Evening star., 1922-08-29
Declares McNary Propose
Would Add Billions to
Present Program.
CAPPER WOULD MAKE
PROFITEERS PAY COST
Final Action Today Unexpected
With Many Changes Still
to Be Considered.

tion amendment to the soldiers
bonus bill. Senator McCumber. re.
publican, North Dakota, in charge
of the measure, told the Senate to.
day that the proposal would add hun.
dreds of millions and perhaps bill.
lions of dollars to the cost of the
bonus program.
Il wonder IL the senator believe,
we can attach his amendment anc
bring this bill before the President
and have it signed" asked Senator
McCumber
Il think j can say that the Presi-
dent thinks more of this amend.
ment than of other features of the
bill" retorted Senator McNary. al:
you want the President to sign the
bill the surest guarantee is to ado
this amendment"
McCumber Suspicious.
Il cannot imagine. if that be true
what all the objection of the President
and the Secretary of the Treasury
has been about" returned Senator
McCumber. Both based objection tc
thC pili II tiiCH sloou dpoh thC Sos'
to the government and the interfer.
ence with the refunding of the short.
time government obligations"
Senator McCumber declared tha'
when the enemies of the bonu:
come fiocking" to the support o
the reclama ton amendment, he was
"a bit suspicious" adding that If i
81, Cot u"
of the supporters of the amendment
it should be put through as a sepa
rate bill.
Announcing his support of the sol
diers' bonus as nothing more thar
square deal for the boys who die
the fighting" Senator Capper. repub
that the war profiteers and tn,
peace profiteers owe a bonus to tn,
soldiers of the world war"
There is no better guarantee
against militarism than to requir,
the men who profit out of war to pa,
for it," he said. Those who remain.
ed at home made enough here in tn,
United States to enable US to pa,
many times over the debt we owe tc
the men who fought our battles
Wall Street wants to pay it with
sales tax. which would be paid large
ly by the farmers. the laboring people
and others in the form of a tax or
food and clothing and other neces,
sites.
Would Use "Stolen Millions"
"Profiteering during the war pro.
duced one American millionaire foI
every three American soldiers killed
in France. would like to see the
government recover the hundreds o.
millions of dollars stolen from tn.
Treasury by the crooks and CRATER.
who profiteered off the government
in war contracts and then use thai
money to pay the soldiers bonus.
Then there's another way We car
raise the money. Let's go after the
billions that the foreign govern
promptly and pay it to our soldiers
There is no use Disgusting the fact
that our international bankers wani
us to wipe out this foreign debt. Ii
will make their foreign securities
that much stronger: II we decline
ments probably will try to borrow
more money from us to pay us what
they owe. So far as l am concerned
l will never vote to cancel one dollar
of that debt and L will never vote
to lend another dollar of government
funds to any foreign nation"
Only SIS Per Cent Voted.
Senator Capper said the most pow
erful influence against the bonus
was the United States Chamber OF
taken AZ referendum of its member
ship not upon the measure before
Congress, but upon measure of It's
own 'concocting."
only So per cent of the chambers
membership voted upon the propo-
sition,'' he continued, "and large
proportion of these votes came from
the large centers of industry. II
out of the four received less votes
in favor than 1t did against, and OF
the total votes on the four proposi-
tions submitted Ais votes were cast
in favor of all propositions to 265i
against them.
Would Use Debt Interest.
Under an amendment by Senate,
Simmons, democrat, North Carolina
the bonus WOulQ De I1duS SpcCins
charge against the interest on the
foreign debt. In the event that II
should prove insufficient at the start
the Secretary of the Treasury would
be authorized to issue certificates OF
indebtedness to be redeemed out OF
future interest payments or frosa the
sale Of the refunded securities receiv-
ed from the allied governments.
Supporting the bonus, Senator Colt
republican, Rhode Island, told the
Senate that though the pending bill
should fail to become a law the cause
will not die and In the end the Amer
ican people will insist upon the pas.
sage of a similar measure"
Consideration Near End.
Senate consideration of the soldiers
bonus bill neared an end today. but
some senatQs doubted that the hope
OF those in charge of the measure for
"a final vote before adjournment to-
niennt would be realized. Half 8
dozen or more amendments remained
to be acted upon and. in addition, 3
number of senators desired to deliver
addresses on the bill itself ~ we'll as
the various changes propaDed. -
Amendments included the Smith
McNary s350.0o0.000 reclama ton plan
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