Law On Taxing For Campaign Frozen

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31366, 11 May 1967, Page 13

Law On Taxing For Campaign Frozen

(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter —Copyright)

WASHINGTON, May 10.

The United States Senate last night ended a bitter internal feud by voting to freeze a law that would give the two major parties up to $3O million each of the taxpayers’ money for next year’s Presidential Election campaigns.

Senators voted almost unanimously to make the law inoperative until Congress rules exactly how the funds can be spent

In a long dispute, supporters and opponents of the controversial law each won their victories before yesterday’s compromise. The law was repealed three times and revived three times. Signed by President Johnson last December, it allows each United States taxpayer to allot one tax dollar to a fund shared between the Democratic and Republican parties.

Opponents charged that the measure, rather than ridding the nation of campaign-fund coruption, would promote overspending and campaign excesses by the two major parties.