Daily Kennebec journal., 1922-06-20
THREE VICTIMS OF
HIGH TENSION WIRE
AT NORTH ANS0N
LEADERS
PUT THROUGH PLAN
TO Defer BONUS


promise program of Republican lead
ers to defer action on the soldiers
bonus bill until after the tariff meas
ure has been disposed of was ap-
proved today at a conference of ma
jority senator's The vote was q to
IL. AT the same time the conference
went on record as favoring final ac-
ton on the bonus before any recess
or adjournment of congress.
Before adopting a resolution en-
bodyinS this program the conference
rejected so to 9, motion by Senator
McCumber, Republican, North Da-
kota. to lay aside the tariff for ac-
ton on the bonus. Mr.. McCumber.
| who has charge of both pieces of leg
| islation, then offered the compromise
| resolution.
Despite the conference action there
will be an open fight in the Senate to
get the bonus bill up before the SEN
ate returns to consideration of the
tariff measure laid aside last week
for the naval appropriation bill. Sew
eral senators were prepared to offer
motion tomorrow that the bonus be
taken up Immediately
Should the ma jority's compromise
, program be put through final Senate
action on the bonus probably would
not come before September. Esti-
mates today We're that the tariff bill
could not be brought to Il vote before
| August l at the earliest and more
| likely not before August Is. With
senators on both sides prepared to
| make a determined fight on the bon
us, it is figured that it Will take from
a month to six weeks to put that
measure through.
Some senators favorable to the
bonus fear tilibuster if the bill goes
over until after action on the tariff.
| There was a sharp controversy in
the conference over the language of
| the resolution which a number of
senators construed as binding them
to vote for the bonus. Senator Lodge
| of Massac achuSettS was said to have
assured senators that this was not
the case. Those voting against the
resolution are counted as opponents
of the bonus. a number of oppo-
nents absented themselves from the
| conference as did several proponents
who desire immediate action on the
bill.
The resolution adopted by the con-
ference reads as follows:
, Whereas at a conference of Repub-
lican members of the senate held on
, the eighteenth day of April 1922, it
was moved and carried that it is the
SopSa of tho cpyo foropco bn CON
ate proceed without further delay with
the consideration of the tariff bill and
that it is the sense of this conference
that the senate should at this session
pass q soldiers compensation bill and
that the finance committee be request
{ d to report such bill within a rea-
sona' le time, and;
Whereas, the amended soldiers
compensation bill was reported to the
senate by tho finance committee on
the eighth day of June 1922; and is
now on the senate calendar for the
action Of the senate, and;
'WhorCas, reports have been made
and circulated to the effect that the
soldiers compensation bill might be
abandoned at this session and whereas
such reports are without any founda-
ton whatever and the position taken
by the Republican conference on the
18th of April has been in no respect
modified or changed;
"Now, therefore. for the purpose of
correcting such reports and to reas-
sure the country and the American
soldier that there has been no change
of purpose on the part of the Rcpub-
lican members of the senate,
BE it resolved h. the conference
that as soon as the vote is taken on
the passage of the tariff bill the SOL
diers' compensation bill shall be i'm
mediately taken up and made the un-
finished business and its consideration
proceeded with to the exclusion Of any
other business except when tempor-
arily laid aside for matters of immcdi-
ate eXigency and continued the unfin-
ished business until it is finally dis
posed Of.
And be it further resolved that
both the said bills shall be pressed
TO their final disposition as expedi-
tiously as possible and that there
shall be no final adjournment of this
congress or any recess over until both
these proposed measures are finally
disposed of"