Manchester Democrat., 1921-03-23
BUSINESS now
RUSHING S0LONS
EVERYBODY HAS A BILL OR TWO
AND SUB.COMMITTEES WORK
NIGHT AND DAY
SOLDIERS BONUS BILL IS PASSED
Appropriations Being Cut While Sol.
dters' Bonus Bill Goes
Through Clean =
(By G. L. CASWELL)

Des Moines, March 81, 1921.
Adjournment of the General As
sembly on April is probable, as both
House and Senate have adopted, the
resolution setting that date for the
end Of the session. However, a mo-
tion to reconsider the vote on the
resolution is on the records and the
date can thus be held open for max
ing any necessary change. The dope
is that sixty members of the House
have agreed to support a resolution
requesting the governor to call the
special session for finishing up Code
revision to begin the latter part of
next November. It is said the farmer
members of the House do not propose
to let the lawyers and bankers and
other interests whose slack time is
in the summer months keep them
here during their own busy season,
hence the later date set for the special
session.
To keep faith with the constitu-
ents whom they promised in the last
. campaign they would serve by keep
ing down state appropriations and
extravagances, members of the House
last Wednesday cut the heart out of
the state fair appropriation bill, and
left the state fair board to hobble
along for the next two years on what
the fair can take in of itself. The
necessary paving and some land pur
chases will be taken care Of and that
is ALL The balance to be paid on
the big new cattle barn will stand
against the profits of the last fair.
And what has happened to the fair
board will happen to many other
boards and departments, it is said.
Possibly even to the state education
al institutions. The idea Of making
a record in legislation by heading off
half mill of appropriations may
look all right, but after all it is the
twenty and forty and fifty-mill levies
out at their homes that makes the
members taxes high. All the state
appropriations asked for together
would probably not cause an increase
of three mills in the state tax levy, as
one mill levy now raised over mil
lion dollars for state purposes-and
there are, numerous other sources of
revenue which the state draws upon
for funds to keep things going.
Soldiers Bonus Goes
Included in the taxes of the next
decade will be the payment of the
: bonus to the boys Of the recent war.
The Senate last Monday after a heat
ed debate passed. the House bill pro-
viding that bonds for $22,000,O00 be
issued to pay such bonus to the world
war;Eveterans, leaving out the Stu
dents Army Training Corps boys who,
attended school in this country and
were not. in the regular army service
Senator Stoddard of Woodbury. coun-
ty made noble fight to include these
s. A. T. C. boys, and had much SYM
pathy in the matter, but not enough
votes. The Senate thus receded from
the amendments it stuck on the House
bill and pasesd the latter bill as it
came over to them. Thus the people
of the state will vote directly on the
bond issue at the regular election in
1922-and it will carry, of course.
Two bills to place license on the
sale of cigarettes, one also on tobac-
cos, are pending in the House, and
either bill would bring in revenue
sufficient to pay the interest on these
$22,000,000 soldiers bonus bonds and
leave some to pay on the principal
each year-and the American Legion
boys who got their flags" from home
while in France would enjoy paying
for them here and thus help make
up for the school funds what taxes it