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Show DEG1DET0 PASS SOLDIER BONUS LEGISLATION MUST COME AT THE PRESENT SESSION OF CONGRESS Vote Is 36 to 9, With Wisconsin Senator Sen-ator Offering Resolutions to Aid Former Service Men At An Early Date Washington. Decision to pass a soldiers' bonus bill at this session of congress was reached Tuesday by senate sen-ate Republicans in party conference. The vote was 36 to 0 on a motion offered by Senator Lenroot, Republican, Republi-can, Wisconsin. The conference reaolution, as made public, follows : "It is the sense of this conference that the senate should at this session ses-sion pass a soldiers' bonus bill and that the Republican members of the finance committee be requested to report such a bill within a reasonable time." The conference also decreed that the senate should proceed to the consideration con-sideration of the administration tariff bill on Thursday "without further delay." de-lay." The measure will be called up at that time and it was announced the majority membership would make every effort to hold a quorum contiguously. contig-uously. There was some discussion as to the form the bonus hill should take, but with divergent views developing, no effort was made to reach a decision. deci-sion. This will be left to finance committee com-mittee Republicans, a majority of whom is reported to favor the house bill with possible elimination or amendment of the land settlement option. Chairman McCumber of the finance committee was due to return here late Wednesday or early Thursday to take charge of the tariff bill on the floor. He is anxious to get the bonus bill before the senate and is expected to call the committee majority together to-gether to discuss the measure soon after his arrival. Decision of the conference to press the tariff Diill without delay is In line with the expressed desire of President Harding that this measure be put ahead of the bonus. With a .ong fight over the tariff in prospect, however, that bill, 'under announced plans of Senator McCumber, would be laid aside temporarily for senate consideration con-sideration of the bonus. The senate Republicans of the agricultural ag-ricultural bloc have been called to meet, to discuss rates in the . tariff bill which are not quitet as high as they had requested the finance committee com-mittee majority to write. Senator Gooding of Idaho, chairman of the bloc, said he did not think an effort would be made to reach a decision on American valuation. The bloc has presented only such questions as It was a unit on and Senator Gooding said there was some division over American valuation. |