Show CUTTING DOWN THE TAXES The weakness of political leaderS leader leadership ship is that what one side proposes the other tide side feels duty bound to oppose This play of ot contraries Is to to been seen in the present contro- contro con contro ersy e o 0 over er en tax proposal Secretary or the Treasury Mellon has baa out out- outlined out lined tax reductions reductiOn and asas as nas as nasto asto to be he expected the opposition t party arty would but tax reductions ors iJ change the tho method Our Senator Senate King who stands high in the tho councils of ot his party is a ra- ra reduction re reduction quoted as 88 saying he ta favors vors in normal taxes along much the same line IIno as a proposed bYI by Secretary fellon but he be would not cut high surtax rates utes to the same the excesS He declares and in In- In Indicates in profits tax tx system Is sound he with other Democrats lc tes favors the tha restoration of ot this tax According to a dispatch from Washington the doing away anay with or so so- so called so-called the he he remaining miscellaneous called nuisance taxes I Is advocated by Senator King We are told that had bad hs bs hIs way he Oi obtain the bulk of ot re ua Il needed eded from Irom Income taxes tues excess cess profits taxes and inheritance He would be Inclined to increase taxes the present inheritance I which in the opinion of o SecretarY Secretary Mellon Menon are already too high Gov Gov- Government Gov- Gov Government eminent expenditures have not teen re reduced to the lowest possible minimum as yet according to the belief belie ot or Senator King Upward Of be properly otoo can separated from the government He would pa roll In his opinion cut many es cc from Irom the forces low employed by such agencies as shipping the m veterans bureau board Loard internal revenue bureau and Of ot agriculture He Ho ten en cn ired red that the government could be run on tot total 1 appropriations of not e than as with Ith about u is 5 the total In prospect In Indicating that the tho n nork ork out their own tax tat reduction program and would not Indorse flatly the Mellon scheme the Utah senator voiced the general view lew of Iy all the Democrats His per per onal onal ional opposition to the bonus does not coincide with those of ot most moat of Ins Jus colleagues however who will the bonus bill Many of the Democrats also do not agree Senator King that the tha an excess profits tax is desirable These conflicting slew leWs indicate lat the he appl appi applying lug Ing of o taxes and the Inaugurating of o economies in gOY gov gov- gov government government is 15 far from being an ex exact ex- ex exact act att science and statesmen differ |