New-York tribune., 1922-09-21

were persuaded to allow the vote to be
taken to-day, and Senator McCumber
yielded.
Reed Attacks Message Sharply
Discussion of the Presidents veto
in the Senate did not wait for the for
NAL consideration of the question.
| Senator Cummins, President pro tenn
! pore, laid the veto message before the
| Senate formally at 230, but the de-
bate opened more than an hour before
that. Senator Reed of Missouri, made
vitriolic attack on the message and
charged it was filled with verbal sub
terfuges" and Especial pleadings." He
said he could only come TO the con-
clusion in view of these that the lack
of funds "is only a plausible excuse,
and that the real purpose is to deny
the bonus in toto and in finality."
Senator Reed, after attempting TO
show the message was replete with in
consistencieS, declared that the humor
of it came when the President said
that those nations can only survive
where the public treasury is locked
against class legislation"
Calls Tariff "Class Legislation"
He pointed out that the President
was using this language at tne very
time that there was being sent to the
other end of the capital a bill--re.
ferring to the tariff bill-which was
"class legislation from its first line to
It's last word, Legislation in favor of
the great manufacturing class, in
favor of the great moneyed class"
Denouncing the class legislation"
IN the tariff bill in unmeasured terms.
senator Reed declared it levied tax
on 'the swaddling clothes in which
the babe is wrapped at his birth; we
have levied tax upon the lining Of
the coffin in which old age is laid
away, and we have done it for the
benefit of very limited class"
Senator John Sharp Williams fol-
lowed with reply to Senator Reed
He declared Senator Reed wanted to
make profiteer out of the hero. He
derided the idea of putting the hero
on a level with the profteer.
How can you equalize things be-
tween the profiteer and the hero ?n
asked Senator Williams. "By making
a, profteer out of the hero. That is
the only way you can do it,"
ne ne wanted to know why the bonus
hadn't been confined to the men who
went to the front. ''
de commended the courage of tba
PRESIDENT in vetoing the bill, and ac-
cesed the Republicans of Showing it
Off on the President" because thev had
not the courage to meet the issue
II thank God we have a President
VINO has the backbone to veto tbis
measure" he declared. wv WAS
Williams Had Doubted Him
, lie added that he had served with the
PRESIDENT in the Senate and that he
had his doubts whether the President
had the backbone to veto the Hill untii
he did it. -
Senator Ashurst followed with
speech Tor the bonus bill, and said it
was an interesting circumstance that
senator Harding, speaking in Ohio on
oItoper ~ 1870, just before election,
! Ieleff1ng to the fact that the Honse
II nad passed the bonus bill, added: 81
thlnk the Senate ought to pass it. if
yon want to know my view"
r, senator Ashurst asserted that when
senator Williams accused Senator's who
wanted the bonus bill passed of seek
ing to raise the soldier to the level of
q, profteer he meant chat Warren q
har,ding in 1920 favored raising the
soldier to the level of profteer."
senator Ashurst followed with an ar
gument Tor the bill, but was inter
Tupted at 2:30 o'clock, when the chair
| '0eN hlcooeiSS pS1OT6 Cn6 Sem
ate The message was then read
Ihere was no demonstration.
McCumber Criticizes Hardinp
senator McCumber held the Presi-
dent should not have vetoed the hill
IN view, of the strong sentiment for It
ne sad the Presidents views had not
changed in year and half, though
lne conditions "have most materially
changed" '"'iS
Notwithstanding the opposition of
t the great metropolitan press" said
senator McCumber, 81 do not believe
that there ever was a measure so ponn-
lar among all classes of people as this
He pointed out that legislatures Of
eighteen states had acted favorablv on
a bonus and the governors of thirty
two states had called on the President
to approve this bill, while over 8 200 OO0
people petitioned for it.
pr.viadnt ~With such ,Ii showing" he said, ~the
resident dsS should have allowed Con
gress to assume responsibility for the
measure" 'A-e