SOLDIER BONUS

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 53, 4 March 1922, Page 5

SOLDIER BONUS

THE AMERICAN PROPOSAL

COMMITTEE'S UNANIMOUS REPORT.

(BKIISD PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPTRIGHT.)

(AVIIIALIAN - NIW HAUNt CAIII AIIOCIATWH.) (Received. March 4, 9 a.m.)

WASHINGTON, 2nd March. The Republican .members of the Ways and Means Committee of the House of Representatives unanimously reported on the Soldier Bonus Bill to-day, providing for- cash bonnes of less than fifty dollaTS and insurance cei'tificate compensation for those receiving more than fifty.

[There was tremendous political controversy over the Bill which was formulated to give ex-service men a monetary reward. It ,was said that it was a political measure, in view of the Congressional election ,next autumn. The President and the Secretary for the Treasury were opposed to the bonus, bulj the Republican majority averred that it would be carried. President Harding ©nd'savoured to spike the gun b/ declaring that the bonus question > could be postponed until a more favourable time, unless Congress was willing to adopt a. general sales tax. The latter mad;e it doubtful whether the bonus proposad could be passed, as there was" strong "opposition to the sales -tax.]' .