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C b. b Washington May 26 Whether there will be n a revision cf the tax laws to eliminate levies which are hampering business ss expansion ex ox- pan more moro doubtful now than It did a short time fine ago The reason f for r dou doubt 1 Is- Is the refusal of the President to to give Ive imis 1113 indorsement to the tax-revision tax oro- oro gram prepared by the tho Secretary orthe of or the Treasury and his stoff stoll working worl in iu cooperation with the chairmen of or orthe the Congressional committee having having hav lUl ing to todo do with wilh Lax tax matters There la III a stong inclination on the part of Congressional leaders togo to togo go 10 ahead with wilh a a. a as tax revision program pro pro- grain gram regardless of whether the Pr President approves or es cs Secretary l may present his program to Lo Congress without Presidential indorsement The President has not nOL said that he lie will not noL approve a tax revision re bill If passed but he lie has let it be known that he lie will ivill not let any program pro pro- gram grain which gram which would reduce or repeal I existing taxes be e put forward as an Administration measure Washington observers mire arc somewhat somewhat somewhat some some- what puzzled nuzzled by y Mr 11 Roosevelt's attitude Early in fn tho year time the announced announced an an- d policy of time the Administration tion lion was appeasement of business Resolutions Offered At tho rho meeting held hero of oC tho the Chamber of Commerce of the United States remarks were made mado by business leaders and resolutions offered which were critical critical cal calor of the tine Administrations Administration's policies Some of the Presidents President's Intimates seized the which such criticism afforded to point out to lo Mr Roosevelt that thaL the business interests in- in of the tho nation did not seem to bo be- grateful to him but were decidedly decidedly de de- non nOll That Inthe in tho the belief bollor of many Washington observers observers ob oD- servers accounts for fOl the change In Inthe inthe inthe the Presidential attitude toward tax ta relief The second part of the lime Presidents President's departmental reorganization program program pro pro- gram like the first part has lias met with general beneral approval l. It provides for consolidations and shifts of bureaus from where they dont don't belong to place lilace w where lere tho they tit fit fit which every President for fOl years has hns been eon trying to get Jet Congress Con Con- gress grems to approve c The Tire Presidents President's estimate ot of money savings by hy reason of these changes i is a year There Is no lie doubt of Congressional approval approval ap ap- even though Congress is in ina a spending m mood od Last year car when Congress added to the Agricultural budget for farm furm relief the limo President President President Pres Pres- ident warned them that they must find enough additional revenue to I cover the Increase Congress prom- prom l I This Week In Washington DC D.C. l Continued from rom page one to do that but bat Now it is adding nearly to this years year's Agricultural budget and malting making no move to impose addil additional additional addi addi- l onal taxes sul sufficient to cover the Tote Scheme Scheme- It is opinion in Washington that this is a p pure re vote vote- vote vote-I SC leme and nothing else and there is great criticism of the refusal of the Senate to go on record as to low they voted on this appropriation ap ap- it was passed by a voice vote All the talk about economy which was heard on capitol Hill early in inthe inthe inthe the session has dropped to a w w wals- wals per The slogan of recovery instead in- in stead 6 of more reform is no longer heard There is no such thing as a concrete recovery program in Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington either in the Executive Offices Of Of- bees hees or in Iu Congress I The national income is disappointingly disappointingly disappointingly low and shows no signs of early increase The one bright spot in the economic economic economic eco eco- situation as most careful observers observers observers ob ob- ob- ob servers here see it is the home home- boom That Is growing l' l rapidly in every part of the nation The system of insuring buIl building Ing loans set up by the JHA Is conI considered considered con con- I by Uy y many to be the most useful useful use use- use use-I ful Cul of all the New Deals Deal's achieve achieve- ments Un Under er It private capital ismore Is Ismore Ismore more and more freely getting to work and hundreds of or thousands of or new homes are being built I Much of ot the contusion of minds I which everybody can observe observe- In Washington can be attributed to the war scare There is no doubt t that at atall all the war tall has had the effect pit of diverting the attention of many men ju jn ii high office from Crom internal affairs There is a considerable faction who believe that big business would like to see a war even i if It involved ed the United States That Lc is at the back of much of the neu neutrality talk especially the proposals for preventing Americans I trout doing business with any nation at war I t Per Pcr CC Cant Taxation t. t I Proposals are being made for a a. system of wartime taxation which would take as much as per percent ent of profits made from the manufacture ture or sale of military materials The apprehension of war involving involving involving ing the United States is fading in official here however Indeed In In- geed deed there is a growing belief belle that no general European war is likely in the near future if at all The nearest to war that Washington Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington envisions now Is the W war T between the CIO and the AF of 0 L. L The CIO won the first major bt battle tle with Governmental support In the coal strike here are arc recalling John L L. Lewiss Lewis's demand that the President should do something after the election of or 1936 1930 to show that he was grateful rot for 01 the contributed by too tuo United Mine Workers to fo his Pres Pros Presidential l campaign fund Cynical folk are suggesting that the official attitude in the bituminous ous coal mine up tie-up amounted to toa toa toa a payment of or that debt The operators called It a strike but th Department of oC Labor called it Jt a lockout t. t And the mines won their demand for the closed shop i |
