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Show I IttJOlFITE I 0FSHIPSUBS1DY 'I SESSION NEARINQ CLOSE. BUT i PASSAGE OF THE MEASURE I STILL IS IN DOUBT. HOPE RESTS ON FARM BLOC There Will Be No Extra Session In the ,: Spring, So It Seems Certain the Sol- dlere Bonus Bill Must Wait Another 1 Year. !By EDWARD B. CLARK Wftsh!n.(tton.--A few more weeks ow and it will be over, the finale hav-I hav-I Ing as companions either weal or woo ! for the proponents of certain nntlonal legislation. There seems to have come additional Information that there will n0 extra session of congress In the tyring. Newspaper correspondents here KOmethnes wonder whether the country coun-try gets tired of rending nhmit specific spe-cific pieces of legislation and of their tiiink that the reaction In trie public mind from war and military mili-tary affairs generally has worked gross Injustice to oflltvrs who did fine things for their country during th-World th-World war. Everybody realizes that this land of uurs Is tired of hearing of war and of war's happenings, hut some Democrats rind some Kepub- 1 licans In lnw-makln places think that the mental attitude of the United States ought . not to prevent proper recognition of t. e services of men who were willing to give all that they had ' to their country in time of need. I There Is a proposal In con?res to j confer the rank of lieutenant general on these officers on the retired list of the American army who have reached the ago limit : MaJ. fien. Hunter Liggett, Lig-gett, MaJ. ien. Joseph 11. Hickman. MaJ. On Knoch I'.. Crowder and Ma.!. ien, Leonard Wood. After the war between the states congress honored by promotion to the rank of lieutenant general several officers offi-cers of high service, and It did this largely on the urging of the people on behalf of the men for whom promotion was proposed. Today few people seem to care whether the men wti.i did nil that was In them in the World war receive any reward or not. Such reward re-ward as can come to them will be In a way only sentimental, but so far the reaction against anything which sag- gests war or bono 4 Is preventing the American people from asking that their servants In the time of crisis shall he honored as other servants In like times have been honored before. Great Service ef These Men. Take the case of Major General Liggett. Lig-gett. He commanded over one million men In battle, five times as many as were tinder the orders of onv one general gen-eral of the Civil war. Liggett was a fighting soldier and a successful one. He commanded an army, a huge army, nr-d yet tcdny he Is on the retired !if of the service with the rank of thnt of a man who commands only a division. divi-sion. And there Is Major General Crowder, Judge ndvncnte renernl of the United States army, who Is about to retire after forty-five years of service. It was Crowder v ho framed and directed direct-ed the draft after the United States entered the war. The process of the draft was carried through wlthou. Uhi-turhnneos Uhi-turhnneos and without scandal. It was sifld to be the greatest perfoi ltiunee of like kind in history. Major General Wood was an apostle of preparedness. It Is not only definitely def-initely said today, brt It Is definitely known that if Wood had not Insisted on the establishment of the training camps the draft army of the United States would have had no trained officers. offi-cers. Military men say that Wood saved a situation and saved the country. coun-try. As for Geners.l Hickman, It was ns a major general that he commanded the Third division which ht.rled the Germans Ger-mans back over the Marne and turned the tide toward victory. Later lie commanded com-manded the First corps In the Argonne and later yet the army of occupation In Germany. Why Some In Congress Object. There are a great many reasons why congress Is not anything like unanimously unani-mously Inclined toward the proposal to honor men who the records show deserve honor. The chief reason Is the mentnl attitude of the constituents of the congressmen toward war and military affairs generally. Washington Washing-ton has evidences every day not only that the people want to forget 'he war. but that they are perfectly willing to forget the men who served them during the war, barring only of course those who suffered from Its huMc's and Its physical hardships. The friends here of the army that served and saved urge that the country cannot can-not afford to forget the men who brought success to American arum, and In a sense mnde war on war, for It will be remembered that even the advanced pacifists of the country declared de-clared that the last war might after all be right because It was to make war Impossible in the future. Some time ago congress refused t honor a certain navy official because It was said he talked too much. This officer served his country with grent