Word: sessional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fifty-fourth session of the Council of the League of Nations opened in Geneva, last week, with sardonic Vittorio Scialoja in the chair. This brilliant, skeptical Italian jurist comes of a line of Scialojas who have been magistrates and grand dignitaries since the 17th Century. He collaborated with Woodrow Wilson in drafting the Covenant of the League of Nations as Italian Foreign Minister (1919-20) ; today, in the 73rd year of his vigorous age, he is the personal and implicitly trusted diplomatic representative of Dictator Benito Mussolini. "Order!" rapped Chairman Vittorio Scialoja, as his judicial forbears have rapped for generations...
...President Madison, the "Father of the Constitution," announced to the 2nd session of the 12th Congress the "pocket veto" of a bill passed at its 1st session, employing these words...
...close of its first session the 69th Congress passed a bill conferring upon the Court of Claims jurisdiction to hear the suit of the Okanogan Indians. On July 3, 1926--less than ten days thereafter--the first session adjourned sine die. The President did not sign the bill, nor did he return it to Congress with his objections. Did the bill become a law? No, held the Court of Claims. Yes, contended counsel for the Indians, who appeal to the Supreme Court...
...such an occasion. Adjournment sine die would seem clearly to be a case where the bill could not be returned within ten days. A more difficult question--not directly presented in the Okanogan case--is the matter of adjournment for longer than ten days during the continuance of a session, as, e.g., over the Christmas holidays. The "pocket veto" is conditioned on this: that Congress by their action prevent etc. Unless we are to accuse Gouvernor Morris of careless draughting, we can scarcely construe this to denote only that last adjournment which is not pursuant to the will of Congress...
...bill... which passed the two Houses at the last session of Congress, having appeared to me liable of abuse..., and therefore not been signed; and having been presented at an hour too near the close of the session to be returned with objections for reconsideration, the bill failed to become a law." Other Presidents who have expressly or implicitly concurred in the belief that the "pocket veto" is efficacious at the end of any session of a Congress include Jackson, Tyler, Buchanan, Lincoln, Johnson, Grant, Arthur, Cleveland, Harrison, McKinley, Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Harding, and Coolidge. The practice was upheld...