Tnesbaism

Rhode Island Democrats, who last year upset political tradition by taking control of the State Senate, in recent weeks have voted $100 bonuses right & left to Rhode Island War veterans who failed to apply for them within the period originally set by law, ending in 1923. Last week a straight-faced Republican State Senator introduced a bill to pay a $100 bonus to Sergeant Evael O. W. Tnesba of the Twelfth Machine Gun Battalion, asked unanimous consent for its immediate consideration. No objection was made and a Democrat Senator generously seconded the measure. It was passed instantly. When Republicans began to guffaw at the blind liberality of the majority, a shrewd Democratic Senator moved to reconsider the bill, had it referred to a committee for study. Only study necessary was to read the machine-gun sergeant's name backward.

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