Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 224, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1917 — War Insurance Passes Senate. [ARTICLE]

War Insurance Passes Senate.

With the SIO,OOO maximum insurance plan restored as urged by the administration and with an additional provision raising Major General Pershing, commanding the American forces in France, and Major General Bliss, chief of staff, to the rank of general, the soldiers’ and sailors’ insurance bill, carrying an appropriation of $176,000,000, was parsed by the senate by a vote of 71 to 0. - An amendment by Senator Smoot, provides that $35 a month shall be paid widows of civil war and Span-ish-American veterans as well as to the widows of men who may be killed in the present war. Reductions were made by the senate in the house provisions for compensation paid for death or disability of soldiers and sailors or members of the army and navy nurse corps. Under the bill as it now stands, a widow would receive $25 a month compared to $35 fixed by the house, while a widow with tw T o children would receive $47.50, a reduction of $5. Allowances to dependents of men at the front range from sls a month for a wife to $32.50 for a wife and two children and $5 more for each additional child. One-half of each man’s pay is to be retained by the govrenment for dependents, or, if there are none, to be paid to the man with interest on his discharge, or to his heirs in the event of his death. ——==-===—