For six days last week the House of Representatives debated the $258,000,000 revenue bill of 1934. But all its words were wasted inasmuch as it had adopted a rule forbidding all amendments except those offered by the Ways & Means Committee which wrote the bill.
There was a single chance to alter the billby voting to send it back to the Committee with instructions to write in one change. Republicans could think of no better change than to reduce first class postage rates from 3¢ to 2¢ at a cost of $75,000,000 a...
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