BONUS
The 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 War.
Although the...
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