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Show rle and alarm the doctors If the reason rea-son for It were not known, and if it were not also known that there would, come later on a condition of quiet In all the organs and appurtenunces of the body politic. It Is only the truth to say that He publicans of all kind;) In Washington were amazed when the recent an nouncement wrs made that Frank II Hitchcock, postmaster general In the Taft administration, Is to be the nomination nom-ination campaign manager of Senator BONUS MEASURE j LIKELY TO PASS Congress seems disposed to enact this and also to try tax reduction. TAKING ISSUE WITH MELLON ; By EDWARD B. CLARK Washington. There are evidences hat congress intends to try to reduce sxntlon and yet to pass a bonus bill ihlch of course will Increase the pay- - nents which It Is necessary that the Treasury department must make. ' , .Secretary Mellon virtually has de-lured de-lured that If the bonus bill passes it rill he Impossible to reduce taxation, lien In congress of both parties take , teue with Mr. Mellon, or at least they seem to take Issue with him. They nppear to believe that taxes can be reduced re-duced and an additional government expense be Incurred at the sume time. Admittedly It will take some finesse In legislation lo accomplish what the leaders 6eein to think can be accomplished. accom-plished. The Democratic leader of the senate, sen-ate, Mr. Itoblnson of Arkansas, has declared de-clared that his party In congress will favor sweeping reductions In taxations, but that It will oppose reductions if It is found that they will make impossible impos-sible the payments to the ex-service men after the bonus bill has ben passed. Senator Koblnson favors a Hiram W. Johnson of Cullfornla. So far as Washington can remember, Mr. Johnson and Mr. Hitchcock never have had a political or an economic thought In common, unless the California senator sen-ator Is favorably Inclined to a recommendation recom-mendation which Mr.-Hitchcock once mnde as postmaster general, that the government should own and operate the telephone and telegraph llnea of the country. Underwood Might Pick Bryan. It muy be that something akin to the Hitchcock appointment will come from the Iiemocratlc ranks to amaze the Washington politicians und party leaders. A parallel case would be perhaps per-haps the appointment by Senator Underwood Un-derwood of Alabuma of William Jennings Jen-nings Bryan to conduct his campulgn for the Democratic nomination. So far as Washington enn determine, Mr. Underwood Un-derwood and Mr. Bryan are no farther apart In their views thun are Senator Johnson and Mr. Hitchcock, or perhups It might be better to say farther apurt than these two men have been In the past. The effect of the Hitchcock appointment appoint-ment on the campaign of President Coolldge for the nomination is being given consideration by Ilepublicans In Washington lfw Washington. For some years Kepub-llcans Kepub-llcans have been trying to get away from troubles over southern delegute representation in their national convention. con-vention. There Is no political bias suggested when It Is said that the fear now Is In Republican ranks that thla matter may once more trouble the party in convention assembled. Mr. Hitchcock knows the situation of Hepubllcanlsra In the South as well as any Republican of them all. He has had a hand In directing the nomination nomina-tion campaigns of several asplrauta for office and in every case the southern south-ern representation matter has been Involved. President Coolldge has a secretary, a Virginia Republican, who also knows southern Republican conditions In-tlmntely. In-tlmntely. It will be interesting to watch the developments which may come as the result of the appointment of the former postmaster general to direct the Johuson campaign. Mr. Slemp is on 'the Job and Mr. Hitchcock Hitch-cock Is on the Job. Coolldge and the Primaries. So fur as President Coolldge and the nomination are concerned, there are many of his friends in Washington who believe that the President will not lift a finger in the way of primary effort to secure the nomination. It Is said by some of bis friends that undoubtedly un-doubtedly he intends to go along aa he has gone along, working and saying say-ing nothing, and is willing to trust to developments to secure for him the endorsement en-dorsement of the Republicans when they assemble In national convention. This view of the thing seems al- oond Issue to pay the bonus. The belief Is strong today that the bonus bill will go through, no matter what may happen to tax reduction. It looks now as if the bill will be passed before any attempt Is made to change the revenue act so that reductions in taxation can be effected. It may be that after the bonus measure is put through no attempt will be made to legislate In behalf of tax chttlng. bnt the general belief Is now that legislation legis-lation both for the bonus and for tax