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...legislative history contains some 120 measures similarly buried away under pocket vetoes since President' Madison, in 1812, first devised this oblique method of shelving legislation during the life of a Congress. A most recent and notable pocket veto was President Coolidge's disposal of the bill for Government operation of the Muscle Shoals plant (TIME, June 11). Other pocketed bills which would become law if the Okonogan Indians should win their case include a prohibition against the useless slaughter of buffalo (1874) and the acceleration of the Missouri-California mails from 38 to 30 days...
...pocket veto practice is covered by Section 7, Article 1 of the U. S. Constitution: "If any bill shall not be returned by the President within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a law, in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their adjournment prevent its return, in which case it shall...
Secretary Mellon, after the 1924 experiment, has disliked tax publicity. Last February the Senate was agitating publicity for tax refunds in the first deficiency bill.* Charges had been made that Mr. Mellon's department had secretly doled out large sums in the dark to a favored few. Mr. Mellon wrote to Senator Warren, Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, reviewing the "gauntlet" which tax refund claims had to run in the treasury. Said the Secretary...
...adequately protects the Government's interest. With this picture of the procedure in mind it is difficult to see the exact point at which a public hearing could be properly injected. ... I respectfully urge that the provision for a public hearing on these matters be eliminated [from the bill]. . . . Whether the final decision of the Department should be a public document presents a somewhat different problem, though it would seem such action is open to most of the objections above enumerated...
Congress nevertheless passed the bill containing, in modified form, a refund publicity clause drafted by Tennessee's loquacious Senator McKellar. So soon as Herbert Hoover became President, Senator McKellar attacked the reappointment of Secretary Mellon with a resolution directing the Senate's Judiciary Committee to enquire into Mr. Mellon's fitness-for-office...