Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1919 — INDIANA FAVORS SIX MONTHS’ PAY FOR HER SOLDIERS [ARTICLE]

INDIANA FAVORS SIX MONTHS’ PAY FOR HER SOLDIERS

' The state senate Monday passed a resolution memoralizing Congress with a demand for six months’ pay for every discharged United States soldier, sailor and marine. lie resolution was introduced by State Senator Harry E. Negley. of Indianapolis, at the instance of Mayor Ralph W. Gaylor, of Mishawaka, Ind., who has been leading: the six months’ pay movement fin the state. Senator Negiey is the Republican floor leader in the senate and is president proIndiana thus becomes the sixth state in this section of the country to ask congress to act on the soldiers’ and sailora’ six months' bonus. Both houses have passed the resolution in Illinois, Wisconsin, Nebraska and North Dakota; and the Oklahoma house of representatives has passed it. The writer received a letter from Capt. Arthur Tuteur from Key West, Fla., Monday. Arthur has been at that station for the past several weeks and is in the intelligence department of the service. Art says army life has begun to pall on him and that he longs for Rensselaer and his friends and his garden and everything with Jasper county atmosphere about it. . : • ■