Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-10-25
ANSWER THIS LETTER.

Let no one question Senator Jones, de-
vo+ion to the bonus! The United States
Senate is adjourned and will not recon-
vene until December,--long after cleo
ton. But if there is anything that Sen
ator Jones can do to further adjusted
compensation for eX-service men, ne Will
be glad to hear from them. Out OF Santa
Fe comes a letter from Senator Jones'
It is addressed as its contents indicate
to eX-service men. 1t bears the imprint
of the United States Senate and, Tor obVl-
Gus reasons, it is undated. Post-marked
and post free, from the United States Sem
ate-in Santa Fe Here, citizens, is the
letter:
UNITED STATES SENATE
Committee on Finance
Ny Dear Friend:
. / am having mailed to you, under
separate cover, copy Of my speech of
July II, 1921, on Adjusted Compensa-
ton for Ex-Service Men.
I trust you will give this matter care
full consideration. | assure you that my
efforts will be continued in your be-
half, and if you have any suggestions
as to how can effectively further this
work, | shall be very glad to hear from
you.
Sincerely yours,
(Signed) ANDRIEUS A. JONES.
We do not know how many thousands
of these letters have been sent to eX-
service men, nor do we know how many
copies of the July 18th speech have been
printed and are being distributed at the
expense of the taxpayers But will Sen
ator Jones inform the voters why this
appeal is sent to ex-service men more
than fifteen months after the delivery of
the speech from Santa Fe and two weeks
prior to election, instead of having been
addressed to them fifteen months ago
while Senator Jones was still in Washing
ton, where he was in a position to further
the cause of the eX-service men "effect-
ively'' as New Mexico's Senior" Senator?
The President has all along made it
plain that he would sign compensation
bill which carried with it the machinery
for financing it without imposing an addi-
tional burden upon the country. In other
words, he asked that some means be
found for providing the money through
indirect taxation. The Presidents in
structions to Congress could not have been
more explicit. Why, then, did not Sena-
tor Jones avail himself of his Seniority"
and offer an amendment which would
have insured the passage of the bill? 1t
is "a fact, and Senator Jones knows it to
be fact, that a majority of the Demo-
cratic Senators who voted for the bonus
bill, are candidates for reelection, but not
one of them had the courage to offer a
bill which would have been acceptable to
the President and certain of passage. II
the light of the Presidents statement, so
often iterated, Senator Jones voted for a
bonus bill which he knew would not be-
come a law. But had Senator Jones
served his people with half the zeal with
which he served his party, there would
be no need for such an appeal as he now
addresses to the men for whom he pro-
fesses a belated solicitude.
And when Senator Jones, friend of
the eX-service men," had an opportunity
of demonstrating his friendship while
they were still fighting in France, he
voted against a measure grantin~ them
free postal privileges,-the same privi-
lege which he now abuses while he fights
for votes.