The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-06-04
ANOTHER VETO IS PASSED
SENATE TAKE AOTION ON THE
 RIVER AND HARBOR BILL.

The Vote on the Passage of tho Measure
 Over the Veto Was Fifty-six to Five
 Senator Hawley Opposed the Veto and
 Senator Hill Upheld the Veto Power
 Against Criticisms.
 Washington, June 3.--A motion to idents veto of the river and harbor bill was made by MT. Vest, dem., of Missou- ri. This motion was antagonized by MT Pettigrew, rep, of South Dakota, who desired to proceed with the con- ference report on the Indian appripria- tion bill
 MT. Vests motion, however, was agreed to. Yeas 3S, nays 10, and there upon the veto was presented and read. The negatives votes were given by Sem ators Bate, Brown, Chiffon, Harris, Morrill,, Palmer, Pettigrew, Pritchard, Teller and Villas.
 The vice president stated the ques-
  tion to be on the passage of the bill, the objections of the president to the con- trary notwithstanding.
 MT. Vest discussed the presidents S message in detail, and pointed out vari- ous inaccuracies in it. Among these was the statement that the bill appro- priated directly about S14,000,000 and covered continuing contracts to the amount of $62000,oOO. The former sum exceeded the actual figures by $1, 900 and the latter sum $2,343, 900. The pres ident, MT. Villas said, had historically charged congress with extravaganza, but if the president had turned to the river and harbor bills in the last six years he would have discovered that, considering the size of the country and the demands of internal commerce, the { bill was comparatively economical. Then it had to be remembered that the appropriation was not for one year, , but for two years, so that instead of an appropriation of about fourteen mill < lions, las the president said, the amount < to be spent in the next fiscal year would not be more than six millions.
 
 1.-the payment of the $62oo0,O 900 covered by 4 the bill was as binding as the bonded debt of the government, MT. Vest $ mildly suggested to the president a that there was no interest on it. It did Anot propose, to use another expression aof the president, to mortgage posteri- Hty"
 A MT sherman, rep, of Ohio, gave req ssons why he should vote for the passage Aof the ll-notwithstanding the presi- ( Ndent's objections. He did not think #that such an appropriation bill ought Fever to be vetoed under any circum- < stances. It was not a mandatory pro- 3vision, but merely 8 permissfve one. If g the secretary of the treasury said that d there was no money in the treasury \ not otherwise appropriated" he was 8not bound to expend it. So that the
 president had complete control of the ' whole matter. Therefore he could not X sconceive a case where such bill should 9be vetoed Vetoes, he said, came to lone house or the other now almost every ! day. Congress ought to curb or check, dif possible, the exercise of the veto Spower.
 Mr. Smith, dem. of New Jersey, said dthat similar bills had been vetoed by 9 Presidents Jackson, Tyler, Polk and l Pierce and that in 1876 President Grant X sent protest to congress against a 1river and harbor bill which did not ap- apropriate one-fifth of the amount ap- Appropriated in the pending bill. Mir Villas, dem, of Wisconsin, said dhe could not support this measure (which will impose such great additional dburdens on the people at time when a Alperiod of distress has left them less cap 5lable than at other times to sustain HIthem.
 |l Arguments in favor of the passage | of the bill were made by Messrs. Berry, |8dem., of Arkansas; Pettigrew, rep, ot |3South Dakota; Stewart, pop, of Neva- Ida, and Hawley, rep, of Connecticut. E Mr Hawley, rep, of Connecticut, op- sposed the veto and expressed his regret |sthat the president had seen fit to speak 8of the unhappy decadence of the peo- ple's respect for the government. | Mr. Hill upheld the veto power |against the criticisms upon it and re- Eminded the democratic side of the |chamber that President Jackson had in Iaugurated the vetoing of the river and | harbor bills
 The measure was then passed over | the veto by a vote of 56 to 3, the nega- Hives being Bate, Chiffon, Hill, Smith so nd Villas