The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-15

SCraLlOn IOllOWeu d SpccCH teStci day which bitetrly condemned the administration.
 Floyd Gibbons. war correspon- dent, reused the legionnaires to their stormiest applause in a Speech which reached it's climax with the statement that:
 Fortunately, photographs and motion pictures taken at the scese prove the Anacostia camps of the bonus army were burned by troops. The camera would not lie."
 At that time affidavits by. sol diers were being presented in Washington, identifying themselves as among troops pictured setting fire to shacks and declaring they were acting on orders.
 Patrick Hurley, secretary of war and member of the Oklahoma dele gation, had declared in a conven- ton banquet speech that the troops had not set the Anacostia Flats afire.
 The resolutions committee met almost before the roar of applause for Gibbons speech ceased. For three hours the committee delib- erated. <
 It approved a subcommittee reA port urging repeal of federal dry laws and the 18th amendment. Then it considered the "compro- mise" resolution expressing "re- gret" that the administration had found it necessary to oust the bonus army. The resolution was rejected.
 George Browne, Philadelphia at torney and leader of the censure group in the resolutions commit fee, moved that a roll call be asked on the floor of the convention on the Pennsylvania departments re- solution laying blame for asserted i'll treatment of the bonus march, CTS to President Hoover.
 Browne failed to get second for the motion. He then submitted an amendment to the compromise resolution, daploring "the use or armed troops against unarmed vet erans." No second was offered.
 The committee adjourned, and it's members told newspapermen waiting outside they had agreed not to reveal any action taken.
 George Hewitt of Kansas, chair man of the committee, conceded that another meeting of the com- mittee to reconsider the censure resolution might be held if sud- den and unexpected swing in sen- timent toward such a report devel- oped among committee members"
 The Pennsylvania delegation frankly was ''stumped." There ap- peared no constitutional method of bringing such a resolution to a convention vote. .
 Unanimous approval of the 1,2S9 delegates would be necessary to recognize a resolution not reported by a committee. Browne admitted such consent was impossible to ob- tain.
 Among resolutions passed by the committee were reports of various subcommittees against adherence of the United States in the World Court or the League of Nations. The subcommittee on debt reduc- tions voted the legion in favor of payment of war debts as sched- uled,
 Immediate cash payment of the bonus was approved by a 21-9 vote of the legislative committee. Con- mander Henry l.. Stevens said he would expedite action on the bonus resolution in every way possibly.
 The bonus payment resolution reads:
 Be it ,resolved: That the Amer ican Legion endorses and urges the full payment of adjusted service certificates and that the national officers be instructed to proceed sbefore congress toward enactment of this legislation
 The resolutions committee fa- vored plan to refute charges that the legion was unduly self-interest- ed in battling reductions of ben- efits to ex-service men, their wid- ows and orphans. The resolution would authorize appointment of a committee of seven legionnaires to cooperate with a joint congression- al committee in determining "in- equalities" in benefit payments.