Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1922-03-24
BONUS MEASURE
O.K.'D in HOUSE,
GOES TO SENATE
What Will Happen There 10
Bill Is Regarded Now
as Problematical
tBy The Associated Press)


Passed by the house late yesterday
by vote of 333 to 20, the $4,000
100000 soldiers bonus bill was made
ready today for the senate. What
would happen to it there was regard
ed today as problematical.
Confidence that the house hill would
meet the general approval Of former
SERVICE men was expressed today by
Hanford MacNidcr. national command
er of the American Legion.
The vote was 333 to 20, or Ga
more than the two-thirds majority
necessary for passage of the meas
ure under the parliamentary pro-
cejure selected by republican Lead
ers for the expressed purpose of pre-
venting the democrats from offering
n motion to recommit.
In the early stages of the roll call
the ratio of votes in fGvor of the
bonus was five to one. Only nine
of the first sc members voting cast
ballots against the b.n.
At 6:25 O'Clock when the roll
call was just half completed, he five
to one ratio was still being main
tanned.
Party lines disappeared both in
the general debate and on the final
roll call. 2lS republicans, S4 demo
Gratis and one socialist supporting
the bill, and AZ republicans and 2S
democrats voting against il.
The vote on the rules suspension
resolution was 22l to 2l1 and was
without a roll call Previously the
house had adopted a motion for the
previous question by a roll cas Of
276 to l26. AS the roll call pro-
ceeded there was more than the usual
hubbub on the floor and those IN
the crowded galleries, strangers to
congressional customs, looked down
in surprise as tie members mi led
about. talking and laughing while
the clerk read the 435 names on the
list Those voting were forced TO
shout at the top Of their voices in
order TO have their vote heard at the
clerks desk.
There was breaking OF party
lines OH the vote for the suspension
of rules, Many of the democrats who
vod in the negative on this motion
were counted upon TO support the
bonus bill on the final vote, and the
leaders were confident that moro
than the two-thirds majority re-
uuird under he rules would not bo
obtained.
Chairman Fordney of the ways and
means committee was at once recog
nized by Speaker Gillett for mo-
ton To suspend the rules and pass
the bill, whereupon the house launch.
ed into four hours of discussion.
Some members were given only one
minute others two mi stes, others
three. but by Unanimous consent al
had leave to extend their remarks in
the Congressional Record the mex!
ten days.
After Chairman Fordney had ex-
planned the provisions Of the bill.
Representative Garner of Texas at.
tackled republican leaders for meth,
ods adopted in drafting and passing
tie measure. and Speaker Gillett for
his ruling in recognizing three re
publicans to control three hours Of
the four hours given for debate. and
only one democrat one hour.
u have a right to question not
only the methods. but the motives of
the men who drew this bi T." said
Mr. Garner. II can question tfc
motives of many of you who are GO
ing To vote for il. 1t isn't what you
want, ii isn't what the country wants,
and. worst of all, it isn't what the
soldiers want" Representative
Crisp. Georgia, democratic mem
Der of the ways and means commit
tee. who signed the Kitchin minority
report. said he did not approve OF
all therein.
"But neither do ] approve Of the
unfair way the republicans handled
the bonus BILL" he added. "They
made politics of il.
The discussion went forward rap
idlv. member after member being
given a minute or two minutes TO d..
clare his position on the bill.
The name of Secretary Mellon
was brought into the debate by Rep
resentative Jeffers, democrat, Ala
hama a former service man, in an
swering a charge by Renresentative
Campbell, republican, Kansas. that
the former administration had dealt
generously with war contract profit
eers.
Denouncing the bill as "bad and
vicious" Representative Black. dem
ocrat, Texas, declared the only right.