Evening star., 1935-05-13
Senate Leaders Expect
Veto, However, and Pre-
pare to Sustain 1t.
INITIATION OPPOSITION
EXPECTED IN MESSAGE
Friends Say President Cannot Re-
treat From Stand Already Taken
on Bonus Issue.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Twenty-three thousand telegrams-
favoring the Patman cash bonus bill
by 8 to 1-were on President Roose-
velt's desk today when he returned
from week end fishing trip.
Nevertheless, White House attaches
looked for the President to return the
measure to Congress with veto soon
after it reaches him, probably tomor-
row.
On Capitol Hill. where the expecta-
ton is that Mr.. Roosevelt will include
a stand against initiation among his
arguments for not approving the new
money bill, congressional leaders be-
lieved they had a narrow margin Of
votes in the Senate by which veto
could be upheld.
Stephen Early, a presidential secre-
tary, estimated that the deluge OF
kilograms were to l for the bonus.
In addition, he said. there were be-
tween 1000 and 5000 letters on the
subject.
IL Was SdlQ dG Lie llUc I1OuoC I4loJ
Mr.. Roosevelt did not discuss the
bonus with congressional leaders dur
ing his week end visit to the Wood
mont Rod and Gun Club in the Blue
Ridge Mountains.
Seen Holding Firm.
Some of those who were with Mr..
Roosevelt and who did not wish to
be quoted by name, held that it would
be impossible for the President to re-
treat from a stand already taken;
that is, that bonus money would go
to those who had jobs, as well as
the unemployed, while the administra-
tons program was designed to take
care of the needy first.
Conferees forecast that after stress
/ ing that argument the President would
contend that while the bonus might
be paid in new money without actual
damage, the experience Of history was
that initial steps toward outright in
f1ation always have led to disaster.
While talk of possible compromises
or substitutes for the Patnan bonus
| would not down in some congress
sional circles, one of yesterdays con-
ferees in the presidential party said
that any discussion Of compromises
must wait until after Congress had
acted on the Presidents veto.
The chamber in which poet-veto
interest would center is the Senate.
Roosevelt leaders there are saying they
can count on 35 votes-three more
than they require to stop move to
upset a veto AS for the House,
| leaders conceded that more than the
necessary two-thirds of legislators
there would vote to override the veto.
Coughlin's Appeal.
Backers of the bonus drive con-
tinued their efforts to put She Pat
man bill across. Father Charles E.
night. appealed to the President to
sign the bill. Attacking the bond
issue method of financing as against
the Patman new currency method,
he said:
II cannot believe that you would
demand that the taxpayers pay ST.
100000 900 bonus to the bankers SIM
| ply because the soldier is entitled to
be paid s2,4OO, 100000. I cannot be-
lieve that you will prevent the soldier
from receiving his just dollar of dues
simply because the banker is not to
receive his unjust 81 cents of the
bonus"
Senator Thomas, Democrat of Ok
lahoma, leader of the Senate Pat
NANTES, planned to withdraw, prob
ably tomorrow, the motion by which
he has kept the bill bottled up in the
Senate while its hackers sought to line
up support. That will speed it to the
White House.
Before the President and the con-
gressional leaders returned from their
week end trip to the Woodmont Rod
and Gun Club on the MarylandWeSt
Virginia border, Representative Pat
man, Democrat, of Texas. author Of
the bill, had said some legislators felt
certain leaders had urged the Presi-
dent to suggest a new compromise.