Word: congress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vetoes have grave political bearing. The power is so nearly absolute. Not more than 50 vetoes have been overridden in the U. S. history. Fifteen of them were President Johnson's (1865-69), and he was working on a Reconstruction (Post-Civil-War) program opposite to that desired by Congress...
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...
...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...
...equalization fee" was to be levied on imports, also. It thus became, in simple fact, a tariff. President Coolidge objected to a sales tax or a tariff administered by a Federal farm board, for the reason that control of taxation and the tariff are carefully vested in the Congress by the Constitution. More over, President Coolidge could see that not even the proposed farm board would have ultimate control of the farm tax or the farm tariff, for behind the board, with power to command, were the proposed advisory councils for each commodity. Aside from economic considerations, S. 3555 looked...