Paragould soliphone. (Paragould, Ark.) 1918-1950, 1922-03-27
BONUS SCHEME
IS ADOPTED BY
LOWER HOUSE
Passes BY Vote of 1873 to
20 With Party Lines
Broken $1,000 Measure Now
Goes TO Senate

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passed last night by the House by
an overwhelming majority. 1t now
goes to the Senate, where its fate
| is regarded rs uncertain.
The vote was 1873 to 20, or GA
more than the two-thirds majority
necessary for passage Of the measure
under the parliamentary procedure
selected by Republican leaders for
1.-THE expressed purpose Of preventing
1.-THE Democrats from offering mo-
] ton to recommit.
Party lines disappeared both in
the general debate and on the final
roll call, 248 Republicans, "a Demo-
Gratis and one Socialist supporting
the bill, and AZ Republicans and %
Democrats voting against it.
Is Five Way Plan.
! AS passed, the bill would provide
for immediate cash payments to
veterans whose adjusted service pay
would not exceed $50, and would
lgive to 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 govern
ment thereafter; the certificates to
run for 20 years and to have a face
value at maturity of the amount of
! the adjusted service credit at the
rate of 81 a day for domestic serv-
| ice and 1925 a day for foreign
service, increased by % per cent,
| plus interest at the rate of 4l2
| per cent, compounded annually;
| Vocational training aid after jan
luafy 1, 1923, at the rate of $1.25 a
day, the total payments not to ex-
ceed however, 40 per cent of the
| adjusted service credit;
Farm and home aid, under which
veterans who buy or improve farms
or homes would be paid after July
| 1, 1928, a sum equal to their adj
justed service credit, increased by
| 25 per cent; and
! Land settlement, under which
lands would be reclaimed under the
! supervision of a special board, and
farm units established for sale to
veterans at price fixed by the
board, less the amount of the adj
justed service credit due the pur-
chasers.
In only two important particulars
does this measure differ from the
one passed by the House two years
Iago and that shelved in the Senate
last July. The original cash bonus
Eoption was eliminated and the bank
loan provision of the adjusted serv-
ice certificate title substituted.
Galleries damned.
Not since The war days had the
House galleries been damned as they
were yesterday from the time Speak
er Gillett's gavel fell at IL a. m.
until the last vote was cast as the
Shades of evening enveloped the
capitol, and not in many years have
such scenes been enacted on the
floor, where frequently there was an
uproar, with alternate applause,
laughter and jeers
Like the House, the galleries were
pro-bonus, and supporters of the
bill were applauded frequently, de
spite the rules. But the greatest
applause was not for proponent,
but an opponent. The members and
many Of the spectators arose and
rendered an ovation of Uncle Joe"
Cannon as the veteran arose late
in the day to deliver two minute
speech, in which he declared that
the men who served in the World
war owed that service to their conn
try.
There was slightly more than five
hours of discussion, with rs of the 4,
435 members participating. Tran |
scripts of their remarks would fill 1
about two ordinary sized newspapers. |
Many of them were on their feet |
only a minute or two, but the House |
gave unanimous consent for all |
members to extend their remarks"
in the Congressional Record during !
the next few days, and editions of /
that volume during that time prom
Use to be exceedingly bulky.
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 support it vigorously attack
ed some of it's provisions and the
Ways and Means Committee for
failure to provide means of financ +
ing the bonus. In the course of the !
debate the measure was referred to
as "a gold brick" "a bogus bill,
"a hoqns-pokus, and a ''deformed
and malformed creature"