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Show Dawes Charges Bonus Measure Is Dangerous WASHINGTON, April 21 (U.R) In his best "Hell and Maria" mood, Charles G. Dawes attacked the $2,000,,-000,000 $2,000,,-000,000 soldiers' bonus bill today to-day before the house ways and means, committee. He said the measure would so inflate in-flate currency "that general confidence confi-dence in the country would be destroyed." de-stroyed." Dawes led off the administration attack on the Pat man bonus bill in smashing style. Flourishing his long-stemmed pipe and banging the rostrum, he declared that the Pat-man Pat-man bill would "destroy" the credit of the currency of the United States. ' He said Ihe proposal "is an invitation invi-tation to start on the primrose path of Germany." Lose Purchasing Power tie estimated tnat lack of confidence confi-dence in the financial future had resulted in a $9,000,000,000 purchasing pur-chasing power loss in the last two years, and snid the return of prosperity pros-perity depends on retained confidence. confi-dence. Dawes declined lo give his opinion opin-ion of the bonus plan sponsored by Senator Thomas, Dem., Okla. He said he must decline "because I haven't studied it." "That's the trouble with this country," he shouted at the committee, com-mittee, "everybody's talking about something they don't know anything any-thing about and I won't." |