The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, 1921-11-09

who has the will to do it.
4 layman on the other side
notice lawyers are not SO anxious tC
make propositions of that llind-a
laynan, the Senator from India M
| (Mr. New, for when I have the ut
most good will and respect, said that
the amendment of the Senator from
! Missouri (Mr. Reed) could not stand
| because it proposed to devote GER
tain amount OF the revenue intended
to be raised under the pending bill to
certain purpose. Mr.. President, is
it not implied in this bill that the
revenue to be raised shall be given
SO o"much to the Army, so much to the
Navy, so much to the hospital ser
vice, so much to salaries? Could we
not put in the bill the items for which
| the money is to be expended? We
certainly could. Therefore, the
| amendment can stand without in any
way interfering with the constitu-
| tionality Of the measure. Why the
other side of the Chamber and the
| White House have put themselves
! against a recognition of the service
OF our soldiers it is not for me to
| say.
Mr.. STANLER. Mr.. President
The PRESIDING OFFICER (A1r.
| Wadsworth in the chair). Does the
Senator from Georgia yield to the
Senator from Kentucky?
Mr.. WATSON of Georgia. I yield
Mr.. STANLEY. If there were any
thing in the contention of the .Sena-
tor from Indiana-and 1 agree with
the Senator from Georgia that there
is not-but if there were any sub
stance at all to that shadowy argu-
ment. the bill could simply provide
for the appropriation out of the Gen
eral Treasury of an amount equal to
the amount collected by the excess
profits tax, and avoid all question.
Mr.. WATSON of Georgia. Pre-
cisely; and if we should impose a
tax on stock dividends We would get
twice as much as is contemplated
would be required to meet such an
appropriation.
Why all this talk about a bonus ?
Why this effort to put the eX-service
men in the attitude of asking favors
when it is a mere question of reward
ing service? The greatest Irishman
that ever lived, in my Judgment
| Henry Grattan-was a poor man, and
he served in the British Parliament,
where as everyone knows salaries
were not paid. The people of Ire
| land made him up purse, a fund,
as remember of $4,000, which now,
| perhaps, would be worth more than
100000 in our money. When re-
\
preached for that he said, Il hold
that gift by the same title that the
King holds his Crown; the people
gave and l received
Does not everybody know that
Great Britain has already paid her
soldiers a bonus out Of our money?
France has done the same thing;
Italy has likewise acted. Does not
everybody know that the historic fact
that brought about the union between
Caesar and Pompey was that the Ro-
man Senate refused to pay the bonus
to Pompey's soldiers, and Caesar
thought it ought to be paid and he
had it put through. Then when he
was trying to break up the big tax
dodgers and userers they had him
murdered.
! The Senator from Kentucky (Mr
Stanley alluded to the fact that we
were even now in the midst Of prep
'arations for a celebration the like OF
which the, world perhaps has never
| seen since a Roman triumph. The
lights are being lit, the arches are
| being made. the monuments are
! being reared, the money is being
spent, for what? To celebrate the
victories Of these very men who to-
! day are without work and without
! bread. Is it not inconsistent, Mr..
President? Should we not be just
! before we are generous?
! | warn the other side now that II
! wanted TO play politics. and wanted to
give them the advice OF Il Mephis-
: toDheles. | would tell them to so right
ahead and keep on doing what they
| are doing. Just keep right ahead.
; There was 4 time when one duke in
England named II men in the House
Of Commons There was a time when