reduction will be attempted. Cost of Bonus Is Uncertain. There is a difference between the estimate mnde by the representatives of the ex-service men and the Treasury Treas-ury department officials as to the amount the payment of the bonus will cost the government during the first three years of the law's life. The ex-service ex-service men sny thut the bonus requirements require-ments can be met without in any way affecting tax reduction along the lines outlined by Secretary Mellon. This Is combated, of course, by the treasury officials and It may be that no one can tell who la right In the matter until un-til the thing actually Is tried out. Originally, as already has been announced an-nounced In Washington letters, the Republican Re-publican leaders, In the senate at least, were opposed to any plan for tax reduction re-duction legislation, not because they did not believe that reductions would be hnlled by the people, but because . of their feeling that if the revenue act once was opened to change there would be no end to the amendments offered and that what they call radicalism radical-ism would Insist 11 lion havlnir Its wnv most Incredible to some of the old time party leudera. They cannot understand un-derstand the luck of desire to get Into the whirl of things, especially when rival and active candidates either are In the field or are showing marked evidences of a desire to enter It One has to go back to the early months of 1004 to find a parallel case. Theodore Roosevelt then was Iresi-dent Iresi-dent and the Republican convention had been culled to meet in June, Colonel Col-onel Roosevelt rested on his record to secure him the nomination, although It Is a fact that running true to form, he said a few things on certain occasions oc-casions concerning the efforts of other men who thought that they might possibly pos-sibly secure the sanction of the convention con-vention at the Roosevelt expense. President Coolldge, however, la not of the Roosevelt temperament His friends say that If he makes np his mind to stay quiet nothing can Induce In-duce him to break silence. The Democrats ore Just as busy as the Republicans. The Democratic national na-tional committee Is bard at its work today of combating Republicanism without saying one word In. favor of any particular Democratic candidate for the nomination. Both the Republican Repub-lican and Democratic national committees commit-tees nre compelled to keep bands off cuudldutes. Now that the country eeemligly Is standing back of the Mellon proposal for reductions In taxation, the leaders h.rve had a change of mind and may agree to open everything wide, to trust to leadership skill In directing legislation legisla-tion to prevent radical enactments and to do those things which the secretary has recommended. Therefore It looks today as If both the bonus and taxation will be subjects of legislation during the coming winter. Various Views of Tax Reduction. Possibly -never before In the history of economic legislotlon has there been so wide a difference of opinion as to the form In which amendments to the revenue law should appear. The contention con-tention of one element Is. that great surtaxes are of no avail because the money of the rich Instantly Is put Into non-taxable securities and that the over-taxing of capital prevents Its Investment In-vestment In business enterprises which will give work to the workless and aid to the gcnernl prosperity of the wage and sulary earning people. The contention of the other element Is that wealth does not stand Its fair burden of taxation and that It should be forced so to do. The desire of both parties to the controversy, of course, Is to relieve the man of small Income from excessive taxation. It nmy be that some kind of a compromise will be effected which nmy or muy not prove eventually to have merit, but certain It Is that before this taxation legislation Is solved there will be a long drawn-out debate In which will appear arguments, sane or fantastic, according to the viewpoint of the proposing pro-posing members. It Is rarely In con-jtress con-jtress that one can find two men who iiuve the same views on the general suojeci or Finance. It Is said today by some members of congress that there will be no tax reductions accomplished if the accomplishment accom-plishment Is lo be contingent upon the defeat of legislation for the relief re-lief of ex-foldiers. The bonus Is not In any sense a party measure. Johnson Amazes the G. O. P. Troubles In organizing the bouse of representatives, division between con-servatlve con-servatlve and progressive-radical publicans and divisions between Democrats Dem-ocrats of the same two kinds, have not been able to cover even for a moment the Intense interest Unit is felt In the Capital In the campaigns for the two presidential nominations Democratic and Republican. The political pulse Is bounding In Washington at this season. It Jumps f nd keeps up a puce atlch would pua- t |