Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Repassed over the President's veto, 66 to 14, the Senate bill giving disabled volunteer officers of the War retirement pay on the same scale as retired regulars; sent it to the House...
...Repassed over the President's veto, 57 to 22, the Senate bill authorizing $3,500,000 for roads through public domain; sent it to the House...
...Sustained the President's veto of the Surplus Control Act (farm relief) by 31 votes...
...many U. S. farmers actually read the bill, or read President Coolidge's veto message, will never be known. Historians, studying another debacle of agricultural legislation in the U. S., pointed out causes and clauses...
...that not even the proposed farm board would have ultimate control of the farm tax or the farm tariff, for behind the board, with power to command, were the proposed advisory councils for each commodity. Aside from economic considerations, S. 3555 looked unconstitutional. President Coolidge attached to his veto message a 6,000-word ruling from Attorney General Sargent to that effect...