Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-06-28
REPUBLICANS PLAN eWEEPlho
CHANCES IN WAR RISK AND
CONFIRMATION LAWS.
REMUNERATION TO 81
= MORE THAN DOUBLED
Many lnssualitlSs In Law Also 70 -
RsetiSlsd-Autsmatls Insuranes 10 Dc
Extended 70 Al Whe Served and
Who Would D Entitled TO cempe"'
saslen n They Had Applied.
rBy e. a. Dougherty.l


washington, June 2s.-Sweeping In
1creases In the scale Of compensation
to be paid wounded and disabled SOL
diers are sure to follow the action OF
the house committee which recently
reported the revised bill Of the war
risk insurance bureau. The old rates
OF compensation, carried in the bill
suggested under the McAdoo admins
stration, have been recommended to
be greatly changed by Jouett Shouse.
assistant director Of the treasury. In
charge Of the war risk bureau, but
these new proposals are a lap or two
behind the flight Of republican leaders,
prominent among which are Senator
Kenyon and Representative Sweet OF
Iowa, who are to force better compen-
sation for disabled soldiers.
The Shouse Recommendations pro-
pose that the compensation for total
temporary disability be made $65 q
month instead OF $50, as the present
or old bill provides. and that total per-
manent disability be compensated at
the rate Of 500 a month. The latter
Is made fiat rate, but the former IS
for a soldier without dependents and
with a scale of additions up to $loo
according to the number Of depend
ents.
The present law makes $50 the max
imum for temporary total disability
with q sliding scale for lesser degrees
of disability under that figure, and
sliding scale above for Permanent dis
ability. according &c the number OF
dependents the possible maximum be-
ing S95 which is still retained as the
maximum. Thirty dollars Is considered
an Inadequate allowance for temper
ary disability OF a man without depen-
dents and far too low as q basis on
which to compute compensation for
disability less than total. The amend
ment will put disabled men Of the re-
cent war on a par with the pensioners
Of former wars.
other recommended changes corr
rect such defects In the law as allow
ing 500 Q month to . man who mas
lost both feet but not to man who
has lost one foot and one hand, tho
surgeons testify that the latter disa-
bility- Is usually the greater.
It il proposed that compensation
privileges be extended to men suffer-
ing impairment or death between the
time Of induction by local draft boards
and actual enrolment In the army.
Insurance applications made during
stmilar period arc to be made valid.
Another suggested amendment ex-
lends automatic insurance to cover all
men who were indicted into service
between April 6, 1917. and November
II 1915. and also to all men who were
finally accepted for service between
these dates unless they actually re-
fused 20 apply for insurance. BY auto
matte insurance Is meant the provision
Of the lay that considers that every
soldier vGs insured for 40 days after
Oct Is, 1917. or 100 days after entrance
into the service.
Tho class OF beneficiaries II en-
larsed with respect to term insurance
Provision 10 made for the discontinue
ance OF. family allowances and allot-.
ments thru the bureau at the end or
the. fourth month after the termina-
ton ,of the war emergency Is declared
NV the president. The suggested adj
,ninistfativs changes include the abol-
ftion Of the offices of commissioners OF
military and naval insurance and tbs
inclusion OF their duties I'M those OF
the director OF the war risk bureau.
whose salary II. TO be Increased from
$4,000 70 5000 per year.,