Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 19, Number 12, DeMotte, Jasper County, 18 February 1949 — House Votes Demos' Bill On Soldier Bonus [ARTICLE]

House Votes Demos' Bill On Soldier Bonus

Republican Senate - However Is Expected To Pass Measure Only In Amended Form By Eugene J. Cadou INS Staff Correspondent Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 17. The Republican-controlled Senate had custody of the bonus bill today following Its quiet passage in the House, 84 to 6, late yesterday. The GOP senators are nearly certain to amend the measure to finance the bonus with a two per cent sales tax, exempting all foodstuffs and purchases under 40 cents. The House bill stipulates that the bonus shall be paid with an increase of one-fourth of one per cent in the gross income tax. Estimates are that the sales tax method could pay for the bonus in less than two years. The gross income tax increase would not be able to finance the bonus until five or six years. Rep. W. 0. Hughes, of Fort Wayne, GOP House floor leader, served notice that the Republican policy was to vote for the measure but to hold out for the sales tax method of financing it. However, the six representatives who voted against the bonus were all Republicans. They were Philip H. Willkie, of Rushville, son of the late Wendell Willkie and World War II Navy veteran; Clem Conway, Mooreland; Harry E. Danielson, Plymouth; Dudley W. Gleason, Angola; Merrett R. Monks, Winchester, and Russell I. Richardson, Lebanon. Rep. Harry Muller, Anderson Democrat and chairman of the House Public Morals Committee, announced he would seek to amend the bill prohibiting nudist camps to outlaw the disciples of Gypsy Rose Lee. The amendment would call for imprisonment for not more than one year or a SSOO fine for “any person who shall in any place willfully expose his or her'private parts in the presence of two or more persons of the opposite sex.”