Evening star., 1922-08-27
SENATE EXPECTED
'T0 APPROVE BONUS
Limit to Debate on Amend
ments May Bring Vote
Tuesday or Wednesday.
FIGHT COMES AFTER VETO
Opponents Confident Two.Thirds
Cannot Be Found for Bill If Presi-
dent Disapproves, as Expected.

Passage of the soldiers bonus bill
BY the Senate by Tuesday or Wednes-
day was confidently predicted when
tho Senate recessed yesterday until
tomorrow morning, after entering lnto'
an agreement that debate should be
limited. beginning tomorrow at 3
p.m, on all amendments to twenty
minutes for each senator. An enort
may be made later to get an agree
ment to limit debate on the bill ITSELF
While the bill will pass the Senate
by a large majority, the opponents
of the bill said last night that IL the
President vetoes the measure, as ne Is
expected to do. it will not become
law They said that more than one
third of the senator's would vote not
to override the presidential veto. and
as it requires a two-thirds vote to
pass a bill. Notwithstanding the veto
of the President, the bill would finally
fail.
The unanimous consent agreement
to limit debate on amendments was
proposed by Senator Robinson OF
Arkansas.
Contest to Follow Veto.
Senators Underwood, democrat.
Alabama, and Borah, republican,
Idaho. said they would offer no OBJ
lection to speedy action. Senator
Underwood gave formal notice that
his hght would be against passage OF
uor
veto in the event that it was returned
10 Congress with executive disap-
proval.
By common understanding the Sem
ate did not undertake yesterday to
bring to a vote any of the several
amendments thus far offered. Senator
McNary. republican, Oregon. present
ed his amendment proposing the
reclamation bill as part of. the
bonus. with preference given veterans
in reclamation work and financial as
sistance for them in developing home
steads on the reclaimed lands.
In promising his support to any bill
that would give the former service
men the justice to which he believed
they were entitled, Senator Ashurst,
democrat, Arizona, told the Senate it
would be forced to decide among
other things whether 1t would listen
TO the cry Of commercialization Of
patriotism" when 1t had not done that
at the end of the war.
Business Claims Allowed.
Congress, he said, had proceeded to
vote. and had made no apology for
doing. it. to pay shipping claims,
claims. of munitions makers and
claims of the makers Of uniforms and
other equipment for the service men.
1t had done so, he said. on the state
ment that those contractors would
have made profit had the war not
ended. There was no cry Of CONNER
cializauon Of patriotism then, he said.
1t was called business"
But those were inanimate objects"
he went on. Those claims must be
met and met promptly. but the SOL
aier. the man who fired the shots,
must wait. 1t is commercialization of
patriotism when his compensation is
to be adjusted,
The Arizona senator said he must
remind the Senate that the original
demand for the bonus came not from
the former service men but from men
and women who believed that the
service men were entitled to 1t.
Ransdell. democrat, Louisiana, told
the Senate that If Congress wished
TO settle its obligations, to, the vet
Grams 1t could find means to do so,
and that II it did not there were "a
thousand excuses to hide behind
Plenty OF Money for War.
=. 1T. seems strange to me-" he said,
that as long as the war was on there
was no end to the amount of money
the United States could raise to foot
its bills. but now when, victory is
won and the national SECURITY as
Sured we suddenly become too poor
to adjust the soldiers salaries on an
equitable basis. In the meantime,
however, our government has seen
mt to repeal the excess-profits tax
which yielded about $615,00o.000 a
year"
The Louisiana senator argued that
through the 'dauntless courage and
indomitable spirit" of the soldiers the
war had been ended several years be-
fore any one had dared to hope it
would be and that this speedy end
had saved the nation many billions
more than the bonus would cost it.
eThe shameful conduct of the gov.
srnment toward its soldiers since the
var" Senator Ransdell continued,
stands out in bold contrast when
compared with the treatment of other
soldiers at the hands Of their coun-
tries"
4. Walsh Has Amendments.,
I Senator Walsh Of Massachusetts,
democra,, offered two amendments
Cor consideration later. One of them
proposed that the certificate plan be
eliminated and the former sArvfce