Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1922-04-01
THE SOLDIER BONUS
LEGISLATION PASSES
The LOWER HOUSE

lHE LUVVEK HUU5E
Supporters Include PAP Republicans,
90 Democrats, Socialist.
Washington, March 23.-T1se $4,000,
O00,000;000 soldiers bonus bill was
passed tonight by the !Iouse by an
overwhelming majority. 1t now goes
to the Senate, where it's fate Is regar'l
ed as uncertain.
The vote was 333 to 20 or siXty-four
more than two.thirdS majority neces-
sary for passage Of the measure un-
der the parliamentary procedure select
ed by Republican leaders for the eX
pressed purpose of preventing the Dem
ocrats from Offering O motion to recon
nit. ......
Party lines disappeared both in tho
general debate and on the final roll
call, PAS Republicans, 90 Democrats
and Socialist supporting the bill and
A. Republicans and % Democrats vot-
ing against 1T.
POLITICS FREQUENTLY INJECTED
Politics were injected into the do
bHte several times during the day and
resulted in some warm exchanges. Re
presentutive Pou, Democrat, North
Carolina, decried what he characterize
ed MS the efforts of the majority to
make the bonus partisan issue, while
Representatives Campbell, Republican,,
Kansas, and Longworth, Republican
Ohio, assaulted the minority report OH
Ine bill filed by Representative KitCh
in OF North Carolina, the Democratic
header who Is absent from Congress
because Of illness and four other Dem
ocrats Of the Ways and Means Commit
tee.
DIGNOUNCES HARVEY REFERENCE
Mr.. Longworth declared that the
reference IN the minority report TO
Ambassador Harvey at London as the
"blasphemous, bibulous bootlicker Mt
the Court Of st. James" was "most
disgracefully vulgar" He character,1
ed the whole report as "cheap. wanton
'ly. vulgar and disgraccrul.
AS the debate dragged along late in
the day, many members began to mani
fest Impotence and towards the last
some Of the speakers had difficulty in
getting a hearing because Of the repeat
ell and loud demands for n vote. Speak
er Gillett had trouble at times in main
tanning order despite a liberal use OF
the gavel.
uPHOLDs SUSPENSION OF RULES
At the outset OF the day Democratic
leaders sought to upset the majority
program to have the bill considered
under a suspension Of the rules. but
Speaker Gillett over-ruled the point of
order that the resolution making this
q special suspension Of the rules day
was in violation Of the House rules.
There followed nm hours debate on
the resolution but most Of the talk
was about the bonus bill itself.
AS passed by the House. the bonus ;
bill would provide for immediate cash
payments to veterans whose adjusted
service pay would not exceed $50 and
would give to other veterans the option
of these four plans
Adjusted service certificates, with
provisions authorizing loans by banks
in the first three years after next Octo
Der 1, and by the government there
AFTER the certificates to run for TWEEN
~ years and to have face value Mt !
maturity Of the amount OF the adjusted !;
service credit at the rate of 81 q dayi
for domestic service and $125 day for !
foreign service. increased by 25 Aer !
cent plus interest Mt the rate Of 1-2
per cent compounded annually.
VOCATIONAL TRAINING AID
Vocational training aid after jan
uary 1, 1923 Mt tho rate, Of $1.75 a day !
the total payments not to exceed now !
ever, lao per cent of the adjusted serv !,
ice credit. ..-.
Farm and home aid under which vet ,
Grams who purchase or improve farms |
or homes would be paid after July l.
1923 sum equal to their adjusted serv
ice credit increased by Is per cent.
Land settlement under which land
would be reclaimed under the super!
vision Of a special board, and farm
units established for sale to the veter
ans at price fixed by the board less
the amount Of the adjusted service,
credit due the purchasers.
In only two important particulars,
does this measure differ from the one
passed by the House two years ago,
and that shclved in the Senate last
July. The original cash bonus option
was eliminated ond the bank loan pro
vision OF the adjusted service certifi-
Gates title substituted.
HOUSE GALLERIES JAMMED
Not since the war days had the
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