Word: democratsâ
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...bonus?this bonus?as an issue is past. Senator Walsh of Massachusetts has already introduced a bill for a cash bonus, a harbinger of the future policy of the Democrats???but the insurance bonus is past as an issue. As a problem and a task of administration it has just begun. The Government set to work to solve it. The Veterans' Bureau is in charge of administering the law, but a large part of the work will fall on the War and Navy Departments, which will have to check all applications against their files and authorize the correctness...
Result: 175 Republicans, 177 Democrats, 1 Socialist (Berger of Milwaukee) 1 Independent (Kvale, successor of Volstead), 1 Farmer-Laborite (Wefald of Minnesota)?355, in all, favored the bill. Opposed were 34 Republicans, 20 Democrats???54 in all, most of them from Eastern states...