Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-03-24
BONUS BILL PASSES HOUSE
Measure Gets Through by Over
WheImina Majority.

Measure Gets Through by Over
wheImins Majority.
Washington, March 2S.-The $4,000
600 900 soldiers bonus bill was passed
tonight by the house by an overwhelm-
ing majority. 1t now goes to the SEN
ate where its fate is regarded as un-
certain.
The vote was S33 to 20, or GA more
than the two-thirds majority neces-
sary for passage of the measure under
the parliamentary procedure selected
by Republican leaders for the eX-
pressed purpose of preventing the
Democrats from Offering motion to
recommit.
Party lines disappeared both in the
general debate and on the final roll
243 Republicans, so Democrats and one
Socialist supporting the bill and AZ
Republicans and % Democrats voting
against it. AS passed by the house
the bonus bill would provide for inn
mediate cash payments to veterans
whose adjusted service pay would not
| exceed $50, and would give the other
veterans the option OF these four
plans:
Adjusted service certificates, with
provisions authorizing loans by banks
in the first three years after next
| October /, and by the government
thereafter; tho certificates to run for
20 years and to have q face value at
maturity of the amount of the ADJUST
ed service credit at the rate Of 81 a
day for domestic service and S1.25 q
day for foreign service, increased by
| 25 per cent, plus interest at the rate
of 1-2 per cent, compounded an
| nually. la
Vocational training aid after Janu-
ary 1, 1929 at the rate of $1.75 a day.
( the total payments not to exceed, how
ever, 40 per cent. of the adjusted Ser
vice credit.
Farm and Home Aid.
Farm and home aid under which
veterans may purchase or improve
| farms or homes would be paid after
July /, 1923, a sum equal to their ad-
justed 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
erans at a price fixed by the board,
less the amount OF the adjusted sery-
ice credit due the purchasers.
In only two important particulars
does this measure differ from the one
|
and that was shelved in the senate.
last July The original cash bonus
option was eliminated and the bank
loan provision 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
| - IA
| in many years had such scenes been
enacted on the floor, where there fire.
quently was an uproar with alternate
| applause, laughter and tears.
Like the house itself, the galleries
were pro-bonuS and supporters of the
bill were frequently applauded. But the
greatest applause was not, for a pro-
ponent, but an opponent, the members
and many of the spectators rising and
tending an ovation to Uncle joe
Cannon as the grizzled holder of the
American record for length OF leg
islative service arose in 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 of Discussion.
In all there was slightly more than
five hours of discussion with rs OF
the 435 members taking part in 1t.
Transcripts Of their remarks would
! fill about two ordinary sized news
papers. Many of them were on their
| feet only minute or two or three
| but the house gave unanimous con-
| sent for all members to extend their
| remarks in The Congressional Record
| during the next five days and editions
of that volume during that time prom
ised to be exceedingly bulky.
Arguments against the bill were
more frequent than those in it's IA
vor, due to the fact that many Dem
ocrats who announced that they would
support it vigorously attacked some of
its provision and the ways and means
committee for failure to provide means
of financing the bonus. In the course
Of the debate the measure was referred
to as a gold BRICK "a bugu" BILL
"hokuS-pocuS' and n "deformed and
malfomed creature"
Supporters of the bill described it as
the best that could be obtained at
this time and some Of them declared
that it was even better than the orig
inal measure with its cash bonus fea-
ture since it would enable veterans
in need to obtain cash Immediately
and at the same time be protected by
adjusted service certificates.
Politics We're injected into the de-
bate several times during the day and
resulted in some warm exchanges.
RepreSe NATIVE Pou (Democrat) of
North Carolina decried what he char
acterized as the effort Of the majority
to make the bonus a PARTISAN issue
while Representative Campbell (Re-
publican) of Kansas and Longworth
assailed the minority report on the bill
filed by Representative Kitchen of
North Carolina, Democrat leader.
Mr.. LOngworth declared that the
reference in the minority report to
Ambassador Harvey at London as the
"blasphemous. bibulous, bootlcker at
the Court Of st. James was most dis
gracefully vulgar. He characterized the
whole report as "cheap, wantonly vul-
gar and disgraceful."
AS the debate dragged along late in
the day many members began to mani
fest imDatience and toward the last
some Of the speakers had difficulty in
getting under way because Of the re-
Deatcd and loud demands for a vote.
Speaker Gillett had trouble at times
in maintaining order despite liberal
- I, to