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American Agriculturist, January 12, 1924 
Washington News 
T HE great outstanding topics of conversa¬ 
tion are on what action Congress will take 
on the Soldiers’ Bonus and Secretary Mellon’s 
proposal for tax reduction. 
There is a very divided feeling in Congress 
on the question of the bonus. A recent straw 
vote in the Senate showed 66 Senators in 
favor of the bonus and 30 opposed to it. How¬ 
ever, President Coolidge has taken a definite 
stand against the bonus and if it is passed it 
would have to go over his veto. He has stated 
that his attitude of opposition is Based on the 
greatest good for the greatest number. 
The President is strongly in favor of the 
Mellon Tax Reduction plan which provides 
very substantial reduction in the income tax. 
Some of those opposed to this reduction say 
that it would aid chiefly the rich man without 
helping the poor man any. This is answered 
by others who claim that lighter taxes on in¬ 
comes will stimulate business and react to 
everybody’s benefit. 
The President and many of his followers 
state that it is impossible to have a soldiers’ 
bonus and reduce taxes at the same time. So 
far little progress has been made in either house 
with either measure. . . . 
Conti’ol and operation of government-owned 
merchant vessels has been taken from the 
Shipping Board and placed in the hands of the 
Emergency Fleet Corporation. At a While 
House conference presided over by President 
Coolidge, Rear-Adm. Leigh C. Palmer, re¬ 
tired, was named president of the Fleet Cor¬ 
poration as the first step in the formation of a 
definite merchant marine policy. The plan 
virtually relegates the Shipping Board to the 
role of a regulatory and advisory agent. 
A great deal of interest has been excited 
by Henry Ford’s announcement that he would 
under no circumstances become a candidate 
tor president himself, and that he personally 
was for the re-nomination of Mr. Coolidge. 
This was great news for the President’s sup¬ 
porters yand was disappointing to those who 
were looking to a third party and to Mr. Ford 
to lead this party to success. 
Editor’s Note: —The question of the soldiers' 
bonus and the Mellon plan of fax reduction are 
of great importance to every citizen. American 
Agriculturist would like to know first if 
both these measures are thoroughly understood 
by our people, and second, we would like to have 
some letters stating your opinion as farmers for 
or against the soldiers' bonus and the Mellon 
tax-reduction plan. 
ALBANY NEWS 
I N Governor Smith’s message to the joint 
session of the New York State Legislature, 
which opened its session January 2nd, he 
emphasized the following points: 
First: Reduce the income tax by 25 per cent, 
immediately so the taxpayer would get the 
benefit of the reduction on his 1923 tax. 
Under this heading the Governor stated: “I 
believe firmly that we can give the people 
very substantial tax relief when we complete 
our program of reorganization and eliminate 
duplication and waste of effort in state gov¬ 
ernment.” * 
Second: Aid the progress of improving the 
port of New York and marketing conditions 
therein by broadening the authority and scope 
of the Port Authority which is now working 
on this great problem. 
Third: Consolidate and simplify overlapping 
existing State departments and abolish com¬ 
pletely many others. 
Fourth: “Abolish the present Council of 
Farms and Markets and in its place create 
a single commissioner of Farms and Markets 
with ample authority to re-organize the de¬ 
partment and to produce results commensurate 
with the power now granted to a regency which 
seems unable to administer it.” Speaking on 
this subject, the Governor very bitterly crit¬ 
icized the present administration of the tu¬ 
berculosis cattle indemnity fund by the 
department. 
Fifth: The enactment and enforcement of 
strict legislation to prevent the practice of 
medical and dental quacks. , 
Sixth: Extension for two years longer of the 
rent laws passed to aid the city housing short¬ 
age situation. 
Seventh: The improvement and larger use 
of the State canals and LIudson River for the 
transportation of freight. 
Eighth: The passage of a forty-eight hour 
weekly maximum for women and child workers. 
Ninth: The legislation for nominations by 
direct primary instead of through the conven¬ 
tion system. 
There is a feeling in Albany that many of 
the measures suggested by the Governor are 
of non-partisan nature and’will have the sup¬ 
port of both Republicans and Democrats. 
It was also very apparent in the opening 
days of the session that the legislators were 
much interested in holding only a short session 
so as to get out of Albany as soon as possible. 
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