EXCISE TAX REDUCTION ACT OF 1954 44537 STANFORD LIBRARY HEARING BEFORE THE MAR 30 1954 COMMITTEE ON FINANCE UNITED STATES SENATE EIGHTY-THIRD CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON H. R. 8224 AN ACT TO REDUCE EXCISE TAXES, AND LIB. MARCH 15, 1954 Printed for the use of the Committee on Finance UNITED STATES WASHINGTON: 1954 CONTENTS Batt, Harry J., Sr., president, Pontchartrain Beach, New Orleans, La. Bossemeyer, James L., executive vice president, National Association Bruner, Dal L., executive secretary, Iowa State Pharmaceutical Asso- 170 Burr, Robert M., secretary, National Electric Manufacturers Associa- 144 Cannelli, John, National Bowling Council. 123 Carlson, Carl, Cigar Manufacturers Association. 130 Cole, Col. H. A., member of the Board of Directors of Allied States 152 Costley, Alton M., chairman, National Affairs Committee, the Na- 178 Council of Motion Picture Organizations, Inc.-Joint Statement of 152 Coyne, Robert W., Special Counsel, Council of Motion Picture Or- 239 Doering, H. B., Peoples Theater, Garnett, Kans.... 246 Donovan, James J., president, National Licensed Beverage Associa- 165 Fancey, Oliver F., Washington representative, National Screw Ma- 68 Farr, Mort, chairman of the board, National Appliance and Radio 62 Fountain Pen and Mechanical Pencil Manufacturers Association, 112 Frick, Ford C., commissioner of baseball_ 89 Funston, G. Keith, president, New York Quotation Co.--. 268 Gilstad, Leif, first vice president, Transportation Association of 182 Halligan, Charles W., chairman of the tax committee of the tire divi- 78 Statement of-Continued Holland, Hon. Spessard L., a United States Senator from the State Holloway, Fuller, counsel, the Toilet Goods Association Howe, Harold K., executive secretary, the Lawn Mower Institute, Humphrey, Hon. George M., Secretary of the Treasury Joyce, R. E. chairman, Tax Council of the Alcoholic Beverage Indus- King, Frank L., executive vice president, Fountain Pen and Mechani- cal Pencil Manufacturers' Association, Inc.. Lanier, J. C., J. C. Lanier Farms, Greenville, N. C. McDaniel, Glen, ̄ president, Radio-Electronics-TV Manufacturers Prepared statement_ McGee, Pat, vice president of Theater Owners of America, in behalf of the Council of Motion Picture Organizations, Inc., with enclosures - McKemis, Peter R., Jr., special counsel, American Home Laundry Mendelson, L. R., president, Hotstream Heater Co., Cleveland, Ohio, National Automobile Dealers Association.- National Licensed Beverage Association__. New Hampshire Highway Users Conference, resolution.. O'Connor, C. E., Jr., vice president, the Diamond Match Co., New Ott, William H., Jr., chairman, legislation committee, the National Page 169 224 163 263 174 298 283 19 31 55 51 126 Packard, Arthur J., chairman of the board of directors of the American 281 Parker, C. A., executive director, National Aviation Trades Asso- 116 Paul, Victor, chairman, Retail Jewelers Tax Committee, Inc.. Pinkney, James F., general counsel, American Trucking Associations, Thomas, R. O., legal counsel and director, W. A. Sheaffer Pen Co., 101 Trautman, George M., president-treasurer, National Association of 89 Trible, John R., Appliance Parts Jobbers Association, Inc. 77 112 Wood, Robert N., president, Fountain Pen and Mechanical Pencil 102 Additional information: Annual production of home freezers, 1951-53, table submitted by Argument for exemption of classical phonograph records from the Cigar excise taxes should be reduced- -a new tax schedule should be 135 Cigar Industry's Excise Tax Story, submitted by Carl Carlson, Federal Government, surplus or deficit, administrative budget basis 134 257 Additional information-Continued Governmental treatment of water heaters as a plumbing item, necessary Resolution submitted by New Hampshire highway users conference__ Adam, Thomas, Presbyterian Church, Greybull, Wyo., to Hon. Babbitt, William C., managing director, National Association of Photographic Manufacturers, Inc., to committee, March 15, Bailey, Clyde S., executive vice president, United States Inde- Baldwin, D., secretary, Minnesota State Fair, St. Paul, Minn., to Barit, A. E., chairman, Automobile Manufacturers' Association, Washington, D. C., to chairman, March 17, 1954. Bartlett, Hon. E. L., Delegate to Congress from Alaska, to chair- Bean, D. D., president, D. D. Bean & Sons Co., Jaffrey, N. H., Becker, Ralph E., representing the National Association of the Legitimate Theatre, Inc., to chairman, March 16, 1954, with Berkowitz, Max, director, national attorney for the Ladies' Carroll, Howard J., general secretary, National Catholic Welfare 188 Coleman, L. V., director, the American Association of Museums 278 Coyne, Robert W., special counsel, Council of Motion Picture Organizations, Inc., New York, N. Y., to Hon. Frank Carlson, March 15, 1954, with enclosures_ Easbey, Dudley T., Jr., secretary, the Metropolitan Museum Hendrickson, Harry M., president, Montana Automobile Dealers Association, Helena, Mont., to chairman, March 15, 1954--- Howe, Harold, executive secretary, Lawn Mower Institute, Inc., Hunt, Hon. Lester C., to chairman, March 8, 1954, transmitting letter of Thomas Adam, Presbyterian church, Graybull, Wyo-- Hulse, John B., managing director, Truck-Trailer Manufacturers' 168 299 169 284 79 300 Jacoby, Glenn J., athletic director, University of Wyoming, to Hon. Lester C. Hunt, with enclosure, March 15, 1954-- Johnson, Walter S., Friden Calculating Machine Co., Inc., San Kennedy, W. P., president, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, 280 Kline, Allan B., president, American Farm Bureau Federation, Lampley, A. M., vice president, Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire- 286 |