Show COMPENSATION TO DISABLED MAY INCREASED BE i v WASHINGTON ASHINGTON Aug 26 Increases Increases I ranging from 50 GO to more than per ce cent s. s in n the the rn compensation compensation I paid under the war car risk Insurance act to disabled soldiers and sailors I Iare are provided by a bill recommended for passage by the house interstate commerce committee Proposed extension extension extension ex ex- ex- ex tension of free insurance for two years however was rejected The principal provision is that tha t providing providing providing pro pro- viding the increased payments for disability rated as total and tem tern Single men would receive 80 a month instead of 30 provided by the original act those with a wife I 90 instead of 45 those with a wife I and one child 95 instead of 5 55 those with a wife and two or more I children n Instead of 65 those I without a wife but having one child 90 instead of 40 with 5 additional being allowed for each of two additional additional additional addi addi- children Partial disability isto is isto to be rated by a percentage of ot the foregoing I Another important amendment estimated estimated estimated esti esti- mated to cost the government Is 15 that granting automatic in insurance In- In i for days to everyone in service ervice at any time between April 6 1917 and November 11 1918 I The new measure extends the permitted permitted per per- class of beneficiaries to per in include include in- in clude elude uncles aunts nephews nieces law in and sisters in i Likewise the terms father lather and mother of the original act are ex ex- I tended to include step or adopted parents Representative Sweet of Iowa author of ot the bill said an effort would soon be made to pass the bill through I the house I |