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...Passed a bill to pension War widows and orphans (see p. 16); sent it to the Senate...
...House passed a new pension bill for War widows. Cost: $100,000,000 in five years...
...colleagues and to the Press at large. He modestly writes his own biography in the Congressional Directory in a line and one-half. As a physician he brings his medical knowledge and experience to bear on legislative questions arising in the World War Veterans' Legislation and Pensions Committees of which he is a diligent member. He voted for: Tax Reduction (1928), Jones ("Five & Ten") Law (1929), Reapportionment (1929), Farm Board (1929), Tariff (1930), "Lame Duck" Constitutional Amendment (1932). He voted against: Farm Relief (1928), Bonus 50% Loan (1931), "Lame Duck" Constitutional Amendment (1931). He votes Dry, drinks Dry. Legislative...
...kind that Chicago's Representative Oscar De Priest, only Negro in Congress, last month introduced in the House a relief bill (H. R. 10098). The measure provided that all Negroes over 75 who were freed from slavery by President Lincoln's proclamation should be pensioned by the Federal Government at the rate of $30 per month.* According to the 1930 Census, there were in the U. S. 118,446 Negroes aged 75 or more of whom Congressman De Priest estimated not more than 100,000 were slaves. He placed the cost of his pension bill...
Congressman De Priest's argument for his pension bill: The first 20 Negro slaves were brought to America by a Dutch trading vessel in 1619. By 1863 there were in the U. S. 3,500,000 slaves and 500,000 free Blacks. During this 244-year period, at $50 per year, slaves earned $3,365,177,850 which they never got. Simple interest at 3% since Emancipation has raised this debt to the Negro race to $11,332,070,000. H. R. 10098 would wipe out the "debt." The Congress seemed distinctly uninterested in the De Priest proposal...