Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President vetoed the Postal Pay Increase Bill, carrying an annual cost of some $68,000,000 and a provision for publication of campaign expenditures. He regarded the former portion as undesirable, but declared that he would have approved the latter if it had stood alone. This was his third veto...
...President wrote his third veto. His first-of the Bursum Pension Bill -has been sustained by the Senate. His second-of the Bonus Bill-was overridden by Congress. His third-of the Postal Salary Increase Bill-was made so late that the Senate did not have time to consider it and the House did not receive it at all. His third veto, like his first two, was an "economy veto," for the purpose of keeping down Government expenditures. Besides providing increases in postal salaries, the Bill (TIME, June 9) carried a rider for publicity of campaign contributions and expenses...
...said, if I were President, and I should find the Treasury menaced by an unjust obligation of $4,000,000,000, such as the soldiers' bonus, and I could not summon enough votes from my party to sustain my veto, I would resign...
...topics, and upon prevailing legislation and legislators in Washington. Recently, the Harriman National's advertisements took occasion to praise Senator Fess of Ohio for a speech by the latter on April 16 in Boston which commended President Coolidge. When Senator Fess voted to override the President's veto of the Bonus Bill, the Harriman "ad writer," who is reputed to be Joseph W. Harriman himself, at once retracted his praise of Senator Fess, and after charging him with insincerity, apologized for having been "fooled" by his Boston oration...
...Upon his [the Senator's] attention being called to his speech, he retorted that he would not allow anyone to dictate legislation; that he had no apology to make for voting for the Pension Bill and certainly none for the vote against the President's veto, so he voted accordingly. We are asking our friends to reread Mr. Fess's speech and then consider how a man who could make such a speech could act in such an inconsistent manner. . . . The present session of the 68th Congress is reminiscent of the story of the critic who went...