Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-19

Washington, April 1S.-Senate repub- | licans, meeting today in party confer | ence, voted 26 to g. in favor of the 1 passage of a soldiers bonus bill at this I session of congress. The finance com | mittee majority was requested in a i formal resolution to report such a meas | ure within a reasonable time" which 1 was construed by some leaders as three | or four weeks.
 Senator Watson. of Indiana. a reonb- l llcan member of tthe finance committee. said the bonus biil probably would be taken up n the serztte and put through immediately after it was reported. He thought it's considera ton would require only a short time. but was not so cer- tain as to the form the measure 10 be drawn by the committee would take
 Under the present plan the tariff bill. which by a decisioa of the party cun- ference. Is to be called up Tlrur-day ''without further delay would be laid aside temporarily for consideration of the bonus. Thsre was a suggestion that the means Of financing the bonus might be provided for in an amendmen; to the tariff bill
 There Is a division of opinion among majority senate leaders as 10 whether the senate could attache a revenue pro vision to the bonus bill itself. because of the requirement that revenue measures | originate in the house. The bonus i measure passed by that body carried no | means of fnancIIg. Aside from tne house btt whkfh was referred 10 t | last month. the senate committee has | bSfcre 1t tho bonus legislation which | was re15rEnertied by the senate last July at the reqpest Of President Hard ing. This likewise has no revenue rais- i Ing provision.
 Only one member of the finance conn mittee. Senator Calder. Of New York. vot- ed against the conference resolution. de- claring for passage of the bonus The other eight senators were reported 10 have been wadsworth. New York Edge. New Jersey: Nelson. Minnesota; Weller. Maryland Newberry. Michigan: Pepper. Pennsylvania Sterllrl. Sou;b Dokota, and Moses. New Hampshire.
 After the return here Thursday of Chairman McCumber of the finance com mittee. majority members win meet to determine procedure on the bonus. Rep resenttatives of te American Legion and other organizations of veterans of the 1 world war will be heard. possibly late this week. but it Is not regarded now as likely that there will be general hear ings.
 Senator McCumber desires to get the bill before the senate as soon as possi- ble. He and several others of the ma jority members are inclined to favor the 1 house bill with it's adjusted certificate bank provision, but there is considera- ble opposition to tthis measure by otth- CT committeeman, including Senators Shoot. of Utah, Watson of Indiana, and Calder.
 Before the committee comes to any de- cision number of its members pan to discuss the question with President Hard
 ing who has been insistent that any bonus legislation should carry a means
 of financing the options proposed for the 1 veterans. The president has also eX- pressed a desire that the tariff bill be
 given preference and there was some
 conflict of opinion today st the capitol
 as to whether the programme of pro-
 ceeding with the tariff Thursday witt
 a plan to lay it aside later for consid- . eration of the bonus couforned to tnk view of the executive.
 In deciding 10 proceed with the tariff , bin Thursday, the republican senators
 were agreed that every effort Iilould
 be made to hold quorum continuously ? while that measure was before the sen ate. They anticipate fight by the dem oorats and some republicans, but conf
 
 be put through at this session of con
 gress despite the threatened split be , tween the senate and house on the ques tior of American valuation.
 While democratic members of the fin ance committee Stontipued today with l their study of the tariff in preparation T 2or, a minority ne4AN-t attacking The measure. Representative Garner, Of Tex ? as. ranking democrat on the house way' } and means committee. Issued a forTDa statement declaring that two far-reaoh . ing and radical innovations were pro
 posed in the Fordney bnl" one th'
 American valuation as approved by thu 1 house and the other the senate bill plaI B to authorize the president 10 change thl 2 | rates and basis of valuation. ' "The latter is the most dangerous an' unprecedented suggestion ever mad
 since the foundation of this government
 said Mir. Garner "The Idea of plzcin' 1 in one mans hands the power to ta, | the people as we'll as the power 10 bull up or destroy business, Is so obpoxiou ; 10 our form of government. that l can ! not believe it will be accepted after 1t 1 thoroughly anaivzed. It illustrates however. the tendency of c3ngress 10 l wards shifting its responsibilities to in z dividua7s or bureaus"
 Mir Garner predicted that AmeTfcal : l valuation were adopted "the dissatisfac 1 ton arising from the administration O such a law will be so great that. a fire
 trade party will grow up in this coun | try and control it's legislation within | decade"