Furnifold McLendel Simmons,
Senator from North Carolina, was accused last week by the able Washington correspondent, Clinton W. Gilbert, of having done a good turn for his college and his state. Senator Simmons is the senior Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee. Mr. Gilbert accused him of being "an excellent trade," of getting in "his best licks behind the scenes." He went on:
"In the Senate Finance Committee there suddenly appears a Simmons amendment to the tax bill, one making low inheritance tax rates retroactive. That being...
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