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MAY SPEED BONUS
THROUGH HOUSE
FIan to Pass Measure Under
Suspension Of Rules,
HARDIhG'S VIEW FACTOR
Representative MondeII Does Not Be.
lieve President Will Veto Act Be-
cause of Bank Loan Provision.

Washington. March 9.-Republican
! leaders disclosed they were consider
ing a plan to put the soldiers bonus
bill through the house under SuS-
pension of the rules which would shut
out amendments of any kind and En-
it debate to forty minutes.
Under this plan Il tWO-thirdS vote
would be necessary to pass the meas
ure, but leaders believe on the basis
Of present sentiment among members
this majority could be obtained VITA
votes to spare. Monday, March 20.
will be the next rules suspension dA!.
The army appropriation bill will ID"
taken up before the bonus measure, ii
WAS said, probably Tuesday. This
bonus bill would be put over until the
week following.
Representative MOndell, Wyoming,
the majOrity leader, said he did not
think the statement made at the White
House President Harding had not
changed his position set forth last
month in his letter to Mr.. FOrdney,
chairman of the ways and means com
mittee. was to be taken as an mdica-
ton Mr. Harding was prepared to We
70 the bonus measure as now drawn
with lis bank loan provisions in lien
Of the cash bonus
A delay of ninety days in enactment
of the bonus legislation was suggested
by President Harding as an alternative
for the imposition of sales tax. Rep
resentative Hawley, Oregon, a Kepub
ican .ember of the ways and means
committee, said. The thought was,
he added, by that time part of the
foreign debt would be refunded and
money with which to finance the bO-
nus could then be obtained from that
source
In making the effective date Of the
bill October l, 1922, or four months
Beyond the suggested ninety-day peri
od," said Mr.. Hawley, "the committee
las met that suggestion" He aid the
president had approved the optional
plans of the bill, but l.e did not know
whether the bank loans provision had
been laid before the executive He
added he had discussed this provision
with many members of the house, in
Guiding some of those opposed to "a
bonus in any form and believed the
substitution of this plan for the cash
payment had, if anything, increased
sentiment in favor Of the measure.
Among house members generally
there was more discussion as to how
The president viewed the bill than
there was about its probable fate after
it left the house on its second start
for the statute books. Trainers of the
measure appeared to be fairly conf
dent it would not meet with the eXecu-
tive's disapproyal, because it removed
what they said was the fundamental
objection TO the cash bonus plan-an
immediate drain of the federal treas
ury.
Some opponents Of the measure in
the house predicted the bill would be
tiSfactory to both the country and
the service men. They cOntended it
would not enable the men to get as
much cash in three years as they
would have received under the origi-
nal cash plan, and the proposed ad-
vances by the banks, if made, would
initiate credits TO the extent of half a
billion or more dollars over the period
of the bank loans, thus increasing liv-
ing costs.