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...need for economy in public expenditure at the present time cannot be overestimated. I am for economy. I am against every unnecessary payment of the money of the taxpayers. No public requirement at the present time ranks with the necessity for the reduction of taxation. . . . The burden of the taxpayers must not be increased; it must be decreased...
...March 31). In the Senate there was a mere handful of opponents. Some Democrats stood out for a cash option instead of the paid-up insurance proposed. Such real fight as there was concerned this cash feature. The Battle. Senator Copeland of New York forced the issue-the cash payment alternative to the insurance bonus. The Democrats on the Finance Committee, in their minority report, recommended that a cash alternative tP the insurance be offered. They argued 1) that cash was what most veterans wanted and 2) that a cash bonus would be cheaper. They estimated that the insurance plan...
...Payment in cash to those whose credits will be not over $50 and to the wives, children or parents of veterans who have died since the armistice...
...Payment to other veterans in the form of a 20-year endowment insurance policy based on their adjusted service credit. On this policy they may borrow, after two years, up to 90% of its value...
Some Sugar. The Federal Sugar Refining Co., delivered 420,000 pounds of granulated sugar under Navy Order 6,273, and received payment, at the rate of 14? per pound which was slightly higher than the price fixed by the Paymaster General of the Navy for such sugar. Nevertheless, the sugar corporation claimed 25? per pound, making a balance due them of $37,350 plus interest. Their attorney has taken this claim to the Court of Claims, said attorney being the Hon. Hoke Smith, onetime Senator (Democrat...