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APR 3 1924

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WORLD WAR VETERANS' LEGISLATION

HEARINGS

BEFORE

Y, S. CongreOS,

THE COMMITTEE ON

WORLD WAR VETERANS' LEGISLATION HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

SIXTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON

PROPOSED LEGISLATION

AS RECOMMENDED BY THE DIRECTOR OF THE UNITED
STATES VETERANS' BUREAU AND AMERICAN

LEGION, DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS

AND VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS

Fefr. 20 1724.

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WORLD WAR VETERANS' LEGISLATION.

COMMITTEE ON WORLD WAR VETERANS' LEGISLATION,
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
Washington, Wednesday, February 20, 1924.

The committee this day met, Hon. Royal C. Johnson (chairman) presiding.

Mr. JOHNSON. The committee will come to order. We have with us this morning General Hines, Director of the Veterans' Bureau, and he has brought with him a complete official table of the organization of the Veterans' Bureau, which the committee instructed me to request from him at our first executive session, copy of which is on the wall before you. I would suggest before we proceed with any discussion of this law that we insert in the record this complete table of organization, so that in the first pages of the hearing it would appear. Without objection that will be done.

(The charts referred to are on file with the committee.) UNITED STATES VETERANS' BUREAU,

OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR,
Washington, February 26, 1924.

Hon. ROYAL C. JOHNSON,

Chairman Committee on World War Veterans' Legislation,

House of Representatives, Washington, D. C.

MY DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: As requested by you to-day, I am transmitting for the record drafts of the bureau proposals for amendatory legislation. I find that drafts of a number of the proposals were filed with the committee yesterday, but to be assured that drafts of all proposals are before you I am transmitting carbon copies of the drafts so filed, making the inclosure a complete set.

There is attached also an additional copy of the draft of proposal No. 10, which is desired by the committee for submission to the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service.

Respectfully,

FRANK T. HINES, Director.

BUREAU PROPOSAL 1.- GENERAL HOSPITALIZATION.

That a new section be added to the Veterans' Bureau act to be known as section 9a (see S. 2266) and to read as follows:

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'(9a) The United States Veterans' Bureau is hereby authorized, in the discretion of the director, to furnish hospitalization in Government hospitals and necessary traveling expenses to veterans of any war who have not been dishonorably discharged from the service and who in the judgment of the director are in need of hospitalization without regard to the nature or origin of their disabilities."

BUREAU PROPOSAL 2.-DECENTRALIZATION.

Amend section 6 of the Veterans' Bureau act so as to read as follows: "SEC. 6. The director shall establish a central office in the District of Columbia, and not more than 14 regional offices and such suboffices, not exceeding 140 in number, within the territory of the United States and its outlying possessions as may be deemed necessary by him and in the best interests of the work committed to the Veterans' Bureau and to carry out the purposes of this act. Such regional offices and suboffices may, pending final action by the director in case of an

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