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Show O . O A o il MAC H1ER AT I CAPITAL GOES I TO PRESIDENT I Republican House Leader j Mondell and Fordney I Confer With Harding J CHIEF GETS REPORT I Commander Says Legion Is I Opposed to Further De- lay in Bonus Action I WASHINGTON, Fob Kepre- II sentative Uohdell of Wyoming, Re- l oublicrin house leader, ;i nd Chairman j M , ,i r the houie ways and means H committee, are understood to have di.- !', cussed the soldiers bonus situation H H Ith President Harding today at the lj Tli- were said to have M I informed the president of the re- action by the special committee of HI the sales tax proposals suggested by HHHj HJ Before seeing the president. Mr. HHH f) nv conferred with Hnnford Mac- HJHHH Nlder, national commander and John HHH Thomas Taylor, executive agent of th HHH -if! lean legion. Mr. MacNIder and i HHfl Mr. Taylor called at the White House ! informed jS HJ (hat Mr. Harding's engagement Hat for tin- forcnopn was filled. They said HHfl thej lid return later in tho day. ii HHfl Mr. n-.N'ider said that the legion HHfl ii to any further delay and HHJ mdlcated that It was his desire to WHHH pr aent tils views to the executive. He sWHal that ihe legion would not 'Ml be drawn into any discussion of ways HHWHl -ing the necessar.v ' HJr HHHHJ m leaving the Wid e House both HHH .in,l Mi Fordney said the Ml I--- would pass a bonus bill nt this ! HHH session Mr. Mondell stated that he Bl could not say whether a measure with- jU, HHj out means of raising the revenue b HHfl could be put through the senate. R HHfl v-,.- i nnanrlng the K I H f j . u M i - I HJ house leader referred again to t HHJ lavinga in the next fiscal HHH year, but ho would not give on estl- 1 HHH ma to what this amount would HHJ Re Indicated thai the question of HHH in, led foreign debt as a means HHH of financing the bonua had been MJ brought up ai the White House con- HHH fereni but declined to say what views HHH the president had ,-xpressed. HHHj |