Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-03-24
House Passes Bonus
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bonus bill would provide for immed-
late cash payments to veterans
whose adjusted service pay would
not exceed $50, and would give to
other veterans the options of these
four plans:
Adjusted service certificates, with
provisions authorizing loans by
banks in the first three years after
next October 1 and by the govern
ment thereafter: the certificates to
run for twenty years and to have a
face value at maturity of the amount
OF the adjusted service credit at the
rate of 81 day for domestic service
and $1.e5 a day for foreign service.
at the rate of IL per cent COM
pounded annually.
Vocational training aid after Janu-
airy 1, 1928, at the rate Of SITS a
day the total payments not to exceed
however. 140 per cent of the adjust
ed service credit.
Farm and home aid under which
getcrans who purchase or improve
farms or homes would be paid after
July l, 1923, a sum equal to their
adjusted service credit increased by
20 per cent.
Land settlement, under which
lands would be reclaimed under the
supervision Of special board and
farm units established. for sale to
the veterans at a price fixed by the
board less the amount of the ad-
chaSerS.
In only two important particulars
does this measure differ from the one
passed by the House two years ago
and that 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 damned as they
were today from the time Speaker
Gillet's gavcl fell at II a. NJ. until
the last vote had been cast as tho
shades of evening envelopcd the Cap
itOl. And not in many years had
such scenes been enacted on the
floor. where there frequently was an
uproar with alternate applause,
laughter and jeers.
Like the House itself :he galleries
We're pro-bonus and supporters Of the
bill We're frequently appiauded des-
pte the infringement of the rules
which such manifestation cntailed
But the greater applause was not for
Il prepayment. but an opponent. the
members and many of the spectators
rising and rendering an ovation to
"Tncle Joe" Cannon, Srizzled holder
Of the American record Cor length of
legislative service as he arose late III
the day to deliver q two minute
speech in which he declared that the
men who served in the world war
owed that service to their country.
In all there was slightly more than
live hours of discussion with % OF
The ass members taking part in it.
Supporters of the bill defended il
as the best that could be obtained At
this time and some of them declared
that it was even better than the
original measure with its cash bonus
feature since it would enable Netcr-
ans in need to obtain cash imme-
diateIy and at the same time to be
protected by the government in thoiu
rights in the adjusted service ccrtlil-
Gates.
Politics was injected into the dc
bate several times during the day
and resulted i'll some warm cX-
changes Representative Pou
Democrat. North Carolina. decrleo
what he characterized as the efforts
of the majority TO make the bonus
a partisan issue while Representa-
tives Campbell. Republican. kansa 5
and Longworth. Republican, ONO
assaiIed the minority report on tho
bill filed by Representative kitchin
of North Carolina. the Democratic
leader. who is absent from Congress
because of illness. and four Other
Democrats Of the ways and means
committee.
Mr.. Iongworth declared that tho
reference in the minority report tc
Ambassador Harvey at London as
the "blasphemous. hibltous boot
Ticker at the court of st. James was
most disgracefully vulgar" Tic
characterized the whole report rs
cheap. wantoniy vulgar and dis
graceful"
As the debate dragged along late
in the day many members began &c
manifest Impotence and toward the
last some Of the speakers had diff
Guilty in getting under way because
of the repeated and loud demands
for a vote. Speaker Gillett had trou-
bic at times in maintaining order
despite a liberal use of his GaNcl.