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Show Jarding frowns on bonus & & u A A . VOTE TO USE OEBT INTEREST TO PAY BONUS Result May Silence Talk' About Cancellation of Foreign Obligations FINAL POLL SOON Adoption of M'Nary Amend-j ment Paves Way for Veto, Charge U SIIIM.KI.N g. .JO. white IIcuim- caller who dismissed the honu-i with President Harding today came uwav with the Impression ilial the e- ccutlvc regarded addition f the Mc- Nary reclamation and Simmons foreign for-eign debt amendment Adopted Tuesday Tues-day in the senate as making the mens-ore mens-ore moie object lonnoic tiiau it was Lu It- orlglunl form. WASHINGTON, Aug' 30 Without a record vote the senate approscd Monday the use of the Interest on the foreign debt In financing the soldiers' bonus lso it substituted the SmiMi-McN'ary SmiMi-McN'ary $;t&t'. OOO.OOO reclamation bill for the land settlement option In the house measure Then It quit for the day with a final vote on the bonus measure at least one and perhaps two or three days distant. The amendment authorizing the payment of the bonus charge wi.h tne interest on the el en billions ot dollars dol-lars owed the United States by the allied al-lied nations, was proposed by Senator Simmons Democrat North Carolina, He and Senator Reed. Democrat Ml--; souri. and other members urged it as j u uuans, not only of un i ting I'rcsl-, dent Harding's requirement that the' bill carry a means of financing, but also of silencing the talk about the cancellation of the foreign debt. VOTE . HXST A roll call on the proposal was de- manded at first, bin ihis demand was ' withdrawn, presumably because of the j apprehension of leaders tiui a iUur- j uin could not be- obtained at the then lat- hour. A division was had Instead, j 3j senators signifying their approval of (he am end ment. and one Senator New. Republican Indiana, his dlsap-uro dlsap-uro a!. i hc sinith-McNary reclamation "vus agn ed to by a ote of 43 lo 26 Party iim. disappeared on the rollcall. 23 Republicans and 20 Democrats sup- I porting the amendment and 18 Republicans Re-publicans and 8 Democrats opposing It All Of the senators trom the far western states otci for the proposal and all of those from the Now Kug-laud Kug-laud siales voted against U TO RECLAIM l M i ii). smith-McNary amendment w ould provide for the reclaiming Of j arid lands in the west through irr.- gattfon ancl swamp lands in the south J and othe r :ectlons by drainage, th j work i" ! done under the dire lion of fthS secretary if the Interior through! federal and stale co-operation. Vet- q sns of the world war. the Spanish - American war and ihe Philippine ln- surre Hon, would be glyen first opportunity op-portunity to obtain homesteads .and .also In working on the various pro-ecta pro-ecta Opposition to the iimendm. nt was. I voiced bi Senators McCumber Repub-I illcan. North Dakota. In charge ol the liunus. Root, Republican Wisconsin, and Robinson. Democrat. Arkansas The charge was made that opponents of the DOBUS were supporting this ii ontlnued on Rug- Two) VOTE TO USE DEBT INTEREST TO PAY BONUS (Continued From Pace One) proposition In the hope that It would furnish an added reason for the president presi-dent to veto the bonus Also It Was , contended that the reclamation pro-1 pro-1 j i t w as Important enough to stand 'on its own merits without, as senator uenrooi expressed u, "oeing iaicen to 'court on the backs of tho ex-service men." |