The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-03-24
FATE OF BONUS
BILL IN SENATE
is NOT CERTAIN
Party Lines Dropped in Final
Line Up in the Long Fight
Over Measure.
GALLERIES JAMMED
LIKE IN WAR DAYS
r Everybody Got a Say-So and
Record to Be Bulky DOcu-
ment--The Vote i'm Detail
tBy The Associated Press)

WASHINGTON, March 2S. - The
four billion dollar soldiers bonus bill
was passed tonight by the house by an
overwhelming majority. 1t now goes
90 the senate. where its fate Is regard
cd as uncertain.
The vote was 333 to 10, or 64 more
than the two-thirds majority necessary
for passage OF the measure under the
parliamentary procedure selected by
republican leaders for tho expressed
purpose OF preventing the democrats
from offering a motion to recomnlit.
No Party Lines.
Party lines disappeared both in the
general debate and on the final roll
call, s42 republicans, 80 democrats and
one socialist supporting the bill and ~
republicans and % democrats voting
against 1t.
AS passed by the house, the bonus
bin would provide for immediae cash
payments TO veterans whose adjusted
service pay would not exceed $50, and
would give the other veterans the op-
tion OF these four plans:
Four Optional Plans.
Adjusted service certificates, with
provisions authorizing loans by banks
in the first three years after next Oc-
tober i and by the government there
after; the certificates to run for 20
years and to have face value at ma
turity of the amount of the adjusted
service credit at the rate of 81 a day
for domestic services and s1.25 for
fcraisn service, increased hy 20 per
cent plus interests at the rate OF 41a
per cent compounded annually.
Vocational training aid after Jan. I,
1898, at the rate Of $1.75 a day, the
total payments not to exceed, however.
i4O per cent of the adjusted service
credit.
Farm and Home.
Farm and home aid, under which
veterans purchasing or improving
farms or homes would be paid after
July !, 1928, a sum equal to their adj
justsd service credit increased by 25
per cent.
Land settlement, under which lands
would be reclaimed under the super
vision of a special board and farm
units established for sale to the vet
Grams at a price fixed by the board
less that amount OF the adjusted serv
ice credit due the purchasers
Two New Features.
In only two important particulars
does this measure differ from one
passed by the house two years ago
and that was shelved in the senate last
July.
The original cash bonus option was
eliminated and tho bank loan provi-
sion OF the adjusted service certificate
title substituted.
Not since the war days had the
house galleries been jammed as they
were today from the time Speaker
Gillett's gavei fell at IL a. M. until the
last vote had been cast as the shades
of evening enveioped tho capitol. And
not in many years had such scenes
been enacted on the floor, where there
frequnetly was an uproar with alter
nate applause, laughter and jeers.
Galleries Pro- Bonus.
Like the house itself, the galleries.
were pro-bonus and supporters of the
bill were frequently applauded despite
the infringement OF the rules which
this entailed. But the greatest -
plause was not for a proponent. but
an opponent, the member and many
OF the spectators rising and rendering
an ovation 20 Uncle Joe'' Cannon as
the grizzled holder OF the American
record for length OF legislative service
arose late I'm the day to deliver a two
minute speech, in which he declared
that the men who served in the world
war owed that service to their country.
Five Hours Talk.
In all thre was slightly more than
Eve hours of discussion with 75 of the
-.w4S5 members taking part IN f. Tran
scripts OF their remarks would hll
about two ordinary sized newspapers.
Many Of them were on their feet only
a minute or two. or three, but the
house gave unanimous consent for all
members to extend their remarks in
the Congressional Record during the
next Ave days and editions OF that
volume during that time promised to
be exceedingly bulky.
"kiokus Pokus."
Arguments against the bill We're
more frequent than those in its favor.
due to the fact that many democrats
who announced that they would sup
port II vigorously attacked some Of its
: provisions and the ways and means
committee for failure TO provide means
OF financing the bonus. In the course
~ the debate the measure was referred
as a gold brick" bogus" bill,
" "hokus-polSus" and a "deformed and
malformed creature"
supporters OF the bill defended it as
he best that could be obtained at this
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