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...deficiency bill, carrying $381,233,000 to make up deficiencies in this year's budget. The chief items were $149,250,000 for tax refunds, $97,265,000 to pay increased postal salaries, $78,010,000 for the Veterans' Bureau, chiefly on account of extra cost of the soldiers' bonus...
Recently he was made Assistant Secretary of War. Last week he demonstrated that he still had the welfare of his buddies at heart. His adjusted service certificate (bonus) was given him with his name spelled "Mahnider." (How many thousand others had their names misspelled?) He protested to Adjutant General Robert Davis. Orders were issued in the Bonus Bureau that misspellings would lead to demotions. Moreover the supervisor who passed the certificate of "Hanford Mahnider" was reduced to a correspondence clerk, in rank and salary...
...more for the soldier bonus...
About $140,000,000 a year for the next 20 years will be necessary to pay the soldier bonus...
...Texas, where they pay a $500 bonus for catching a rich man violating the liquor statutes, where the "unwritten law" and the "hip-pocket move" as defenses for killers still bulk large in the eyes of the courts, where they impeach a Governor, elect his wife to the office, and then complain because she follows his advice,--in Texas, they don't believe in evolution either. A dispatch yesterday from the Lone Star State throws light on the mental processes of Texans and their beliefs and disbeliefs...