Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1920 — LODGE PREDICTS SOLDIER BONUS [ARTICLE]

LODGE PREDICTS SOLDIER BONUS

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES WILL GET BILL IN A SHORT TIME. Washington, D. C., April 2.— (Special)—Senator Lodge declared today that the Republican leaders in congress were agreed there should be a bill passed giving soldiers, sailors, and marines a “suitable reward.” This statement was made after the senate finance committee and the house ways and means committee had held joint session to consider means to raise the billion or more dollars which bonus plans thus far presented to congress would require. Taken in connection with the vote of the house ways and means committee, which by 15 to 6 declared today for a report on bonus legislation -before another month, the Lodge statement was regarded as an indication that congress would enact a bonus law in some form. Money to Come From Taxes. That the money would come from taxes and not from a bond issue was indicated by the action of the ways and means committee which adopted a resolution by Nicholas Longworth of Ohio to that effect. ■ Subcommittees which will be appointed on Monday will begin work on the preparation of a bill. It now seems probable that it will carry provision for a sales tax of 1 per cent on goods sold under SSOO and of 5 per cent on goods sold over that amount and a tax of one-half of 1 per cent on the sales of real estate. It is estimated by treasury officials that such a sales tax will yield $1,000,000,000 yearly. | Vocational education probably will be provided for in the bill. American Legion Plan. Under the plan proposed by a special committee of the American Legion between $1,700,000,000 and $2,600,000,000 would be required to give each man who was in the service S6O a month for the time he spent in uniform, whether he was overseas or in a training camp in the United States. There were between 4,000,000 and 5,000,000 men in all branches of the service during the war.