The New York herald., 1922-08-20
FINDS 33 SENATORS
AGAINST The BONUS
Poll Also Reveals 35 to 80
Ready to Sustain Presi-
Dental Veto.
FIGHT OPENS WEDNESDAY
Friends Of McCumber Measure
Astonished to Find Watson
(Ga.) Against Them.
FIGHT OPENS WEDNESDAY,
nv LOUIS sEIBoLp.
Special Dispatch to THE NEW yoaK HERALD
New York Herald bureau.

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New York Herald Bureau.
Washington. ID. C.. Aug. IL.
A preliminary skirmish in the Sen
ate over the s5.o0o.ooo. 900 bonus raid
this afternoon resulted in the decision
to inaugurate the battle over 1t on
Wednesday next
The first bout which occurred after
the Senate had voted on the discred-
tied tariff bill. developed several inter-
esting and some very important facts.
or major importance was poll OF the
Senators present undertaken by Mr..
Borah of Idaho and Mr.. New Of In
diana to determine the actual lineup
, on two bonus propositions.
The result or the canvass was most
encouraging to the Republican and
Democratic Senators opposed TO the
bonus scheme on moral as well as
economic grounds. On the first
proposition as TO pe exact number OF
Senators who willNote against the bill
when a vote is reached on its passage
the tally showed that at least thirty
three Senators would do so.
The second inquiry, which was in
tended to ascertain the number OF
Senators who would vote TO sustain a
/ Presidential veto OF the McCumber bill,
which now Is scheduled to pass. was
even more significant. The tabulation
established beyond dispute that at
least thirty-five and probably thirty
nine Senators will vote 10 sustain a
Presidential veto. Only thirty-three
votes OF the full membership are
necessary to prevent the repassage OF
a measure over a veto. IL Is not likely
that there will be a full membership
when a vote Is taken on the Nc
Cumber bill after a long and spectacu-
lar debate.
The names OF the Senators who ex-
pressed their determination 10 vote
against overriding a Presidential veto
OF the McCumber bill are withheld 10
protect them from the most vicious
oral telegraphlc and postal propa-
ganda ever directed against national
legislators on pending measure.
The opening gun in the bonus fight.
which is destined TO prove Of historic
as well as Of patriotic importance,
COHpiFIeiN ulNpbctu Va AiA1 tAaAAh'
made by Senators who arc eager 10
win the dubious support OF mercenary
ex.service men that the fight against
the raid on tho taxpayers would be
merely perfunctory.
Coincldent with the refusal OF Re-
publican and Democratic Senators op-
posing the bonus scheme was the un-
expected announcement made by Sem
sor watson tDem., Ga.) that he would
not vote for the McCumber bill. Sem
ator Watson has with some justifca-
tion been classified as favoring 'he
bonus
In a statement this afternoon the
Georgia Senator expressed his willing
ness TO vote for bonus bill which
provided the revenue 20 finance II
without imposing additional tax bur-
dens. lie admitted there was scant
hope or tho proponents or the bonus
devising any acceptable plan for doils
so. He said that in no circumstances
would he vote fer "auy measure that
imposed an additional cent OF taxation
on the American people"
Tho decision Of the Georgia Senator
10 vote against the McCumber bill was
Continued 'sn Pare Two.