Senate Votes I
Income Tax Cut !
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(By Francis J. Kelly)
WASHINGTON, (#>) — Senator
George <D.-Ga.> declared Satur
day a $4,000000,000-a-year income
tax cut approved by the Senate
finance committee would leave no
surplus to pay on the $258,000,
000,000 public debt.
The measure, slashing levies 30
to 10.5 per cent, was voted over
George’s protest that action should
be delayed until Congress has a
better idea what next year’s gov
ernment spending will be.
It would be effective July 1 in
stead of retroactive to last Jan 1,
the date fixed in the House bill,
and would limit the cut on in
comes in the range of $79,728 to
$302,396 to 15 per cent instead of
the House version’s 20 per cent.
George was defeated in a mo
tion to delay the effective date
until next Jan. 1 and finally join
ed the committee’s seven Republi
can members Saturday in voting
to send the bill to the Floor where
he reserved the right to oppose it.
The other five Democrats on the
committee voted against the bill.!
The measure is an amended ver
sion of House bill No. 1, which,
started out as a 20 per cent across
the-board reduction sponsored by
ways and means committee chair
man Knutson (R.-Minnd. The
House finally approved a bill with
graduated reductions ran g i n g
from 30 to 10.5 per cent, and re
troactive to last Jan. 1.
The most important change
made by the Senate committee
was delaying the effective date six
months.
, New withholding rates would
take effect July 1 if the Senate
version becomes law. The with
Hoover Has Home ;
In Washington
WASHINGTON. </P» —Fix-Pres
ident Herbert Hoover’s housing
worries are over—at least in
Washington.
Rep. Stefan ‘R.-Nob.1, told a re
porter Saturday the s'ate depart
ment has promised to invite
Hoover to hang his hat at Blair
House any time he 's in town.
Blair House is a $150 000 man
sion across the street from the
state department and the White
House on Pennsylvania avenue. It
is the official government resi
dence for visiting foreign digni
taries.
Stefan said that when Hoover
returned recently from a trip
abroad for President Truman, he
“was housed in a very modest ho
tel room while working over
problems dealing with the feeding
and rehabilitation of people in
many foreign countries.”
I
held tax for most wage and sal
ary earners would go down 30 or
20 per cent then, depending on
the income bracket. But next
March, when the taxpayer makes
out his return for calendar 1947,
he would find his cut over the
whole year figures out only 15 to
10 per cent.
In his return for 1948, however,
he would get the full 20 or 30
per cent benefit.
This is the schedule of rate cuts
voted by the Senators:
30 per cent off for persons with
net incomes, after exemptions
and deductions, of $1,000 or less;
30 to 20 per cent on incomes from
$1,000 to $1,396; 20 per cent on
incomes from $1,396 to $79,728;
15 per cent on incomes from $79,
728 to $302,306; 10.5 per cent on
all above $302,306.
Summer Trouble
Brewing In Iran
TEHRAN, i/Pl — An Iranian
source who has returned from a
three-month tour. of the north
said Saturday that remnants of the
Azerbaijan province partisan
army, estimated unofficially at
15,COO men, were organizing in
‘he mountains for a summer cam
on gn against the central govern
ment.
The informant said he was told
hat ihe rebel groups were direc
t'd from across the Russian fron
tier by Azerbaijan officers who
fled from Iran after the fall lasL
December of the self-declared au
tonomous government which had
been set up by Jafar Pishevardi in
Azerbaijan,
The Azerbaijan movement be
gan at a time when the province
still was occupied by Soviet troops
and collapsed after the Soviet
withdrawal.
The informant said he had seen
armed units formerly connected
with the Azerbaijan rebels mak
ing headquarters in isolated vil
lages and caves in the Lake Urrr ia
and Astara regions. He added that
a leader told him, “We plan to
start fighting this summer exact
ly as the partisans now are light
ing in Greece.” The leftist parti
sans in Greece practice guerrilla
warfare against the Greek gov
«
ernment.
This source, who couid not be
identified by name, recalled that
only 300 officers and 4.000 men
of the former rebel army were
known to have been captured or
killed in the lighting with govern
ment troops last year, although
the lighting force was estimated
officially at about 24,000 during
the revolt.
Greek-Turkish
Aid Bill Passes
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(By Alex Singleton)
WASHINGTON, (/P>—The Ad
ministration's $400,000,000 Greek
Turkish aid measure was sealed
with overwhelming Congressional
approval Saturday.
Only routine steps remained to
'.art a stream of American men,
money and material into the two
Mediterranean nations to ward off
Communist encroachment.
Overriding attempt after at
tempt to modify its terms, the
House early Friday night, joined
the Senate in endorsing this new
peacetime foreign policy, commit
ting United States resources to
stabilize internal affairs of coun
tries outside the Western Hemi
sphere.
The House action on final pass
age came on a roll call vote of
287 to 107. A coalition of 127 Re
publicans and 160 Democrats up
held the measure. Against it were
recorded 93 Republicans, 13 Dem
ocrats and Rep. Marcantonio of
New York, lone House member
of the American Labor Party. The
measure passed the Senate April
22 by a vote of 67 to 22.
The bill goes back to the Sen
ate now. Presumably a joint
House-Senate conference commit
tee will be formed to work out the
differences.
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