Word: adjourned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Cleveland vetoed (often by the "pocket" method?letting bills go when Congress was about to adjourn*) 304 bills, mostly Civil War pensions. Historian James Bryce commented: "By killing more bills than all his predecessors put together had done, Mr. Cleveland is supposed to have improved the prospects of his reelection. . . . The nation . . . has good grounds for distrusting Congress...
...Should the President "pocket'' a bill and do nothing for ten days, the bill, if Congress is still sitting, becomes law. But should Congress adjourn within ten days of a bill's passage, the President can kill the bill by doing nothing...
...Voted 306 to 57, to adjourn at 5 p. m., May 27; sent the resolution to the Senate. (Republican Leader Tilson had carried the resolution for days in his pocket, awaiting a propitious moment to introduce...
...Rejected the House resolution to adjourn May 27. (The Senators were tied, 40 to 40. Vice President Dawes cast his vote to keep Congress sitting. Friends of the Boulder Dam Bill were pleased...
...Heard were haled before the Conference, charged with misappropriation of funds or maladministration of the law. Then there came the matter of electing four bishops out of 100 eager candidates. Wild scenes occurred. Presiding Bishop William Sampson, making himself heard above the storm, cried that a motion to adjourn was out of order. Thinking this an unfair move in favor of a rival candidate for a bishopric the Rev. R. L. Pope of Indianapolis climbed to the rostrum and charged Bishop Sampson with injustice. "You are a liar, sir! Get off this rostrum at once or I'll have...