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...bill authorizing the Federal Government to pay $25,000 reward for capture, dead or alive, of the nation's chief desperadoes was introduced today by Rep. Wright Patman...
...Patman measure is directed against criminals such as John "Wooden Pistol" Dillinger, "Pretty Boy" Floyd and other desperadoes who have been roaming the countryside taking a heavy toll of life...
Sirs: I notice in your issue of March 5 an item with reference to the Patman bill for the payment of soldiers' bonus. With reference to the 145th signature on the petition, you state: ''A minute or two later, Representative Roy E. Ayres, 200-Ib. Congressman from Lewiston, Mont, who has never made a speech in the House, claimed the honor, signed. He was so excited that he forgot his glasses case as he went back to sit down. It was his first claim to fame and not a newshawk in the gallery knew...
While Senators were thus contesting with the President the question of who should be generous, Representatives were likewise seeking credit for generosity. First house bill introduced in the current congress was Texas' Wright Patman's perennial measure to pay the soldiers' bonus in cash at once. This form of generosity involved $2,400,000,000, not from cash on hand, but in greenbacks. The Ways & Means Committee allowed the bill to lie fallow because 1) the House, as it did during the last Congress, would pass it if it got a chance; 2) the Administration, busy borrowing...
...down hard upon Congressman Wright Patman of Texas and his Bonus-seeking colleagues from Illinois, Missouri, South Dakota...