Evening star., 1924-03-06
HOUSE COMMITTEE
VOTES TOPRESENT
BILL 0G|vE BONUS
Treadway, TiIson, Mills and
Collier 0ppose-Sixteen
Favor Measure.
FORM OF LEGISLATION
STILL TO BE DECIDED
Chairman Green Believes Bill Will
Be Ready for Congress
Next Week.

Agreement to report a soldier
bonus bill was voted 1s to 4 today
by the House ways and means COM
mittee.
No action was taken on the form
Of the bill to be reported.
Representative Bacharach, republican
New Jersey, presented his plan for
limiting compensation to paid-up In
surance, and other plans were discussed,
but the committee decided to go into
all the plans submitted tomorrow.
Representatives Treadway. Massa.
chusetts; Tison, Connecticut, and Mills,
New York, republicans, and Collier
Mississippi, democrat, were those vot-
ing against approval of any bonus
measure.
Four Bonus Proposals.
The three days of public hearings
brought out four proposals which re-
ceived considerable support. Three of
these were entirely different from the
bill passed last session and vetoed by
President Harding. They included pay
ment in cash only, adjusted compensa-
tion in the form of paid-up insurance
policies and two-option plan allowing
full cash payments or paid-up insurance.
The third scheme was advanced by the
special committee of veterans appointed
by the House democratic conference to
confer with the committee on bonus
legislation.
John r Quinn, national commander
of the American Legion, presented the
Endorsement of that body for the four
option bill passed last session. It pro-
vided cash payments to those entitled
to less than $50; adjusted service GER
tificates--a form OF deferred payment:
vocational training, or farm and home
aid options.
Other propositions also were ad-
vanced, including one by Representa-
tive Hayden. democrat. Arizona, to
make the four-option plan a five-
option affair by providing land set
tlement.
Expect Delay ON Report.
In view of the variety of proposals,
Chairman Green now fears that the
committee will not be able to report
a measure to the House until next
week, instead Of by Saturday. as
planned.
stated that no definite plans had been
agreed upon so far as party lines
were concerned, and many said they
would have to give more study to the
matter before reaching any conclu-
SionS.
While the two-foId proposition to
allow either full cash payments or the
insurance policies was advanced by
the special committee of veterans
named by the House democratic con-
ference, the plan Is not binding on
the democrats as whole, II was ex-
planned and Representative Jeffers,
Alabama chairman Of the committee.
asked that IL not be considered as
partisan view.
The proposition received the sup
port of several other spokesman, In
cluding Representative Murphy, re-
publican, of Ohio.
Cash Payment Supported.
Representative Hawes. democrat,
| Missouri, who voted against the bonus
bill last session, was among the sup
porters of a straightout cash pay
ment plan. Other advocates of this
proposal were Representatives Begg.
republican, Ohio, and Lea, democrat,
California.
Representative Andrew, republican.
Massachusetts,, also presenting a scheme
for paid-up insurance policies, de-
clared he believed 95 per cent of the
former service men would be satisfied
by such a bonus. He added that If all
officers were excluded, as provided In
his bill, the bonus would cost about
S200, 100000 less.