The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-21
NE W BONUs BILL E DEVISED BY SHOOT
Cash Provision Remains Un- changed, But Straight h.
 Surance Is Provided
By THOMAS l.. STOKES heased Wire to The Age-Heraid

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.-A bonus scheme, designed to assuage admins tration objections while retaining the support of those now calling for cash bonus, will be offered as a com promise to Congress by Senator Shoot of Utah, chairman of the Sem ate finance committee.
 The new bill, already prepared in detail, will provide briefly:
 1. Immediate payment of cash to those whose service entities them, under the present measure, to $50 or less.
 2. An insurance policy for the others-those who served over 110 days-for the amount of the compen- sation provided in the bill vetoed by President Harding last year. This is at rate of one dollar day for domestic service, SIPS for foreign service.
 Senator smoot, who opposed the present bonus bill unless a sales tax were attached to finance it, will shortly make lis new plan public, for the country's reaction. He says that he has already sounded out several Senators, and finds & favorable att titude, and he expects to support in the House. As yet he has not talked 1t over with American Legion of ficials, he stated. It Is understood that the House committee on ways and means postponed action on the bonus until it gets the reaction to Smooth's new plan.
 New Insurance Feature.
 The cash provision in Shoots meas ure is the same as in the old bonus bill. The insurance feature Is entire lily new, designed to meet objections to cash bonus from those who claim that the other bill is a drain on the treasury. The insurance feature Is straight out insurance, to be paid the beneficiaries of the soldier at his death. It cannot be touched in any way. No money can be borrowed on it, as upon the certificates provided under the present measure.
 The new plan will cost altogether about s4,900, 000, 900. which Shoot es- inmates will extend over about sixty years. The cash payment, he says, will total s16,000,o00. Under the old measure, an ex-soldier could borrow half the amount of his certificate at certain designated banks after 1926, and form postal savings banks after 1928. Tho entire payment, with fn- terest was payable after 1922 and would have amounted to from $1,200 to s1,500. The insurance will gather interest III the SdI1e way dil0 III amount to the same in the end-ex- cept that it will go into the soldiers family instead of to him. The old scheme, Smoot points out, would also amount to insurance in the end in many cases, as many of the former soldiers, who would benefit, would die before 1942.
 Under the new plan, the insurance is paid out as the soldiers die, thus spreading it over many years It clso does away with the borrowing pro- vision objected to n the Id bill.
 O O O
 Will Offer As substitute.
 Shoot says that when the old bills comes to the Senate from the House he will move to strike out the whole measure after the enacting clause and substitute his plan. If passed by the Senate, 1t would then go back to the House.
 While Shoot is enthusiastic over it's prospects of success, such bill is expected to meet stiff opposition