The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1899-04-11

prior to the Incorporation Of its provi
sions into a statue as part Of our Organic
law?
It must be kept in mind that the Con-
and our Organic law each provide that II
the executive fails TO approve a bill he
shall return it with his objections to
that house in which it shall have origi-
mated, who shall enter the objection at
large on their Journal and proceed 10
reconsider It.
| PROCEDURE IN CONGRESS.
1t is said In Cushing's law ana practice
| Of Legislative proceedings. Sec. 23SS
II the bill passes in the house to which
It Is returned by the requisite majority
1t Is then sent to the other, 10 be there
reconsidered with the objections Of the
executive by a message from the former.
II on such reconsideration the house
agrees To pass the bill by the requisite ma
iorlty. IT then becomes law. The vote
on the bill. whether in the affirmative
or negative does not admit Of being ~
considered"
- vote upon the passage Of a vetoed
bill cannot be reconsldered"
Cong Globe, Sec. 2Sth Cong 612.
| Digest & Manual Rules & Practice
! House Of Rep. 59l.
- motion to reconsider once put and
| decided cannot be repeated"
journal ses. p Congress, y 1922
~ vote upon the reconsideration OF n
vetoed brI cannot De reconsdered."
Journal Ses. 2S Congress p 1893.
Judge Cooley In his Const. Limitations
p lSG says that a bill with the disapproval
of the eecutiye is returned with his rea-
| sons and IL Is their reconsidered.
That distinguished parliamentarlan
Speaker Reed, in his Parliamentary
Rules, Sec. 20i. says
"A question cannot be reconsidered but
once. A vote on reconsideration cannot
be reeonsidered."
FIRST VOTE A RECONSIDERATION.
1t must be conceded upo nthe fore
going organic provisions and parliamen-
tary rules that a vote upon a vetoed bill
IS a vote to reconsider. and that when
such vote Is taoken, whether It be for
or against the passage OF the bin over
the objections of the executive, such vote
becomes final and no vote can be tak0n
10 recosider such vote. This Is tho set
lied construction that congress has Civ
en- 10 It's own powers on this subject and
this construction has been aequieesed in
for over nifty years by the executive
legislative and judicial departments as
well as by the people, the source OF SOW
ereignty. And there is reason IN such
rule Of practice. There must be an nj
10 legislative action. II such vote may be
rec0nsidered twice, why not thrice, and
10 thrlc why not daily? surly there must
be a limit. and our national congress has
by precedent and long established usage
fixed this limit at one vote upon the |
question as TO whether the bill shall be- |
come a law Notwithstanding the objec- |
tions Of the executive. and held that no |
action can be taken 10 reconsider the |
vote. The wise and learned statesmen /
constituting the congress Of tho United
States at an early period OF our nat
iOnal existence. in their wisdom and eN-
perlence. found Il necessary and reason
able and made It the law Of the body
And neither the demands OF bitter par
tisanship nor the wisdom and intelli-
gence of modern craftsmanship have at
tempted to set aside such rule or chal-
lenge its validity as 40 parliamentary
law. Congress having adopted this rule
prior 20 the adoption OF our Organic Act
and having ino0rpora ed into the Organ
&c Act the same provision as that con-
tanned IN the national constitution relat-
ing TO the manner Of passing vetoed bills
Il must be conceded that congress at the
time Of adopting the Organic Act had IN
mihi the rule Il had adopted in exercis-
ing its powers under such constitutional
provision. and had In view the settled
given 10 this provision by