Evening star., 1935-05-19
PRESIDENT FACES.
OPEN CLASH WITH.
INITIATION FORCES.
Veto Message Tomorrow or
Wednesday Will Bring
Quick House Vote.
SENATE is FIGURED
SURE TO SUSTAIN
Showdown in Upper House to
Come Primarily on Question
of Monetary Imitation.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

President Roosevelt will clash openly
with the imitation forces in Congress
when he goes to the Capitol this week
to deliver in person his veto message
on the Patman "greenback''. soldiers
bonus bill.
The expectation is that the Chief
Executive will take his unprecedented
step of returning to Congress himself
bill of which he disapproves, either
tomorrow or Wednesday. The con-
greSSional leaders were still awaiting
word from him last night. However,
all arrangements for joint session in
the House chamber tomorrow we're
made yesterday, including the print
ing of special tickets of admission to
the House galleries.
The House by resolution has set
aside Tuesday for exercises in honor
of deceased members. The resolution
specifies that at the conclusion Of the
memorials, the House shall adjourn.
1t is confidently predicted the House
Immediately will override his veto of
the Patman bill no matter how i'm
pressive and logical the veto message
may be.
Hope Rests In Senate.
The next step will take the vetoed
bill before the Senate. 1t is to the
Senate the administration is looking
in the hope that the Presidents veto
will be sustained there. Unless some
Senators who voted against the
original passage of the bill or were
paired against it now do flip flop
and vote to override the veto, or absent
themselves so their votes will not oe
counted, it is mathematically impos-
sible for the Senate not to sustain
the Veto
The showdown in the Senate comes
primarily on the question of none
tary imitation. Supporters Of the
Patman bill insist it is not imitation
that it is controlled expansion of the
currency. But the country believes
the bill means imitation and many of
Its supporters are favoring the meas
ure because they think it does.
The inflationists in Congress have
cleverly managed to hook their in
flation proposal to the proposed pay
ment of the World War bonus GER
tificates. Veterans organizations
have been prevailed on to go along
with them. A proposal to issue green
backs for the payment of other Gov
ernment obligations or for new gov
ernmental expenditures would not at
this time have the same voting
strength in either House or Senate as
has the payment of the soldiers
bonus. In the first place, there is
back of the bonus payment strongly
politically as the Anti-Saloon League
in the old days.
Infiationary Proposal.
The Presidents veto message, 1t Is
said, will deal particularly with the
inflationary proposal in the Patman
bill. It will point also to the gener-
Gus treatment by the Government of
the disabled veterans and the con-
sideration given in other measures to
veterans in need. The President has
consistently held that the bonus is
not due the veterans until 1945 and
that available money and credit of
the Government are needed for relief
purposes.
A conference of the so-called
steering committee of the Patman-
ties was held yesterday in the Office
of Senator Thomas, Democrat, of
Oklahoma. to plan for the continu-
ance of the fight, first for the Pat
man bill and later for another SOL
dierS' bonus measure if the veto is
sustained. There were Is to 20 mem
bers of the Senate and House at the
conference.
Senator Thomas said after the meet
ing that every effort would be made
to override the veto. He said he ex-
pected all Senators backing the Pat
man bill to be on hand when the vote
is taken and that messages had been
sent TO them.
I'VE want to vote promptly and get
the matter decided one way or the
other" he said.
While the Senate rules permit de-
bate on a motion to pass a bill over
o presidential veto, Senator Thomas
said that he did not wish to make an
address and that he did not know of
any other supporter of the bill who
desired to do SO. He said he did not
care to discuss future action of the
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