Salt Lake Telegram | 1919-01-24 | Page 2 | Tidy Cash Bonus and Pay for 6 Months for Soldiers Urged

Tidy Cash dash Bonus anc and Pay for 6 Months for Soldiers Urged I A proposal to pay dl discharged charged en enlisted enlisted en- en listed men and officers of at the American American American Ameri Ameri- can expeditionary forces the tho uniform amount of at upon discharge and six equal month monthly I payments thereafter as a gratuity and to pay discharged enlisted men and officers who served at horne home the uniform amount of ot at at discharge and six equal monthly I payments as gratuity Is contained in ina ina ina a bill Introduced in the United States senate by Vardaman of ot Mississippi I Copies of the tho Vardaman measure have been received by Major Fred JorI Jorgenson Jorgenson Jor- Jor genson adjutant general of ot Utah According According According Ac Ac- I cording to the tho measure enlisted men and officers to be Le eligible to receive the discharge bonus and gratuity must have been in the service either in America or abroad for a period of not less than sixty days between April 6 6 1917 and January Januar 1 i 1519 Payment ent wll be made according to toI the Vardaman bill within thirty days I after discharge or after the approval of ot the tho measure if It pas passed ed Payments will be under the direction of the secretary secretary secretary sec sec- of ot war and will be limited to the amounts of ot and for men who served overseas or at home re regardless regardless regardless re- re of ot the number of ot honorable discharges the enlisted man or officer Icer I may my have ave received