Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed (66-to-26) over a veto a bill granting independence to the Philippine Islands...
With Senate action dubious and a Presidential veto certain the most solemn warning uttered outside Washington on H. R. 13,991 was that of Pundit Walter Lippmann in the New York Herald Tribune: "This bill is a package of dynamite quite sufficiently charged to wreck the Democratic party and blow up the Roosevelt administration. The opportunities for corruption are infinite. The appearance of favoritism, injustice and scandal is certain. . . . The sponsors of this bill are very naïve indeed if they think that a billion dollars in taxes can be levied upon necessities . . . without provoking violent resentment...
...President Hoover sent the Philippine Independence Bill on a round of the War and State Departments before giving it what all Washington expected to be a thumping veto...
...veto is widely expected when President Hoover returns from his Florida fishing. He will probably have a hard time mustering the Congressional one-third necessary to sustain his disapproval. Though he has never publicly committed himself on the issue, two potent members of his Cabinet, Secretary of State Stimson, onetime Governor General of the Philippines, and Secretary of War Hurley, who visited the islands as President Hoover's "eyes & ears" in 1931, have been loud in their opposition to turning 13,000,000 Filipinos loose. Common arguments against freeing the Philippines: 1) they are not economically or politically prepared...
...opportunity to amend it. Its passage by the House was confidently predicted?but not by any such vote (272) as Repeal got the first clay of the session. The predominantly Dry Senate's action remained highly uncertain. And at the end of the legislative lane appeared to loom a veto by President Hoover who. unlike the Ways & Means majority, is known to feel that Beer before Repeal is Nullification...