Republican farmer., 1920-06-18
CLAIMS BONUS
 IS ''G0LD BRICK"
 OF REPUBLICANS
Rainey Attacks Method Which Gave No Chance
 For Debate.

Washington, D. C., June 14.-That the soldier bonus bill passed by the House is Republican .gold brick is charged by Representative Henry T. Rainey of Illinois, ranking Demo- crat of the Ways and Means com mittee which reported the bill Representative Rainey further al- leged that the Democrats were ex- cluded from the committee during the preparation of the bill and had been permitted to have no part in it's framing except as to certain features of the taxation sections.
 When the bill was debated in the House, the Republican rule presented allowed only forty minutes discussion and no amendment of any kind to be
 offered. Representative Rainey ask ed unanimous consent for 30 minutes debate on a side, then z5 minutes and finally 21 minutes, but Republican objection each time prevented ex- tending the time even one minute. This is one of the greatest taxation bills in history said Representative Rainey, "and I as the acting ranking Democrat on the Ways and Means
 committee, in the absence of Repre- sentative Kitchin, was silotted only two minutes to. close the debate on the bill. The debate has been a farce | in the House-a farce which only Re- 1 publicans and Republican steering i committees are capable of staging. 'AThis is gold brick the Republi- can majority is handing the soldiers. ] It is not our baby; it is yours. You | cannot lay it on the Democratic door, i step. We would have framed a diff ] ferent bill and would have placed the ] taxes oh the war profiteers who grew 1 wealthy during the war, and not on 1 the consumer.
 | "The Democrats have not helped to | make this bill, and you kno it, except | the section that taxes stock dividends | brick-and it will be passed upon in 1 the elections. You know the Senate l is not going to pass this bill, that it i is not going to become a law.
 'In order to keep them from leav- 1 ing this baby on our doorstep and to show up the hyprocrisy of the Re publican party, T ask every Demo- , crat who conscientiously can do so to vote for this bill. You cannot defend | in the approaching national campaign t-that job belongs to the Republican party
 l Representative Rainey said the 1 bonus legislation was not what the l ex-service men had asked for. He an-
 alyzed the bill as follows:
 1 This is a service pension. Talk about giving the soldiers a dollar and 1 a quarter a day or dollar and half a day, as they have demanded in
 cash. This is what you have given | them: You give those who accept | the cash option a service pension commencing one year. one month and two days from this date. Those who
 served the longest in the war will gel
 55 cents a day for two years and six
 months. Over 2,400,000 men served less than 210 days. Deduct 60 days from that service as this bill requires and that leaves 150 days. You give | to these men for two years a half
 commencing a year from this day, + ! cents a day. Five hundred thousand
 of these men will get. if they accep1
 the cash option, commencing witt July 1, 1920. 7 cents day. They vii
 get enough money, if they buy the
 cheapest kind of cigarettes to buy
 three cigarettes a day. That is Re
 publican generosity for you-'