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...customary for a major Congressional bill to be prefaced by a patriotic statement of the reasons for its introduction, the ways in which the public welfare will presumably be benefited by its adop- tion. Last week a bill before the House for immediate payment of the Bonus bore the following preamble...
From Harding's time onward it has been one of the chief duties of presidents to veto bonus legislation. But $3000 a head for each soldier killed or wounded in the war is not enough tribute, according to the beneficiaries, the living. "Gimme, gimme", is the unending cry of the veterans, Who for the most part never saw a German shell. "I wore a uniform, didn...
Reviewing the history of recent bonus lobbies, one comes to the regrettable conclusion that the G.A.R. was composed of a bunch of pikers. Hospitalization, vocational training, allowances for dependents, preferential selection in government service, a quarter of a billion discharge bonus at the end of the war-this was only a start. So, in 1924 they got the adjusted-service certificates over a presidential veto, later, loans on these policies, and in 1930 compensation for disabilities incurred after the war-to name only their chief gains...
...Just a starter, since no allowance is made for: 1) future work relief appropriations; 2) payment of the Bonus...
...Bonus. The 99% probability that Congress will order payment of the Bonus this year was ignored by the President in his estimates of the Government's spending for fiscal 1936 and 1937. Only one indirect reference did he make to the Bonus: "If the Congress enacts legislation at the coming session which will impose additional charges upon the Treasury for which provision is not already made in this budget, I strongly urge that additional taxes be provided to cover such charges. It is important as we emerge from the Depression that no new activities be added to the Government...