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action. The Ladd bill provides for a
cash bonus SO per cent. paid on the
spot by Treasury certificates nego-
table everywhere, the amount neces-
sary to be raised by taxing banks 2h
per cent. Of their profits.
II Mr.. Mccumber and the. bonus Re-
publicans vote against the La Fol-
lette motion the Democrats assert that
the charge made by Senator Walsh
(Mass) will be sustained. Senator
Walsh declared on Saturday that Mr..
McCumber and his associates were Sc
cretly trying to defeat the bonus bill
while proclaiming their intense enthu-
siasm for it. Mr.. Walsh said tonight:
II do not propose to allow the bonus
to be shunted aside without at least
public record to show whore the Sen.
ators stand on 1t.
"A secret vote In secret Republi-
can conference, which a large number
Of Senators did not attend. means
nothing. 1t will not fool the people
for minute. Nobody knows when
the tariff bill will be passed, If at all.
There y absolutely nothing binding In
the resolution adopted by the Repub-
lican conference. 1t was merely an
expression Of opinion and was not
unanimous. Nine Republican Sena-
tors stood out against it because they
knew it was sheer bunk"
This analysis of the Republican con-
ference was admitted by several par
ticipants in it to be fairly comprehen-
sive. The resolution adopted by the
party gathering did not in fact bind
any participant to vote for or against
the bonus bill. It was merely an ex-
preston <of party opinion. The chief
Importance attached to It was that it
upheld the club spirit Of the Senate by
giving to Mr.. McCumber a vote of
confidence, as It were, which may or
may not produce some votes for him
in the North Dakota primaries a week
from Wednesday.
Mac and His Friends.
According to advices from that State
Mr.. McCumber will need all the votes
the soldiers who demand bonus can
round up for him. A number of Sen
ators who extended to Mac" a helping
hand In accordance with the time hon
ored fraternal spirit of the Senate ex-
pressed pleasure at being able to con-
vince the politically cherished soldier
voters that the Finance chairman has.
done everything possible to keep his
promises TO them.
But even the spirit Of beneficence
did not conduce to perfect harmony
at the conference. In the first place
more than one-third Of the Republi-
can members Of the Senate did not at
tend it, and all those who were there
did not agree with the majority.
The primary purpose Of the event
was to comply with TIE Presidents
suggestion that the tariff bill be kept
before the Senate to the exclusion Of
all other legislation until it has been
acted on. An opportunity was pro-
vided Mr.. McCumber to show his
ardent sympathy for the demands of
bonus claimants even though his first
bid was rejected by vote of 80 to 8.
The resolution introduced by the
North Dakota Senator was that it was
"the sense" Of the conference that the
tariff bill should be laid aside and the
Senate proceed to pass the bonus bill.
Mr.. McCumber expressed the opinion
that the bonus bill could be passed in
few days" The majority of Ills coll
leagues did not think so as was dis
closed by the vote on his resolution.
The Senators who supported Mr..
McCumber were Lenroot (Wis), Kel-
logg (Minn.). Capper (Kan.). Jones
(Wash). Townsend (Mich), Nichol-
son (C6lo), Sutherland CIV. va) and
Norbeck (S d.. This was the first
time that Senator McCumber had
found himself in the minority on the
bonus. His distress was further ac-
centuated when Senator Curtis (Kan.)
TIE Republican whip, offered resolu-
tion providing that the tariff bill
should be disposed of by the Senate
before the bonus bill was brought for
ward.
Curtis Follows President.
Senator Curtis has been one of the
most ardent supporters of the bonus.
but VIXEN the issue came he elected to
follow the leadership of the President.
In opposing the Curtis resolution,
Senator McCumber declared 1t was
ito tame" He insisted the resolution
should specifically provide for the
passage" Of bonus bill and Repub-
lican Senators be committed to its
report.
This suggestion provoked vigorous
controversy and before It was sub
mitted to the conference II was de-
cided that no Senator could be obli-
gated under the terms of 1t to vote for
the measure. Senator Brandegee
! (Conn.). who has been catalogued as
"a bonus Senator" but who usually
does his own thinking, declared with
vehemence he would not tolerate any
attempt to instruct him in his individ-
ual Senatorial privileges.
Senator Sterling (S. d. indorsed the
position of Mr. Brandegee until he was