Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1922-10-28
PITTMAN FAILS
IN ATTEMPT TO
ANSWER MILLER
Saws Questions Are Absurd as
Everyone Knows His Stand
on Soldier Bonus

rba democratic rally last might at
,,, unt,er theatre was a success in
a,fr, of attendance, but 1t was a
5t.c,al failure so far as light being
thrown upon the enactment of the
dollar silver bill by Senator Key
pn+mar. it was also a failure from
the viewpoint of the senator an
sver.r the questions propounded by
Grant Miller, republican nominee
for congress, relative to the gov.
oromar. securing finances for the
paymau. Of a soldier bonus.
Mr. Uller asked Senator Pittman
if he would vote for a general sales
tax OF if he would favor bond
tsspe Of four billion dollars to meet
,he situation, but the answer was
pyaded by the senator who said
that everybody knew where he stood,
and .s4t he was in favor Of paying
the bonus by using the interest that
rha o. jos were to pay to the United
S,a,r. upon their ten billion dollar
frdpbudness. Everybody knows
America has plenty Of interest COM
lng. ba, almost everybody would like
TO know when that interest is going
10 be paid. If the allies do not
show more speed in paying back
interest than they have in the past,
then is a foregone conclusion that
the boys who were willing o give
their all, and who sacraficed every.
thing that was near and dear to
them will become gray haired. old
and de.repid, before relief would be
afforded The present administra'
ton. through President Harding, be-
lieyes that a general sales tax would
solve Me situation, yet the demo,
cra.c senator's. Pittman Included,
would rather remain a thorn in the
side of the administration and deny
that which is right and just to our
soldier boys Of the late world war
"Thr question propounded is abb
3urd," remarked Plttman Every
one knows how stand on the bonus
and that want the interest on
loans used 90 pay the boys" He
said only }S0,0j9,OOO would be need
ed which would mean that the sod,
"rs would r-'eive about S25 each.
There is Ss0JO0O0O0 delinquent in
interest. bul even this sum would
not afford relief as It is estimated
that four billion will be required to
meet The situation.
The .auadries viii be kept busy
for the next several days as copious
tears flowed from the audience as the
senator dwelt at length on the hard.
ships that the soldiers endured dur.
ing the late world war, yet he has
Steadiastly refrained from doing any
thing real in their behalf. Those
who k.ow the senator and his pro.
eHVii,". for grinding out sob stuff,
mad gone to the meeting with a
pocAe'Ii. OF handkerchiefs, and as
'he senator waxed warm on his sub
Iect Do. himself, was deeply moved
and The audience sat In a fervOr OF
Intense feeling.
Senator Tasker L. Oddie came In
'or a .ambasting by reason of having
pa' up the fight to retain cyanide
On the free list. 1t was none Other
'uan Senaor Oddie who secured the
support Of Senator Capper of Kan
sas' chairman of the agricultural
OIoc' and who was successful in say
'us 'he cyanide proposition. and Pitt
"aA even admitted 1t in his address
YET ne had the audacity to tell hi:
NH"S AC LOINcu tue ISbuS
win Senator Lodge by threats Of
"snJing measures In which the lat
Ter was Interested. He told of Sena
.or oddie and others being driver
IRON the committee room, and how
ue went to their rescue. 1t was
O'"bs"doccio plain and simple anC
One would have imagined that this
SO'eFnment would have gone to thu
W" vows had 1t not been for tn,
senior senator from Nevada.
II took nearly an hour for Pitt
u'"n to tell his audience how HI
"oTHed out the salvation of silver
anu half way insisted that the dollal
"'ce was not wartime measur,
aS was admitted through a lettel
written by President Wilson to tn,
secretary of the treasury wherein
,ue former insisted that the measur,
ue enacted. As is he case I'm al