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Show Legios Here Asked to . Urge Bonus Measiare Congressman Mondell of Wyoming, is opposed to tho passage of a bill by I congress providing for a general j bonus for men who served in the late i war. He offers, in support of his ob-' ob-' jectlon the fact that he does not be-I be-I lieve tho men generally expect it. Sec-! Sec-! ond, he "does not believe that the young men who returned home from J their service in. good health and who i are omployed at good wages with the 'splendid opportunities now presented I need any help from their government. The finances of the country are! n such a condition that the vast sums which the bonus would amount to, running from a billion and a half to four billion . . . would either necessitate neces-sitate enormous increase in taxation, or a great increase In the bonded in- debtedness ol the county ..." I H. L. Hoyt, a member of the Ameri-i Ameri-i can Legion at Graftpn, Cnl., has writ-I writ-I ten to the local chapter or tho legion, j asking them to take up the matter with their congressmen and do what ' they can to make the granting of the I bonus an assured thing. v oo j |