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...Soldier Bonus. Mr. Coolidge is an enigma on the bonus question. He was the first Governor to sign a State bonus bill. That fact, however, will probably not be a factor in determining his future action. There is a large chance that there will be sufficient bonus strength in the next Congress to pass a bonus bill if he should veto...
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...difficulties of giving the soldiers of the War a bonus caused an extra session of the Kansas Legislature to be called for August 6. A bond issue of $25,000,000 was originally floated to pay the bonus. It is now found to be from $3,000,000 to $10,000,000 less than the needed amount. The cause of the shortage was that the Kansas Legislature knew not what they did. They voted to pay soldiers, sailors and marines one dollar a day for the actual time they were in service during the World...
Although the Kansas legislators may not have known what they meant to put into this law, the Kansas Supreme Court did. The board in charge of disbursing the bonus decided that men in officers' training camps should receive a bonus only for their service after being commissioned. The Kansas Supreme Court declared they should be paid for the training camp service as well. The board decided that the bonus should continue for service till June 30, 1919. The Supreme Court said the bonus should be paid till the declaration of peace two years later. The board asked whether...
Miss Alice Robertson, ex-Congresswoman from Oklahoma: "Fulminating against me for my ballot against the Bonus and for my subsequent remark that heavy pajamas make our ex-soldiers irritable, the Minneapolis Labor Review said: ' Hot pajamas! Hot Hell! If Alice Robertson thinks that hot pajamas are the cause of the ex-soldiers' dissatisfaction it is time for her to start thinking overtime...