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...Accepted the joint conference report on the Soldier Bonus Bill. ¶ Considered at length the District of Columbia appropriation bill, and advanced it in committee of the whole; at one time (with only 33 of the 435 members present) adopted an amendment to change the entire financial arrangements of the District (by giving a fixed annual appropriation of $8,000,000). This is the last of the regular appropriation bills to be taken up by the House...
...Bonus Bill, which has been brewing in Congress ever since the present session began, was finally poured out. After passing both Houses and being sipped by discriminating tasters in joint conference, it went back to the Houses for second approval...
There were only a few matters on which the joint conference had to decide. The provisions for cash to those who would receive less than $50, and paid-up insurance to those credited with greater amounts (TIME, May 5 et pre.) had been settled. The dates of effect were now fixed as Jan. 1, 1925, for insurance certificates and March 1, 1925, for cash. Female yeomen of the Navy and of the Marine Corps and the Porto Rican regiment infantry were included in the benefits of the bill; Philippine Scouts excluded...
Placing the Simmons rates in the tax bill was not necessarily final, but regular Republicans doubted their ability to remove them. So, barring unexpected alterations, when the Senate passes the tax reduction bill, the joint conference will have to decide between the Longworth rates (which the House approved) and the Simmons rates. The resulting compromise will probably be the final form of the bill...
...Coolidge issued a proclamation of which the following is an excerpt: "Now, therefore, I, Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority conferred in me by the said joint resolution of Congress do hereby declare and proclaim that I have found, as has been formally represented to this Government by the Government of Cuba, that there exist in Cuba such conditions of domestic violence which are or may be promoted by the use of arms or munitions of war procured from the United States as contemplated by the said joint resolution...