The New York herald., 1922-08-25
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would welcome a helping hand from
the White House in order to bring the
issue to a conclusion.
The fact is the majority of Senators
are taking rather less interest in the
bonus debate than was expected. This
was shown by their tendency to ram
BILE into other fields both yesterday and
to-day while the bonus was supposed
to be the business in hand. A num-
ber of Senators favoring and opposing
the bonus have prepared pretentious
speeches designed by their authors TO
provide greater illumination on the
bonus subject than has yet been re-
vealed despite ,he two years wrangle
over the subject.
Weeks Would be Required.
At the rate Of progress made
to date it will take these Senators two
or three weeks to express their opin-
ions of the bonus proposal one way or
the other. The realization of this
situation has caused a numbers of
Senators, eager to get away from
of appealing to the President to proffer
first aid to anxious political am
bitions. No actual step was taken
toward framing such request this
afternoon, but it was quite obvious
that before the deadlock progresses
much further one will be waited per
letter or verbal request in the direction
of the White House.
Considerable importance was at
tached by Senators opposing the bonus
to the omission from the platform
adopted by the Ohio Republican State
convention yesterday of any reference
to the bonus. The President is be-
lieved to have been consulted regard
ing the construction of the instru-
ment promulgated by his party asso-
ciates at Columbus. The conviction
that he was informed of the plan to
omit any reference to the bonus from
the Ohio platform squared exactly
with the understanding of the majority
of Senators that he continues to view
the bonus proposal as unwise both
in an economic and political sense at
the present time.
Senator's in the confidence of the
President-and opposed to the bonus
resent the determination Of their bonus
associates to embarrass the Executive
in the present critical industrial situa-
tion. They do not hesitate to condemn
the motives which might compel the
President to veto a bonus bill on the
eve of a pending necessity for invok-
ing support of a military character to
suppress disorders growing out of the
coal and railway strikes.
Raiders Standing Firm.
If the Senators leading the fight for
the bonus appreciate the gravity of
these conditions they have not to date
permitted it to swerve them from their
determination to win the votes of SOL
diers demanding a bonus. The plan of
the bonus supporters to put through
the bill regardless of the effect on the
Government or business Of the country
has not been modified or changed In
the slightest degree. The only thing
that prevents them from carrying out
this plan is the counter program OF
the Senators opposing the bonus to
| fight 1t at every turn as long as
possible.
OF the three speeches made to-day
on the bonus during the period thai
the attention of the Senate could be
focused on 1t two were IN opposition
and one in favor of the scheme to
impose further burdens on the tax
payers for the benefit of able bodied
ex- service men, The most impressive
argument was made by Senator Under
wood (Dem.. Ala.), who condemned the
bonus proposal as both unsound and
unpatriotic. His speech Is printed
elsewhere in this edition Of THE New
YORK HERALD.
The Alabama Senator talked to an
audience of thirty-eight Senators on