Show I QUEZON DERN FIGHT COCOANUT OIL TAX Immediate Freedom Better Than Levy Leader Says Say WASHINGTON March 16 Pre resident President Manuel Quezon of the Philippine senate today told the sen sene ate finance inanc committee that complete nd and Immediate independence for tor the Philippines was preferable to taxation taxa- taxa lion ion such as proposed in the revenue tax ax bill bUl which levies a 5 cent Per pound excise tax on cocoanut oil olL prime Philippine product Objection to ta the proposed d cocoa cocoi nut oil tax being applied to the Phil Phil- a also alo o was laid before the com corn by Secretary of ot War Der Dem Dern Senator D. D Df M Md L and Representative Rep Rep- McDuffee af at fairs are under jurisdiction of the war department The tax is proposed in the revenue tax ux bill bm which already has passed the house e. e The finance committee hoped to wind up its hearings on the tax bill biU 1 today after hearing other persons on I tax subjects J |