Show Let us vs have faith that right makes might and andin a in m that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty I as We Wc understand it Lincoln The Soldiers' Soldiers Bonus W WHETHER THER tb the service mens men's bonus bill will be passed at the present session of Congress COngre from ill all accounts now w appears very cry doubtful As soon as ns asono ono one change in the pending measure is suggested new opposition springs up and many members of both tenses bouses of Congress have bave given gien expression to the the- view that i it is better to risk offending some soldiers than to faco face the the- protests of the majority of the American people pro pee pIe at this time The whole fight c centers around Mound the he revenue provisions provisions provisions pro pro- visions although considerable objection is being raised t fo to the land settlement features Both Bolh Republican and Democratic members profess friendship for the tho measure measure meas meas- I ure but they seem unable to agree on the method of taxation There is opposition to the tho 1 per cent thc tax on retail sales which was intended to raise more moro than halt hair haltof of the money necessary to carry out the program anda and no definite plan has been de devised sed to take its place a Representative Fordney of Michigan chairman t pf the tho House ways and means committee is quoted as ns saying saying 51 say say- ing that he be has bas no idea when the new neVo bill will be corn com Other members of tho the committee say that it is virtually certain no bonus bonns bill can bo be passed before the Tune June recess for the national conventions and if action is taken during during- tho the summer it will result from planks on oil the subject that will win appear in Ia the party platforms With government expenditures far in excess of anticipated anticipated an nn- revenues provision for the thc soldiers' soldiers bonus presents a vexatious vexations problem but having undertaken the too solution of it and encouraged the service men to beHave behove be- be hove Have they were going to get it Congress is in a worse predicament if it fails falls to pass the measure than if it had refused outright to consider it in the first place I |