Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-03-20
BONUS BILL
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sion of rules. but he appeared to be
confident there would be no develop
ment at the White House conference
| that would cause serious alteration
of the plan to put the measure
through soon.
I'VE have bill quite different
from anything the President has eX-
pressed an opinion on" said MIR.
Mondel, land a bill that lays no
more burden on the treasury next
year than does the forthcoming road
bill, for instance.
We suspended the rules two years
ago to pass the first bonus bill and
there is good reason to handle the
measure that way. There are men
/ who have no responsibility in the
matter who would come forward
with amendments, not for the pur-
pose of improving the bill but TO
make trouble. If we have about the
bill we can get, there is no reason to
allow the minority to embarrass our
people.
I'VE have got the best bill we can
StI anu ii very SOOu one anu inc
sooner we pass it, the better"
Among those who probably will &C
company Mr. Mondell to the White
House tomorrow will be Chairman
F'ordney of the Ways and Means,
Committee: Chairman Towner of the
| Republican House Conference; Chair
man Tess of the Republican Congress
sional Committee; Representative
I.ongworth of Ohio, n member of both
the ways and means and storing COM
mittee. and Representative Mann of
Illinois.
Speaker Gillett who delivered an
address today in Springfield, Mass,
waa expected to arrive here tomorrow
and preside over the house. Whether
he would see the President before the
house convened was not disclosed but
some administration officers said to-
day they were confident he would not
entertain motion TO suspend the
rules and pass the bonus bill. This
question was one that house leaders
said they would take up with the ex-
ecutive.
Soon after Mr. Harding returned
mere today he had an hours confer
ence with Secretary Mellon at tho
White House. There was no official
statement As to the conference but II
was understood that the bonus oues-
ton was discussed
An attack on the bonus measure
vas made in minority views which
were made public today by Represen-
tativcs Treadway, Massachusetts and
lllson, Connecticut, Republican NOM
"ers or the ways and means commit
zee. They declared their belief that
ne Dill IT enacted into law would do
more harm to the people of the conn
ry the veterans themselves and
heir families included. than IT would
10 good to the individual beneficiar-
;Cs.",
The committeeman centcred tho;r
tack principally on the hank loo,
'rovision OF the adjusted scrvic. or
''cate ute and the land settlement
'tie. They asserted that the loan
tHeme seems to us just about as
hsound economically and unfortunate
rom every point of view at this mar
'cular time IS could be possibly do.
sed."
The land settlement title thov s,ia
'1crs untold opportunity for rcclless
expenditure is dapooro,,a
the worst and uncertain at tho hoe."
and they added that there is a firmly
grounded belief in the minds Of m,py
that this provision has been sadd,od
upon this blll with the hone and ox-
pctation IF Carrying through Congress
on the sturdy backs Of the ye.ero,,
measure SO fraught with dangerous
t"ssibillties and uncertainties that ~
would receive scant support II forcod
70 stand alone in the opcn on its ovn
merits"
Calling attention that the loar nro-
VISION has been disapproved by high
"scai ofheers OF the government. tho
committeeman asserted that "a GO.
rious defect in the bill was Tho "o,
tire lack Of amortization, taxatjo, nv
refunding for anticipated payment =,
the large sum the government will ovo
In three years" when the bank loan -,
ROD would expire and the vet.rar.
hoio'ns certiieates would be author !
'zed to borrow direct from the govern.
ment. They estimated that nj no.
time the treasury would have n nra
vide ss0o.ooo.ooo for advance 10 bants
on unpaid loans made to veterans ana
70 the veterans themselves.
Attention Is called" saws tho
port TO the signincance Of the date