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Show BITTER FIGHT DUE M SENATE Harding Trying to Keep Tariff Bill Aliead Soldiers' Bonus VAfiRnCQTON, June lt A bitter fight in the senate next week over thej' soldiers' bonus Issue was predicted In all senate quarters as a result of nu-i inerous Republican contort nces Thurs-I day In which President Harding n is i party. A call for a formal party eonference! of Republican senators next Monda morning lo discuss procedure with the bonus and pending tariff bills together with the r.r -d majority cloture rule was called, by Senator Lodge, Re-publlcan Re-publlcan floor leader, after he hail . i rred With th president and many Republican senators t .MIHJK DISSKNTS Also next month if the naval appro-j appro-j 1 1 j t i i . n hill is passed meanwhile 0 motion to In;.- aside the turlff bill and proceed with the bonus measure will be made by Senator McCumber, Re-i publican North l.ikot.i chjlrman of! lhc scnato finance committee, and In charge of both bin-. Senator McCumber said he would make his motion with full knowledge of President Harding's views that the bonus bill should be delayed until aft-' er disposal of the tariff measure and also regardless of what course the Republican conference should recommend recom-mend Senator McCumber said ho did not object to the party conference, but would "not be bound' by its decision 1 President Harding In his talk With Senator Ixnlge. was sold to have re-' Iterated his opinion Mint the tariff bill should be pressed. The president was represented a holding this view "very i strongly'' and his statement whs trans'- mltted to Republlcun ranks by Senator Lodge. The president a No ,lt was I lid believed that after disposal of tli tariff bill and before consideration of the bonus measure the aclmlnistra-' tlon Ship subsidy bill should be given senate right of way. lo(; DELAY POSSIBLE Senator McCumber fl plan to move' for consideration of the bonus bill next Monday w;'s said to insure a battle royal In the senate. Republican leaders favoring pre- ' cedonce for the tariff bill predl. leu confidently that a majority of the conference con-ference would vote to give the tariff bill right of way over the bonus mensure. Tho light on tho McCumber motion it was OO needed among leaders of all i-enate factions, next Monday would furnish one of the most spectacular i debates of the season. Predictions were made that the1 president would again Intervene actively ac-tively In the bonus controversy by I bringing more Influence t.. 1.. r t.. hol l the tariff hill before the senate Senator McCumber sum he regarded his plan to call up the bonus bill earl next weey as a "matter of honor of the Republican party." which he said he hn.l pU-dc-ed Itself to earl' enactment of bonuM lejflslatlon. Advocates of thej I tariff bill stated their belief that if It, .should he luld aside it would mean the i end of the bill for the present .session or at least would greatly lengthen the already tedious road it has to travel. ATTACK ANSWERED The cloture question also Is on the calendar of the Republican party, meeting on Manday. A report has been drafted by a committee appointed ap-pointed at the last conference recom-I recom-I mending: that the cloture rule be pre-; II nted July 1. If an agreement Is not lOOner reached giving the final otc OP the tariff bill by August 1 The tariff bill was not before the, nute Thursday, belnie laid asldo to, rive way to the naval appropriation' but there was brief discussion by; '. democratic senators of tho attack ,adi Wednesday by Senator McCumber McCum-ber of metropolitan newspapers. Importers Im-porters and department stores allegedi to bo fit-ruins the bill Senator 81m-( nions of North Carolina, ranking Doro-, locratlc member of the flnanco com-' mltteo denied Senator McCumber s Statement und with Senator Hitch -I cock. Democrat. Nebraska, a nowspa-per nowspa-per publisher, applied the terms "idf-j otic, childish and provincial" to them oo |