Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Madison, the "Father of the Constitution," announced to the 2nd session of the 12th Congress the "pocket veto" of a bill passed at its 1st session, employing these words...
When is a "pocket veto" not a veto? is the question which the suit of the Okanogan Indians now presents for the first time to the Supreme Court. The issue thus raised has aroused interest rather from its novelty than from its intrinsic importance. A practice sanctioned by more than a century of usage now awaits authoritative interpretation by the court of last resort. If this is not enough to explain the CRIMSON's interest in the subject, then perhaps judicial cognizance might be taken of the fact that aspirants for editorial advancement are prone to secure copy by means...
...think proper." From the above and other passages it will appear that "adjournment" may be not merely due to the expiration of the life of a Congress, but from day to day, or until a certain day, or sine die. The occasion upon whch an unsigned bill is "pocket vetoed" occurs when "the Congress by their Adjournment" prevent its return. Adjournment from day to day is clearly not such an occasion. Adjournment sine die would seem clearly to be a case where the bill could not be returned within ten days. A more difficult question--not directly presented...
...abuse..., and therefore not been signed; and having been presented at an hour too near the close of the session to be returned with objections for reconsideration, the bill failed to become a law." Other Presidents who have expressly or implicitly concurred in the belief that the "pocket veto" is efficacious at the end of any session of a Congress include Jackson, Tyler, Buchanan, Lincoln, Johnson, Grant, Arthur, Cleveland, Harrison, McKinley, Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Harding, and Coolidge. The practice was upheld in the opinions of Attorney Generals Devens and Miller...
...question arose as to the "pocket veto" of bills during an adjournment from December 20 to January 6. This was rather difficult, being the matter of a mere 17 day pause in the work of a session. Senator Edmunds introduced a bill to declare that the "pocket veto" could be exercised only at "the final adjournment of a session." Senator Sumner agreed with this interpretation. In the debate on the proposal Senator Bayard declared: "The very object of the clause looks to the fact that the bill should be returned during the session of the House in which it originated...