Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Amendment to the Federal Constitution (Income Tax), the 17th (Popular Election of Senators), the 18th (Prohibition) and the 19th (Woman Suffrage). Last year, he tried to read Senator Porter H. Dale and Representative Ernest W. Gibson out of the Vermont party organization for voting to override the President's veto of the Soldiers' Bonus Bill. But Senator Dale has forgiven him that...
...without a corresponding increase in revenue, it was incumbent upon Congress to provide an approximately equal increase of revenue if the bill was to become law. Congressmen had a choice of passing a bill which would fulfill their promises to postmen-voters, which every one knew the President would veto, or of passing a bill which would satisfy the President's demand for revenue, but would offend various users of the mails. The House favored the latter course. The Senate was inclined to the former. The publishers had risen in violent protest when it was suggested that their rates...
...Senate, after much wrangling, finally passed a bill to increase postal pay and postal revenues. Previously, it had rejected a bill to increase postal pay without increasing revenues rather than pass it over the President's veto (TIME, Jan. 19). Since many Senators had promised to vote for increased postal pay it was important that they should vote for some measure of the kind...
...joined by the Progressives, is determined to reduce not only the powers of the Senate but its very composition. He would reduce the powers of the Senate to the undignified status abhorred by the British Lords; that is, he would make it an empty debating chamber with a suspensory veto whereby any measure passed three times by the Canadian House of Commons would become the land's law no matter what the Senate thought about it. As regards the composition of the Senate, the Premier would have the Senators elected (not appointed) for definite periods and with a definite retiring...
...Liberal party after a decisive mandate from the electorate, emasculated the ancient and honorable House of Lords by reducing its veto on non-financial legislation to the power of delaying a given bill for two years. The lords have continuously been Conservative, almost to a man; and the present cabinet is hoping to coin their temporary popularity in the Commons into a mint of future strength. The power of the lords is to be positively restored by providing that all bills from which the upper house dissents will be drawn up by a committee of sixty, divided equally between...