The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-13
DOLLAR Per DAY
Subcommittee of House Com
pIetes Bonus Plans.
Long List of Veterans Elimi-
mated as Not Eligible.
ALL MUST APPLY FOR IT
Some Not Expected to Ask for
Extra Pay.
All Officers and Sixty-Day Men
Are Cut OF.
ALL MUST APPLY FOR IT

Washington, April 1S.-A cash
bonus of 81 for each days service
would be given to approximately three
million of the 100000 men in the
army, navy and marine corps during
the war under a plan that has been
approved by the bonus subcommittee
of the house ways and means COM
mittee, it was learned today.
The program, which will be submit
ted to the full committees for ap-
proval during this week. calls for an
expenditure of slightly less than ST.
600, 100000, which is TO be raised by a
tax of one-half of one per cent on
all sales. 1t is considered very likely
that this plan will be the one which
will be submitted to the house in the
near future
Limit Eligible List.
With the purpose of limiting the
bonus to those who endured heavy
financial sacrifices during the war,
the subcommittee has eliminated sew
eral classes OF service men from the
groups entitled to benefits, the total
number eliminated being estimated at
l, 800. 900.
Among these classes are:
Those who served less tnan sixty
days, because these men already have
received the original $50 bonus.
Men who are assigned to industrial
plants, such as shipbulding and re-
ceived extra compensation therefor
All officers
Men in the regular army before the
declaration of war.
Men, who while serving IN the army,
received compensation from their en-
ployers or business interests.
Must Ask for 1t.
No man would be given the bonus
until he applied for it and this, it is
believed. would reduce the total ex-
penditure. as many service men who
have wealth are not expected to ask
the extra compensation. The applica.
ton is to contain an affidavit that the
soldier is not in any of the above
classes.
The plan calls for payment of the
bonus in four equal installments and
the installments are to be collected in
the corresponding periods.
The average service. the sub-com
mittee has been informed, is ter
months, making the average bonus
about $500. Men who were promoted
| to be commissioned officers would be
paid only for the time they served as
enlisted men.
The committee is now waiting fo1
estimates from the treasury depart
ment as to exactly how much can be
raised by the tax on sales, but pre-
| liminary estimates place the amount
at about $1,500.000.O0O. The levyine
of this tax also would be in the n7.
ture of an experiment, as there l:
sentiment in congress for having 4
replace some of the other taxes later
For the present, however. it must bt
in addition to all other taxes.
| Tax Retail Sales.
Under the house committee plan. al
businesses with total sales of less thar
| $2,500 a year and all small farmers
should be exempted. The tax woult
not be paid by stamps as is the cast
| in the present consumption levies.
| It's collection. it is believed would
! be simple. All business concerns a
the end of every three months aftel
; the passage of the law would simpl,
pay one-half of / per cent on theil
total sales The advocates of the ia,
claim it would not increase the cos
of living in any considerable degree
as it would amount to only SO cent
| on every 800. All transactions. whole
sale, retail and real estate, would b.
/ taxed