Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-09-14
Same Allowances Are Provided
for Relatives Of PrivateS as
for Those Of Officers Left
Destitute,
MEASURE PASSED BY
HOUSE UNANIMOUSLY
President Gains Personal VIC
tory in Having Risk Raised
From $4,000 to $4,000
by Amendment


Washington, Sept. 13.--The admin
istration's soldiers and sailors insur-
ance bill, amended so as to equali2e
the allowance of the dependents of en-
listed men and officers, passed the
house tonight.
The vote was 319 to 0, Representa-
tives Platt of New York and IIersey
of Maine changing their votes to aye
before the result was announced amid
thunderous applause.
AS the bill went to the senate to-
night privates and officers and their
dependents stand exactly on the same
basis. Benefits and allowances now
provided for are slightly higher than
those originally proposed as the mini
mum for privates by the committee
and considerably lower than the
maximum amounts which officers and
their dependents would have received.
President Scores Victory.
President Wilson scored personal
victory in the adoption, 14t to II, of
an amendment raising from $1,000 to
$4,000 the maximum amount of OPP
tional Insurance policies that the gov
ernment would issue to all men in the
service The original draft of the bill
carried $4,000 but it was stricken out
in committee.
The mildness of the attacks of op-
ponents of the measure on the option
al insurance section caused surprise
This fight, however, will be carried to
the senate by the insurance companies,
il is understood.
The main purpose of the bill is to
provide as a Substitute for the present
pension law as ii would apply to men
engaged in this war, new system OF
allotments and compensations which
will take care of dependents of the
soldier and rehabilitate men upon
their return from the war.
Provisions of Bill.
Upon enlistment under the provi-
sions of the bill, soldier or sailor
would be entitled to take out from
81 900 to $4,000 optional insurance
at approximately IS per $1,000. His
dependents would be entitled to allot-
ments from the government of from
IS to $50 per month and an equal
amount up to $15 per month from his
pay.
Death or disability resulting, the de-
pendents of any person in the military
or naval service, including women
mem DeTS OF lne nurse Coipo, Would bt
entitled to compensation ranging from
500 to $40 per month and the insur-
ance.
In case of total disability the IN
jured persons would be paid from
$40 to 500 per month.
A widows compensation would
cease upon her remarriage and a de-
pendent child's would cease at Is
years old.
Monthly benefits to a soldier or
sailor in case of total disability would
be as follows:
Monthly Benefits Provided.
II he has neither wife nor child
living, $40; wife, $55; wife and one
child, $65; two or more children, $I5:
no wife but one child. $50 and $40
additional for each child up to two;
dependent widowed mother $40 addi
tional.
Injured men requiring nurse care
would receive an additional $50
monthly.
A man losing both feet, hands or
eyes would be entitled automatically
to 500 per month.
Amendments adopted would give
claimants ten years instead of one in
which to file their claim for compen-
sation; prevent their divorced wives
who have remarked from sharing in
dependent's allowance, and elimi-
nate proposed salary increases Tor
present employees of the government
who are to administer certain provis-
ions of the measure.