Show SOLDIER B BONUS NU HEARINGS HE TO Tn House Committee Has Several Severa Bills on Which to Base Final Draft to Be Submitted WASHINGTON March 1 The l.-The The soldier bonus legislation was s started started start tart ed on its way today toda the house I and means committee voting yoUng to be begin begin be- be gin consideration of ot such a measure measure measure meas meas- ure Immediately Immediately- Three Three- e days of hearings on proposals for payment t compensation to World of adjusted veterans beginning Monday war were decided upon after which Chairman Green announced a 0 bill would be whipped Into shape He lie expects the committee to report a I measure to the house by n next Sat- Sat Ur ay The program for tor forthe the bill biU after it has readied reached the house has not been outlined while seVer several r appropriation tion bills bUls Muscle Shoo Shoals s and gration measures already are on the calendar S MANY BILLS SUBMITTED Several bonus bills bUls have lave been In Introduced introduced in- in traduced including the McKenzie me s te similar to the ona one vetoed by President Harding Representatives Representatives Fish of New York and Andrew Andrew An An- drew of M Massachusetts Republicans cans cans cani have lave submitted bills 1 recently both making up paid-up insurance policies pol pol- Ii Ides of twenty and twenty-five twenty is years respectively the principal I feature Payments of cash sums I would be allowed where the veteran I would not be entitled to more snore than 50 S The Andrew bill bin would allow compensation only to enlisted men while the Fish proposal would in include include in- in clude elude o officers tic rs up to of ot captain captain cap cap- tain tam in the army array army and lieutenant in inthe inthe inthe the navy the same same a as provided by bythe bythe bythe the McKenzie bill bUl Advocates of ot the Insurance policy bonus explain the actual amount of funds necessary for fors ch a 0 scheme could be determined definitely and the financial program of 01 the gov gay government government so far as was concerned could then then-be definitely decided FOUR OPTIONS PROPOSED Four options of ot payments would be allowed under the McKenzie bill Adjusted service pay vocational vocational vocational voca voca- training aid ald farm or home aid and adjusted ervice cates The latter plan provide provide pro pro- vide yide for tor or Insurance poU policies I s. s Chairman Green made p public to today today today to- to day a letter from front Secretary Weeks asking that In n view of ot the heaVy administrative work which would be connected with the payment of 01 ofa ofa a bonus that the measure be made mad effective nine months after It Is la enacted Into law The committee authorized by a Democratic conference to appear appeal before the ways and means com com- and explain the of ot t tie the e party on bonus legislation was was ap appointed appointed appointed ap- ap pointed today by Representative Hayden of ot Arizona ranking Democrat Democrat Democrat Demo Demo- crat on the World war wai war veterans' veterans legislation committee It Includes Representatives Jeffers of Alabama Rankin of ot Mississippi 1 Milligan of I Missouri Connery Cannery of Massachusetts and Browning of ot Tennessee I |