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Show OPPOSITION TO BONOS MEASURE i i iii FARM CLAUSE 18 ALTERED TO QUARD AQAINST LAND QRAD8 BY ANY OUTSIDE BENEFIT8 Efforts Made to Have President Harding Hard-ing Take Stand Against 'Proposed Insurance Bill; Interference With Finance Claimed Washington Opponnts of the bonus bill In congress Tuesday were seeking havo President Harding oppose the pen bonuolnsurunco-loan bill, framed after much effort by the Republicans it tho houso ways and means committee. commit-tee. They claim the plan of having the banks loan up to 00 per cent on the proposed service men's certificates will seriously Intorfero with tho nation's financial system nnd aro urging tho president to stand by his previous declaration dec-laration thnt tho bonus must be postponed post-poned unless paid by a sales tax. Secretary of tho Treasury Mellon, according to rellablo Information, Is opposed to tho loan features of the plan fur the same reason opponents In congress ndvance nnd may. present bis views to President Hardin soon. The farm clnuso.has been ullered to guard against land grabs from those outsldo tho honcflts of the bill. Now it Is written so thnt nobody other than jx-servko men can get a foot of land In the soldier farm tracts. |