Word: democrats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President (TIME, May 12). Mr. Bursum had summoned it up again to try to override the veto by a two-thirds vote. In the brief debate, which preceded the roll call, Senator Bursum, a Republican, led the fight for the bill and against the veto; contrariwise, Senator Dial, Democrat, led the group who attacked the bill and supported the President's veto. This fact was significant of what was to follow with the roll call. The vote was taken: For bill, Against bill, Against veto For veto...
Senator Harreld's change to the negative side (he declared that he had thought he was voting "Aye" to support the veto) had prevented the bill from passing with a two-thirds vote. The President's veto had been sustained with the aid of more Democrats than Republicans. This was partly explained by the fact that many Democrats come from southern states which have few Civil War (Union) veterans. It was natural enough to find the Republican insurgents against the President. But where were the regulars-Brandegee, Elkins, Fess, Jones of Washington, McKinley, McNary, Moses, Shortridge, Spencer, Watson...
...House had overriden. But the game was not over. The original vote in the House had been 355 to 54. Following the veto 26 Republicans, including majority leader Nicholas Longworth and Martin B. Madden of Illinois had changed sides to vote against the bonus. Two Democrats had done likewise. The Senate. Then the matter was up to the Senate. If the Senate clung to its original division the bonus would be law. If the President's veto had won nine Senators away from the bill, the bonus would be defeated. The country waited with polite attention...
Senator Carter Glass, Democrat, remarked : "I voted for this provision because I knew an infinitely more mischievous one was being held in reserve. I believe no good can be accomplished by it and that not a single dollar of additional revenue will be added to the Treasury...
...Neely, who hides his Christian names (Mathew Mansfield) by the initials "M. M.," is Senator from the State of West Virginia, a state which breeds an eloquence as odorous as the honey of the Hybla* bees. What is more, he is a Democrat and nothing loathe to attack in the Senate the Republican President who vetoed (TIME, May 12) the Bursum pension bill: "I arise to charge the President of the United States with having become a lobbyist. As such, his activities are being carried on at the breakfast table of the White House, where his power ful and penetrating...