The Washington herald., 1922-08-26
War Veteran Member
Flags 1t on Grounds
Of Heavier Taxes.
SPECIAL SESSION
TO ACT ON SHIPS
Frame Program to Bring
Tariff Out of Conference
Within Is Days.

Congress is now definitely headed
for the home stretch. II plans OF
administration leaders materialize.
both Senate and House may recess
next week until the tariff bill is
brought out of conference. II a
final tariff vote Is possible within
a reasonably. short time. to permit
OF adjournment of the session. Con-
gress will probably be summoned
back by President Harding to a
special session in November, when
the ship subsidy bill will be
called up.
With debate on the bonus pro-
ressing toward conclusion. the Sem
ate program ntemplates:
bonus Vote Next Week.
l. Voting on the coal commission
and coal distribution bills, prob
ably Saturday.
.. Voting on the bonus next Nom
day or Tuesday.
8. Disposal of the Dyer anti
lynching bill. probably in a single
day's debate.
4. Bringing the tariff bill out of
conference within fifteen days.
The HoUFe program is eondi-
toned on the Senate schedule in so
far as final passage of the coal bills
Is concerned. Once this is accom-
plished. the House is ready TO ad-
iourn until the special session.
Prospects for final enactment OF
the bonus bill into law took an al
together unexpected turn for the
worse yesterday.
Information of the most definite
character reached the Senate that
President Harding would veto the
bill. Out of the maze Of conflicting
reports of the Presidents intention
concerning the bonus, the woro
which was carried to the Capltol
Yesterday by Mr.. Harding's closest
advisers was accepted as final.
See. Veto Sustained
An "acid test" poll of the Senate
was taken upon the receipt of this
Information. 1t indicated, even 10
friends of the bonus. that The Presi-
DENTAL veto would be sustained ny
a narrow margin and that the
bonus bill, unless II gains new con-
verts will not become law.
What the acid test" poll actually
showed was this: The bonus bill.
yben 81 comes to a vote in the
Senate will pass by approximately
a two-thirds majority. III thls ma
iority could be held intact 'he
bonus would be safe. but at least
one and perhaps two or three sen
ators now supporting the bonus IN
a lukewarm fashion will swing over
to the administration side ana re-
fuse to override the veto.
The outstanding features OF yes
terday's debate was speech oppos-
ing the bonus by Senator Reed. of
Pennsylvania. Republican. Reed
fought during the war in France
and attained the rank of major.
He was appointed to the Senate
only a few weeks ago.
Reed Opposes Bonus.
Senator Reed said ne realized
that a large majority of the former
service men wanted the bonus.
They served their country well
and at meager pay. while the rail-
road men, the munition workers
and the shipyard workers. who
should have been drafted instead OF
wheedled. were getting a pay in
crease almost every time they
asked it.
Nevertheless I am going to vote
against the bonus. The plain fact
is that the country cannot afford
to grant this request. People are
staggering under a burden of tax
alton that has never Been paralleled
and / believe it is our duty to re-
frain from adding one ounce to
that burden of taxation on any eN-
cuse whatever"