Evening star., 1935-05-19
PRESIDENT FACES
INITIATION CLASH
Veto Message Tomorrow or
Wednesday viii Bring
Quick House Vote.
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tSOllGlIluCu TIOIl rlob dSCo
bonus bloc until there had been vote
on the veto. He still hopes suf1cient
votes will be found to override the veto.
Both Senator Harrison Of Missis-
sippi chairman of the Finance Com
mittee, and Senator McNary of Ore
gon, Republican leader, insisted last
night that the Presidents veto would
be sustained in the Senate. The
House passed the bonus bill originally,
3l8 to 80, or 312 to /. 1t would be a
miracle if the House does not vote to
pass the bill again over the veto by
the necessary two-thirds vote.
In the Senate, however. the sup
porters of the Patman bill failed TO
pass it by a two-thirds vote. The vote
stood, IS to 33. Some administration
voices, particularly that of Jesse
Jones, head of the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation, have been raised
suggesting that perhaps it would be
we'll to have the bill pass anyway and
get the bonus question out of the way,
with the veterans naturally favorable
to the Democratic party as result
has been at pains to announce that the
President is absolutely sincere in his
desire that the bill be killed that he
is not interested in the political play
suggested by some of his advisers.
The House is expected to act
promptly on the veto of the bonus
bill, Immediately after the Presidents
veto message is read.
The advocates of immediate cash
payment of the soldiers bonus insist
the killing of the Patman bill by no
means disposes of the issue for the
rest of the present session. They
have several plans to get other legis-
lation through Congress. One plan
looks to an amendment to the naval
appropriation bill, now the unfinished
business of the Senate, providing for
the bonus payment. Another would
attach a bonus rider to the bill ex-
tending the powers Of the A. A. A.,
which is slated to come up in the
Senate after the appropriation bill
has been disposed of.
The Presidents announced deter
mination to deliver his veto message
in person at joint session has heart
ened opponents of the measure and
has cast a gloom over supporters of
the bill. The influence of the Presi-
dent is admittedly strong, and the
fact he is willing to go to this unusual
limit to prevent passage of the bill,
1t is believed, will have its effect.
Both camps, the anti-bonus and the
pro-bonus, have sent out word to all
Senate abSenteeS to be on hand to
vote on the presidential veto. Efforts
will be made to arrange pairs for
those unable to be present when the
vote is taken. Such pairs must show
two Senators voting in the affirmative
and one Senator voting against over
riding, since it requires a two-thirds
vote to pass a bill over veto.
The roll call on the passage of the
Patman bill in the Senate showed 21
Democrats and IL Republicans op-
posing the bill. 1t was announced at
the time that Senator Tydings of
Maryland was paired against the bill,
and no announcements we're made
for Senators Gore of Oklahoma and
O'Mahoney Of Wyoming Since then
1t has been learned that Senator
O'Mahoney will vote to sustain the
Presidents veto.
This makes a total Of IS Senators
IN opposition to the bill. With a
total membership today of 95-there
is a vacancy from West Virginia
q vote Of 80 Senators would be suffi-
cient to sustain the veto. It has been
claimed by the supporters of the bill
that Senator r-desienate Chavez of
New Mexico, appointed to fill
vacancy caused by the death of the
late Senator Cutting, would vote to
override the veto. They also claimed
he would be in Washington last
Monday. So far he has not reached
the Capital.
The belief was expressed last night
that several Democratic Senators who
voted originally TO pass the Patman
bill would not 60 to the extent of
voting to override the Presidents
veto.
In the House a switch Of some rs
votes from support Of the Patman bill
to support of the veto would be nee
essary to sustain the President in
that body.