Evening star., 1932-06-24
VETERANS CALLED
TO INVADE CAPITOL
Entire Force to Visit Offices
in Campaign for Action
by Senate.

Orders for the whole force of the B.
e. F. to move on the Capitol this after
noon were issued shortly after noon by
Commander in Chief Walter w. Waters.
Waters sent runners to all the camp
commanders to deliver the following
verbal message;
Come to the Capitol. Show the
Senate new ideas"
The movement was scheduled to start
at once.
Comdr Thomas of Camp Marks
estimated that as many as 5000 men
may be gathered in the Capitol Plaza
before the day is over. Advised Of the
move Inspector Albert j. Headley said
that the situation was well in hand and
that no police reserves would be called.
The military police named by the vet
ersns themselves, he said. probably
would be competent to preserve order.
Spontaneous Movement.
Inspector L I. H. Edwards said that
police reserves would not be called un-
less the situation became definitely
threatening and that no exceptional
precautions were planned for the pres
ent
The mobilization order sent out this
afternoon resulted from an apparently
spontaneous movement which started
this morning in the camp OF the sixth
regiment of veterans from the Southern
States at Fourth street and Pennsyl-
vania avenue, which resulted in the
unannounced appearance OF several
hundred men on the steps of the Senate
Office Building.
The announced intention was to call
by twos and threeS at the Offices of all
the Senators from the States repre-
sented and ask them to give their rea-
sons for voting against the bonus pay
ment. Orders We issued in the 9th
Regiment Camp nat nobody would be
allowed in the mess line tonight who
could not show a card initiated by one
of his State Senators as evidence that
he had called on him today.
Waters was not aware of the move
until it was we'll underway, but Endorsed
1t heartily when he learned of it,
The plan, according to Leslie john
son of South Carolina, assistant in
command of the 9Th Regiment, who
led the delegation this morning, is TO
have a constant flow of veterans
through the Offices Of the Senators and
H6IHDcIo Va bllC I1OuoC uIAbl NOilBA Coz
adjourns.
Move Surprises Waters.
We've got 1900 men in the 9Th
Regiment lying around and doing
nothing while a few have done all the
lobbying. We want to put a stop to
that" said johnson. we came here
to get the bonus and hereafter every
man has got to work to that end or
he doesn't eat. These Senators are sure
going to know that we're here"
Even the men who voted for the
bonus. johnson said, will be visited con-
stantly in order ito keep up their in
terest"
The plan, as outlined by Glen Strick-
land. leader of the Texas delegation,
is for two or three men at a time to
call on Senator from their own State,
persist until they are granted an audi
ence, and then demand his reasons for
voting against the bonus bill or ask his
suggestions for renewing the fight. No
! specific proposals are to be urged, ne
| said. The plan seems to be to give
| the member Of Congress no rest from
the bonus problem for the rest of the
session.
The move. from the accounts Of the
leaders, seems to have arisen Spon-
/ taneously in the 9Th Regiment camp
1t was as much of a surprise to Walter
w. Waters, national commander, as to
the police and Senate Office Building
guards.
Waters arrived on the scene about
two hours after the Southern veterans
gathering on the Senate Office Building
| steps largely had dissipated. He said
the move had not originated at B. E. F,
headquarters, but that he was thor
oughly in accord with it ard that IT
might well be taken up by the rest Of
the bonus army.
When the word got to Camp Marks
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