The Washington times., 1921-10-30
HARDING 'SPLEA
To DEFER BILL
DENOUNCED AS
|NDEFENS|bLE
Missouri Senator Steals March
on Republicans to Press
Revenue Bill Rider.
DENOUNCES G. O. p. STAND
Trying to Protect interests
Which Gained by War,
He Declares.
BY j. BART CAMPBELL,
International News Service.

lnternhuOnoi NoWb pofvsCos
A demand that the profiteers
who remained at home and poek-
eted the spoils Of the World War"
be compelled to provide for the ad-
justed compensation "long overdne
the boys who did the fighting and
made the real sacrifices In the
war" was voiced in the Senate last
night by Senator Reed, Democrat,
Of Missouri.
Rssd stole a r.iareh ON the Repubii-
cans. By gaining the Moor befsrs they
could offer their threatened motion
to table his amendment making the
soldiers bonus bill part Of the pend
ing compromise tax bill, and he pro-
posed the continuation Of the excess
profits tax to create q general fund
from which world war veterans could
be compensated.
"The President urged that the sol.
diers' bonus bill be sent back to the
Senate Finance Committee and Senate
action on 1t postponed indefinitely. be-
cause. he declared, there were no funds
available in the Treasury with which
to compensate our soldier boys" Reed
said. Yet we have just had In the
Senate an inspiring spectacle Of a
Republican majority taking $45o.ooo,-
900 a year from the Treasury by re-
pealing the excess profits tax, although
we were informed not 30 long ago by
the President himself that to take any
money from the Treasury to repay our
soldier boys for their sacrifices would
threaten us with financial Insolvency,
and maybe ruin"
Contrasts Profiteer With Soldier.
Reed declared that he was ony pro-
posing the taxation of "those who
were growing fat during the war while
our soldiers were growing thin. and
who were growing rich and powerful
while our soldiers were marching TO
their death"
Reading from Secretary of the
Treasury Melons letter to Congress,
in which tho Secretary urged that to
pay the soldiers bonus would react
adversely upon the country's financial
condition, Reed said his amendmoat
would avert tho very thing the Sec.
retary feared the most. the effect Of
the soldiers bonus on tho market"
"will the market be adversely of-
fected II money Is transferred from
the pockets of profiteers to the pockets
OF the boys who offered their lives for
their country" Reed inquired.
Reed also quoted from the Prssi-
dents address to Congress on the
soldiers bonus In which the President
deprecated any suggestion that the
world war veterans were themselves
seeking "gratuities' and "pittances
Of peace"
Scores Republican Attitude.
Money" Reed continued, rs evil
IDENTIFY a 'pittance Of peace when 1t
is going to the soldier, but II is viii
lainous' when It is taken away by
taxation from the corporations, or
the excess profit makers.
"The proposal Of the Republicans
evidently is that those who. made
tho sacrifices Of war shall also make
the sacrifices of peace but that those
who made the profits of war shall not
make any OF the sacrifices OF
peace"
He said his purposes was also ito
inject some life into the soldiers
bonus bill, which has been sleeping
in the Senate Finance Committee os
assiduously as an Egyptian mummy
embalmed 1000 years ago, since the
President sent It back to the commit.
tee to repose therein indefinitely"