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Show SOLDIER BONOS LOOSES RIDERS LAND RECLAMATION AND FOREIGN FOR-EIGN DEBT FINANCING PROVISIONS PRO-VISIONS ELIMINATED Report Will be Sidetracked Until Tariff la Disposed of Senate To Hnve BUI Within a 8hort Time Washington. Confcroes on tho soldiers' sol-diers' bonus bill reached an ngrooment Into Monday and It was nnnouncod thnt tho measure would bo reported to tho houso. It will not bo called up thoro, however, until aftor tho con-feronco con-feronco report on tho tariff hill has been disposed of. After tho houso acts the bonus bill goes to tho sonato, whoro also It is to bo put bohlnd the tariff. Four major changes wero mado In tho bill In conferonco. They woro: Elimination of tho Simmons amond mont authorizing tho financing of tho 'onus out of intcrost from tho foreign debt. Kllmlnntlon of tho land reclamation fcatuiv, which, undor tho scnato plan, ombodlod In tho S'mlth.McNary reclamation recla-mation bill, would "havo Involved nn oxpcndlturo of $.150,000,000. Tho limiting ot tho tlmo In which vctoruns might fllo applications for a bonus to January 1, 1023. Accoptanoe ot tho houso provisions fixing tho amount to ho advanced for nrmy or himo nld to tho amount of tho ndjustod sorvlco credit increased by 25 per ocnt In placo ot tho sonato plan of amounts ranging from 100 per cent of tho adjusted sorvlco credit It tho applications woro mado In 1023, to 140 per cent If applications woro mado In 1028. or thereafter. No Important chango was mado la tho adjustod sorvlco cortlflcato option, with Its provlnlonn for loans to veterans veter-ans by banks In tho noxt threo years, and for government loans thereafter. Tho vocational training aid option and tho provision for cash payments to votorons whoso adjusted service credit would not oxceod $50 also woro un-chnngrd. un-chnngrd. Much ot tho threo hours session of tho conferees was understood to havo boon dovoted to a discussion of whipping whip-ping tho bill Into such a Bhapo as would mo.H tho publicly expressed ob-Joctlon ob-Joctlon of President Harding. It wus represented by somo of tho Itopubllcnn managers that tho measure probably would havo a hotter chunco of pro3l. dcntlnl approval without tho Simmons ' amondment nnd tho roclnmaUon option, op-tion, and, accordingly, threo wcro votod out Thoro wns still no offlclnl Information Informa-tion us to whetohr Mr. Hurdlng would upprovo tho mcasuro In Its present form, but proponents bollovo ho will, whllo opponents nro firmly of tho opinion opin-ion that ho will not. Owing to a promised prom-ised fight on tho tariff hill conference roport in tho Bonuta, It may bo ten days or two wooks boforo tho bonus mons-uro mons-uro reaches tho White Houso. Two of tho ten conforoos Senator SniJot, Itcpuhllcuii, Utah nnd Itopro-sentntlvo Itopro-sentntlvo Gnrner, Democrat, Toxus, votod against tho bonus as finally por-foctod, por-foctod, whllo ono manager, Itoprcsont-atlvo Itoprcsont-atlvo Colllor, Democrat, Mississippi, was absent. Thoso supporting tho uicisuro wero Scuaors McCumbor, North Dakota, and McLean, Connecticut, Connecti-cut, Itcpubllcnns, and Simmons, North Carolina und Walsh, Massachusetts, Domocrats, and Koprcsontutlvcs Ford-noy, Ford-noy, Michigan ; Croon, Iowa, and Long, worth, Ohio, Republicans, |