The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-06-14
CLAIMS BONUS
 | IS ''COLD 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 a 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 R;siney further a1- legged that the Democrats were ex- c1uded 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 min nutes discussion and no amendment of any kind to be offered. Representative Rainey ask ed unanimous consent for 80 minutes debate on side, then z5 minutes and finally 21 minutes, but Republican objection each time prevented ex- l tending the time even one minute. This is one of the greatest taxation l bills in history said Representative Rainey, 'and I as the acting ranking | Democrat on the Ways and Means
 com mittee, in the. absence of Repre- sentative Kitchin, was allotted only l two minutes to close the debate on i the. bill. The debate has been a farce
 in the House-a farce which only Re l publicans and Republican steering l committees are capable of staging. This is a gold brick the Republi- l can majority is handing the soldiers It is not our baby; it is yours. You cannot lay it on the Democratic door, | step. We would have framed diff ferent bill and would have placed the
 taxes oh the war profiteers who grew
 wealthy. during the war, and not on the consumer.
 ''The Democrats have not helped tc
 make this bill, and you kno it, excep the section that taxes stock dividends and we put that in. This is a golo
 brick-and it will be passed upon ir the elections. You know the Senate is not going to pass this bill, that il
 is not going to become law.
 "In order to keep them from 1eav. ing this baby on our doorstep and tc I show up the hyprocrisy of the Re
 publican party, T ask every Demo
 crat who conscientiously can do so tt
 vote for this bill. You cannot defend in the approaching national cam paig1 that job belongs to the Republican party
 Representative Rainey said thu
 bonus legislation was not what thu
 ex-service men had asked for. He an alyzed the bill as follows:
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 about giving the soldiers a dollar ant 1 a quarter a day or dollar and a. hal a day. as they have demanded il cash This iS what you have giyel them: You give those who accep
 the cash option service pension
 commencing one year. one month ant
 two days from this date. Those wh, served the longest in the war will ge
 55 cents a day for two years and si, 1 Q
 less than 210 days. Deduct 60 day
 from that service as this bill require F and that leaves 150 days. You giv , to these men for two years a half conn mencing a year from this day, l
 cents day. Five hundred thousand 7 of these men will get, if they accep :, the cash option, commencing witt July 1, 1920, cents day. They vii get enough money, if they buy tn
 cheapest kind of cigarettes to bu. l three cigarettes a day. That is Re publican generosity for you-'