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...days after the bill had been passed by the House, the Treasury Department furnished estimates on the probable cost of the bill. Mr. Green had declared that the cost would be $2,119,600,000. The Treasury declared that the total outlay by the Government would amount in 20 years to $4,856,750,087. The present value of the proposed insurance certificates, according to the Treasury, would be, alone, $2,264,757,591, not to mention $109,607,517 in cash payments to relatives of veterans deceased since the War and $172,000,000 for costs of administration during...
...people will not be surprised by the attitude taken by President Coolidge. They understand Mr. Coolidge must play politics in the matter, but they do have faith in the American Congress." Meanwhile ructions continued in the islands. The Insular Legislature provided some years ago an Independence Fund, an annual outlay of 1,000,000 pesos ($500,000) for promoting the independence of the islands. The fund, unlike any expenditure authorized by Congress, receives its annual income of 1,000,000 pesos without any specific appropriation. Moreover, it is spent secretly. Some time ago court proceedings were instituted by the opponents...
Against this outlay the estimated receipts of the Government...
...That the bonus can be passed if only part of the tax reduction is made. William G. McAdoo suggested an issue of 50-year bonds to finance the bonus. He calculated that these bonds could be retired by an annual outlay of about $90,000,000. John Thomas Taylor, Vice Chairman of the National Legislative Committee of the American Legion, advocates the bonus bill which will be introduced in the next Congress by Representative Green of Iowa, which it is estimated would cost an average of about $87,000,000 over a period of 44 years...
...higher standards of symphonic performance been required. They are achieved only by much rehearsing. Especially do new works, the sign of life and progress in an orchestra, require rehearsals. A symphony orchestra player will earn over $100 a week, which, for a band of 100 men, constitutes a sizable outlay...