Show 144 N ashington 0 0 0 0 ago 9000000000000000 the ten percent pay hike for more than a million federal em ploveps plovers plo veps twospeeches two speeches by president truman one ripping into astals attals attacks attacki on the loyalty and efficiency of government work erg and the other comparing russia slavery and american freedom promised political firework fireworks over the presidents nominations of US delegates of the giant defense funds bill and long 16n9 drawn out conferences over final pattern attern ttern of the new tax bill were r highlights of the washington scene already charges are being made that the tax bill as passed pawed by the senate is a boon for the wealthier of both individuals and corporations and adds instead of closes tax loopholes with no changes in excess profits provisions this year fight over tax on coops co ops was eased off when the senate reversed itself and moderated its tax pa p1 plan an by bt makinglonly making only unallocated dividends taxable so as the bill emerged with ref reference irence to coops co ops it provides only for taxation of the annual earnings of coops co ops which are neither paid to members nor allocated to them as capital credits or revolving funds this was a victory for the farm organizations although the issue of withholding a certain percent of patronage dividends remains to be decided in the conference the senate during the week approved a postal rate increase which would add so something methin 9 like 403000000 to the postal department p part a rement rtment ment revenue over a three year period however pay hiko of postal employees 200000z00 which will amount to about 200000000 annually will more than offset the annual increase in rates so that instead of alleviating the the half a billion dollar deficit in the department the net result resuit will be a bigger deficit next year the defense bill approved in the senate by a 70 79 to 0 roll call would provide almost 60 billion dollar dollan for defense spending during the next two years included in the total Is five billion for air power expansion which was over and above the budget asked by the president but after cutting in some other sectors sect 0 the net of the bill is a almost two billion above budget requests senator paul douglas of illinois again conducted a singlehanded and losing fight to sla slash the funds however the only major reduction came on a 4 voice vote on the motion by senator alexander smith of new jersey reducing total appropriations by 25 2.5 percent douglas did finally gain some amendments which would apply I 1 restrictive language to some appropriations rather than cause actual reductions tionson tionsin eions tions sin in expenditures M ilof mtv 0tv I 1 14reworks 14 reworks were expect cd ed on the political griddle as the senate elections subcommittee sub committee was scheduled to take up the hearings on senator william dentone bentons dentons Ben Den tons resolution calling for the ouster from the senate of senator joseph mccarthy of wisconsin as a character assassin in the meantime democratic national chairman william M boyle faces the same kind of a probe and the came same charges which were made against guy gabrielson gabrlelson Gabr lelson republican national chairman aust iust just about a year ago boyle is charged with having used influence to obtain a loan from the RFC for a 8 st louis firm for or which whic chic h he had been counsel boyle denied it G gabrielson gabrlelson abrielson Gabr abr lelson ielson was charged with having used his influence to obtain a loan for a texas company for which he was counsel and nd president ident and with having accepted cee a huge fee for having done so gabrielson Gabr lelson also denied any wrong doing 3 saying only he lad nothing to d do with getting the loan from the RFC and only drew 15000 salary as presl prest denland dencand dent and 10000 as fees for his law aw firm for his services th there ere were wee r many political politic al indications of some significance he national republican roundup committee organized in1948 in 1948 announced that senator taft is arbou artou th the to top 1ft1g C choice olde among GOP party officials for the partys bartys 1952 presidential nomination |