Show ON THE BON BONUS there is a conspicuous lack of starch in it the congressional support of the soldiers bonus in fact the soldiers bonus has become a sort of ghost that jumps out from dark corners on black nights and scares certain congressmen gres out of their boots president harding insists that the only way to get the money for the bonus is by re enacting the sales taxes congressmen have lived through the sales tax period and most of them seem to think that the country would have to be chloroformed chloro formed to stand for it again the american legion is pressing its campaign for the bonus and commander mac macnider aider is insistent on speedy action congress is pretty well divided between those who believe in the bonus and want to pass it and those who do not believe in it and want it killed class three is likewise numerous and it consists of congressmen whose districts are close and who are willing to do the popular thing on the soldiers bonus or any other old thing that will make them votes the president insists that it congress passes the bonus bill that it must provide the money to pay for it so far every proposal to raise this money has met with stern disapproval front from the white house congress is like the man who mortgaged his house and land his crops and machinery his livestock and household furniture and then was prevented from placing his wife and children in escrow that is the lix fix we are in is telling the ex service men to which the legion replies you are talking bunk it if congress wanted to have a billion to fight with the money would be raised in a week you can do the same thing in this bonus matter strange differences difference i of opinion like this are not unusual in washington representative mondell is the republican leader of the house and representative fordney is chairman of the ways and means committee they are in short the authorities who speak for that branch of congress the other day they came from the house and mr It mondell rondell stopped to tell the reporters that he had concluded that congress should wait awhile before passing the thel bonus bill and that a little delay might serve to clear the skies he explained voluminously all to the effect that the government might have a better condition in its finances later on facts weigh more than enthusiasm and hope all of these facts lead to the belief that the optimism of ex service men who expect the bill passed immediately is poorly founded and most cautious observers who study the washington situation and are thereby enabled to forecast its results are mostly agreed that the soldiers bonus bill will not be passed at this session of congress |