Show Telegram Deluge Floods White House Over Bonus WASHINGTON May 10 The AP-The The White House was deluged today with telegrams urging the president either cither to sign or veto the Patman cash bonus bill Attaches estimated that had arrived before noon but there was no to check heck as s to whether the majority favored the legislation Veterans' Veterans leaders had asked their followers to send end to the White House HOlle and capitol capitol hill telegrams demanding enactment Apparently President Roosevelt was not taking time to read the mes meso sages He wa prepared to veto the bill hilt so soon n art after r it reaches him from the s senate ena e where bonus leaders were trying to marshal every ounce of ot their their- strength to lo save the measure from ro defeat t. t l Mr lr Roosevelt's evell's conference yes yesterday yester yester- tel da day with financial advisers was taken as meaning that in the event congress congress con con- gress overrides overrides' his veto th the pr president ident will insist upon levying new taxes He did not m n- n V the word bonus in a greeting he sent last night to St. St Louis for lor the ing 1935 American legion conclave Var War veterans are and should be interested in the welfare of ot the country country coun coun- try as a whole he said Our constant constant con con- stant objective is to care for the disabled dis dir the sick and destitute Amerl can Legionnaires and the veterans of all wars support this national pol icy r t c I In some quarters this was regarded regard regard- ed as echoing the idea the president expressed at Roanoke Va some time ago in an address generally interpreted inter inter- as a stand against full anc and 1 iI immediate payment pa of ot the bonus The care of the disabled sick destitute destitute des des- des I and starving he said in the Roanoke speech h is uis the first task wk of oi the countr country The inflationary bill which has passed both houses of congress remained re reo re- re bottled up in the senate while its backers sought support Private senate polls polIs had indicated that a veto w would Uld be sustained possibly by as many as five or six voles votes Sen Senator tor Tydings D D. Md warned Senator Long angrily that thit some of his arguments might provoke something that wont be vocal ocal The outburst came when Long declared de de- de- de clar dared in n the senate that Tydings and others had voted to permit banks to borrow cents on the dollar but now were refusing similar payments to soldiers through the bonus V |