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Show liElpflsT" SOLDIER BONUS LEGISLATION MUST COME AT THE PRE8ENT 8E88ION OF CONGRESS Vote Is 38 to 9, With Wlaeonsln Senator Sen-ator Offering Resolutions to Aid Former Service Men At An Early Date Washington. Doclalon to pass a aoldlorB' bonus bill nt this session of congress was reached Tuosduy by sen-ato sen-ato Itepubllcnns In party c.onforonco. The voto was 30 to 0 on u motion ofTorod by Sonator Lonroot, llenubll-can, llenubll-can, Wisconsin, The conloronee resolution, as made public, follows: "It Is tho Bi-nso of this conforonco thut tho sonuto should ut this sos-S'on sos-S'on pas a soldlorV bonus bill ami that the llepubllcnn mombers of the finance committee bo requostod to report such a bill within u rousonablo tlmo." The conference also decrood that the soniite should proceod to tho consideration con-sideration of tho administration tarlir bill on Thursday "without furthor do-lay." do-lay." The measure will ho culled up at that time and it was announced tho majority momborshlp would mnk every effort to hold a quorum eontla-uouslv. eontla-uouslv. Thero was some discussion aa to tho form tho bonus bill should take, but with divergent views developing, no effort wns made to roach a deci slon. This will ho loft to finance com tnlttea Itepubllcnns, a mnjorlty of whom Is roportod to favor tho house bill with possible elimination or amondment of tho land sottloment option. Chairman McCumbor of tho finance committee was duo to return hore late Wednesday or early Thursday to tako churgo of tho torlff bill on tho floor. Ho is anxious to got tho bonus bill before the sennto and is oxpoctod to call the commltteo majority together to-gether to discuss tho meusuro soon after his arrival. Decision of tho conference to prosi the tariff Mil without dolay Is In line with tho expressed desire of President Harding that this measure bo put ahead of tho bonus. With a long, fight over the tariff In prospect, however, that bill, under unnouncoil plans of Sonntor McCumbor, would be laid asldo temporarily for sonnte consideration con-sideration of the bonus. Tho sennto Itepubllcans of the agricultural ag-ricultural bloc have Jiuen willed to moot, to discuss rates In tho tariff bill which arc not qultot us high as thoy had requostod the flnimco com mlttoo 'majority to wrlto. Sonntor Gooding of Idaho, chairman of the bloc, said ho did not think an effort would bo made to reach n decision on Amorlcun valuation. Tho bloc has prosented only such questions ns it was a unit on and Sonntor Coodlng snld there was somo division over American valuation. |