Show S. S The Bonus Situation IF JF AND when President Roosevelt vetoes the Patman veterans' veterans bonus bill and if and when the congress sustains it or overrides it the country and the soldiers will be able to find out where it and they stand in the matter Tuesday S for a number of reasons failed to cle clear cleir r up the i situation to any great extent I President Roosevelt has stood against any bonus bill To move to pay now an obligation not due until 1945 loading g an additional S- S S burden on the treasury together With interest and administration costs would throw his whole fiscal program so out of balance balance balance bal bal- ance as to wreck it he and his spokesmen have contended The Patman Harrison Vinson and the compromise measures all looked alike to the administration Its leaders in pressing for a vote on the Patman bill openly declared that they did so because it would be the easier to be 5 f r to I beaten if vetoed Tuesdays Tuesday's vote then is no not nol conclusive either as to the ayes and noes when tallied or as to the individual votes of oC senators Utah's Senator King voted no uno and Senator Senate Thomas voted yes On the d amendment amendment amendment amend amend- ment to the silver bill in the last session they both voted no uno In the last session Representatives tives Robin Robinson on and Murdock both vo voted ed yes on the bonus against administration wishes All the bonus bills are inflationary differing only in particulars There is however no camou camouflage lage regarding the inflation called for in inthe inthe inthe the Patman bill It provides for payment in new money hot from the printing presses with no program for its backing Secretary proposes a stiffened inheritance tax taxi Perhaps of or far greater grenter significance than passage passage passage pass pass- age of the bonus act itself should a veto be overridden and fraught with far graver consequences consequences consequences con con- sequences two circumstances occupy places o of first importance The first though it may not be as ominous as the second seco-nc is ls tHal h t congress would reveal itself definitely inflationary The full portent of the fact could not be calculated immediately The second circumstance to be pondered would be the fact that tha t Monday night Father Tather Coughlin asked his radio fans to turn the heat on the senators As soon as he was off the air a deluge of telegrams began to flood Washington keeping up even until after the the vote was taken on Tuesday What if any influence influence I ence did this have on the votes and on whose votes The answer would be interesting if it il could be had which it cannot Coughlin is stoutly against the president three Forty-three senate Democrats were against the president on the theace face ace of the vote on the Patman bill Twenty-one Twenty stood with him |