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Show SOLDIER BONUS FIGHT CARRIED TO HOUSE FLOOR WASHINGTON. April 22. The fight against levying a sales tax to raise part of the money for soldier relief legislation was taken today to the floor of the house. Amid applause of tho Democrat5. Rep. Henry T. Ralney. Democrat, Illinois, Illi-nois, charged that Republicans were attempting to "buy the soldier vote" with the promise of ?1 25 a day bonus The applause quickly shifted to tb? other aide when Rep. Tincher, Republican, Repub-lican, Kansas, retorted tho Democratic osrpousal of a retro-active war profits tax was designed solely "to catch votes." Meanwhile, the Republican members of the ways and means committee had agroed tentatively on four forms of li'.xeo for raising $1,500,000,000 in the next two years, while the sales tax w.-.s accepted by these committeemen, added opposition to it was said to have developed, though Republican leaders doubted whether it would bo eliminated eliminat-ed as a revenue-getting scheme. Tho three other levies tentatively accepted by the commit lee were a lax on all stock exchange transactions equal to tho amount of the brokers' commission, commis-sion, an additional surtax on incomes, probably In excess of $5,000 and tin increase in-crease of approximately 15 per cent on existing taxes on cigars and tobac CO. In the absence of a final agreement, Republicans who had forced the call of a party conference for tonight, agreed in conference with the Republican Repub-lican ways and means committeemen to postpone it until April ,30, when the complete majority program on sol- Idler relief legislation is' expected to 'be available for discussion. Final ac tion on the revenue plans, committeemen committee-men said, would bo taken this week. Representative- Rainey, In bringing up in the house the fight over the moans of obtaining the money, charged that "the Republican millionaire steering steer-ing committee" sought to "tenderly care" Tor those made immensely rich by the war. His charge that the Republicans Re-publicans sought by the legislation to buy the soldier vote was termed an 1 "Insult" by Rep. Campbell, Republican, Kansas, who demanded that the Dem-jocrat Dem-jocrat "proceed In order." Replying to Mr. Campbell, Mr. Ralney said he (would "state facts and let tho country Ijudge." |