The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-07
HOPE FIGHT ON
TAX REVISION
IS NEARING END
Soldier Bonus Amend
n1ents Haze Right
of Way.
BULLETIN.

effort to write the soldiers
bonus bill into the tax revision
measure failed today, the SEN
ate rejecting, IL to %. the SIM
mons amendment proposing to
pay the bonus out OF the inter
est on the foreign debt.
Six Republicans supported
the Simmons amendment and
one Democrat, Myers, Montana,
voted against it. The Repub-
Hcans were Capper, Johnson,
Kenyon, Ladd, LaFOliette and
Norris.
Washington, d. c., Nov RE
freshed by an over-Sunday rest, the
senate returned today to what has
developed last week into an endur-
ance fight over the tax revision bill.
Republican leaders hoped, however,
that the fall of the gavel today had
marked the beginning of the final
round in the contest.
This hope apparently was based
largely on the terms of the unani-
nous consent agreement under
which a senator could speak only
once, and then not more than
(
the bill itself.
Hopes were expressed that no
other amendments that would be
forthcoming so that definite action
could be taken.
Reed Armament Rejected.
Soldiers bonus amendments still
had the right of way, only one of
these amendments, that by Senator
Reed, Democrat, of Missouri, hav-
ing been disposed of on Saturday
night 1t was rejected 80 to IS,
with five Republicans supporting 1t
and two Democrats opposing it
The armaments yet to be acted upon
were those of Senator Simmons,
Democrat of North Carolina and
Mcclellan, Democrat, of Tennessee,
proposing to use the interest on the
foreign debt to finance the bonus.
After these are out of the way,
the senate will proceed with the
consideration of other proposed
charges with the program calling
for the renewal of fights for a
graduated corporation income tax
and for the making public of income
tax returns.
score More suggested.
More than a score of other amend
ments have been suggested but ii
was not certain that all of them
would be pressed.
In urging his amendment, Sena-
tor 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 oi
those in charge of the tax bill.
Senator Lodge of Massachusetts
the Republican leader, took the
position that the bonus should moi
be contingent on SO uncertain {
proposition
Lodge Opposes.
Whenever we pay the bonus, az
we undoubtedly SHALL" Senator
| Lodge said, Il want the payment tc
| be a real payment. This PROPOSE.
ton, under the pretense of giving {
bonus, gives only an uncertainty
No one can tell when we will begir
| to get the interest on the credit.
| given to the foreign countries. W,
certainly are not going to use fore,
to collect it The promise that W.
will provide the bonus from this in
terest is practically giving the sol
diers nothing"
Senator Simmons told the senate
that he regarded as absurd the pro
posal to pay bonus by the mean:
| OF a sales tax. He declared thu
business of the country would no
endorse that proposition and tha
the Republicans would not be will
ing to enact legislation that the bi;
business interests did not want.
Nelson Sarcastic.
Opposing the bonus, Senator Mel
son, Republican, of Minnesota,
Civil war veteran, said he wouIt
like to see everything possible don
for the wounded and for the mel
who fought overseas but that he ha.
no sympathy with the claims of tn
100000 men who remained in. thi
country. He compared their ez
perience with those of the soldier
in the Civil war and said that tn
latter. on returning home, instea
OF demanding a bonus did every
thing possible in aiding the nation
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