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Show ICTION ON SOLDIER BONUSjSFOREGAST JENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE IS EXPECTED TO REPORT FORMALLY ON BILL. -evorable Recommendation Will Mean Passing of Buck to the Entire Senate, So That Body Can Go On Record, It-Is Claimed. Washington. Republican members Df tho senate finance committee, In inference Friday, decided to call the :ull finance committee together Mon-lay Mon-lay for tho specific purpose of report-ng report-ng favorably to the senate she soldier :ash bonus bill, which passed the liouso Inst session. This may mean the enactment of tho bonus bill before March 4, hut the probabilities seem to jo against tho passago of tho bill. Just why tho Republicans of the committee decided nt this Into day to revive the bonus bill, which hns been Numbering In tho finance committee ilnce May last, is not mndo plain by my of them. It Is known tliut representatives repre-sentatives of tho American Legion linvo been around the cupltol urging action, nnd have been particularly persistent lu their talks with members of -the committee. The understanding Is that tho committee does not longer wish to carry responsibility for pro-venting pro-venting nction on the bonus bill and has decided to "puss the buck" to tho entire scntuc, so that body can go on record. 'llhcro may be another angle to this move, also. Some of the senators who linvo been most pronounced In their attacks on the navy nnd urmy appropriations appro-priations nnd have been protesting ngulnst extravagance nro advocates of tho cash bonus bill, which Involves expenditures ex-penditures fur grcnter in tho aggregate aggre-gate than ure contemplated In the irmy und navy bills combined. Others 3t tho economy senntors nro known to nppnso tjio cash bonus because they licllovo Uio treasury cannot stand the strain. The belief Is strong In some iiunrtcrs that tho finance committee tvlll report tho bill nnd trust to the lung power of the economists to present pre-sent Its passage. |