Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...substantial majority in the House. The four issues are: 1) transportation-plans for a combination in ocean carrying; 2) immigration undertaking of a vigorous distributing policy; 3) reduction of taxation; 4) senate reform-making the senate elective instead of appointive and depriving it of all but a suspensory veto...
...Secretary of the Republican Congressional Committee end an important factors in the Republicans' regaining control of the House. When the office of Controller General was created President Harding appointed him. He holds office for 15 years and can be removed by Congress only for misbehavior. He can veto any disbursement of money that he regards as illegal. So far he clashed with practically every Cabinet officer-and came off victorious, such is the power of his office...
...politics last week reached into the Treasury Department and seized a concession. It was officially announced that Senators would have the opportunity of consulting with General Andrews before he chose his men, and that if any Senator objected to the appointment of a man in his district, his veto should be absolute...
...people of this Nation believe in their Constitution, but they do not understand the justice of Senate rules under which, at times, one senator exercises a power greater than the veto power granted by the Constitution to the President of the United States; under which, at times, one senator can render the Senate impotent, and under which secret legislative barter is encouraged, which not only modifies the due course of legislative processes, but legislation itself." Almost simultaneously with the making of Mr. Dawes' speech, appeared Senator Moses' "reply"-an article in The Saturday Evening Post. His remarks were...
...President to the Shipping Board was made public. He advised the Board to place negotiations for the sale of ships to private parties in the hands of Admiral Leigh C. Palmer, President of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, and keep its hands off except for a final O. K. or veto. His reason was that too many cooks spoil the broth. The Board was expected to agree-unwillingly-to this curtailment of its functions...