The New York herald., 1922-08-28
New Grievance Felt Because
President Discloses He
Will Veto Bill.
NO HOPE OF OVERRIDING
Expected Senate Will Take
Final Ballot on McCumber
Measure in Few Days.
ny LOUIS sEIBOLD.

ny LOUIS sEIBOLD.
Special Dispatch to THE New YonK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau.
Washington. ID. c.. Aug. 81.
Harassed candidates for the Sem
ate and the House expect to reach the
END OF their present legislative troubles
during the coming week. barring de-
velcpments which may demand drastic
action on the fuel and railway prob
lems. .. 2,
II their hopes are realized they will
leave behind them, temporarily at
least, the irritating bonus ogre, the
unfinished tariff monstrosity. the de-
ferred ship subsidy bill. and try to
convince the home folk that one term
tgood or bad) deserves another.
Out Of the confusion which has
characterized the efforts Of a leader
less Congress 70 satisfy popular de-
mands for correetiges of existing po-
litical and industrial evils. Senate and
House candidates will be able to select
at will certain features of the Repub-
lican record to fit almost any local
situation.
Passing the Responsibility.
They will take to the home folks
few. if any, real issues. The fact is
most of them will just run for office.
They will fabricate their own issues.
Republican candidates will content
themselves with supporting two or
three concrete achievements OF the
executive branch of the Government
and blame their incompetent Congress
sional leaders or the Democratic minor
ity for their failure TO provide an ac-
ceptable tariff bill. carry out pledges
of economy and protect the resentful
taxpayer from the avarice and men,
dacity of harassina minority groups.
More excuses and explanations, un-
supported by legitimate reasons. will
probably be offered by Republican
candidates than in any previous Con-
Sressional campaign. 1t will largely
be the case of blaming the other fel-
lows for what they themselves prom
ised but failed to do.
With the incomplete tariff bill tucked
away in conference for an Indefinite
period--possibly until after the cleo
lions-the immediate concern Of actual
or potential candidates for reelection
or denomination to Congress revoives
around the $4,000. 900. 900 bonus bill.
Torn by conflicting emotions be-
tween personal ambitions to win the
support of the soldier voters of the
country and the taxpayers. the Senate
will probably dispose of the McCumber
proposal to pay Government cash 10
able bodied ex-seryice men during the
next three or four days. No legisla
tive project in many years has caused
so much anguish TO individual Con-
gressmen who gave their individual
pledges to put through a bill legaiizing
the bonus undertaking.
Two Sided Distress
The distress OF some OF the poor
Senator'S who attach Importance to the
political support OF the soldier boys
demanding the bonus is at once
pathetic and pathetic. The knowledge
that veto awaits the McCumber en-
terprise at. the White House is held
TO be less important by the supporters
of the measure than the possibility of
reprisals at the hands of taxpayers
who, in the last analysis. will be called
on to pay the bill.
IL the majority of Senator'S for the
McCumber scheme were assured the
soldiers claim ing the benefits provided
were able to supply more votes than
the taxpayers can withhold, the prob
lem confronting them would be easy
OF solution. The rub Is that tho SEN
ators who have gone out on a limb. .
as IL were. are less confident OF the
military element TO deliver the goods
than they were five or six months ago
The majority of them are going to
take chance anyway. depending on
the organized soldier element either to
outvotc the taxpayer or n1ollify the
latter on election day.
In permitting 1t to be known that
he will veto the bonus bill the Presi-
dent has furnished members OF his
party in Congress with another griev-
ance against him. They believe he
should have permitted them 10 con-
vince the soldier voters that their in
dividual pledges to put through q
bonus bill imposed an obligation on
their respective parties. A great many
members OF Congress believe their per-
sonal pledge is actually party obli-
cation.
The trouble is thirty-three OF the
ninety-six Senator's hold an entirely
different view on the subject. This
number Is not. of coarse. enough tc
prevent the passage cf the McCumber
bill. IL the matter rested there the
Senators and Representatives. seeking
reelection, the soldier voters demand.
ing bonus and their sympathizerf
would be completely satisfled-every.
body in fact. except possibly the tax.
payers.
Hard Nut to Crack.
Getting the bonus bill through tho
Senate Is not. therefore. a difficult
problem. Repassing II over the Presi.
Dental veto presents n hard nut Il
crack. 1t requires two-thirds vote
to repass bill on which a President
puts the Indian sign. as Mr.. Harding