ot the rule This measure he said was presented to re eem a p ge made when the war revenue taxes were Imposed that when the nece necessity sity for them ceased they would be repealed This was a measure on ott which Tle Took eLook it It Ii there was was practical practical rac- rac unanimity of sentiment on both sides of the House Tf It was a a. simple re repeal repeal repeal re- re peal measure and It was deemed wise That it Il f s ouT be brought To Io a vote without without without with with- out complication on the extraneous Issues At the conclusion of ot this brief bret statement Mr Dalzell Dalzel yielded thirty minutes to Mr Underwood of Alabama also als of the Committee on Rules The Alabama member protested against the adoption of ot the he rule not he said because bEcause it I provided for th the consideration of ot a bill bi to reduce taxation but because It prevented Individual members from exercising heir own judgment or carrying out the wishes of at their constituents as To w what af port of the excessive taxes should be repealed As M J Jan an instance of ot a tax which It was not advisable to f peal Re fe cited cred th the inheritance tax a tax which he said was levied ox on 01 a class that was not reached by other taxation Mr Underwood said sald he did not think a tariff revision should be made because such a revision whether good or bad bad would unsettle present conditions and might lead to disorder He referred to the stagnation In busine y existed pending the enactment of ot both the Wilson Wison and Dingley bill bin In of ot that statement He lie thought that the proper method of at reducing duties at this time should be through reciprocity made of at and to the agreements in pursuance enactment sent clerks clerk's desk esk and had read an am amendment nt representing his Ideas in this par par- Mr Ball Bal of at Texas den denounced the rule as but another step In the parliamentary parliamentary par par- evolution by which Individualism In the House was being crushed and a few men were enthroned as the autocrats to dominate Its will wil |