New-York tribune., 1922-02-19
Persistent Opposition 70
New Financial Burden
May Result in EIimi-
nation Of the Proposal
Hoover Insurance
Plan Being Pushed
Legion Leaders Charge
Defeat Of Entire Prop
osition Is Contemplated
BY Carter Field

ASIlINGTON. Icl lS.--Tlo center
ing Of so much ire OF the cash fea lure
Of the soldier bonus legislation is be
ginning to have al effect. For the sirat
time today there sccmc,, 70 he a pos
sibi.ity al least that tho cash reaturo
might be cllainatcd
Officials o. the American Legion are
much worried BY this attack end pro
Tess net to be able TO understand It on
ans other theory than that /. is ca,,,ou-
Aage and really intended to beat the
vholc Bill,
Al amazing development Q. ti.c day
ygas that the ;nsuranco plan worked o-,s
by Norbert {. fioove~ ana subnl;16cd
b. President Harding 10 Chairman
iordney OF the House Ways and Means
Committee had never even bocn dis
cu5sed With representatives 81 The
American Legion by M. Fordncy.
Plan News to Legion Neu
American Legioa officials questioned
br The Tribune corrcspoNdeMt to-day
rad Ievcr had the Hoover plan o.
planned TO than and thought it was .
vasue idea which ncvcr had loft NJ.
NooTer's desk. This was tic opinion.
To- example, Of Captain John Thomas
Jaylor, who has had several long scs-
SONS Nth Chairman FordNcy cad MIS-
lorit. inembers of the Ways and Means
Con- rlittcc in the last few cIava.
This developed when Captain TsvIor
was asked. in the event that Congrcss
should eliminate the cash feature from
toe bonus loGisation. whether the
lloovcr plan, including the 'lnemploy-
mont insurance feature wh;cn woulG
protect the veterans il they we're out
of work, would be satisfactory to The
Lcgion.
The Legion officials take the attitude
that every suggestion Of eliminating
'ne cash feature is based either on
ignorance Of the terms OF the bill now
before Coz gresa or else on insircerity
move 10 TO stranglo the whole bill.
They point out that under the in
Furancc feature Of the bill rs written
thc soldier can borrow more. at the
end Of three years. than he would get
III cash dribbled out at the rate Of $50
q quarter. On iris Theory they asser.
that most Of the eoidicrs would take
the insurance feature, especially ii
they are married and havy children.
Not Interested in Proposal
II the mon arc out of work. they
assert, they ought to have tho cash.
They arc not Interested in tho fact That
the Hoover insurance plan would give
soldier out of work more than even
the cash option OF the bill they arc
advocating. They are rot interested in
the Iloovcr plan at all. Taking the
position that they arc bound by the
Instructions of tnoir annual convcn-
tjoEs, they have not felt at liberty to
ahalnpioo any insurance plan Is
against the cash feature. and for some
roason Chairman lcrducy ard his as
scciatcs have Neror seen fit 90 sound
them out as 70 whether tho Hoover
rlan would be an acceptable substitute.
Representative Dickinson. OF Iowa.
chairman Of the agricultural "bloc" n
tho House, declared against the sales
la, to-day and said he believed il would
be beaten in the House.
~ an for the bonus, but am again j.
the sales tax said Nj. Dickinson. "yhc
agricultural bloc Is strongly against
the sales tax. aud l believe We haze The
votes to beat it,
A proposal for a delay IN The cash
bonus plan, With other important fca-
lures, vas laid before Chairman Ford
ned to-day by Representative T.. G.
fitzgerald, OF Ohio, after conferences
WIN OCucr McinDefS Ol inc house.
Ills suggestion is:
al. II. Z. No. l. with its present five
options and any others deemed benc-
fetal added, such rs opening to entry
Alaskan Is uds, be adopted as the basis
of the uct, with the following modili-
cations:
'e, Unitcd States Treasury ccriiii-
cates to be issued to bencf.ciarcs dated
January ], 1872, bearing interest at ! Il
to per cent. vita deferred, or 10
datc Of maturity, for The cash option.
Certificates 10 BE AsaignebIe
''3. Certificates to be assigDahle to
cthers OF the beneficiary class and 9th
crs entitled to carry war risl. insur-
ancc tor not less than the principal
SUM or face Of the cash option Of the
certificate, which shall carry forms for:
ga Acknowledged by assignor
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