Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1920 — HEATED TALKS OVER PENSIONS [ARTICLE]

HEATED TALKS OVER PENSIONS

Washington, April 21.—Prediction that future generations would be called on to pay $25,000,000,000 to world war veterans and their dependents was made today by Senator Thomas, democrat, Colorado, during debate on a bill providing an increase of SSO a month to civil war pensioners. In opposing the measure, Senator Thomas declared that those who were in the war with Germany were making “an onslaught on the treasury,” and that their bonus demands had “smeared American public spirit with the dollar mark.” Senator King, democrat, Utah, leading the fight on the bill, asserted that it would add $65,250,000, to the present pension budget. The debate became so protracted that a vote was put over until tomorrow. / '• ,