Show washington snapshots at S strange as it may seem a single farm crop had more to do with breaking the house deadlock u ui in i the wage hour bill than anything else the situation was this the wage hour bill was locked tight in the house rules committee the only way to force it to tile the floor was for a majority of the house members or to sign a petition to take it away from the committee the most bitter opponents of the wage hour bill were from the cotton states they declined to sign the petition on the ground that the bill would wreck young and grawi growing ig industries in their states and there were not members from other states who believed in the bill strongly elou enough ah to force it to a vote so the bills proponents hunted ways to put the heat o on oi i the cotton st aters it happened that the new farm bill covering many commodities was being debated on the tha house floor T to 0 commodities wheat and cotton attracted most interest the congressmen i from wheat states generally speaking were willing to permit a vote on the wage hour bill but cotton state members were not so the wage hour bill ants to k aock cotton out of the farm bill and a few of the cotton state members were enough of thern signed the petition to get the wage vage hour bill out of the rules committee the funny part of it is that taw few folks believe there wore were e boug I 1 votes to eliminate wheat or cotton or anything else from the farm bill even though the bill as a whole the subject of enthuse aftic popularity besides that someone remarked that everything but the capitol was traded to got get the bill up congress may yet do so methin about taxes during the special session in an effort to stop unemployment caused by the penalty on elpa isio is the house ways and means tax sub committee has agreed on changes in the two mot mont harmful taxes those on capital gains and undistributed u corporation income legislative drafting experts are hard at work trying to put the agreement into antell interligi ne ble language I 1 chaliman Ch ariman doughton is ready tl ti call his committee aiato iato meeting on a moments notice once the ha bill bill is is approved by th tha sub cor con I 1 i mattec lie he figures that own even if the bi bill I 1 only passed the I 1 house lous a aid id stayed in the senate until the special session ends that would be reassuring to business because st at the january regular session the die could pick it up where it i left off it might sound peculiar to say that the man who makes 1000 a year should worry about the a year man but that is just exactly what most washington I 1 observers are saying now I 1 the cause of all the talk is a I 1 questionnaire sent bv the treasur to those who make ori or more a year that thai quentio enaire asks for a listing of assets prop erty no reason is given for the inquiry but some washingtonians Washington ians remember that a few years bad back italis dictatorial government made such an inquiry and th then followed it with a new tax on property homes farms automobiles radios machinery everything that people owned up to now the united S tates states has never levied a direct tax on property but someo lomeo ie apparently has decided that a splendid way to bring in revenue to the federal I 1 treasury would be to tax everybody on the basis of in what hat he owns delinquent NOTICE moon lake water users assoria tion principal place of busi business roosevelt utah i notice is hereby given I 1 that there is now due and delinquent on the following stock the amount at set opposite the respective names of stockholders on account of assessment ses levic 1 on the 3rd ard day of november 1937 as follows name shares amt ami T N dodd irrig co 40 85 H L allred 1 85 A G burton 1 85 ray G labrum 1 85 0 A dart I 1 sa taylor tidwell 1 85 arthur Wis comba 1 pa F 5 W C hancock 1 85 W K X dye 1 85 L J gilbert 1 85 the above amounts are now delinquent lin quent and will vill be duly advertised and it if not paid on or before the day of december 1937 will be offered for sale at 2 p m at the office of the dry gulch company and as much w is s each parcel of stock as may be n necessary ec essary will be sold to the highest bidder for cash to pay the delinquent indebtedness and expense pe ise of sale by order of the board of directors HORACE L ALLRED acting secretary dec 9 16 23 |