Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-02
Friday Evening, May =, 1879.
VetOes i'm the Past.

Since the foundation OF the govern
ment there have been eighty or ninety
yetOes by Presidents-two by Wash
~ington, six by Madison, one by Mon
roe. eleven BY jackson, eight by Tyler,
three by Polk, nine by Pierce, three
by Buchanan, one by Lincoln, seven
teen by johnson, twenty-five by Grant
and three by Hayes. 0fthese, twelve
were what are called pocket vetoes,
where the President fails to return the
bill either way before congress ad-
journs, receiving it within the last ten
DAYS Of the session. jackson is cred
tied with most of these. OF all the
eighty-nine vetoes Pierce was over
ruled by a two-thirds vote, which is
required to pass the bill after a veto,
five times, johnson fifteen times,
Grant three times and Hayes once.
Washington vetoed a bill for the ap-
portionment of members because he
said it was impracticable, and one for
the reduction Of the army in 1897,
because he said it was impracticable
and unjust. Madison, Jackson, Ty-
Ter. Polk and Pierce vetoed bills
making appropriations for rivers and
harbors, on the grounds that it was
unconstitutional, unjust distribution
Of government funds and too general.
The five times Pierce was ~overruled
were for internal improvements. Most
Of the cases where jackson exercised
the veto power we're on bills for the
benefit Of corporations, except in the
instance of Clays land bill in 1893.
Monroe's one veto was given against a
bill for aid to the Cumberland road
MadisOn's vetOes against the incorpo-
ration Of churches, establishing a
United States bank and internal i'm
provements; Tylers against the Fiscal
Bank bills, tariff bills, regulating con-
tested elections and river and haTbor
bills Folks against river and harbor
bills and French spoliation claims,
aid TO INDECENT insane, ocean mail
appropriations and internal improve
ment bills; Buehansn's against aid
70 agricultural colleges, a mail route
TO California, q private claim and
the homestead bill Lincoln's one
veto was on a bill TO correct clerical
errors in a revenue act, IN order that
al errors might be included johnson
vetoed the civil rights bill. freedman
bureau, admission Of Colorado Tin
which be was sustzined), suffrage In
the District Of Columbia, admission
Of Nebraska, against military rule In
the Southern States, tenure-of-Omce
act. three supplemental bills TO the
Reconstruction act. amending judiciary
acL admitting Arkansas. claiming It's
aclBisl0n By previous acts. excluding
electoral votes Of Southern States
frssdmans bureau discontinued.
admission Of North Carolina. South
Car0lina. Georgia. Alabama and
Florida because il superseded the
mode presented BIZ tie constitution,
and copper tariff In but tEOof these
was he sustained the one mentioned
absysand the one Tegar3ing the admis-
Eon Of the ssTera, States first named
Grant Yetoes we're nearly al against
private bills. The exceptions were
bills regarding the Indian trust funds
regarding local natter il the district
and proof il homestead entries. per.
feeling the revision Of the statute
and the bill be said was 70 initiate ID,
currency. Hayes was O~yerruiled o.
his veto 81 the silver bill but carrie,
his point against the Chinese bin 40,
the bill . have a special term Of ID.
United States Court 70 try timbe
depredators il Mississippi There /
bus one instance where tie Presiden
vetoed a bill repeating o law. and Tia
was Tyler, who pocketed a bin 10 Re
peal a section Of the public land bill