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The. Soldiers Adjusted Conpensa-
tion Bill, introduced by Senator Nc
Cumber Of North Dakota, has been
reported to the Senate by the FL
nance Committee and, according to
its author, an effort will be made to
secure its prompt enactment. This
bill is similar to the Fordney mea-
sure which passed the House in the
Sixty-sixth Congress and carries
with it the unqualified endorsement
of the American Legion.
The purpose of the bill is to allow
as adjusted compensation to the vet
Grams 81 per day for each days SER
vice in the United States and $1.25
for each day overseas. Inasmuch as
soldiers were given extra pay of $50
each upon their discharge from SER
vice, 60 days are deducted from the
total time Of service Of each veteran.
Title II, the cash plan, called ".ad-
justed service pay" provides a cash
payment for the time of service. If
the payment is $500 or over, it is to
be made in 10 quarterly installments
and if less than $500 it is to be paid
in quarterly installnents of $4,000
each.
Title III, Adjusted Service Certi-
ficates, gives the veterans the option
to take insurance payable at the end
of 20 years. If the soldier chooses
this insurance plan, he will receive
as the basis of his adjusted pay a
sum 40 per cent greater than the
cash plan, and this sum will bear in
terest at the rate of Az per cent
per annunl, compounded annually.
Title ~, Vocational Training Aid,
entities the veteran to receive voca-
.tional training at the expense of the
Government to an amount equal to
his adjusted service pay plus 40 per
cent.
Title v, Farm or. Home Aid, al
lows the veteran to receive the ad-
justed pay plus an additional 40 per
cent, to be. applied toward the pur-
chase price of home or farm.
Title vi, the Land Settlement Aid
gives the veteran preference rights
to take lands on the opening of pub
lie or Indian lands to entry, or the
restoration to entry Of public lands,
and on all reclamation projects now
in existence or hereafter established.
The veteran at his option may Sc
lect any one of these plans:
The compensation bills will meet
with a determined opposition, as was
presaged recently by the stand taken
by the Chamber of Commerce. How
ever the attitude of the Finance
Committee in giving the bill fa-
vorable report to the Senate may
serve as a criterion to the situation.
When the Fordney bill came up in
the last Congress the real fight was
staged in the Ways and Means Com
mittee itself. Secretary Houston
was opposed to the bill and the De-
mocratic members Of the committee
stood with him in fighting the mea-
sure to the last ditch. This was
likewise true Of some of the Repub-
lican members and it was only thru
the uncompromising stand taken by
Chairman Fordney and men like Re
presentatives Young, North Dakota,
and Frear, Wisconsin, that the bill
was reported at all. When it reach
ed the floor Of the House the rest
was easy. Action IN the House,
however, came so late in the session
that the bill was never reached by
the Senate and it died In the Finan-
&c Committee with the expiration Of
the Sixty-sixth Congress.
II In q way the situation now seems
to have reversed itself for when Me.
Cumber and Penrose came out IN fa-
,vor Of q bonus the other members Of
the Finance Committee soon fell in
to line and Senator McCumber Sc
cured q favorable report for the bill
almost as soon as it had passed thru
the hands Of his sub committee.
In a speech on Thursday Senator
McCumher opened the fight in the
upper chamber and in mastery fas.
hion told the story Of the returning
soldier, VINO, upon receiving his dls-
charge at the end Of his wartime
service, was thrown out upon the