The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-03-09
COMPLETE TEXT OF THE BILL
CAUSING so MUCH COMMENT
OVER COUNTRY.
HOME NOT DESIGNATED
LOCAL RESOLUTIONS SENT TO
SENATOR WORKS.

Senator Works introduced the fol
lowing bill on Dec. z, 1915, in the Sen
ate, which was referred to the Com
mittee on Military Affairs:
A Bill to Provide For Confederate
Veterans of the Civil War.
! Be 1t Enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Con-
gress Assembled:
That the managers of the National
Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers
of the United States shall . as early as
| possible, select and designate one of
such homes to be used as hereinafter
provided, and shall distribute the in
mates now at such home among 9TH
er branches of the national home. and
such home shall be turned over by or
before July first, nineteen hundred
and sixteen, to a board of five man
ayers, to be chosen by Congress, to
be used as a home for disabled eX-
Confederate Soldiers, their wives
and widows and that the sum of
$400 900. or as much thereof as may
be necessary, be, and the same is
hereby, appropriated, out of any
money in the Treasury not otherwise
appropriated for this purpose.
Sec. 2. That branch home to be
| established at Washington, District of
Columbia, for disabled ex-Confeder-
ate soldiers, their wives and widows,
residing in the District of Columbia,
and for the same class of persons
living in States where there are no
| Confederate homes; and that the
sum of $4,000, or as much thereof as
may be necessary, be, and the same
is hereby, appropriated out of any
money in the Treasury not otherwise
appropriated, for this purpose, and
shall be available from the taking
erect OF TINS Act.
Sec. g. That the sum of $270,000,
or as much thereof as may be neces-
sary, be, and the same is hereby, APP
propriated, out of any money in the
Treasury not otherwise appropriated,
to aid the Confederate homes of the
South, extending the same aid per
capita as is now extended to the
State and Territorial homes of the
| North.
Sec. 4. That the managers chosen
under this Act shall proceed as soon
as possible to frame such laws and
regulations for the government of
said homes, and shall appoint such
officials and employ such persons as
they may deem necessary, at rea-
sonable compensation, III the aggre-
gate not to exceed 100000 per annum,
all of which shall be subject to the
approval of the Secretary of War,
| anu oHdh NC dbdildulC IlOIu IiIc Idh
ing effect of this Act.
Sec. 5. That the home hereby
created and the managers thereof
shall be independent of the managers
of the National Home For Disabled
Volunteer Soldiers of the United
States, but in all other respects shall
be subject to the laws and regulations
that govern the National Home fol
Disabled Volunteer Soldiers of the
United States.
| Sec. 6. That the title to all prop
erty that may be acquired under this
Act shall be vested in the United
States.
: Sec. z. That the sum of $4,000
or as much thereof as may be neces
sary, be, and the same is hereby, an
propriated, out of any money in tn,
Treasury not otherwise appropria
ted, to meet the preliminary expense
necessary to carry out the abov
enactments, and shall be availabl
from the taking exect of this Act