The Washington times., 1932-06-14
BONUS PASSAGE
ASSURED IN
HOUSE
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Washington but from all over

vote ana passage preulCCeu pe'
fore adjournment tonight.
Virtually assured of passage in
the House, leaders in the cash
payment fight made desperate
bid for a twothirdS majority vote
to insure passage over a preSl-
Dental veto.
AS the floor battle opened Rep
resentative Rainey of Illinois, act
ing Speaker. conceded passage,
but said that the legislation was
doomed because the House would
uphold a presidential veto. The
House yesterday voted 226 to ITS
to consider the measure.
Patman Sees Landslide
Representative Patman CD CT
Texas, originator of the measure
to pay $2,2OO,000,O00 to $2,400,'
600, 900 of the adjusted service GER
tificateS, countered with claim
that landslide on final passage
would give hackers the two-thirdS
majority.
Many amendments, including a
proposal of Representative Kle-
berg CD of Texas, to legalize
and tax beer to meet the cost,
were expected to delay final &C
ton.
Representative Vinson CD of
Kentucky fired the first shot for
the bonus defenders. He said:
"We deny that this bill will
bring the nation to the brink of
panic and chaos"
Crisp Predicts Veto
He said the Treasury and the
Federal Reserve Board had not
objected to the Owen plan of
bonus payment, which is to be
substituted later today for the
Patman plan, and that leading
economists found no flaws in
the Owen plan.
Representative Crisp CD of
Georgia, bonus advocate, said:
II know 1 cannot change a
single vote and that the House
will pass this legislation today.
1 don't know what the Senate
will do with it. But do
know that if it reaches the
President he will veto it, and
this Congress cannot pass the
bonus over his vetO."
Crisp denied that it was pos
Sible to issue more than $4,000
100000 in additional currency
without wrecking the financial
structure.
While the House debated the
measure to pay the veterans COM
pensation certificates now instead
of in 1945, bands of bonus vet
Grams roamed through the Cap
itol, besieging the galleries with
little success. Not more than 100
of the veterans who made the
long trek to the Capitol were
able to hear the debate.
The Districts official hint of
possible evacuation came in an
order directed t. Brig. Gen. Pei
ham D. GlaSSford, superintendent
of police; Fire Chief George S.
Watson, Health Officer William
C. Fowler and Inspector of Build
ingS John w. Oehmann. They
were directed to designate repre-
sentativeS for examination of all
buildings occupied by the bonus
army and report on capacity,
structural safety. sanitary condi-
tions, and fire hazards.
At a conference with DR.. Fowler
theh Commissioners decided this
morning to afford swerage facili-
ties at AnacoStia.
G. Levin, of the Workers Ex-
Service Mems League, National
Provisional Bonus MarcherS Asso.
citation, charged that three of his
lieutenantS are missing and as
serted that the police or the vet
eranS had killed them or spirited
them away.
In a letter to Superintendent
Glass ford, Levin said these three
men have been missing for sev-
eral days.
General GlasSford, after read
ing the letter. made no comment
Some time later, however. in an
official statement he said:
"The joint committee of the
4 Workers Ex-ServiCe Mems
League, National Provisional
Bonus March Committee, con-
tinues its futile efforts bv
distribution of circulars to gain
control of the bonus expedition
ary force"
This statement was made in
connection with the arrest of four
alleged CommuniStic agents in
cludlng two women, on charges
OF distributing literature.
Orderly Evacuation
Several scores of veterans todav
asked for transportation toward
their homes.
IhlS transportation will be pro-
Vloed as soon as any 40 men de.
sire to go in any given direction,
Police claim that 1000 have al
ready trekked out of the camns
IN their own automobiles or by
other means. ~
In connection with the exodus
OF the veterans. General Glass
ford issued this statement:
Thereafter at the request of
Adjutant General M. A. Rec
kOrd, of Maryland, truck cara
vans of outgoing veterans will
leave each forenoon. They will
be transported in District
trucks in the direction of their
homes to Baltimore, Frederick,
Fredericksburg or Fairfax, from