distinction In high place. He did tulk gome but be talked ith the courage of a sailor and he paid the penalty. What he said was generally believed to be tnto by the men who objected to his saying It, but the argument of some men Is that the truth should not always be spoken. Some of the army men say they -hope one day tho people will remember that the honoring of a man who served them well does not necessnrlly carry with It an Indorsement of war. chnnces for success or failure. When one realizes, however, that such a measure as the shipping bill is one upon which congress has fought for s years on years, It seems likely to men o the ground that the country must have not only the Interest of economics and politics in the. thing but the Interest Inter-est of curiosity as to what Is going to happen. One day It Is said here that the shipping ship-ping bill has no possible prospect of passage; another day and one or two f Its leading proponents say that they mse something more than a gleam of light of hope coming through the window win-dow In the wall In the future. Luckily Luck-ily for the reputations of the local soothsayers, not one of them has dared to sr.y definitely that It Is to pass or that it Is to fall. Now that rural credits cred-its legislation has been allowed to udse the shipping hill off the floor of the senate, temporarily at least, the hope of the friends of subsidy Is that thete will be kindly recognition on the part of the agricultural credits phalanx Of the favor shown In giving the farm era' needs first place, and Hint In gratitude grat-itude ship subsidy will be given a place In court with a chance of a ver-ct. ver-ct. Bonus Must Walt a Year. Only a few weeks before the end comes, and seemingly there will be neither time nor, so to spenk, room for any legislation of nny kind except rural rur-al credits, subsidy and the supply bills. Adjusted compensation for the veterans veter-ans of the World war, otherw Ise known as the bonus, must wait for another year. President Harding has declared thnt he will sign a bonus bill If congress will pass one coupled with legislation which will enable the government to raise the money to meet the requirements require-ments of the mensnre. There Is nothing noth-ing yet to promise that such legislation legisla-tion can be agreed upon. It Is known that the administration still prefers what Is known ns a sales tax to meet the bonus cose, but a sales tnx has Its opponents In congress In both pnr-ties pnr-ties and they are numerous enough probably to defeat the project. It seems likely also thnt all congressional con-gressional attempts to propose something some-thing which the administration enn do to help out matters In Europe will be abandoned until the new congress shall meet. Washington Is watching with Interest and something like fear the results of the French Incursion Into the ,v Huhr. If France, acting without her allies In the Inst war, shall succeed ( In making an nrrangement with Germany Ger-many satisfactory to both countries, It may be that the French will get what they wnnt and that the Ruhr invasion in-vasion will prove a success Instead of the failure which freely was prophesied. prophe-sied. Story Tells French View. A grent Frenchman has been In Washington recently. He explained the French viewpoint better than It could lie explained otherwise when he told a little story of his age mother. n said that she nsked him why It was difficult to get Germany to pny France what was owing her, adding that In t 1871 the French paid Germnny the In demnity money In short order. Tne son tried to explain that huge J sums were Involved this time, that Germany says she cannot pny and thnt f - the various countries of the world are at variance as to whether Germany can or cannot pny. "Well," said the old lady, "France paid and Germany hnsn't paid, nnd thnt Is the whole story and that Is all I wnnt to know ', about It. Let her pay." Congress hns been having someth'ng to Interest It which has nothing to do with legislation. Intlmntlons were " t lmt a Georgia representative Intended I to make public a list of the offlcinls 1 of the government who be declared were violating the law by having Jq- il uor and consuming large quantities I of It. It Is probable that for some little time certain officials of the government gov-ernment trembled n hit, but so far ns certain "wet gentlemen" were concerned con-cerned the threat of publicity took n curious turn. The wet ones nsked the mnn with the list to make it public and also to tie sure to give the name and address of one official of the irov-eminent irov-eminent who he had said bad something some-thing like fifty cases of liquor In his possession. The thirsty ones tire anxious anxi-ous nppnrently to find out where this man lives. Recoanition Asked for High Service. There are certnln members of congress, meo t both pnrtlea, ho |