Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-06-20
BONUS TARIFF
PROGRAM LINED
UP IN SENATE
Party Leaders Agree to Follow
Wishes of President as to
Order of Business.
6OSITION IS CLARIFIED
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and Philadelphia Public Ledger.
WASHINGTON, June 20.-In deciding IN
conference not to displace the tariff bill Tor
consideration of the soldiers bonus Dill
Republicans in the Senate sustained the
wishes Of President Harding and clarified
the position of Senator McCumber, chair
man Of the Finance Committee. whose
political future hinges on the primary
election In North Dakota a week from
next Wednesday.
There were thirty Republicans at
tending the conference which first re-
jected & resolution favoring consideration
Of the soldiers bonus bill before the
passage Of the tariff bill by vote Of
80 to 9, then adopted another resolution
in support of Mr.. Harding's program.
The second resolution adopted by
vote Of q to II, was presented by MI
McCumber as a substitute for a motion
by Senator Curtis Of Kansas. 1t pro-
vided that:
ADOPT SECOND
RESOLUTION.
"As soon as the vote is taken on the
-~nassage Of the tariff bill the soldiers
Ampensation bill shall be Immediately
taken up and made the unfinished bust
neAs and its consideration proceeded with
10 fhe exclusion of any other business
exc A when temporarily laid aside for
ma, r. Of immediate exigency and con-
tinusd the unfinished business unit it is
finally disposed Of
The resolution also specified that there
shall be no final adjournment Of this
Congress or any recess until both the
tariff bill and the bonus bill shall have
been passed.
- sooner was the agreement reached
In Democratic supporters Of the sol
kSers' bonus. aided and abetted by a
tmaII group Of sympathetic Republicans,
prepared to wreck the program as soon
as the naval Appropriation bill, now be-
fore the Senate. has been passed. There
were several Democrats among them
Senators Walsh, Massachusetts, and
Ashurst, Arizona, who said they then
would. move to make the bonus legisla-
ton the business before the Senate.
LAFOLLETTE TO
MOVE FOR BONUS.
They were hoping tina tany partisan as
peot which might be attached to such ac-
ton would be avoided through Senator
LaFouette, Wisconsin, who was prepared
to move for immediate consideration OF
the boius bill. Mr.. LaFOllette said there
was no understanding that he should
make such a motion and any action on
With the conclusion Of consideration
on the naval bill these Senator's were
prepared to put Republicans on record
as opposed TO taking up the bonus bill al
this time. They did not expect any
change could be made in the program
They calculated, however, that out il
North Dakota and in other States where
Republican supporters of the bonus are
facing primary elections that a vote
against displacing the tariff bill, would
be regarded by the soldier vote as &
vote against the bonus.
In the conference, the dispute over pro
cedure was said 70 have been made 4
question of President Harding's leader
ship by one Of his personal friends, Sen
qtor Edge. New Jersey. The Senator wa;
reported TO have told the conference that
She Republican party's greatest asset al
this time was Mr. Harding and to aban-
L.r his leadership would be to court po-
"a disaster.
0DORSE HARDING
PLAN OF PROCEDURE.
Without regard TO the understanding