Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-08-27
VOTE ON BONUS
PREPARE
To FIGHT VETO
Underwood Promises to
Pass Bill Even if Hard
ing Disapproves.
Ransdell Criticizes i. S.
for Delay in Adjusting
Pay of Fighters.

Washington, Aug. 26.-The senate
Saturday agreed, by unanimous con-
sent, to take up the soldiers bonus
bill Monday and thresh it to a final
vote, which it n expected will be taken
late Tuesday.
The agreement provides that after
postponement Monday no senator shall
! speak more than once nor longer than
| 20 minutes on any amendment.
No limitation was imposed on debate
on the hill itself, but it was suggested
that there might be a move to that end
later should it prove necessary.
The unanimous consent agreement
was proposed by Senator Robinson,
democrat, Arkansas. but it imposed no
limitation on debate on the bill itself.
! 1t was suggested, however, that there
should it prove necessary.
Senators Underwood democrat, Ala
bama, and Borah, republican, Idaho,
said they would offer no objection to
speedy action. Senator Underwood
gave formal notice that his fight would
be against passage of the measure over
President Harding's veto in the event
that it was returned to congress with
executive disapproyal.
No Amendment Voting
By common understanding the SEN
ate did not undertake Saturday to bring
to vote any of the several amend
ments thus far offered Senator Nc
Nary, republican, Oregon, presented
his amendment proposing the reclama-
ton bill as part of the bonus, with
preference given veterans In reclama-
tion work and financial assistance for
them in developing homesteads on the
reclaimed lands.
In promising his support to any bill
that would give the former service men
the justice to which he believed they
were entitled, Senator Ashurst, demo-
crat, Arizona, told the senate it would
be forced to decide among other things
whether it would listen to 'the cry of
commercialization of patriotism" when
it had not done that at the end of the
war.
Congress, he said, had proceeded to
vote. and had made no apology for do
ing so, to pay shipping claims, claims
of munitions makers, and claims of the
makers of uniforms and other equip
ment for the service men. 1t had done
so, he said, on the statement that those
would have made profit had
the war not ended. There was no cry
of commercialization of patriotism then
he said. 1t was called business"
''But those were inanimate objects"
he went on. Those claims must be met
and met promptly, but the soldier, the
h. tha ch
1t is commercialization of patriotism. |
when his compensation is to be ad- |
justed.
Randall Favors Bill
The Arizona senator said he must |
remind the senate that the original de- |
mand for the bonus came not from the |
former service men but from men and |
women who believed that the service |
men were entitled to compensation.
Also supporting the bill Senator |
Ransdell. democrat, Louisiana, told the |
senate that if congress wished to set |
tie its obligations to the veterans it |
would find means to do so and that if |
it did not there were "a thousand ex-
cuses to hide behind"
at seems strange to me- he said, |
that as long as the war was on. there |
vas no end to the amount of money the |
United States could raise to foot it's |
bills. but now when victory is won and |
The national security assured, we sud-
denly become too poor to adjust the |
soldiers salaries on an equal basis. In |
he meantime, however, our government |
las seen fit to repeal the excess profits |
AK. which yielded about S615, 900 900 |
a year"
'"The shameful conduct of this gov
ernment toward its soldiers since the
war" Senator Ransdell continued.
Stands out in bold contrast when com
pared with the treatment of other SOL
iiers at the hauds of their cnuntr.os >, |