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HARDING OPPOSED
10bONUSCHANCES
Holds Amendments Make Bill
More Objectionable,
DISCUSS POSSIBLE VETO
HcCumber Gives Warning That Care
Must Be Used to Enact Measure.
Proposals Are Defeated.

Washington, Aug. 3l.-White House
callers who discussed the bonus with
President Harding came away with
the impression that the executive re-
garded addition of the McNary recla-
nation and Simmons foreign debt
amendments adopted in the senate. as
making the measure more objection
able than it was in its original form.
With respect to the Simmons pro-
posa that the bonus be paid out of
the foreign debt interest, it was indI-
Gated the president adhered TO the po-
Nition that the bonus should not be
made charge against that debt,
either principle or interest, at least
until returns from it were in hand.
The possibilities Of an executive
veto were discussed again in senate
debate. Opposing the Bursum SUBJ
:;titute proposing a half cash hall
certificate bonus, Senator McCumber;
Republican, North Dakota, in charge
of the bill. declared it was well known
that it was necessary ito guide this
bill through somewhat delicate cham
nelS. if we hope TO have it enacted.
He added that ii was the purpose to
place it in a position where there
would be mo excuse for the executive
to disagree with the two houses OF
congress- He expressed the BELIEF
that the bill as framed in committee
had met objections heretofore voiceC
0y the president.
Senator Walsh, Democrat, Massa,
chuSetts, in announcing that he Wouie
not press amendments he had pro.
posed, declared that he did not wan
10 load down" the measure and in
crease the possibilities of executive
disapproval. He said he would supt
mort the bill the Republicans hat
drafted and put it up to the execu
tive solely on its merits so as to SET
whether he favors any bonus bill. ge
SuDpOrterS of the bOni S were urget
by Senator Williams, Democrat, Mis-
sissippi, ito have the courage" to pu-
through a bill providing for taxes t
pay the veterans He said everyOnt
knew that eveneually the paymen,
would have to he made by means OF
taxes.
Senator Williams suggestion f0r.dt
rect taxes to provide funds for =.
bonus payment met with the approval
of Senator New, Republican. Indiana,
who said he believed the Simmons
foreign debt amendment had been
adopted "in a moment of emotional
insanity
Senator Pomerene, Democrat, Ohio,
also declared the government should
raise the money to make the pay
ments and be done with it, if the bo-
nus is to be passed. He denounced
the committee bill and, saying that he
did not care to discuss how the money
should be raised, added:
Let US raise it and not let the
soldiers do it, The McCumber bill
says to the veteran: Here's a piece
of paper Go out and hook it about
the banks and see if you can get
loan on it One of the big questions
here is the providing of money for
the soldier Immediately and the Nc
Cumber bill does not do that
In it's first bonus vote of the day
the senate rejected, A to q, the Bur-
sum amendment proposing to pay the
soldiers half in cash and half in GER
tificates of Indebtedness payable in
five years.
Party lines again were broken, six.
teen Republicans, eleven Democrats,
voting for the Bursum amendment,
and thirty-one Republicans and thir-
teen Democrats opposing it. The
Smoot proposal to pay the bonus by
means of Il sales tax then was taken