Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-08-05

SOItG u CIcIu are LOT IT. SOltl6 Vi lIielH
are against it, but that the majority
seems to be for it,
Why the Majority Favors 1t.
Why is the majority for it? Not 50
much because the men want to feel
the cash in hand, but because they feel
that an injustice was done them in
asking them to fight for S33 a month
while otLer fellows were driving
rivets for ten times the amount and
were not under the necessity of dodg-
ing shells or parrying bayonet thrusts.
Personally. the writer of this has
been opposed TO the granting of the
bonus unless it could be given to the
men who actually need it and kept
from those who have no need for it.
There seems to be no way in which
this can be done, but, opposed to the
bonus or not, there is every sympathy
among the veterans who think its
granting is bad policy. with the men
who, looking at the thing as human
nature makes them look at it, say that
it ought to be granted
There is a fear among officials in
washington that the bonus may be
made a political issue. 1t seems hard
to conceive how it can be so made,
for the at-heart proponents and oppon-
ents of bonus legislation are pretty
evenly divided between the political
parties as represented in Washington
due consideration being given to the
facts of proportion, for there are many
more Republicans in the two houses
of congress than there are Democrats.
Sympathy Versus Finance.
So far as the controversy today is
concerned the senator's and representa-
tiyes are confronted with two state
ments, one from the treasury depart
ment and the other from the veteran
organizations. The treasury depart
ment intimates that passage of the
bill will come close to bankrupting the
country. The veterans organizations
say that this is buncombe. Sympathy
runs all one way but sympathy does
not always mean support. 1t is, of
course, with the men who fought. The
government officials who have spoken
on the matter say that their feeling
is with the men, but that their sound
financial sense has to run the other
way. People will have to take their
choice as between the two contentious.
1t is perfectly conceivable that the
whole thing may be put up to the
country in what will be tantamount
IL Of
that it will be submitted to the people
as a direct proposition, but it may be
that bonus or no bonus will find
place in the platforms of the political
parties. Then one will have to wait
to count the votes to know the finish
of the fight
Every veteran probably would like
to see the bonus bill passed if it could
be passed without injury to the credit
of the country. The subject has been
passed on by the administration. It
has asked for postponement. Does
this mean the end or is it really only
a postponement? This is the question
the congressman and the veterans are
asking today in the city of Washing
ton, and there is no one yet who can
give definite answer.
Taft Eighth Chief Justice.
In the White House is the twenty
ninth President and in the room Of
the Supreme court is the eighth chief
Justice. Presidents are elected for a
fixed term; Supreme court justices
are appointed for life, or until volun-
tary retirement.
The terms of certain ones among
the chief justices of the United States
have been coincident with the terms
of several Presidents. No political
party on coming into power is able
to secure the appointment of either
a chief justice or any associate JUS
tees of the Supreme court of It's own.
political faith, unless at the time there
exists a vacancy on the bench. Usual
ly the high court has been so high
that it is above politics.
John Marshall generally is ac-
counted the creates chief justice
that the bench ever has held although
there ere men whose feeling in the
matter probably is "contrariwise. .
Perhaps the man whose name most
frequently is on the tongue of per-
sons. speaking of incidents of the Su-
preme courts life, or it's DECISIONS is
that of Roger B. fancy. It was the
bred Scott decision, given at time
when the sectional feeling in the Uni
fad States was at white heat that
made the name of fancy SO familiar,
even to the casual students of Amer
lean history.
William Howard Taft, the twenty
seventh President of the United
States, has become the eighth chief
justice of the United States. Never
during the years of his adult life has
Mr.. Taft made a secret of the fact
that he had an ambition one day to
sit in the seat of John Rutledge, the
first chief justice.
Succeeds His own Appointee.
When Roosevelt was President, and
prior to the time that Mr.. Taft's name
was mentioned prominently for the
it was the presidential de-
sire to put Mr.. Taft on the Supreme
bench as an associate justice. At that
time the chief justiceship was not
vacant, for Melville w. Fuller, APP
pointee of President Cleveland, still
was in the chief seat. Mr.. Taft
wanted to finish his work in the Philip
pine islands where he was governor