Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Best general references: Charles F. Dunbar, "The Direct Tax of 1861," Quart. Jour. Economics, III, 436; Cleveland's veto message, Mar. 2, 1889, Senate Journal, 50th Cong., 2d Sess...
...members of both parties in Congress, however, have made the question one of politics rather than principles. The republicans, demoralized by their recent defeat, have sought delay. The democrats have wanted to pass the bill and force the president to veto it-as he would certainly have done-hoping thus to injure the republicans in some of the Western States, especially in the new states...
...people's veto should be respected,- Precedents show that J. Congress in the past has listened to the voice of the people, a. Pendleton Civil Service Act passed by the short session of the 47th Cong.: Civil Service R cord June. 1882; McPherson's Handbook of Politics for 1884; Nation. Jan. 11, 1883; Merriam's Bowles, II-230. b. Legislations of 1862; Blaine's "Twenty Years of Congress," Chap xvi. c. Repeal of the Embargo Act, 1809. d. Removal of the Deposits in 1883. 2. Commercial and business interests demand stability. 3 Since the McKinley bill must be repealed...
...most admirable features of the monograph are its thoroughness and careful arrangement. Every veto issued has been searched out, the monograph being more complete in this respect than an official collection made by Congress. The table of contents, references, paging, and indexing, are all arranged to give the greatest possible aid to historical students. The appendices include a chronological list of vetoes with complete references to all the pages of the Congressional journals on which the veto is mentioned; a list of protests; Confederate vetoes; bibliography, and so forth...
...monograph is intended not only to give the anthor's conclusions on the subject, but to form a guide to students working over the same material. In both respects it seems adapted to become the final authority on the Veto Power...