Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-11-07
END OF TAX
BILL BATTLE
IS F0RESEEN
Each Senator Allowed to
Make Only One Speech of
Ten Minutes.

Washington, Nov. 1.-AnOther
effort to write the soldiers bonus
bill into the tax revision measure
failed today, the senate rejecting
AZ TO 20, the Simmons amend
mcnt proposing to pay the bonus
out OF the interest Oh the foreign
debt.
Six Republicans supported the
Simmons amendment and ono
Democrat, Myers, Montana, Voted
against it. The Republicans were
CapEcr, johnson, Kenyon, Ladd,
LaFcllcttc and Norris.
Washington, Nov. 1.--Refreshed by
an over Sunday rest, the senate re-
turned today to what had developed
last week into AN endurance fight
over the tax revision bill Republican
leaders hoped, however, that the fall
of the gavel at 10 &. m. today had
marked the beginning Of the fhlal
round iE the gruelling cont,.4f. ! /, 4 VI.
largely Upon Fthe terms Of the INA ni-
nous consent agreement under which
a senator could speak only once and
] sthep :only for ten minutes On any
amend Inent and on the. bill. itself.
Whether the hope would be realized
depended upon the number of amend
ments that would be forthcoming.
Soldier bonus amendments still had
the right of way. cn@y one of these
amendments, that by Senator Reed,
Democrat, Missouri having been dis
posed of Saturday hight 1t was re-
jected. 3S to 2S. with five Republic
cans supporting it and two Democrats
opposingrit.
The, amendments yet to be acted
upon were those by Senators Sim
mons, Democrat, North Carolina, and
Mcclellan, Democrat, Tennessee, pro-
posing to use the interest on the for
eign debt to finance the bonus.
In urging his amendment, Senator
Simmons said he believed it was the
intention of President Harding to pay
the soldiers bonus out of the interest
on the foreign debt This view also
was taken by Senator McCumber of
North Dakota, one Of those in charge
Of the tax bill.
Senator Lodge of Massachusetts. the
Republican leader, took the position
that the bonus should not be con-
tingent upon so uncertain a PROPOSE
ton.
Want Real Payment.
whenever we pay the bonus, as we
! undoubtedly shall" said Senator
Lodge, I'VE want the payment to be a
real payment. This proposition, un-
| der the pretense of giving bonus
,
can tell when we will begin to get the
! interest on the credits given to the
foreign countries. We certainly are
not going to use force to collect It.
The promise that we will provide the
! bonus from this interest is practically
giving the soldiers nothing"
| Senator Simmons told the senate
that he regarded as absurd the pro.
] posal to pay the bonus by means OF
a. sales tax. He declared the business
! of the country would not endorse thai
proposition and that the Republicans
would not willingly enact legislation
! that the big business interests did moi
want
Opposing the bonus. Senator Mel
son, Republican. Minnesota. Civ
war veteran, said he would like to see
everything possible done for ths
wounded and for the men who fought
overseas, but that he had no sympathy
with the claims of the 100000 mer
who remained In this country. HI
compared their experiences with those
Of the soldiers in the, Civil war and
!: said that the latter. upon returning
home, instead Of demanding a bonus
did everything possible to assist il
aiding the nation.
/ II believe the great majority Of thu
world war soldiers are opposed to tht'
bonus Senator Nelson declared. "ant
! l believe the politicians of the coup
4 try will find that they cannot hunct
! the soldiers with any propositions o.
4 a bonus"