Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-03-24
FINAL BALLOT GIVES
GREAT MAJOR|T Y
.FAV0R|NG MEASURE
Supporters Include 242 Re-
publicans, 90 Democrats.
| Socialist.
NOW GOES TO SENATE.
WITH FATE UNCERTAIN
Opposition Polls 10 Rcpubli-
can, % Democratic
Supporters.
NIRGINIANS OPPOSED TO PLAN
Slemp Only Member of State DeIcEs-
tion Counted I'm AZ
nrmntfrc.
NOW GOES TO SENATE.
WITH FATE UNCERTAIN
rInGINIANs OPPOSED TO PLAN
Slemp Only Member of State DeIcEs-
tion Counted In AZ
nrmntfrc.
LEY Associated Press.l

wASIIINGToN. March c3.-Th<
Si00o,00o.000 soldiers bonus bill
was passed tonight by the House by
an overwhelming majority. 1t now
goes to the Senate. where it's fate 1.
regarded as uncertain.
The vote was 3a3 to 20 Or sixty
four more than the two-thirds ma
iority necessary for passage Of the
measure under the parliamentary
procedure selected by Republican
leaders for the expressed purpose .of
preventing tho Democrats from or
ferinR motion to recommit.
Party lines disappeared. both In
the general debate and on the final
roll call. aiS Republicans. 90 Demo
Gratis and l Socialist supporting the
bill and AZ Republicans and IS DEM
ocrats voting against IT,
Politics Frequently Injected.
Folitias were Injected into the de-
bate several times during the day
and resulted in some warm OK
changes. Representative Pou. DEM
ocrat. North Carolina. decried what
ne characterized as the efforts az
the majority TO make the bonus n
partisan issue, while Representatives.
Campbell, Republican. Kansas, and
l-ongworth, Republican, Ohio. as
sailed the minority report on the
bill filed by Representative Kitchin.
OF North Carolina. the Democratic
leader. who Is absent from CONGRESS
because OF Illness, and four o,bo-
Democrats of the Ways and Means
Committee.
Den"unces Harvey Reference.
Mr.. Longworth declared th,, .ba
reference in the minority rcport ~
Ambassador Harvey. at London a.
tho "blasphemous, bibuious boo.lick
er at the Court OF st. James" wa.
most disgracefully vulgar He
characterized the whole report as
cheap. wanton!y vulgar and dis.
graceful
AS the debate dragged along late
IN the day. many members began 10
manifcs; Impotence. and towards the
last some OF the speakers had diff
Guilty III getting hearing because
OF the repeated and loud demands
for vote. Speaker Glllett had
trouble at times in maintaining or
der. despite liberal use OF the
Eavel.
tpholds Suspension OF RuIcs.
At the outset of the day Demo-
cratic leaders sought to upset the
majority program 10 have the bill
considered under Il suspension of
the rules, but Speaker Gillett over
ruled the point OF order that the res.
oiuiton making this Il special sus-
pension of the rules day was in vio-
lation of the House rules. There
followed an hours debate on Tao
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 10 other veterans tho
option of these four plans:
Adjusted service certificates. with
provisions authorizing loans by banks
in the first three years after next o.
toher I, and by the government there
after the certificates to run for
twenty years and 10 have n face
value at maturity OF the amount OF
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