Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate is preparing to obey its own mandate that on Jan. 6 it shall act on the President's veto of the bill which increases the salaries of postal employes. The cost of the proposed pay increases will be between 60 and 70 million dollars a year. The President vetoed it for reasons of economy, saying that it must be accompanied by a measure for raising the extra money...
...political reasons, the Republicans are anxious to avoid having the President's veto overridden, because of the bad impression it would create. It was reported that there will be enough votes marshalled against the measure to prevent its being passed over the veto (two-thirds vote necessary to over-ride). The existence of the Sterling Bill, combining the pay raise with a rate raise will enable some Senators who are pledged to the former to vote against the pay bill alone, on the grounds that they prefer the Sterling Bill...
...Agreed by unanimous consent to take up the veto of the Postal Pay Increase Bill at the conclusion of routine business on Jan. 5, to limit debate, to dispose of it before 4 p. m. the next...
...Resolutions were passed recommending the passage of the Edge-Kelly Bill, increasing the pay of post office employes, over the President's veto; opposing a modification of the Japanese exclusion clause of the Immigration Law; endorsing citizens' military training camps in so far as they are good for youth and not militaristic in intent: asking the abolition of convict labor: demanding Federal laws prohibiting the transportation of workers to communities where there are strikes; favoring the abolition of tax-exempt securities...
...hand; by Fall, Daugherty, Denby, on the other ? had not found all his road smooth. Congress? the Congress with Senator Knute Nelson, Samuel E. Nicholson, La Baron B. Colt, Frank B. Brandegee, Wm. P. Dillingham? all missing now ? had made him trouble. It he had had to veto ; it had turned down his ship subsidy ; and when he surprised it in its closing hours with a proposal in its closing hours with a proposal that the U. S. should enter the World Court with reservations, the Senate had refused to agree by a two to one vote. Indeed...