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The Veterans' Bonus and the Constitution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

Norman J. Padelford
Norman J. Padelford
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Colgate University
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For fifteen years, the American public has been faced with a demand that the veterans of the World War be paid a cash gratuity for the discharge of a patriotic duty. Amendments providing for benefits, preferences, rights, or privileges are attached to bills of all descriptions in Congress. Ill-conceived marches upon Washington continue to be organized, and public speeches whet the veteran's abuse-complex. Highly paid lobbies move Congress almost at will, so that the executive stands as the public's only protection against a minority expertly organized and politically well deployed.

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American Government and Politics
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American Political Science Review , Volume 27 , Issue 6 , December 1933 , pp. 923 - 929
Copyright
Copyright © American Political Science Association 1933

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References

1 Senate Document 131, 72nd Cong., 1st Sess. (1932).

2 Federal Laws Relating to Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, p. 26.

3 Congressional Record, Vol. 65, p. 6877 Google Scholar.

4 98 U. S. 343.

5 107 U. S. 68.

6 See Federal Laws Relating to Veterans of Foreign Wars.

7 U. S. Stat. at Large, Vol. 40, Pt. i, p. 76.

8 Report 855, 65th Cong., 3d Sess., House Reports, Vol. I, Misc. I.

9 U. S. Stat. at Large, Vol. 40, Pt. i, p. 1151 Google Scholar. A similar measure granted $60 to war-time civilian workers on their discharge.

10 Cong. Rec. Vol. 59, Pt. 4, p. 3527 Google Scholar; Ibid., Vol. 62, pp. 12751, 12785.

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12 Cong. Rec., Vol. 65, Pt. 8, p. 7626 Google Scholar. Compensation was determined by calculating what $1 per day for service in America and $1.25 per day for service outside of America, plus 25 per cent contributed by the government, would purchase in commercial endowment insurance at the applicants' present age.

13 Ibid., Vol. 65, p. 1413.

14 Ibid., Vol. 65, p. 6770.

15 Ibid., Vol. 65, p. 4180.

16 Ibid., Vol. 65, p. 5537.

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21 Ibid., Vol. 75, Pt. 12, pp. 13053–13054, 13277.

22 New York Times, Sept. 16, 1932.

23 New York Times, Dec. 20, 1924.

24 262 U.S. 447, 486.

25 270 U.S. 631; New York Times, Jan. 20, 1925.

26 163 U.S. 427, 440–441.

27 Warren, op. cit., p. 143. See also Corwin, Edward S., “The Spending Power of Congress,” Harvard Law Review, Vol. 36 (1923)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

28 Warren, op. cit., p. 127.

29 New York Times, June 5, 1932.

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