The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-06-06
MCUMbER CALLSOFF
|. CIRCUS STUNTS FOR
BONUSBILL'
Raid Promoters Also Will
Not Get Cherished Floor
Privilege.
MOVIES DROPPED TOO
President Lets 1t Be Known
That He Would Veto
Measure.
BLIND ALLEY PREPARED
Senate Finance Charm
BLIND ALLEY PREPARED
Senate Finance Chairman
Completely at Sea Over Plan
of Procedure.
ny LOUIS sEIBoLD.

BY LOUIS SEIBOLD.
Special Dispatch to THE New YORK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau.
Washington, ID. C., Juno 5.
The Solemn ceremonies" which were
to have attended the formal presenta-
ton of the McCumber bonus raid bill
to the Senate tave been called of.
There will be no Circus stunts"
when the finance chairman submits
to his colleagues the measure which IS
already discredited at the White House
and at the Treasury Department, and
which is daily becoming more irri-
tating to the people throughout the
country
The Circus" plans of the American
Legion officials, wEo are anxious to
trade as many votes of ex-service men
as they can control for Government
cash, have been abandoned because
even Mr.. McCumber wouldn't stand
for them. He said this afternoon he
would present his bill and the majority
report enumerating its virtues with
out any circus stunts" but through
the usual channels.
Circus Promoters Disappointed.
Promoters of the scheme to invest
the presentation of the bill to the Sem
ate, with a fascinating touch of TIE
dramatic and spectacular expressed
great disappointment over the veto
of the elaborate preparations they had
made for "impreseing the country"
with the popularity OF Mr.. McCumber's
BILL
Among the suggestions seriously
considered was one to obtain the
privileges of the floor" for the most
important sponsors of the scheme to
load the country with additional taxes
to pay the $4,000. 900. 900 bonus graz
tuity. This privilege is conferred
only on the distinguished representa-
tives of foreign countries entrusted
with, missions of extraordinary i'm
portance.
Still. some of the bonus promoters.
appreciating the frenzied desire to win
the political influence which they
claim to possess, thought they would
be fully within their rights in de-
handing the highest honors in return
for their prospective support of indi-
vidual Senatorial ambitions. A flock
of expert movie operators were re-
tanned to immortalize the solemn
ceremonies" and incidentally for use
in helping out friendly Senators whose
seats are in jeopardy. There will be
no use for them now.
Greater Need for Pulmotor.
When Mr.. McCumbef presents his
bill and arguments tomorrow there
probably will be greater need for a
pulmotor to initiate it with sufficient
vitality to resist the vigorous attacks
which will be made on 1t. Seventy
five days have gone by since the
House passed the Fordney- Mondell
measure. in which Senator McCumber
and his associates have made a few
comparatively unimportant changes.
When the bill went to the Senate on
-hdICn 80 WI. MICuhiDeI pituicteu -
would be reported and passed by the
Senate in ten days"
The confidence of the Finance chair
man and officials of the American Le-
gion, who are demanding Government
cash, has been disturbed on more than
one occasion by the persistent oppo-
sition of the President to any bonus
bill that does not carry revenue
producing provision and by the sub
stantial increase In the number of
Senators VINO have followed his lead.
Further evidence that the President
has not been influenced to change the
opinion previously expressed by him
regarding the bonus was commune
Gated to the Senate leaders to-day by
an associate who discussed the matter
with the President yesterday. The
Senator, who is an intimate friend Of
the President, told his colleagues this
morning that the McCumber bill is
wholly Objectionable to the Executive.
| The Senatorial envoy also intimated
that the President is Mt loss to ac-
count for the perslstency with which
Senators supporting the bonus con-
tinue to misunderstood his position
and to attribute to him any uncer-
tainty in the matter.
PRESIDENT. stand Unchanged.
THE President has not changed his
position In the slightest degree" was
the statement made by the Senator,
White House, where he discussed the
plans of the bonus promoters to put
through the McCumber bill. He sup
plemented 1t with the statement that
the President was determined to ex-
Confined on Page Two.