New-York tribune., 1922-09-17
Harding Plans
10 etc, Bonus
Next 'u1esday
Senators Deep i'm Presidents
Confidence Explain De-
lay Is to Give Absentees
Time TO Get i'm Their Vote
House May Override Ii
Real Fight To BE in Sem
ate, Where Bill is Expect
ed TO Die After Debate

From, The Tribunes Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.-President
Harding will veto the soldiers bonus
bill and will send the veto message to
the House Tuesday, according to state.
ments of Senators close in his conf
dence this afternoon.
In the absence of any official state
ment from the White House, it was
the general feeling about the House
and Senate this afternoon that this in
formation was correct.
1T was not, however, accepted as final
in all quarters and there are still a
number of Senators and House mem.
ters who tonight insisted there was
likelihood that the President would
sign the bill.
,The President has talked over xthe
situation with one or more prominen;
Republican leaders since the bill was
adopted by both houses. The informa-
ton that he will veto the bill and send
in the message Tuesday came as re
suit.
Keenest attention IS now concen-
trated on the question whether the
Senate will vote to sustain the veto
or to override it. This afternoon, the
friends and the enemies of the bonus
bill were busy marshalling their forces
in preparation for the final bonus
struggle which they expect the com
ing week, after the veto. The House
making the bill law Notwithstanding
the veto. The House, according tc
canvasscs. will override the veto. The
real battle will be fought out in the
Senate.
Canvasses of the Senate continue tc
indicate the veto of the President il
it is sent to Congress cannot be over.
come In the Senate and thus that the
bill will be killed.
Nevertheless, the opponents of the
bill are embarrassed by the absence OF
a number of Senators who are against
the bill and the difficulty of arranging
pairs. The friends of the bill are suf-
fering like mbarrassment In fact
the outcome is likely to depend on the
question of absentees and pairs, and
hence TO be uncertain up to the time
of actual voting on whether to override
the veto.
The opponents of the bill tonight
insisted they had the situation well ir
hand and that they would by Tuesday
have their forces organized so they
could not be beaten.
The purpose OF delaying the vetc
until Tuesday is to enable absentee.
who are opposed to the bonus to return
to Washington or to have pairs ar
ranged. The delay, however, is a:
likely to work to the advantage of the
friends of the bonus as to it's oppo
nents. Senator McCumber, in charge
of the BILL is urging a policy on par
of the supporters of the bill of re
fusing pairs.
1t is said that Senators Mclean ant
Brandegee, of Connecticut, who votet
for the bill, will change front and vot,
to sustain a Veto
The bill was signed up by the Speak
er of the House and by Senator Cum
Minis, President pro tempore of th
Senate, this afternoon, and sent to thu
President. 1t arrived at the Whit
House about o'clock.
Under the practice the question o
passing the bill over the veto is de
batable. While it is generally decided
without debate, it can be debated a
length. The question came up in tht
Senate when the sundry civil bill wa
vetoed March a, 1918, by Presden
Taft. Senator Fletcher raised th'
point that the question of passing
over the veto was not debatable, bu
Senator Gallinger, in the chair, helC
otherwise