Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...assured matter that no candidate, not even McAdoo, would go to the Democratic Convention with half of the delegates instructed. Claims of greater numbers must be taken with a grain of salt. But in the Democratic Convention, with its two-thirds requirement, one third? 365 delegates?can impose a veto on the aspirations of any candidate. McAdoo is likely to control this type of veto against the Smith-Underwood group. The Smith-Underwood group is not unlikely to have a similar stop on McAdoo. The logic of the situation calls loudly for a dark horse, especially since most...
...House had overriden. But the game was not over. The original vote in the House had been 355 to 54. Following the veto 26 Republicans, including majority leader Nicholas Longworth and Martin B. Madden of Illinois had changed sides to vote against the bonus. Two Democrats had done likewise. The Senate. Then the matter was up to the Senate. If the Senate clung to its original division the bonus would be law. If the President's veto had won nine Senators away from the bill, the bonus would be defeated. The country waited with polite attention...
...Japanese exclusion is to become effective, a provision which he regards as most impolitic. It was pointed out that there were three principal courses open to him: 1) To sign the bill without comment; 2) To sign it, condemning the Japanese exclusion date, and approving the rest; 3) To veto the bill on account of the exclusion date. Because of the large majorities in Congress for the bill with the July 1 date, the last course would probably result in the veto being overridden. The question, therefore, resolves itself into one of political expediency for the Nation. If a veto...
...conference. The conference committee decided to hold its sessions in secret-no doubt wisely. There were a great many delicate questions to be disposed of. The two provisions, in the Senate version of the bill, which are most irritating to regular Republicans-which are likely to evoke a Presidential veto if they are finally adopted are: 1) the publicity of tax returns and 2) the graduated tax on undistributed profits of corporations. The provisions were inserted by the combination of Democrats and Republican insurgents in the Senate. However, when it came to appointing members of the Joint Conference Committee...
...Americans who favor the measure do so not from any love of this bill in itself, but because they want attention and aid for disabled veterans and decline to wait another six years for a saner program. President Coolidge's veto message declaring the bill "economically unsound and morally unjust" expresses to the letter the sincere belief of the overwhelming majority. The new legislation owes its impetus and success at this time, to the desire of an able, if unscrupulous, opposition to discomfit the President by forcing his hand. Their, act, after succeeding in only the latter point, is rapidly...