Evening star., 1921-02-27
Provision Is Made
for Police and
Pfremen.
PER DIEM CLASS
FINALLY OMITTED
Navy Yard, Arsenal
and Women's Bureau
Workers Excluded.

The s240 bonus for government EN-.
ployes was passed by the House just
before midnight last night after more
than four hours debate. 1t now goss
back to conference for agreement on
the House amendments.
Action was taken by the House on
the bonus provision in the form OF
an amendment fathered by Represent
ative Will r. Wood of Indiana. chair
man of the subcommittee on the leg
islative. executive and judicial appro-
priation bill. The Wood amendment
amends the Senate amendment and
was itself amended several times.
The final vote was ia to 80 in favor
of granting the $240 bonus to the fol-
lowing:
Employees of the United States and
District governments and the OLD
established branches of the service.
The police and firemen.
EMPLOYEES of the bureau of war risk
insurance.
Employees Of the United States.
Tariff Commission.
These Employees Omitted.
Those specifically exempted from
provisions of the bonus were:
Those whose wages are adjusted by
wage boards. which means particu-
larly employees of navy yards ana
arsenals. This also includes per diem
laborers and mechanics OF the Dis
trict government.
Employees of the woman's bureau.
Employees of the postal service.
whose wages have been increased in
distinct legislation.
Representative Dunbar Of Indiana
introduced the amendment which put
the employees of the war risk In
surance bureau under the bonus pro-
vision to receive s240. The vote on
this amendment was 1Ss to 7.
Chairman Mapes Of the House Dis
trict committee fathered the amend
ment which included the police and
fremen to receive the S24o bonus.
Nolan Led the Fight.
Representative John I. Nolan OF
California, the ranking republican on
the House labor committee. led the
fight to secure the bonus for employees
of navy yards and arsenals after
making a speech in which he approv-
ed the bonus for all government en-
ployes, naming each branch OF
employment specifically.
The bonus was lost to navy yard
and arsenal employees on an amend
ment introduced by Chairman Good
of the House appropriations commit
tee, which limited the rate of total
compensation received by employees
whose wage is adjustable by wage
board or similar organization not to
exceed the rate of pay locally In
similar employment.
Representative Good said that only
one criticism could be made in regard
to bonus legislation and that was
that Congress had not been generous
enough with the government employees
to meet the cost of living. He poinf-
ed out that only one increase had
been allowed, and that of only $50
a month. He argued against the in-
crease for those whose pay is fixed
by wage boards, saying they have
had their bonus and my amendment
provides that they shall not receive
a double bonus" His amendment
was adopted, 149 to so.
Says House Discriminates.
Vigorous speeches in behalf ef
granting the full $240 bonus to police
and fremen were made by Represents
tive Sisson of Mississippi, a member
Of the appropriations committee, ana
a number of others.
Representative Campbell of Penn
sylvania said: The Senate amend
ment does justice to the police and
firemen, while the action proposed in
the House to give them no bonus. or
only $120 bonus, is discrimination
against them.". He said that when the =
salary of the police and firemen was
fixed it was understood that the bonus
was to be added thereto. Represents
tive Campbell read statistics showing
that a private in Youngstown. Ohio.
gets more than a captain here. He >
showed that the maximum pay to q.
private in Seattle, Newark. Jersey City
and Bridgeport is $4,000 and in De- !.
troit it is $2,160, while in the District
Of Columbia it is only $1,660 and, with
The full bonus, would amount to only
$500. 80
Chairman Mapes explained to the
House that the measures increasing,
he pay Of police and firemen went
through with a distinct understAu6-
ng that the bonus was to be granted
%. them the same as to other govern
nent employees. Representative Ben
Johnson Of Kentucky, ranking demo-
.rat on the committee. confirmed thfA
Woods Takes Floor.
Representative James p. Woods.
lemocrat. Of Virginia, q member o.
he subcommittee that drafted tie
police and firemen's pay bill. called
attention OF the House to the fact
hat in 1919 Congress specifically
wrote into. legislation that the police
Ind firemen must withdraw from
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