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Show VETERAi ASK CONGRESS 1 It Is Lawmakers' Job to Device De-vice Ways and Means, Ex-Service Men Say WASHINGTON, Feb. 1. Discussion of the Ions pending soldier bonus bill was renewed Tuesday- Before the house ways and means committee which by agreement of Republican Re-publican leaders In congress, reopened reopen-ed hearings, officers of organizations of former service men urgod Immediate Imme-diate action on the bill, and. In reply to questions, said that Ihe problem of raising the necessary funds was ono for congress to .solve In the senate Republican leaders frustrated attempts by the Democrats to add the bonus bill to the allied debt refunding measure. After brief but heated debate, the senate adopted. 42 to 2S, a motion by Senator Watson, republican Indiana, to lay on the table an amendment offered by Senator Sen-ator Simmons. Democrat. North Carolina, Caro-lina, Incorporating the "fiVS way" ad-Justed ad-Justed compensation plan. The amendment would have provided pro-vided that the bonus be paid out of the Inteest on the foreign debt nnd that if his should prove insufficient, the secretary of the treasury should ls.siir certificates of indebtedness to be redei mod out of future Interest payments pay-ments or with the approval of the president, to sell so much of the foreign for-eign bonds as might be necessary Later the senate rejected, 42 to 21. an amendment by Senator Jones. Democrat, Dem-ocrat, New Mexico which curried the five way" plan bul had no provision for raising funds |