The New York herald., 1922-02-25

new lOfk Hef0l0 bureau,
Washington, d. c.. Feb. "a.
In announcing his decision TO vote
against the bonus raid Senator George
III. Moses (Rep., N. H.) this afternoon
frankly told the Senate he had prom
ised during the last campaign to sup
port adjusted compensation legislation
In a brief speech which commanded
the attention of his Democratic anG
Republican associates Senator Moses
unequivocally stated the reasons which
had influenced him to change his posi-.
ton.
Mr.. President" he said. "in common
with the great majority of the members s
of this and the other branch of Congress
1 have been under a promise TO sup
port adjusted compensation legislation.
am rising here now, in advance of
the measure coming to us. in order that
those TO whom such promise has been
made may know that I cannot go for
ward with it at the present time
mo one will undertake to minimize
the country's obligation to the young
men whom the long arm OF the Govern
ment reached out and seized for mill
tary service in the world war. Neither
will any one undertake to rebuke the
wholly proper feeling of resentment
which these young men feel toward
their associates Of like age and physi-
cal strength who sought shelter in the
essential occupations at home and who
received the unduly swollen compensa-
ton which those occupations provided.
Not the Time for Legislation.
But, Mr.. President, we must bear in
mind the Scriptural admonirion that
there is time for all things-and this is
not the time for pressing legislation of
this character.
No plan thus far advanced for deal
ing with this subject can possibly be
carried out without unwarranted dislo-
cation of the impelling and unavoidable
financial readjustment growing out of
the existing debt of the war or with
out continuing for an indefinite period
features of the existing taxation sys-
TEN, which I regard as iniquitous, in
quisitorial and unjust
With commendable moderation the
authorized spokesman for the organized
bodies of world war veterans who have
come before Congress have laid their
first emphasis upon the care of the dis
abled. the widowed and the orphaned
rather than upon any special recogni-
tion of those who successfully withstood
the difficulties and the dangers OF war
time experience and who were per-
mitted TO return home in sound health.
No suggestion brought here for the
succor of the needy, the sick and the
bereft, who constitute our most unfor-
tunate Inheritance of the war. has fallen
upon deaf ears. With cheerful alacrity
ond without regard to party designa- =
tons Senators and Representatives
FASTENED to relieve the needs of those
upon whom war had laid the heaviest
burden.
Question of Exp~nse Not Raised
"fn all of these the question of ex-
nense was never raised. And the Re-
public, never ungrateful, through it's
Congress in the years of the war and
those succeeding the armistice---includ-
ing the appropriations already made
for the fiscal year 1923--has set aside
the unparalleled sum of 1859. 600, 900,
ali Of which has been allocated for mill
tary and naval family allowances for
compensation for death and disability.
for insurance, for vocational training,
for hospital construction, for the care
OF patients, for the bringing home or
segregating in France OF the heroic
l.ones of our dead
And II is especially noteworthy, Mr..
President, that in the tabulaticn fur-
nished to me by The accomplished clerk
of the Senate Committee on Appropria
tions we find in this stupendous sum
only 53.00O000 specifically allowed for
administrative expenses so that sub
stantially 81 per cent OF the total sum
appropriated has gone directly to those
whom we have sought to relieve.
The so-called bonus bill around
which the storm OF discussion now
ra ges. is so curiously complex, with It's
fivefold beneficiary features. and Is 30
complicated additionally by tn, diff
Guilty of Indicating with eNactncss the
cash sums. either by installments or IN
grand total. which will be needed TO
carry out it's provisions tina. we may
not estimate even with seeming accu-
racy the draft which Il will make uoon
the Treasury. We know, however, that
II will be great.
Estimnted Bonus.