The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-15
Garner Backs Patman Bonus
Bill, Senator Thomas Asserts;
Roosevelt Is Placed on Spot
Vice Presidents Swing to
Greenback Measure Adds
to Confusion.
VETO SUPPORT CLAIMED
Administration Leaders Say
They Have Votes to
Uphold President.
BY THOMAS L. STOKES
Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, May 15.-John
N. Garner emerged today from the
obscurity to which the vice presi-
dency has consigned him to become
a factor in the critical paper money
initiation issue.
Reports circulating about Senate
lobbies may be doing the Vice Presi-
dent an injustice, but friends of the
Patman greenback bonus bill are
saying that he is for it and that he
believes it would be politically wise
for the Senate to pass the measure
over the expected veto.
The second man in the Admins
tration has not denied the reports,
which place him in conflict with the
Presidents detectives and put him
in the position of condoning at
tempts to break down the defenSes
against paper money initiation.
Some rumors go so far as to say
Mr.. Garner has suggested his ex-
pediency theory to the President.
Not Campaigning Actively
THE Vice President is for the Pat
man bill" said Senator Elmer
Thomas ID, Okla), Senate sponsor
of the controversial measure. He
has told friends he favors the bill. "
There are no surface indications
that Mr.. Garner is campaigning
actively for the Patman bill The
whisperers say only that he is for
it and that he so expresses himself
to Senators who inquire his position
The reported situation is not
without parallel. Vice President
Charles G.. Dawes, for instance, cam
paigned among Senators for the
McNary- Haugen bill, which Presi-
dent Calvin Coolidge vetoed.
Hardly Pleasant for Roosevelt
But such a situation never is
pleasant for the man in the White
House.
Submission of the bonus bill to
the President was still being
blocked today by Senator Thomas
He had planned to withdraw yester-
day his motion for reconsideration
and thus permit the bill to go to the
President, but changed his mind
when he found his forces might not
be on hand in full strength if the
vote on overriding the veto came al
once.
The two Georgia Senators, Walter
F. George and Richard B. Russell
upon whom Senator Thomas counts
were expected to go to Georgia for
the funeral of former Senator John
Cohen. Mr.. Thomas also hopes fol
recruits in the newly appointed Sen
ator Dennis Chavez ID, N. M, and
in Senator Robert R. Reynolds Cd.
N. CO, who is returning from the
Virgin Islands.
Situation Highly Confused
Despite this play for time, Senate
Administration leaders reiterated
confidence today. after a check-up
that they could sustain veto by a
margin of four or five votes
There is no denying that reports
of the Vice Presidents alignment
with the Patmanites, coupled with
the speech of Jesse Jones, RFC
chairman, minimizing the evil
effects of a bonus bill, have created
confusing situation. The delay
over settlement of the issue does
not help any.
One pro-bonus Senator professed
| to see SubStantiatiOn in the speech
of Mr.. Jones of the theory that
passage of the Patman bill over a
veto would satisfy the Administra-
ton. Such a theory puts the Adj
ministration openly on record
against the measure, on the one
hand, and covertly seeking its en-
actment, on the other.