Here Are Two Christmas Offers Of great interest to Searchlight readers who You will undoubtedly wish to give The Searchlight as a Christmas remembrance to friends this year, as you did in 1924. We have two special offers for you: First, the price of a single gift subscription will be $2.00 Second, Mr. Haines' forthcoming book "Your Servants in With each gift subscription an appropriate Christmas card will be sent giving the name of the donor. THE SEARCHLIGHT ON CONGRESS Lenox Building Washington, D. C. TA HE SEARCHLIGHT makes many long journeys-to "I fully realize that the people of America are in political bondage, and unfortunately, the majority seem to be satisfied with their condition. However, I hope that the good work that you are doing will lead to the people of the United States taking more interest in their Government institutions, with the result that in good time a majority of right thinking men and women will govern your great country." "Your Servants in the Senate" HIS new book, which is "the story of their stewardship and that of the Harding-Coolidge regime," is just coming from the press. Here is what one critic thinks of it (Mr. Kerby is Editor of the Newspaper Information Service): MY DEAR LYNN: December 29, 1925. I have just finished reading the galley proof of your book, "Your Servants in the Senate," and I want to give you my impressions for whatever, if anything, they may be worth. The first thing that strikes me about it is the fact that you have here presented the first comprehensive, detailed and painstaking analysis of the real forces of modern capitalism and their method of work that has ever been done in modern times. The second thing that strikes me and arouses admiration is the thorough and workmanlike way in which you have gone at the job. Every page, and indeed every paragraph, bears internal evidence of the care and thoroughness that has evidently been put into the preliminary work on this book of yours, and consequently it is above all things convincing. The third thing that strikes me is the cold, clear logic of the thing; its absence of ranting and demagoguery, its avoidance of generalizations and its specific and deadly presentation of facts, facts, facts! It literally lifts one out of his chair, and it does it not by means of mere language, but by its marshalling of fact, and the logical presentation of its argument. Furthermore, I am charmed by the form and method of presentation, the sequence and arrangement, and the method of allowing one thing to lead to and introduce another. It has the readableness of an exciting novel, the thrill of a mystery play. I am inclined to think that this book, should it be actually read by some members of the Senate machine, might even startle several of them into a realization of the part they are playing as tools of something much bigger and more menacing than perhaps some of them may really have realized. In other words, I believe that its clear and convincing analysis of Mellonism and what Mellonism means might do what few documents ever do-carry a certain amount of conviction even to those individuals who are incidentally attacked by it. For the rest of us who are interested in how the processes of government can be and are being used in the interest of SUPERBIG-BUSINESS, no one of us can afford not to read it. Finally, let me say that my unstinted admiration goes out to a man who can assemble and handle facts in the surgical manner indicated by the proofs that I have examined. Mr. Lynn Haines, Sincerely yours, FREDERICK M. KERBY. Cloth bound copies are $1.75 each and those in paper binding, $1.00 each, postpaid. We offer a paper-bound copy of this book and a year's subscription to The Searchlight for $2.50. THE SEARCHLIGHT PUBLISHING COMPANY Lenox Building Washington, D. C. Your Government at Washington The outstanding Congressional event during the short period before the holiday recess was the passage by the House of the new Revenue Mellon tax bill. It is not worth Legislation while, however, to devote very much attention to an analysis of this action. What the House did is rather meaningless, with reference to the final form of the legislation. The procedure of that body is so gag-ruled by a few bosses that real deliberation is impossible. Members have small opportunity to be heard, and less to influence the result. When the measure goes to the Senate, it will be more adequately considered. Probably the sequel will be a very different bill. Although, under the Constitution, the House originates revenue legislation, it is in the Senate that such laws are really written. We must wait, therefore, until the Senate acts, before being able to present any dependable idea of the final provisions of the new tax proposals. 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Ten Independent Republicans-Beck, Browne, Cooper, Frear, Lampert, Nelson, Schafer, Schneider and Voigt, of Wisconsin, and Sinclair and Rathbone -voted for the Rainey motion, as did Carss, Kvale and Wefald, Minnesota Farmer-Labor members, and Berger and La Guardia, Socialists. On the final passage of the bill, however, only twenty-five voted "nay"-10 Democrats and those last named above except Rathbone. The Democrats to take that position were: Collins, Mississippi; Green, Florida; Drane, Florida; Howard, Nebraska; Huddleston, Alabama; Morehead, Nebraska; Rainey, Illinois; Rankin, Mississippi; Sabath, Illinois; Sears, Florida. "Mr. Chairman, in the midst of the joyful Christmas season I congratulate the House upon its being permitted to play the role of Santa Claus. The revenue bill, which this House is about to pass, is the Christmas present of the House of Representatives to the American people. "We began its consideration the second day of the present session, thereby establishing a new record for promptness in the consideration of an important measure. The Ways and Means Committee had considered it for almost two months prior to the opening of the session. Highly trained experts of the Treasury had been working on the necessary |