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Show JEN ATE 3 TO I FOR BONUS BILL I O A HARDING WILL I VETO MEASURE, I MANY BELIEVE I Bonus Friends, However, Have Enough Votes to Override Check 30 AGAINST BILL McCumber to Press for Action Before Tariff Law Is Enacted WASHINGTON. June 10 Inform- H al canvasses mado by leading oppn-nents oppn-nents of the soldlors' bonus bill were said today to have disclosed a senate majority for the measure of practical-ly practical-ly three to one This compares vvTh th nearly five to one vote by which the bill passed the house Both sides In tho Impending fight were understood to have found some satisfaction ln the result of tho can- )J vaseera opponents jeald defeat of any cloture rule to limit debate r,, the bill practically was assured while some proponents pointed out that if a thre-.--to one majority could be held, there would bo the necessary votes to pass the measure over President Harding's IH veto, should he disapprove It, as some LH opponents contend that he will. If passed ln Its present form. THIRTY AGAIN SI Thirty senators were liste-d a-i VH "against the amended house bill" with this number possibly to be augmented by one senator who Is absent from Washington and whose position has not yet been definitely established. Thirty senators were divided, twenty on the Republican side and ten on the Democratic side. A number of senators who arp )JH counted now as supporters of the jH present bill If no definite one can be put through, will Join In a fight to amend the measure reported by the finance committee Some of them fa-vor fa-vor a cash feature, with other Im-portant Im-portant changes, but the extent to which it will bo possible to change the. pending bill Is regarded now as prob-lematlcaJ prob-lematlcaJ i M'O'MBFTR TO PRKSS BILL By J. B.VRT OAMPBFXL brtenurtlonal News service McCumber, chairman of the senate fi-nance fi-nance committee, tonight announced he was ready to fight to a finish to force the passage of tho soldiers' bon-jus bon-jus bill before the tariff is disposed of I finally. McCumber's ultimatum followed a series of cloakroom conferences dur-lng dur-lng the day, at which other rcpubll-can rcpubll-can leaders sought to persuade him to abandon his plan to have the tariff bill displaced for the soldiers bonus measure within tho next two weeks. "There has been no change what-ever what-ever in my firm Intention to make a motion to take up the soldiers' bonus 'without watting for the p:is.age of the i tariff bill." said McCumber Senatorial opponents of the bonue, led by Senators Borah, Republican, of Idaho, and Underwood, of Alabama. the Democratic leader, were engaged tonight In strengthening their lines In anticipation of Senator McCumber at-tempting at-tempting to side track the tariff for tho bonus. A canvass o the senate was said to have disclosed tho fol-lowing fol-lowing senators besides Borah and Underwood who would 'vote against tho bonus, and In the event of the president vetoing whatever bonus bill iH is passed would vote to uphold him. HOW LISTED Republicans Calder, New York I Ball. Delaware, Dillingham. Vermont , Dupont. Delaware; Crow. Pennsylvan-la, Pennsylvan-la, Edge New Jersey; Ernest, Ken-tucky; Ken-tucky; Fcrnald. Maine. Frellnghuysen. New Jersey, Moses, New Hampshire, Nelson. Minnesota: New, Indiana, Newberry, Michigan; Pepper, Penn-sylvania; Penn-sylvania; Phlpps, Colorado; Storllng. South Dakota, Wadsworth New York; Warren. Wyoming Democrats Brousaard. Louisiana: FH Dial. South Carolina; Glass, Virginia. King, Utah. Myers. Montana; Pomer-one. Pomer-one. Ohio: Ransdell. Louisiana; Shields. Tennessee; Swanson. Virgin- IH la, Williams Mississippi Doubtful. Rpubllcans SmooT. Utah: Feller, Maryland; McLean. Con-ncctlcut. Con-ncctlcut. Democrats None. oo |