The New York herald., 1922-05-20
Promoters Lose Confidence
and Many Senators Are
Ready to Switch.
HOUSE ALSO REPENTING
Some Members Would Like to
Have Chance to Revise
Their Previous Votes.
ny LOUIS sEIBoLD.

ny LOUIS SEIBOLD.
Special Dispatch 10 THE NEW YonK HERALD
New York Herald Bureau.
Washington. ID. c., May 10.
Promoters Of the bonus raid have
maintained eloquent silence since the
TO defeat Senator Pepper FOR renomi-
nation.
In this respect the attitude of the
legion officials who attempted to in
volve the members of inc organiza-
ton in politics is In striking contrast
with that of Senators who intended to
support the bonus scheme.
The decisive victory of Senator Pep
per despite the organized opposition of
ex-service men whose votes could be
controlled by the legion officials has
given a tremendous impetus to Presi-
dent Harding's proposal that bonus
legislation be postponed unless the
sales tax is adopted to finance it.
Coupled with the defeat of seven
Representatives in Illinois and Penn
sylvania who sought denomination, the
failure of legion officials to deliver en-
bloc the votes of members Of that or
ganization against Senator Pepper has
wrought tremendous change in the
bonus situation In the Senate.
Senatorial Plans Revised.
1t became known this afternoon that
a scheme to set aside the vexatious
and misft Fordney- -McCumber tariff
bill to permit consideration of the
bonus. is to be dropped. The chief rea-
son for this decision. agreed to by
Senate Republican leaders, Is that
more than dozen members of the
upper house who intended to support
such movement have revised their
plans.
Another reason for the decision was
the notice given by opponents of the
scheme that their program contem-
plated "the fullest and most exhaus-
tive discussion of the subject regard
less of the question of time Freely
interpreted, this means that the in
creasing opposition to the bonus viii
reject any overtures made by its
sponsors to agree 20 limit debate over
the bill
Another Senatorial group which
occupies a neutral position on the
bonus witt. recent leaning toward the
opposition has served notice they will
oppose any effort to project the bonus
into the Senate until the tariff. the
service pay and the army and navy
appropriation bills which are certain
to provoke long debates, have been
considered.
Motion to Expedite Abandoned.
TIE scheme favored by some of the
more ardent bonus supporters to move
for the discharge of the Finance Com
mittee from consideration Of the bonus
bill therefore has been abandoned. In
the opinion of leaders on both sides
of the chamber no move will be made
in this direction by any Republican
Senator.
n
will be opposed by the great majority
of Republican Senators. so IL the bonus
BILLS taken up out of its order, IL will
become 10 all intcrts and purposes, a
Democratic measure, for which tina.
party, and not the Republican ma
jority, win be responsible.
Bonus Senators. who. II may be said,
are much less eager to pass a bonus
bill than they we're before the Penn
sylvania primaries. admit scant hope
of budging the President from the
sound and wise position he has adopted
and TO which he sedulously has ad-
tered on the bonus
Republican Senators who have dis
cussed the subject with tho President
in the last two or three days are now
fully convinced that any chance the
bonus may have had at the White
House has been destroyed. The Presi-
dent permitted II to be known to-day
that he had not changed his views on
the subject.