New-York tribune., 1922-09-20
House Expe 2te11 to Pass
1t Again .i'o-eiay, but
Senate Is Counted On TO
Uphold the President
Measure Believed
Dead This Session
Message Sharply Arraigns
Congress- Failure to De-
wise Means of Payment
By Carter Field

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.- A.
veto by President Harding to-day
killed the soldiers bonus bill for this
session of Congress at least. The
House of Representative tomorrow
is expected to override the veto by
far more than the two-thirds' ma
jority required by The Constitution.
but in the Senate thirty-four mem
bers-two more than one -tt.rd-are
sure TO vote or be paired to sustain
the veto.
President Harding based his disap
proval of the adjusted compensation
bill-as its advocates love to call it
solely on the ground that Congress had
failed to provide any means of raising
the money with which to pay it. He
pointed out in his message, as he has
frequently pointed out in conversations
with Senator'S and members of tn
House. that the revenue would have to
be provided in the same bill, and urged
again that the sales tax was the mogt
feasible plan for raising this revenue.
Cabinet Seeks to Trim Sails
Incidentally the Cabinet spent prac-
tically the entire session to-day in an
effort to devise economies in the ad-
ministration OF the government so as
to get the expenditures inside the pres
ent revenue, in view of the $3.50 600 GOO
deficit now confronting the Federal
treasury. The President alluded TO
this deficit in his message.
One of the outstanding features OF
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amount of money being spent DOW on
disabled soldiers in hospitals. vocation
al training and in other ways.
Pensions for the sseldisrs in years to
come is just as Certain to follow tkiy
as other wars, the President pointed
out, while the amounts spent in taking
care of the disabled, in tic vocational
training and in insurance liabilities
will exceed $25 ,o00000,0o0
The Presidents message was very
sharp arraignment of the so-called ad-
justed compensation bill as passed by
Congress.
Clearly the bill returned" said the
President, takes cognizance OF she
inability of the government wisely to
bestow, and says, in substance: We
do not have the cash, we do not be-
lieve in tax levy TO meet the situa-
ton. but here is our note; you may
have our credit for half its worth
Another clause which proved very
irritating on Capitol Hill was whether
inspired by grateful sentiment o. .
litical eXpediency."
"A peace bestowal," the Presloent
continued, "as though the supreme Of
ferng could be paid for with cash, is
a perversion of public funds, re-
yersal of the policy which exalted pa
triotic service in the past, and suggests
that future defense is to be inspired by
compensation rather than by consci&>is-
ness of duty to flag and country
Says 1t Means More Taxes
Inevitably" he concluded ,nother
paragraph, ''it means increased taxa
ton, which Congress was unwilling 70
levy for the purpose of TINS nni. aaG
viii turn us from the course towaro
economy so essential 10 promote tac
activities which contribute to common
welfare.
''It is as inevitable as that the years
will pass the pension provision for
World War veterans will be made, as it
has been made for those who served in
previous wars. 1t will cost more bill
hons than 1 venture to suggest"
To meet this certain obligation of
the future, the President urged, it is.
necessary for the government now to-
begin getting its financial house in
order.
A canvass OF the Senate to-day
showed there win be at least thirty
four Senators voting and paired 10
sustain the veto. 1t is probable that
two Senator's who are for the boaus
viii be absent without oars In that
case thirtytwo votes, counting pairs,
would DC sumcient to uphold the veto.
The thirty-four who viii favor sus-
tanning the President are expected
to be-: