WILD DISORDER

Hokitika Guardian, 21 March 1932, Page 5

WILD DISORDER

U.S.A. SALES TAX

TRIBULATION IN POLITICS.

(.United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright!)

WASHINGTON, March 19. The United States House of Repre-

sentatives adjourned in wild disorder •n Saturday. After this the Ways and Means Committee agreed to .exempt a group of industrial foodstufffrom the sales tax, provisions in an effort to gather new support for the Revenue Bill.

i The House adjourned after the opponents of the sales tax had again bowled over the Party Leaders on the major issue of the Bill. Acting-Chairman Crisp, of the Ways and Means Committee the sponsor of the Bill, told the House that it was in no proper frame of mind to legislate, and that it needed time to cool off.

Representative Rainey, the Democratic Leader, went into the well of the House and urged the members to keep order and to support the Bill in the interest of the country. He concluded with the assertion, however, that it would be necessary to adjourn the House in order to bring it to a realisation of what it was doing. "This House, I realise is a runaway House," he added, It had, he said,, made a longer step towards Communism than any other nation but Russia in. levying the high sur-taxes it did on Friday. He concluded: “Fail to balance the budget, and you will make all those expenditures for reconstruction absolutely useless. There is only one worse step that you can take than excessive income taxes. That is the step which they took in Russia to eliminate wealth.