Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 193, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 December 1927 — Page 12

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CONGRESS WILL REST AFTER 15 DAYSOF WORK Tax Cut Bill Is Half Way Through; Other Major Legislation Up. CONGRESS TODAY Senate Considers Harrison resolution for investigation of the consular service. Considers McMaster resolution committing the Senate to a tariff reduction policy. Adjourns until Jan. 3. House Takes up routine matters briefly. Interstate Commerce Committee considers railroad consolidation legislation. B Washington, Dec. 21.—congress wound up the first fifteen days of its long session today to adjourn for the Christmas holidays, with a tax reduction bill halfway through and other important legislation under way. It will resume its work Jan. 4, the Senate planning to take up the tax bill, and the House concentrating on proposals for flood relief. The tax bill, providing for a reduction of $289,000,000, now is in the Senate finance committee, where hearings will open after the holidays. A public buildings bill authorizing expenditure of $100,000,000 more next year than had been contemplated has passed the House and is being studied in Senate committee, as is the $50,000,000 alien property bill passed by the House. The Senate has passed the Houe’s deficiency appropriation bill, barred Senator-Elect Smith, Republican, Illinois, and Vare, Republican, Pennsylvania, from the oath of office and set in motion an investigation of allegedly forged Mexican state papers published by W. R. Hearst. A proposal suggesting an inquiry, into the so-called “power combine’’ has been bottled up in the Senate

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interstate commerce committee, while the McMaster resolution recommending reduction of tariff rates gathers dust on the Senate table. It will not be called up until after the holidays. There will be little activity during the recess except in the Senate Hearst investigation, which will resume Dec. 27. Liquor case dropped Shelbyville Man and Wife Clear After Year’s Delay. “JSmfVmx, ini. Dec. 21.After being charged with violation of the State prohibition law more than a year, Benjamin F. Drake and his wife, Cordelia, today are cleared, follownig dismissal of charges by Prosecutor Sumner Terry. The official said It be useless to proceed against the couple, as Special Judge John W. Craig, Greensburgh, had ruled that the search warrant in the case was faulty, and that evidence obtained under it could not be introduced. Dies After Track Fire W. Ricks, 41, is dead of injuries suffered when a gasoline tank truck he was driving was set afire when struck by a Big Four train. Dale Hendrickson Indianapolis, train crew member, aided Ricks in escaping from the blazing wreckage, but he died four hours later.

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