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Show Xjfie Copy for Tills Popart men t tiuppllcil by the AmerK'an Ijt'Kion News Service.) LEGION TO SEEK NEW LAWS National Legislative Committee Drafts Broad Program for Next Session Ses-sion of Congress. Tho American Legion's national legislative leg-islative committee hns drafted the Legion's Le-gion's program of national legislation, to be submitted to the Sixty-eighth congress. The program represents the .recommendations adopted ut the last national convention of the organization. organiza-tion. It Is designed to assist the Interests Inter-ests of ex-serviee men and to express the Legion's conception of national progress. The schedule Includes eight .principal proposals, as follows : Adjusted compensation for all former for-mer soldiers, sailors and marines. Creation of a standing committee in the house of representatives to jhandle only veteran legislation. Retirement privileges for disabled emergency army officers with the same status as officers of the regular army, s provided for In the Bursum bill, .held in committee at the last session of congress. Further liberalization of the war risk Insurance act to extend the period of service origin of tuberculosis from three to Ave years. Enactment of a universal draft law by which the President, in the event of war, would be empowered to draft cap-ital, cap-ital, labor, industry, and transportation, transporta-tion, as well as man power. Adoption by congress of a permanent perma-nent immigration policy, based on restriction re-striction and selection, although the Legion may insist on total exclusion of Immigrants for five years until thorough thor-ough Americanization of those now in this country has resulted. Authorization of an archives building build-ing In which to preserve war records now housed in buildings which are not fireproof. Distribution of captured and surrendered sur-rendered war trophies among the various va-rious states in proportion to their cumber of men in the service. |