Paragould soliphone. (Paragould, Ark.) 1918-1950, 1922-03-29
SENATE WILL
FAVOR PASSAGE
BONUS MEASURE
Passage of Bill During Pres
ent Session Is Predicted
There Will Be Some
Changes.

Changes.
Washington, March 27.-Passage
of soldiers bonus measure by the
Senate before the adjournment OF
his session appears assured.
A careful canvass of the situation
in the Senate discloses that there
are not more than 25 or 80 senators
likely to vote against such legisla-
ton. This minority of less than
one-third of the Senate may be ex-
pected to take full advantage of the
greater latitude of opposition and
obstruction which obtains in the
Senate, compared with the House,
but a two-thirds majority can work
it's will even in the Senate.
1t is too early to say whether the
main features of the House bill will
be accepted by the Senate. That
some of the subsidiary provisions
will be changed is a foregone con-
cluson and a determined fight will
be made to eliminate the entire GER
tificate of loans provisions to re-
store the cash bonus and to provide
for some method of raising the nee
essary fund within the near flu
'ture.
Committee to Rush Work.
The House bill is now in the
hands of the Senate Finance Com
mittee and Chairman McCumber
plans to begin its consideration as
soon as the tariff bill is reported to
the Senate. The committee expects
to finish drafting the tariff bill
this week so that the way will be
cleared to take up the bonus bill in
the committee by next week.
Senator McCumber is not prepared
to state his views of the House bill
COMPREHENSIVE but he cites the
plan of the land reclamation option
as one OF the provisions which the
committee may deem it necessary to
revise radically. He has been i'm
pressed by administration opinion
that this feature is visionary. Ac-
cording to Secretary of the Treas
ury Mellon the land reclamation OPP
ton would afford no immediate
benefit to ex-service men selecting
it and might cost the government
in the end about $4,000, 1000.
EaUorc Zach PAYMENT
That Mr.. McCumber may throw
the weight of influence against the
certificate loan plan of the House
bill is deemed not improbable in
view of his attitude from the start
that an ample cash bonus should
be provided Immediately. He was
looked with favor upon a provisions
to finance the bonus from the pay
ments of interest by the allies on
their debts to the United States.
This suggestion is bound to be re-
vived in the committee as a result of
the British budget provision for the
payment next fall of interest on the
American $4,00O,00O,000 loan to
England. On account. however, of
the general uncertainty of the vol
ume of receipts from foreign loan
interest there will be strong OPP
position to this method of financ-
ing the bonus.
Sales Tax to Come Up Again
Senator Smoot, a member of the
Finance Committee, is going to make
a fight for the financing of cash
bonus by a sales tax. The sales tax
is stubbornly opposed by labor and
the farmers and Mr.. Smoot is not
likely to make any more progress
with his proposal in this case than
he did in his effort to include it
in the revenue bill last year.
There is a good deal of sentiment
IN the Senate in favor of financing
he bonus by issuing bonds to be re-
-ired from the proceeds of future
,aXation. 1t is contended that the
bonus, being war obligation,
should be dealt with as an expense
II the war and be met as the ma
ion met the bulk of its other war
Xpenses-by issuing bonds.
Before the bonus bill is taken up
10Th houses intend to put through
he Langley bill providing $4,000
100 more for the construction of |
lospidals for, disabled ex-service