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...Senator Smoot, Chairman of the Finance Committee, has asseverated his opinion that there will be enough votes to pass the bonus over a veto. The best available poll of the Senate indicates that there are 28 Senators who will certainly vote against the bill the second time, with a possibility that they will be joined by three others?making 31 votes. But 33 out of 96 votes are needed by the opponents of the bill to prevent its enactment. Will others change their minds...
Ball, Dela. Borah, Ida. Cameron, Ariz. Edge, N. J. Ernst, Ky. Fernald, Me. Grene, Vt. Keyes, N. H. McKinley, 111. Moses, N. H. Pepper, Pa. Phipps, Colo. Reed, Pa. Smoot, Utah Sterling, S. D. Wadsworth, N. Y. Warren, Wyo. Weller, Md. Howell...
...Consideration of the Administration tax bill. There are clear indications that the " regular" Republicans will back the plan and make it the basis of their campaign in 1924. Representative William R. Green, Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, and Senator Reed Smoot, Chairman of the Finance Committee, will nurse the bill in their committees. The great problem for the Administration will be on the floors of both Houses. In the Senate the Republicans hold 51 out of 96 seats. In the House the Republicans have 225 out of 435 seats. But seven Republican Senators are La Follette insurgents...
...Treasury, took the future by the forelock. It is a settled question that the next Congress will have the choice either of giving the soldiers a bonus or of reducing taxation. The progressives in Congress are militantly for a bonus. Many of the conservatives, including Senator Reed Smoot, Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, without advocating the bonus, regard it as a certainty. Not so, Secretary Mellon...
...just around the corner ever lurks the soldier bonus. "As sure as God lives and the sun rises in the morning," Senator Smoot has said, "the bonus will be passed." If so, discussion of tax reduction is sweet futility...