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...Republican caucus in the House voted viva voce, with little dissent, that the Ways and Means Committee should report out a tax reduction bill by Feb. 11, giving it precedence over a bonus bill. The caucus also voted down resolutions directing the Committee necessarily to report a bonus bill...
...established. . . . Congress passed a bill by which the Government which ceased with the termination of the War was adjusted. We adopted the principle of adjusted compensation for the railroads of the land. . . . The Government of the United States during the War and for some months thereafter actually paid a bonus to its civilian employees. We paid $20 a month during the War as a bonus, and we have paid to our employees in this bonus more than double the sum that is asked by the soldiers of the Republic...
...Soldier Bonus. Mellon Plan: none. Democratic Plan: not mentioned. Insurgent Plan: a bonus to be paid for at the rate of $200,000,000 a year...
...Insurgent tax reductions are apparently about as great as those proposed by Secretary Mellon and in addition call for a bonus, and therefore call for additional taxes. The additional taxes suggested by the insurgents include...
...inflation due to our abnormal gold reserve; 2) uncertainty as to the continuance of large industrial profits, as seen in declining commodity prices, the steel industry, etc.; 3) probability of attack, and its possibility of success, by radical Congressmen upon the Transportation Act; 4) unsettling influence of Presidential election, bonus agitation, possible tampering with Federal Reserve Act by farm bloc; 5) Germany drifting into bankruptcy, England faced with a Labor Ministry, France feeling the results of debt inflation, reparations still unsettled...