Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-08-30
SENATE VOTES
LAND MEASURE
IN BONUS BILL
McNary Amendment
Passes; Capper Fav-
ors Compensation.

Washington. Aug. 29.-The McNary
land reclamation amendment to the sol.
diers' bonus bill was approved Tuesday
by the senate, 43 to &c.
All party and even sectional lines
disa ppeared on the roal call, except
that all senator's from the far west
yoted for the amendment.
Opposition to the payment of a bonus
was expressed by Senator Sterling, re-
publican, South Dakota, who told the
senate that the bill was "~indefensible."
He characterized it as a bad prece-
dent for congress to set and at a time
when the treasury has outstanding
something like 5000, 0OO, 900 in secur-
ities.
And besides this" Senator Ster-
ling said, "the terms of the bill them
selves are vicious. Instead of encour-
aging thrift, they invite prodigality and
reckbessness.'
Senators Cameron, Arizona, and Bur-
sum. New Mexico, republicans, both
spoke in support of the McNary re-
clamation amendment end of the gen.
eral provisions of the rill, the former
saying that he regrettt. that the coun-
try could not afford to give the for
mer service men greater allotments.
Opposing the bill, Senator Dial. dem
ocrat. South Carolina, questioned the
motives behind it.
II do not admit that this bill is one
of n patriotic purpose said Senator
Dial. 1t was not conceived in patri-
otism but in politics"
Neither the bill itself nor the Nc
Nary amendment was believed by SEN
ator Simmons, democrat, North Caro-
lima, to be perfect legislation" but he
announced that he proposed to vote
for both. The bill he said was largely
qmakeshift," and he therefore hoped
that amendments correcting the imper-
fections would be adopted.
The roll call IN the amendment fol-
lows:
For the Amendment: Republicans
Borah. Bursum, Cameron, Edge, Good
ing, France, Jones of Washington. Nc
Nary. Nelson. New, Newberry, Nichol-
son. Oddie, Pepper, Phipps. Rawson,
Reed of Pennsylvania, Shortridge.
Smoot. Stanfield, Sterling, Wadsworth
and Warren-23.
Dial, Fletcher, Heflin, Hitchcock, Ken
drick.' King, Myers. Overman, Pitt
man, Pomerene. Rarsdell.. Reed of Mis-
souri,, Shields, Simmons. Smith. Tram
mel. Underwood and Walsh of Mon
tana-20.
Total 43.
Against the amendment: Republic
ans-Ball. Brandegee, Colt, Cummins,
Curtis, Dillingham;. Frelinghuysen,
Hale. Kellogg. LaFollette, Lenroot,
Lodge. McCumbcr. Mclean, Suther-
land. Townsend, Watson of Indiana
and Willis-1S.
.Democrats-Gerry, Glass, Mcclellan,
Robinson. Sheppard. Swanson, Walsh
of Massachusetts and Williams.
Total 26.
Opposing -se McNary land reclama-
ton amendment to the soldiers bonus
bill, Senator McCumber, republican, of
North Dakota. in charge of the meas
ure. told the senate that the proposal
would. add hundreds of millions and
perhaps billions of dollars to the cost
of the bonus program.
81 wonder if the senator believes we
can attach his amendment and bring
this bill before the president and have
Il think | can say that the president
thinks more of this amendment than of
other features of the BILL" retorted
Senator McNary. IF you want the
president to sign the bill the surest
guarantee is o add this amendment
Annolncinl his support of the sol
diers' bonus IS nothing more than a
square deal for the boys who did the
fighting" Senator Capper, republican,
told the semitic, that the war prof
itecrs and the peace profiteers owe q
bonus to the soldiers of the world
war" -.
There is 20 better guarantee against
militarism then to require the men who
Srofit out OF war to pay for it," he
said Those who remained at home
made enough here in the United States
TO enable us to pay many times over
The debt We owe to the men who fought
oun battles. Wall street wants to pay
1t with a sales tax, which would be
paid largely by the farmers, the labor
ing people and others in the form of a
tx on food and clothing and other
necessities"
1fisR Mary f. Stone. head of the
English department of the high school,