Evening star., 1934-02-21

barely in time to open the session. AS
soon as he could relinguish his gavel,
he summoned reporters to his office
to announce:
Il am authorized by the President
to say this is not the time to pay the
bonus and he cannot approve any
legislation to that effect"
96 Democrats Sign.
In the meantime, the number of
signers had increased to 13l. I'm
mediately after the word of Raineys s
statement had circulated among House
members, bonus advocates rounded
| up the additional IA they needed.
Representative Ayres, Democrat, OF
Montana was the last to sign. Repre-
sentative Lozier, Democrat, Of Mis-
souri, had affixed his signature mo-
ment before.
Ninety six Democrats, A Republic
ans and the S Farmer-Laborites were
recorded on the petition.
The vote March IL will be on
whether the Ways and Means Com
mittee shall be discharged from con-
sidering the Patman bill. 1t requires
a majority to extract the bill from
the committee.
Before President Roosevelt sent
word Of his stand, both Speaker
Rainey and Representative Byrns
predicted the petition would be sue
cessful and the bill passed by the
House.
Provides Controlled Expansion.
The Senate recently defeated .
similar proposal by a voice vote.
patman said in a statement his
bill provides for controlled expan-
SION OF the currency and the i'm
mediate payment to veterans of the
face value of their adjusted service
certificates in new currency-United
States notes"
These notes." he said, twill not
bear interest and will be lawful money
OF the United States and shall be
maintained at parity value with the
standard unit Of value fixed by law"
In the meantime, a copy of the
McKeown bill to permit member
banks of the Federal Reserve to issue
bank notes in lieu of bonus certi-
ficates to veterans after they pay
of loans obtained from the Veterans
Administration is being studied by the
Treasury.
Signers Of Petition.
The following. House members
signed the bonus petition:
Democrats Adams, Delaware.
Ayres, Montana: Beak, Illinois; Back,
New York; Blanton, Texas; Boland,
Pennsylvania; Brooks, PENNSYLVANIA; !;
Busby, Mississippi: Cannon, Wiscon-
sin; Carpenter, Kansas; Carpenter,
Nebraska; Cartwright. Oklahoma: ::
Golden, California: Colmer, Missis-
sippi; Condor, Rhode Island; Connery,
Massachusetts,; Cravens, Arkansas;
Crosby, Pennsylvania Deem, Georgia:
Dlngel, Michigan; Disney, Oklahoma; !;
Dockweiler, California; Duffey, Ohio;
Dunn, Pennsylvania: Durgin. Indi-
ana; Eagle, Texas; Faddis, Pennsyl-
vania; Fernandez, Louisiana; Foulkes,
Michigan; Gasque, South Carolina;
Gillespie. Illinois: Gillette, Iowa; Glo-
| yer, Arkansas; Grey. Indiana; Girls
void, Indiana; Hancock, North Caro-
lima; Hart. Michigan; Hildebrandt,
South Dakota; Knute Hill, Washing
ton; Hoeppel, California; Howard, Ne
braska; Johnson, Oklahoma; Kelly.
Illinois; Kennedy. New York: Kopple-
mann, Connecticut; Kramer, Cali
fornia; Lanzetta, New York; Lee,
Missouri; Lehr, Michigan; Lesinski,
Michigan: Lloyd. Washington; Lozier,
Missouri; McClintic. Oklahoma; Nc
Farlane, Texas; McKeown, Oklahoma; !;
Maloney, Connecticut; Maloney, Lou
isiana; Marland, Oklahoma; May.
Kentucky; Miller, Arkansas; Mitchell,
Tennessee; Monaghan, Montana; Muir
dock, Utah; Musselwhite, Michigan;
Nesbit, Illinois; O'ConneI, Rhode
Island; O'Malley. Wisconsin; Parker,
Georgia. Patman, Texas; Pierce.
Oregon; Ramsay, West Virginia;
Randolph, West Virginia; Rich
ards, south Carolina; Rogers,
Oklahoma; Sadowski, Michigan;
Schuetz, Illinois; Scrugham. Ne
vada; Smith, Washington; Strong,
Texas; Stubbs, California; Studley.
New York; Swank, Oklahoma;
Sweeney, Ohio; Taylor, South Caro-
lima; Terrell, Texas; Thompson, Texas;
1IudA, oIllO, NlIiSOu, SCOiSlo, WdA
gren, Washington; Walter. Pennsyl-
vania; Wearin, Iowa; Weidemann,
Michigan; Werner, South Dakota;
White, Idaho; Willford, Iowa; Wood.
Missouri: Zioncheck, Washington.
Republicans Wisconsin; !;
Boileau, Wisconsin,; Brumm, Penn
sylvania; Buckbee, Illinois; Carter,
California; Carter, wyoming; Chase,
Minnesota; Collins, California: Con-
nelly, Pennsylvania; De Priest, Illi-
nois; Dirksen, Illinois; Dondero,
Michigan; Doutrich, Pennsylvania !;
Dowell, Iowa; Edmunds, Pennsyl-
vania; Focht, Pennsylvania; Gilchrist,
Iowa; James, Michigan; Kelly, Penn
sylvania; Knutson, Minnesota: Lam
bertson, Kansas: Lemke, North Da-
kato; McFadden, Pennsylvania; Nc
Leod, Michigan; Mott, Oregon, M0yni.
han. Illinois; Muldowney. Pennsyl-
vania; Peavy, Wisconsin; Ransley,
Pennsylvania; Reece, Tennessee; Reid,
Illinois; Sinclair, North Dakota;
Strong. Pennsylvania; Swick. Penn
sylvania; Taylor, Tennessee; Thurs
ton, Iowa; Turpin, Pennsylvania;
Waldron, Pennsylvania; WEIGH. Call
fornia; Withrow, Wisconsin; Wolcott,
Michigan: Wolfenden, Pennsylvania;
Wolverton, New Jersey.
Kvale, Lundeen and Shoemaker, all
of Minnesota.