Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...election, and only adopted four years with re-eligibility as an incident of the Electoral College; today they would probably favor the affirmative. The evils of the present arrangement are: use of office-holders by the president for political purposes as Harrison used them at Minneapolis; failure to veto bad bills for fear of offending a section of the party, as shown by pension legislation; impossibility of dignified or effective foreign policy with such frequent changes of officers; damage to business from uncertainty about legislation especially on the tariff caused by changes of party; in a word, instability and inefficiency...
...committee similar to the one suggested in this vote has existed in Boston, having only a veto power except in such instances as they may be asked by the city or by private bodies, to undertake voluntarily the task of deciding on the merits of certain locations or designs...
...Harvard committee would exercise no veto power. It would have only the initiative, mapping out, planning, examining proposals and designs, and recommending; but there can be little doubt that its recommendations would have such authority as to be almost always accepted. Whatever general scheme for the future development of the college property might be adopted, it would be carried out in detail by the committee, - a body far better fitted for the task than any which now exists in Harvard...
...Republican House could accomplish nothing. (a) The President could veto its acts. (b) No two-thirds majority could be secured in the Senate...
...passage of this particular bill is desirable. (1) The general system of the bill has proved successful in the Norway-Sweden Union, the Austro-Hungarian Union, and the United States. Bryce, London Times, Feb. 14. (2) The supremacy of Parliament is retained in the right of the Crown Veto. (3) The retention of Irish members at Westminster is necessary for protection of Irish in Imperial matters. (4) Two Houses has been found by experience to be the best legislative scheme. (5) The Protestant minority is protected by the division of the legislature and by special provisions of the bill...