Bisbee daily review., 1922-09-20
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 MT. Harding also called attention to the sums now being expended for the care of disabled or dependent veterans and asserted that the total cost of this work, with insurance liability added, would exceed $25, 1000, ,0OO, 900.
 Only once did the president refer to the interest of the foreign debt out of which proponents of the bill have con tended it could be paid.
 He told congress that the govern ment was facing a deficit of $65O,OOO,- 900 during the current fiscal year and a further deficit for the year succeed ing, even after counting upon all in terest collections on foreign indebt- edness which the government is likely to receive"
 As to the immediate and ultimate cost of the bonus, MT. Harding said this was not definitely known. Treas ury estimates based on what seemed the most lkiely exercise of the options, he continued, figured the direct cost at S795, 5,000,000 for the first four years and a total cost in excess of $4,000,- OO0,O0O. He added that no estimate of 'the large indirect cost" ever had been made.
 The veto message was transmitted to the house by White House mes senger and it's reading by clerk was begun seven minutes after it's delivery, at 3:10 D. m. There was full attend ance of members, many of whom had returned to the capitol to vote on the question of overriding the veot.
 The reading was given close atten- tion, but was uninterrupted by ap- plause. Chairman Fordney of the ways and means committee, sponsor of the bonus i'll the house, moved down the aisle to a table directly in front of the reading clerk and with his hands cupped to his ears at times, listened intently. There was scattering ap- plause, mostly from the Republican side, when the reading came. Representative Mondell, of Wyom- ing, the Republican leader, immediate ly moved that consideration of the message be deferred until tomorrow and the motion prevailed.
 Although a two-thirds majority is necessary to override a veto, friends of the bonus declared far more than this would be obtained in the house
 Advisers of the president apparently were counting upon an unfavorable vote in the house, but they were con fident that the necessary two-thirds | could not be had in the senate.
 Further informal canvasses of the senate membership today were said tC have disclosed a lineup of 34, or two | more than the one-third necessary tC l sustain the vto. The expectation wa: that about 15 senators favorable to tht Il bonus would be absent with only three or four of the opponents away. There was brief discussion of the
 bonus in the senate, while the presi dents message was being read in thu house. Senator Harrison, Democrat of Mississippi, charged that some Re publican senators who had supported
 the measure had been ''as busy as bee
 getting votes to sustain the president
 He also declared that the Republi
 cans were breaking promises and re
 pudiating pledges on the bonus,' an
 that the veterans were being slappet by the resident, ignoring the will o
 the people and the expressions of bot
 branches of congress"
 Before sending his message to tn house, the president continued hi conference with senators. He invite
 to the White House Senators Cameron
 of Arizona, Norbreck, of South DakC
 ta, Oddie, Nevada, and Stanfield, O Oregon, Republican supporters of tn bonus. The ysaid afterwards the exet
 utiye had asked them to give especid attention to figures he would presen : in his message regarding the financia
 condition of the government and tn burden the bonus would entail upol the treasury.
 A final appeal to congress to enac