Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That the bonus will pass the next Congress with more than the two-thirds majority necessary to override the President's veto seems assured, according to preliminary announcements of the voting intentions of new members. But no one seems to know any more definitely how the money will be raised. The press (with the exception of Hearst and the Chicago Tribune properties) is as a whole antagonistic...
...corresponds to our House of Representatives. In 1916 the Congress of the United States enacted the Organic Act which abolished the Philippine Commission and placed in its stead a Senate This act gave the Philippines full power over domestic affairs. The Governor-general, however, had the power of final veto...
...conservative soul: he was elevated to the Peerage as Viscount Morley of Blackburn. Other Liberals have become Peers, but Lord Morley had been previously opposed to the power of the Lords; it was an institution which should be " mended or ended." He continued, however, to support the Veto Bill, which finally curbed the power of the Lords...
Railways. The President is expected to veto any repeal or material modification of the present railroad act should such action pass the next Congress...
...first Governor to sign a State bonus bill. That fact, however, will probably not be a factor in determining his future action. There is a large chance that there will be sufficient bonus strength in the next Congress to pass a bonus bill if he should veto...