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Show SOLDIER BONUS LOOSES RIDERS LAND RECLAMATION AND FOR. El GN DEBT FINANCING PROVISIONS PRO-VISIONS ELIMINATED Report Will be Sidetracked Until Tariff is Disposed of; Senate To Have Bill Within a Short Time Washington. Conferees on the soldiers' sol-diers' Ixmus bill reached an agreement late Monday and it was announced that the measure would be reported to the house. It will not be called up there, however, until after the conference con-ference report on the tariff Mil has bn disposed of. After the house acts the bonus bill goes to the senate, where also it is to be put behind tlie tariff. Four major changes were made in the bill in conference. They were: Elimination of the Simmons amendment amend-ment authorizing the financing of the bonti3 out of interest from the foreign debt. Elimination of the land reclamation featmv, which, under the senate plan, embodied in the Smith-McNary reclamation recla-mation bill, would have involved an expenditure of $350,000,000. The limiting of the time in which veterans might file applications for n bonus to January 1, 1928. Acceptance of the house provisions fixing the amount to be advanced for army or home aid to the amount of the adjusted service credit increased by 25 per cent in place of the senate plan of amounts ranging from 100 per cent of the adjusted service credit if the applications were made in 1923, to 140 per cent if applications were made In 1928, or thereafter. No Important change was made in the adjusted service certificate option, with its provisions for loans to veterans veter-ans by banks in the next three years, and for government loans thereafter. The vocational training aid option and the provision for cash payments to veterans whose adjusted service credit would not exceed $50 also were unchanged. un-changed. Much of the three hours session of the conferees was understood to have been devoted to a discussion of whipping whip-ping the bill into such a shape as would meet the publicly expressed objection ob-jection of President Harding. It was represented by some of the Republican managers that the measure probably would have a better chance of presidential presi-dential approval without the Simmons amendment and the reclamation option, op-tion, and, accordingly, three were voted out. There was still no official information informa-tion as to whetehr Mr. Harding would approve the measure in its present form, but proponents believe he will, while opponents re firmly of the opinion opin-ion that he will not. Owing to a promised prom-ised fight on the tariff bill conference report in the senate, it may be ten days or two weeks before the bonus measure meas-ure reaches the White House. Two of the ten conferees Senator Smoot, Republican, Utah and Representative Repre-sentative Garner, Democrat, Texas, voted against the bonus as finally perfected, per-fected, while one manager, Representative Represent-ative Collier, Democrat, Mississippi, was absent. Those supporting the measure were Senaors McCumber, North Dakota, and McLean, Connecticut, Connecti-cut, Republicans, and Simmons, North Carolina and Walsh, Massachusetts, Democrats, and Representatives Ford-ney, Ford-ney, Michigan ; Green, Iowa, and Long-worth, Long-worth, Ohio, Republicans. |