The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-03-31

bill would provide for immediate
cash payments to veterans whose
adjusted service pay would not ex-
coed $50, and would give to other
veterans the option of these four
plans:
Adjusted service certificates, with
provisions authorizing loans banks
In the first three years next Octo
Der and by the government there
after; the certificates to run for
twenty years and to have a face
the adjusted service credit at the
rate Of 81 a day for domestic serv-
Ice and $1.25 day for foreign sery
ice, increased by 25 per cent, plus
interest at the rate of Az per cent
compounded annually.
Vocational training aid after Janu-
airy !. 1923. at the rate of $1.75 q
day the total payments not to ex-
coed. however, 140 per cent of the
adjusted service credit.
Farm and home aid under which
veterans purchase or improve farms
or homes would be paid after July /,
1923, a sum equal to their adjusted
service credit increased by 20 per
cent
Land settlement under which
lands would be reclaimed under the
superI ision of a special board and
farm units established for sale to
the veterans at a price fixed by the
board less the amount of the adjust
ed service credit due the purchas-
ers. In only two important partic
ulars does this measure differ from
the one passed by the house two
years ago and shelved in the senate
last July. The original cash bonus
option was eliminated and the bank
loan provision Of the adjusted sery
Ice certificate title substituted
Not since the war days had the
house galleries been damned as they
were today from the time Speaker
Gillet's gavel fell at eleven a. m.
until the last vote had been cast as
the shades of evening enveloped
the capitol. And not IN many years
had such scenes been enacted on
the floor, where there was an up
roar with alternate applause, laugh
ter and jeers.
Galleries Were Pro- Bonus
Like the house itself, the galleries
" ere pro- bonus and supporters OF
the bill were frequently applauded
despite the infringement of the rules
which this entailed. But the great
est applause was not for a propo
nent, but an opponent, the members
and many Of the spectators rising
and rendering an ovation to Uncle
Joe" Cannon as the griZzIed holder
of the American record for length
Of legislative service 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 20 their coun
| try.
In all there was slightly more
than FIVE hours of discussion with
seventy five of the 435 members
taking part in it, transcripts of
their remarks would fill 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
on the congressional record during
the next few days and editions of
that volume during that time prom
Used to be exceedingly bulky.
Arguments against the bill were
more frequent than those in its
favor, due to the fact that many
democrats, who announced they
would support 1t vigorously, attack
ed some of its provisions. and the
was and means committee, for fail
ure to provide means of financing
the bonus.
Look For Sharp Changes.
There were those who believed
] that the senate finance committee,
10 which the bill would be referred
! in the natural course. would make
| sharp changes in it. Some admins
tration officers We're to look TO the
senate TO pass measure proyidins
means for financing thu bonus, but