The Raymer enterprise. (New Raymer, Weld County, Colo.) 1910-19??, 1922-02-23
Republicans Struggling With
Problem Of Financing the
Soldiers Bonus.
DENLY TRIES TO SAVE NAVY
Ask Personnel Of $1,000 and Appro-
prlatIon Of $3.50, ooo, ooo-Generai
Strike Of Coal Miners impends
collins and Craig Com.
Ing to Agreement.
BY EDWARD W. PlckARp

SSW0btS VSSVNVbNS
NEARLY everyone Is In favor Of
~ giving the ex-service man q
bonus. but no one Is willing to help
pay for 1t. Every plan SO far pro-
posed for raising the necessary rev.
enue estimated at $3.50. 900, 900 annu-
ally for the next three years-has
aroused determined opposition. Mem
bers Of the house ways and means
committee thought eight special taxes
would turn the trick, but every element
Of the population that would be d.
rectly affected BY them raised an i'm
mediate wall.
Republican leaders appealed to Pres
ident Harding to suggest something
feasible, and he undertook to do 10 on
Thursday. But what should his plan
be but the same old general sales tar
proposition which It has been admitted
by nearly everyone cannot possibly get
through congressl Because this was
his only plan, and because he also
criticized the plan Of providing for the
payments Of cash bonuses In Install.
ments over q period Of two and half
years, It was assumed By many In
Washington that the President really
wished the bonus legislation again
postponed, though he hesltated to say
so fatty. The situation was plainly
uncomfortable for the Republicans,
and the Democrats were joyously TAX
Ing every advantage Of the discount
ture Of their adversaries. The leaders
Of the agricultural bloc In both the
house and the senate reiterated their
unqualified opposition to any kind Of
q general sales tax.
Some Of the Republican leaders
strongly favored the passage Of
house bill without any plan Of financing.
They thought the necessary money
might be made available by further re-
duction Of appropriations for certain
departments, especially the army and
navy. Mr.. Mondell prepared q state
ment to show how nearly $500 Co.,
600 could be saved this way. But
even that would not be sufficient, and
many congressman urged again the ID
suance Of bonds. OF course the deh-
cit, after the problematical saving Of
SSOoOOOO0O in appropriations. could
be made up By issuing short term Ger
ti0cates Of Indebtedness, which It was
asserted the market would readily alb
sorb. Both the President and Secre-
tary Mellon declare thst big bond
issue would seriously embarass the
extensive refunding operations that
must be undertaken during the coming
year, causing an increase In interest
rates and disturbing the Liberty bond
market Some other government ON
Gals do not agree with them.
ENATOR BORAH Is consistently
y opposing the bonus because. he
saws II will interfere with the care
Of the soldiers now undertaken By the
government through the veterans
bureau. He predicts that within ten
wears the annual expenditure for dis
abled soldiers vii: have, reached H.
100000 900, OF which no one win COM
plain $50 long as the appropriations
are based on the necessities and re-
ouIrements Of the disabled soldiers"
Director Forbes Of the yeterans
bureau calls attention to the TACT that
the total government expenditure re-
oulred for disabled soldiers for 1922
4 sS1oOo0O0o. and thus sets forth the
vsys il which the bureau Is using the
paving out 100000 cash every
day including Sunday, directly into
ths hands Of the ex-service man or ms
dependents In compensation aiiot-
ments.
providing, without cost, hospital care
and treatment to 5000 seterans'