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Show SENATE PASSES THE COMPENSATION BILL $4,000,000,000 MEASURE PASSES SENATE AND NOW GOES TO CONFERENCE Bill Also Provides for Acceptance by Veterans of Insurance Certificates Certi-ficates In Lieu of the Cash Washington. The four billion dollar dol-lar soldiers' bonus bill was passed Thursday by the senate and now goes to conference. The vote was forty-seven to twenty-two with party lines wiped out. The roll call follows: For the bonus : Republicans. Brandegee, Bursum, Cameron, Capper, Cap-per, Colt, Cummins, Curtis, Gooding, Hale, Jones, (Washington) ; Kellogg, La Follette, Lenroot, Lodge, McCor-mick, McCor-mick, McCumber, McLean, McNary, Nicholson, Oddie, Rawson, Shortridge, Stanfield, Sutherland, Townsent, Watson Wat-son of Indiana and Willis 27. The vote for the bonus: Democrats Ashurst, Broussard, Culberson, Fletcher, Gerry, Heflin, Hitchcock, Kendrick, McKellar, Pitt-man, Pitt-man, Pomerene, Ransdell, Reed of Missouri, Robinson, Sheppard, Simmons, Sim-mons, Smith, Trammell, Walsh of Massachusetts, Mas-sachusetts, and Walsh of Montana. 20. Total 47. Against the bonus : Republicans Ball, Borah, Calder, Dillingham, Edge, France, Freling-huysen, Freling-huysen, Keyes, Nelson, New, Phipps, Reed of Pennsylvania, Smoot, Sterling Ster-ling and Wadsworth 15. Democrats Dial, Class, Myers, Shields, Swanson, Underwood and Williams 7. Total 22. The bill provides for the acceptance of ex-soldiers of "compensation insurance insur-ance certificates" in lieu of cash. This plan proposed by Senator McCumber Mc-Cumber of North Dakota, chairman of the senate finance committee, differs dif-fers from the bonus plan carried in the Fordney bill passed by the house and the differences between the two measures will have to be adjusted in conference the bill goes to the White House for President Harding's consideration. con-sideration. The senate added two amendments, which house leaders declare they will not accept. These are the McNary amendment, appropriating 350,000,-000 350,000,-000 to enable bonus beneficiaries to settle on reclamation projects in western and southern states and the Simmons amendment, providing that bonus payments shall be met by payments pay-ments of the interest of the debts of foreign nations to the United States. |