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TAX EXTENSION FIGHT
TO HOUSE FLOOR TODAY
Administration
Faces Line-Up
Of Democrats
And GOP Rebels
By CHARLES F. BARRETT
WASHINGTON (/tV-The Eisen
hower administration swung today
Into a slam-bang House floor battle
to push traditional congressional
procedures aside and pass on ex
tension of the excess profits tax.
Administration forces, in their
most critical test in the House this
session, faced a strong line-up of
Democrats and a hard core of
rebellious Republicans assailing the
whole procedure as contrary to
House rules and Democratic prin
ciples.
House GOP leaders said the
President might send up a last
minute appeal tor support, to be
read on the floor during the fight.
The subject probably was on the
agenda of the President’s usual
Monday meeting vith his con
gressional leaders at the White
House.
The administration called for the
House showdown—just 36 hours
before the tax is due to expire—
by sqatching the extension bill
from the hands of the tax-writing
ways and means committee and
forcing it to the floor via the rules
committee. The ways and means
group had been staging what
amounted to a sit-down strike
against any action on the admin
istration proposal.
The first and crucial test today
was whether the House would
approve this process, never known
to have been tried before on a tax
bill, and agree to take up the
measure for floor action.
It was a quick do-or-die propo
sition, with only one hour of debate
scheduled. •
Both sides conceded the six
month extension proposal itself
would pass easily on a showdown
vote. But the procedural issue was
topsy-turvy and tense.
Democrats who opposed the pro
cedure were expected to vote
heavily for continuing the tax, if
it reached that stage. Some Re
publicans, lining up with the ad
ministration on the procedural
fight, were ready to switch sides
and voice opposition to the tax.
And there were strange bed
fellows. Ways and Means Chairman
Daniel A. Reed of New York, old-
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est House Republican in point of
service and a stout battler against
Democratic administrations for 20
years, teamed with Democrats to
lead the opposition against his own
party’s leadership.
House Speaker Joseph W. Martin
(R-Mass). meanwhile, drew on
support from ♦he CIO and the
Americans for Democratic Action.
Normally, neither the labor union
nor the ADA is counted a friend
of the GOP.
At the center of this storm was
a measure by Rep. Sadlak (R-
Conn) to extend the tax for six
months beyond Tuesday. Since
possible, the extension would be
retroactive. The bill would exempt
firms earning less than SIOO,OOO a
year.
The proposal would continue the
tax on about 20,000 corporations,
or one out of every 21 in the coun
try, and raise something under 700-
million dollars.
But far bigger issues were at
stake. The administration feared
that failure to extend the tax on
corporations might bring a stam
pede to cut individual income
taxes, too, thereby costing all to
gether up to 2Vi billion dollars in
revenue.
The President and Treasury
officials called the profits tax ex
tension a vital first step in their
drive to reduce the deficit and
fight inflation.
On the eve of the showdown
fight, itself being waged on the
threshold of the administration’s
first full fiscal year, there were
estimates in Congress of the size
of the federal deficit.
The most pessimistic yesterday
—a “very serious’’ nine billion
dollars for the year ending and
another seven billion for the year
beginning—came from Sen. Taft of
Ohio.
Chairman Taber (R-NY) of the
House Appropriations Committee,
in an NBC radio-TV debate, pre
dicted a two billion dollar deficit
for the year starting Wednesday,
barring any foreign developments
that might reduce the U. S. spend
ing rate.
Sen. George (D-Ga), ranking
minority member of the Senate
Finance Committee, agreed with
Taft’s estimate for the fiscal year
just ending. But, in a separate
interview, he said next year’s may
be closer to the $9,900,000,000 fore
cast by former President Truman.
Benson Assures Drought-Area
Farmers Government Will Act
By RAYMOND HLBROOK
DALLAS, Tex. Farmers and
ranchers of drought - devastated
Texas today had their eyes cocked
on two important developments
a disaster relief program due to
be announced in Washington and
promising clouds that started man
tling the state.
Secretary of Agriculture Benson,
who over the weekend inspected
Texas drought areas and conferred
with farmers, ranchers and state
officials, promised before return
ing to the capital that he would
announce the details of the ad
ministration’s emergency program
in Washington today.
The clouds yesterday brought
only light rains to East Texas but
they rode on new winds that took
the edge off the heat wave and
brought promise of nicking the
drought over the state.
For weeks the winds have blown
from the southwest off the arid,
hot deserts of Northern Mexico.
Weather Bureau officials said as
long as the wind remained in that
direction, there was little chance
that Texas would get relief.
But yesterday southeasterly
winds from the Gulf of Mexico
started blowing across Texas,
bringing moist air and clouds.
Light rains fell at Tyler, Lufkin,
Houston and Galveston yesterday
and the Weather Bureau said there
was a possibility of scattered light
rain across the state and as far
north as the Panhandle.
In Washington Rep. Clark
Thompson announced last night
night that the House agricultural
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Lack of water already has seared
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W. G. (Bill) Swenson, one of the
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the King County 666 Ranch, said
the drought was the worst he has
seen in 36 years.
The prolonged dry spell is re
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Worth and Dallas—lots of beef cat
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ranges but less milk and fewer
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J. O. Woodman, manager of the
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Smith County Agent Ben Brown
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are flooding the local markets
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bringing a top of only 16 cents a
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And it's the same story over
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George Hollister, 35. dropped dead
yesterday while heiring his daugh
ter, Kathy, 10, fly a homemade
kite.
The Medical Examiner’s office
said he was electrocuted when the
aluminum wire kite string hit a
high tension cable.
Summertime first course: Crisp
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on ice with small slices of hot gar
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