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Show DECIDE TO PASS rs' SOLDIER BONUS LEGISLATION MUST COME ' AT THE PRESENT. SESSION OF CONGRESS - . . y r H. . . ... Vote Is 88 to 9, With Wisconsin Sen ator Offering Resolutions to. Aid I- Former Service Men At An Early Data ' ; " - . rr : , i ( ' - , Washington. Decision v Pm soldiers' bonus bill at this session of congress was reached Tuesday by Ben-ate Ben-ate Republicans In party conference. The vote was SO to 0 on a motion offered by Senator Lenroot, Republl-cani Republl-cani Wisconsin. i J r The conference resolution, as made public, follows: . iv. V.i , "It Is the sense of this conference that the senate should at this session ses-sion pass a soldiers' bonus bill and that lie Republican members -of the finance committee be requested to report such a bill within a reasonable time." , '. v - . . .The conference also decreed that the-senate shoujd proceed to the consideration con-sideration of the admfhistratfon tarltt bill on Thursday "without further delay." de-lay." ' The ' measure will be' called op at that time and It was announced the majority membership would make every effort to hold a' quorum Contiguously.- V r v '-'''- -""V, ..' There was some discussion as to the form the bonus bill should take, but with dlveitgent views developing, no effort was made to reach a decision. deci-sion. This will be leftto finance committee com-mittee Republicans, sO hsajortty of whom is reported to favor the house bill with possible elimination or amendment of the land settlement option. - ' - ' . ' ;,- ' ..!'' ' -. i Chairman JlcCumber of the financo committee was due to return here late Wednesday . or early Thursday to take charge of the tariff bill on the floor. He Is anxious to get the bonus bill before the senate and Is expected to call the committee majority together to-gether to discuss the measure soon after his arrival.' - Dci sion of the conf erence ttf"prsaT the tariff bill without -delay in In tine with the., expressed desire of 'resident Harding that this measure be put ahead of the bonus. With a long fight over the tariff In prospect, however, that bill, under announced plans of Senator XlcCumber, would be laid aside temporarily for senate consideration con-sideration of the bonus, - ' The senate Republicans of the agricultural ag-ricultural bloc have been called to meet, to discuss rates la the tariff bill which are not qultet as high as they had requested the finance committee com-mittee majority to write. Senator Gooding of , Idaho, chairman of the bloc, said he did not think an effort would be made to reach a decision on American valuation. ' The bloc has presented only such questions as It was, a unit on and Senator Gooding said there was some division over American valuation. , ' .' |