Evening star., 1922-08-25
PLAN B0NUSVOTE
FOR NEXT WEEK
Senators Also Will Rush 9th
er Bills to Reach Ad-
journment.


dicted by opponents Of the measure
today. would come to a vote in the
Senate by the middle of next week.
Some of the senator's. however, be-
lieve that vote on the bill may be
reached even earlier.
With the soldiers bonus bill dis
posed of. the Senate hopes to be able
to complete it's other urgent work
and with the House to take a recess
while the conferees on the tariff bin
are seeking to adjust their differ
ences.
The Senate is expected to pass a
new corrupt practices bill, limiting
the expenditures which may be made
by senator's and representatives in
the coming election, the So-called
judges bin and the two coal bills.
one providing for commi ssion to
investigate the industry and the 9TH
er designed to prevent prOfiteering in
coal. 1t maybe called upon also to
pass a resolution authorizing the
PRESIDENT to take over and operate
the anthracite mines, if necessary.
The Senate and House leaders hope
LOT a recess of three weeks or a
month while the tariff conferees are
at work. 1t is then planned to ad-
journ and act upon a conference re-
port on the tariff bill. provided the
conferees have been able to reach an
agreement. The ship subsidy bill is
expected to go over and to be taken
up probably at special session of
congress to be called by the middle
of November.
Underwood Sounds Opposition.
The soldiers bonus bill. though it
h1
day. was given little attention. the
debate centering around the indus
trial situation and the election of
Senator Newberry of Michigan.
Senator Underwood of Alabama.
democratic leader of the Senate. how
ever. delivered an address opposing
the bonus bill. and his colleague. Sem
ator Hetiin, spoke in behalf Of the
measure.
Senator Underwood declared the
pensation bill: that it had been prop
erly named by the public-a bonus
bill
You cannot measure service to
country in dollars" declared the mi
nority leader. IF you are to measure
service in that way. then ss25 is an
absurd proposition. The payment of
dollar a day will not adjust that
great debt generous people must
always owe to the gallant men who
SdI leu TIE lag III time OIL war.
The Alabama senator said there
was an obligation on the part of the
government to take care of the sick.
disabled and needy in old age, but
that there was no obligation to give
'pittance' to the others, many of
whom did not need it.
Wants to Pay 1t Now.
Senator Underwood argued that if
bonus was to be voted Congress
should provide the funds through
taxation on this generation and not
postpone payment of the billions to
time when the veterans themselves
would be called upon to bear most of
the burden. He said the men who got
money through the war should help to
pay the bonus If one was to be given.
Sounding a warning against piling
up hugh debt against the future
Senator Underwood declared that
should an emergency arise during
that time this debt might prove a
handicap, as modern wars were de-
! cided not alone by man power and
industrial capacity of a country, but
by financial resources.
Senator Hefiin. supporting the bill.
! declared that those opposing the
bonus had not made a peep" when
Congress was voting millions in the
settlement of claims of war contrac-
| tors. He charged that war profiteers"
were fighting the bill Ito the death
and that the Interests" were fill
| ing the newspapers with the greatest
propaganda against the measure that
| had been attempted since war days.
| Asserting that hundreds of thou
| sands of former service men were
now without jobs. Senator Heflin
declared that there could be no talk
about "cheapening" a mans patriot
| ism when hunger demanded that he
"get something to eat and place
to sleep"
II voted to call these men to the
colors," concluded the senator. land
! so help me God as long as I have
breath to speak I shall demand jus
i tice for them"