Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-09-04
WASHINGTON
DAY BY DAY
(By Isaac Gregg

Washington. Sept. 4.-You can
hear all sorts and shades of opinion
regarding the probable action OF
President Harding on the bonus bill
passed BY the Senate on Friday ana
which will probably reach the White
House within the next week after
running the gauntlet of the confer
ence room where learned Senators
and Representatives will null over
the changes made in the measure
since its original passage IN, the
House. Cabinet members will tell wou
that the President will veto 1t be-
vond question. But then if you talk
to the friends of the bonus in both
Senate and House they will be equal
lv positive in their assertions that
i'm no circumstances will the Presl-
dent exercise his Presidential right by
vetoing the measure.
But the Gazette correspondent, as
stated heretofore, has the very best
of information which leads him to
believe that the measure Is to re.
ceive the disapproval Of the Chief
Executive. The President, guided by
the views of his Secretary of the
Treasury, does not feel that the coun-
try's finances is able to stand the eX-
penditure of nearly S5,000,O 100000 that
will be necessary to meet the cost of
the bonus. His closest friends IN Con-
gress expect him to disapprove of
the bonus and then the fight will be
made by its friends TO get sutfi-
cient number of votes to override such
action. This is not thought probable,
at least so far as the Senate Of the
United States is concerned.
American movie concerns will have
to "cut out the rough stuff if they
want to retain Sumatra as a field
for their productions, according to
American Consul Spamer. at Medam
in a report to the Department of
Commerce.
Cowboy reels and other movies
based upon wild and wooley' acts
are losing their popularity among the
natives and even among the Chinese
of the better class. High class pic
lures depicting society life with a
touch of clean comedy are more popu-
lar than the ISLAM bang" affairs. Ac-
cording to American Consul Spamer
more than 100000 feet of film are
imported annually with five and six
reel subjects and serial pictures of
80 and 36 reels in demand.
The Flying Dutchman," better
known as, the Royal Netherlands
Aeroplane7 Company is showing its
heels to all other commercial COM
panies when it comes to safe and
sane" flying, having completed 62l.-
$40 miles of flying with passengers
and freight without single accident.
According to American Consul
Mahin. at Amsterdam. in advices to
the Department of Commerce, the
company has a daily service between
Amsterdam and Paris and twice a
day service between Amsterdam and
London, the 500 miles distance be-
tween the two routes being made with
Safeness and dispatch.
Between drinks. a good majority
of he citizens of San Luis Petesi.
Mexico. are frequenting the modern
soda fountain and soft drink parlor
recently opened there and modelled
after the extensive and de luxe scale
found in the larger American cities.
Although it is not known whether
the MeXicans in that city have tired
of the hard stuff" easily obtained
there or whether they merely want
to satisfy their idle curiosity, Ameri-
can Consul Boyle reports that the
place is doing thriving business and
states that American concerns may
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