WILD DISORDER

Southland Times, Issue 21658, 21 March 1932, Page 7

WILD DISORDER

UNITED STATES PARLIAMENT. DISPUTE OVER SALES TAX. (United Press Assn.—By Telegraph—Copyright.) (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) Washington, March 19. After the House of Representatives adjourned in wild disorder on Saturday the Way’s and Means Committee agreed to exempt a group of additional foodstuffs from the sales tax provisions in an effort to gather new support for the Revenue Bill. The House adjourned after opponents to the sales tax again bowled over party leaders on the major issue of the Bill. The acting chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, Mr Crisp, sponsor of the Bill, told the House that it was in no proper frame of mind to legislate and needed time to cool off. Representative Rainey (Democratic leader) went into the well of the House and urged members to keep order and support the Bill in the interests of the country. He concluded with the assertion, however, that it was necessary to adjourn the House tb bring it to a realization of what it was doing. “This House, I realize, is a runaway House,” he said, adding that it had made a longer step towards Communism than any other nation but Russia in levying high surtaxes on Friday’. “Fail to balance the Budget and you will make all those expenditures for reconstruction absolutely useless,” he said. “There is only one worse step you can take than excessive income taxes —that is the step they took in Russia to eliminate wealth.”