Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-03-24 | Page 1 | Fate of Bonus Bill in Senate is Uncertain

FATE OF BONUS BILL IN SENATE IS UNCERTAIN President Harding's Attitude Atti-tude Toward Measure Puzzle WASHNIGTON. March 24. PasscC by the house lato yesterday by a vote of 333 to 70. the soldiers' bonus bill was made ready today for the senate. What would happen to it there was : regarded as problematical, but house I proponents proposed to use every effort ef-fort to prevent it from being shelved, us was the original bonus measure. I In the long debate which preceded final vole in the house some speakers speak-ers predicted the senate would kill the bill, whllo others apparently wore optimistic op-timistic as to the chances of Its pass-j ,ng in its present form Whatever , Its ultimate fate, it appeared fairly eOrtath that the bill would slumber' for ejuite -a while at the other end of the capltOl, whore already the calen-j I dar is congested with treaties and an-, I nual supply bills with tho permanent, I tariff bill yet to bo reported. I President Harding has been represented repre-sented as looking with favor on the financing fi-nancing 6f the legislation with refund- cd lorelgn bonds provided they were' in hand before the bill was passed. ' v hlle the measure was in the making i by the house wuys and means commit-i I tee, the executive, according to soon of the members of that committee, i 'suggested a delav of 9u days in the! I belef that the treasury would by tnrn be in possession of some of the Brlt-i ish bonds. There wus some discussion In the house yesterday as to whether the. president would approve the bill in its present form, with u onfllct in thel opinion expressed Representative Longworth, Republican. Ohio. said that while he would not presume toi speak for the executive, he huel reason to believe that Mr. Harding would! sign the house measure If It reached him without change on the other hand. Representative Snyder Repub? llcan. New York, who said he had talked with Mr Harding l.i-t vve.-u,. declared he would be ''exceedingly surprised if the executive signed It. no