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Show LOOKS BRIGHT FOR BONUS F0RSQLD1ER FINAL VOTE COMES AT CLOSE OF UPROARIOUS DAY OF BITTER ATTACKS. Eill Provides Five Plans, Cash Bonus, Home and Farm Aid, Vocational Training, Land Settlement and Paid-up Insurance. Washington. The .soldier bonus bill was passed by the house Saturday afternoon aft-ernoon by a vote of 289 to 92. It now goes to the senate. The affirmative vole was 35 in excess ex-cess ot the two-thirds majority required re-quired under the suspension of Hie rules procedure agreed upon by the leaders to force action. political division was: For tlu bill 174 liepublicans, 112 Democrats, 2 Independents, 1 Prohibitionist. Against 10 liepublicans anil 52 Democrats. Demo-crats. Final action was had after a fight which developed extreme bitterness anil three preliminary tests of strength in which the bonus supporters showed steady gain. The house was in a wild uproar and confusion throughout Ibe debate. .speaker tiiitett was unanie to restore order at any time. Several times the house chamber was a veritable bedlam. bed-lam. Cheers and applause were met by jeers and boos. The bill carries five plans of federal fed-eral aid for the ex-service men, as follows: Cash bonus, home and farm aid, vocational training, land settlement settle-ment and paid-up insurance. Under the cash bonus feature, $1.25 a day-will day-will be paid for overseas service, with a maximum of $025, and $1 a day for service in the United States, with a maximum of $500. The taxation levies provided to raise the $1,500,000,000 estimated to be necessary to defray the cost of the legislation will continue in effect for three years. They are: Additional levies of from 1 to 3 per cent on incomes in-comes over $5000 ; one-half of 1 pet-cent pet-cent levy on real estate transfers ; increases in-creases averaging 33 1-3 per cent on tobacco products; tax of 2 cents on each $10 transaction of stock and produce pro-duce exchanges, and 10 per cent tax, retroactive to March 15, on issues of stock dividends. |
