The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-06-15
MEASURE CARRIES
$2,4Oo,oOO,oOO TO
CASHCERT|F|CATES
Now Goes to Senate Where
Many Leaders Claim Enough
Votes to Defeat il
BOND ISSUE IS PROVIDED
Idea Is to Prevent Value Of Cur.
~ rency From Falling Be.
low 1926 Basis
BOND ISSUE IS PROVIDED

mediate cash payment of the $780,
100000 soldiers bonus certificates
demanded by 10000 former service.
men bivouacked in the capital-was
approved Wednesday by the house.
The vote was 200 to 176.
The measure now goes to the sem
ate where leaders claimed enough
votes for rejection. President Hoover
has promised veto if the legislation
reaches the white house.
The Patman bill passed by the
house would redeem bonus certific-
ates at their face value in new treas
ury notes distributed to the veterans
through the federal reserve banks.
Before final approval, the measure
was amended to provide an equal Is
sue of government bonds to be used
for retiring the currency If the dol
lar became too cheap.
Former servicemen packed the gal
1eries as the vote was taken. It rep
resented one step toward victory in
their demand for the bonus legisla-
ton.
The bond amendment was recon-
mended by former Senator Robert l..
Owen of Oklahoma and offered by
Representative Ragon (Dem., Ark
It was adopted 161 to 70.
Bonds Are Reserve
The bonds would be issued along
with the treasury notes for paying
the bonus. They would be held in
reserve at the federal reserve banks.
1t would be the duty of the reserve
board to sell enough of these bonds
from time to time, If necessary, to
prevent the purchasing power OF the
dollar from dropping more than two
per cent below its 1925 level.
An amendment by Representative
Griffin .CDem, N. ", to specify that
the bonus be paid at a rate not to
exceed $50 month and only to the
needy was defeated no to 80.
Senator Thomas Dem., Okla0
planned to ask for an immediate vote
in the senate when the bill reached
there from the house.
This would require unanimous con-
sent to dispense with the usual proce-
dure of referring the bill to a COM
mittee, but leaders indicated they
would accept the suggestion.
A single objection, however. would
require the bill to be sent to the SEN
ate finance committee for study.
AS the result of the vote was an
nounced, few members and some
spectators joined in scattered ap::
plause.
Veterans Are Orderly
Veterans who crowded the galleries
for three days remained orderly and
most of them left Immediately.
Police were redoubling efforts to
evacuate as many of the veterans as
could be encouraged to leave the city
Fourteen from Georgia left in one
truck and another group numbering
more than 60 departed in five trucks
for northern points.
Sinclair, North Dakota Republican
voted for the bonus. Hall, North Da-
kota Republican, voted against. Burt
ness was not accounted for by the
roll call.
AS has been the case every day this
week, the galleries were filled with q
host of veterans from the bonus en-
campment.
Many of them had suffered serious
misfortune. At midnight last night
the temporary hospital set up by
marine corps medical officers at 9
reserve headquarters was closed
The officers said they had been to-
tally swamped in trying to care for
the sick members of the expeditionary
force and had received no coopera
ton from federal and district health
authorities.
The closing was marked by an
angry exchange between Police su-
perintendent Glassford and a vet
Grams bureau doctor, when Glassford
discovered that several veterans. Sc
riously i'll. had not been transferred
to the hospital hours after they had
been brought to the receiving station
Red with anger. the police head told
the doctor he was not doing good
Job" Soon after the men were TAX
en- to Walter Reed hospital.