Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hands Off. President Hoover has no relish for a fight in which he is doomed to defeat. Last week he was lying low, having abandoned all efforts to try to stop the Legion's stampede for the Bonus. He has a last line of defense?the veto. Secretary of War Hurley had announced he would go to the Portland convention, make a speech if they would let him. Last week the White House disavowed him as its spokesman...
...Adopted the conference report on the $2,100,000,000 Relief bill; sent it to the President for a veto (see below). ¶ Debated a bill to establish a system of home loan banks, before digressing to adopt (53-to-18) an amendment proposed by Idaho's Borah to inflate currency by $1,000,000,000 by issuance of National Bank notes on Federal bonds. ¶ Passed a House bill appropriating $100,000 to send the Bonus Expeditionary Force home (see p. 11). ¶ Adopted the Couzens resolution authorizing a committee of five Senators to investigate...
This White House broadside meant only one thing-a veto for the relief bill which represented three months hard work by Congress. Surprising to many was the President's opposition to loans to private industry because he had recommended that very thing last December when he outlined the R. F. C. Last May Secretary Mills, as the President's spokesman, appeared before a Senate committee to urge advances to private corporations for self-liquidating construction, only to have the Senate reject it. Last week the President retreated from his own proposal when he saw it extended...
...delegation contests from Louisiana and Minnesota and electing Senator Thomas James Walsh permanent chairman over Jouett Shouse. But those same ballots nailed down the anti-Roosevelt States?California, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Texas, Virginia?as a minority strong enough to veto any nomination...
...primary purpose behind this bill is to help States and municipalities which are being forced to abandon projects because they cannot sell securities." The relief legislation had hardly gone to conference before President Hoover released a public blast against some of its provisions. His statement was accepted as a veto warning. The President was "glad" to see the "principle of generous relief to unemployment adopted." The R. F. C.'s $300,000.000 for State loans was "in line with major objectives I have been advocating," but it was "disheartening" that the money should be apportioned according to population rather...