Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-03-20
No Bonus HALT
BY VIII |TE HOUSE
IS ANTICIPATED
President to See Con-
gress Leaders at $50;
Sec y. Mellon Calls,
Speaker Not Likely to
Agree to Suspension
of Rules Move Today.

Washington, March 19.-President
Harding made an engagement Sunday
with republican house leaders for $50
a. m. Monday to discuss the soldiers
bonus situation. Because of appoint
ments made before his return from
Florida. he was unable to grant their
request for a conference Sunday night.
the republican floor leader, said that
the whole situation would be laid be-
fore the president and that the COM
promise bank loan plan would be fully
explained. Mr.. Mondell would not ven
ture an opinion as to whether the bill
would be called up in the house Mon
day under suspension of the rules.
but he appeared to be confident that
there would be no development at the
White House conference that would
cause serious alteration Of the plan
to put the measure through soon.
Difference From Harding View
I'VE have a bill quite different from
anything the president has expressed
an opinion on said Mr. Mondell, "and
a bill that lays no more burden on the
treasury next year than does the forth
coming road bill for instance.
1--WE suspended the rules two years
ago to pass the first bonus bill and
there is good reason. to handle the
measure that way There are men who
have no responsibility in the matter
who would come forward with amend
not for the purpose of improv-
ing the bill. but to make trouble. If
we have about the best bill we can
get. there is no reason to allow the
to embarrass our people.
''We have got the best bill we can
get and very good one. and the soon
er we pass it the better
Gi!lett May Not See Harding
Among those who probably will ac-
Mr.. Mondell to the White
House Monday will be Chairman Ford
ney of the ways and means committee:
Chairman Campbell, of the rules COM
mittee: Chairman Towner. of the re-
publican house conference: Chairman
Fess, of the Republican congressional
Representative Longworth
of Ohio a member of both the ways
and means steering committees. and
Mann of Illinois.
Speaker Gillett. who delivered an ad-
dress Sunday in his home city of
Springfield. Mass. was expected to tr
rive here Monday and to preside over
the house. Whether he would see the
president before the house was con
vened was not disclosed, but some ad-
officers said they were
confident he would not entertain a
motion to suspend the rules and pass
the bonus BILL This question was one
that house leaders said they would
take up with the executive.
Minority Attack Issued
Soon after Mr. Harding returned
here he had an hours conference with
Secretary Mellon at the White House
There was no official statement as to
he conference. but it was understood
hat the bonus question was discussed.
An attack on the bonus measure was
made in minority views made public
Sunday by Representatives Treadway,
,f Massachusetts. and Tlson. Of Con-
necticut, republican members of the
ways and means committee. They de-
dared their belief that the bill. if en-
acted into law. would do more harm
10 the people and to the country, the
Veterans themselves. and their families
than it would do good to the
beneficiaries.
The committeeman eentered their at
ack principally on the bank loan pro-
vision of the adjusted service certifi-
cate title and the land settlement title
they asserted that the loan scheme
seems to us just about as unsOund
and unfortunate from
,very point of view at this particular
ime as could possibly be devised"
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