The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-09-19
PROSPECT FOR
YEAR'SEX EXTRAPAY
Father of The Shafer Plan Be.
lieves Soldiers and Sailors
Will Win Their
Demand

The fact that there are 81 bills
to grant extra pay to soldiers,
sailors and marines, now pending
in Congress and the fact that
Congressmen generally now seem
to favor the granting of a years
additional pay to these discharged
service men will interest the hum
dreds of service men and their
families who read this news
paper. ssss's -
The originator of the One Year
Extra Pay Plan is w: &. Shater'
IT, of Norfolk. A Norfolk cor
RESPONDENT gives this newspaper
an account of the result OF MT.
shafer's latest visit to Washing
ton in behalf of his measure. Our
Norfolk correspondent says :
..AIr. shafer has just returned from
Wa shington, where he went IN the III
+oros+ of the One Year Extra Pay Plan
While there he called on twenty-five Con
grassmen and Senators, all OF whom
we're favorable to the Plan except one
and he favored giving them farm lano
instead of money. Congressman Baer
who has led the fight in the House 1o1
the years pay, suggested that they cal
on the "Soldier Congressman, hlns
| Swope. from Kentucky, which they did
Mr.. Shafer said that the Congressman
still had plenty of fight in him ever
! though he had discarded his soldier uni
form. AS soon as Swope found ou
! Shafer's usiness he said. Il was electe'
| TO this Office pledged to work for th
extra pay movement. l have already IN
troduced in the House, year pay Dill
which I expect to fight for until the las
ditch if necessary. However, I don,
believe the fight will be as hard as
first anticipated as most Congressme
seem to know that the majority OF tn
neople want the men to have the year
extra pay and that most of the me
need it to give them a start in ciVll1a
) life"
5 "When Mr.. Shafer called at the docr
ment room and asked the clerk IN chars
to give him a copy of every extra pa
5 hill he was told. 'sI am sorry, my frlen
, but I will have to ask you to call pac
later as it will take me about an hos
, to fill that order as there are S2 bll
l introduced on that subject" SO he Gale
S hack after an hour and was given COZ
e of all the bills the clerk had on han
t with the information that there wel
e so many calls for the extra pay oil
n that the supply had given out on maj
of the most popular ones. He also stat
: that he had turned down any number
reouests for the Baer One Year Ext
Pay Bill.
.1The most marked difference of Sc
timent on the extra pay subject
noticed in the new bills that have be
introduced since July 1st. There
twenty odd of these any of which
enacted would cost the Government frt
a half billion to billion dollars mo
than the One Year Extra Pay Bill.
previous trips to Washington Sha1
noticed that there seemed to be an
ganized effort to cut the extra pay do
to six months pay; but that seems
have died out entirely.
.sThe first test of the feelings OF
people on the extra pay question
which gave congressman the opportur
to see vividly just how things h
pened in a recent election in Wise
sin. where the people voted five to
in favor of the bonus or extra pay
tbe service men. Of course the eli
ion of Congressman King Swope II
g. Concluded on page 12)