The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-08-15
CLEVELAND LEADS
IN vETOING BILLS
He Had 3oI Rejected Pieces Of
Legislation to His
Credit.
PREcEOENTs FOR TAFT
Will Not Be First Time Tariff
or Statehood Measures Have
Been Disapproved.
PRECEDENTS FOR

President T FAT veto TO- The wool and free
list bills and the statehood resoiu-
zion /, will by no means be the first
time that sucn fate has overtaken
tariff bill or a statehood bill.
President Johnson put his stamp or
disapproval on three statehood pills
during the short time he held the office.
President Tyler vetoed two tariff Bills
sen, to him by Congress, and Presi-
dent johnson refused TO sign copper
tariff bill sent to him toward the
end of his administration.
some OF the early Presidents used thc
veto power sparngly. but during later
years a veto message from the White
House does not attract whole act
OF attention unless IL arects bill that
has OF itself commanded Widespread
interest
over 500 bills have been vetoed by
the twenty-seven Presidents OF theI
United States and President Cleveland
holds the record FOR dis2pproval ~
the largest number During hts hrst
term ne returned no less than 30l
bills that Congress had passed. stating
that he refused 10 sign them. Presi-
his record aid not run over half n
hundred.
T,ro vetoes by Washington.
Washington vetoed two bills that
were sent TO him. one Tor the appnr-
tionment OF representatives. which WAS
pronounced to be imrracticaLle. aud
the other Cor a reduction In the size
of tue army. being declared iujudicious
aud unjust Adams and Jefferson did
cot veto any bills. but Madison's vetoes
Numbered six. One OF thcse-for the
naturalization OF aliens--ae said by
President Madison to be liza Bile TO abuse
by foreigners another-fOr the csteb-
iiscmei.t of & United states bnnk-was
regarded not meeting public re-
qui"tIhents. and third--fo. district
curt trlals--was Pronounced 10 bn
'NiciC US.
President Monroe ;reael down 9ne
hi n nis-f "a
the lid at the White House, declaring
PHI granting FcIer;.: aii - tie
Cutn.'ersnd koad - h- uacanstttu:
tiona. John quincy Adams f"iluwoj
the example OF his iiluStrious family
predecessor by not vetoms any mens-
ures p"ssed by Congress.
Not SO with Andra.v Jackson. old
Hickory" unafraid ot .aybpGy rr ans-
,hirG. vetoed sine niedsurcs-ihC
greatest number ina: any Pre+' mt
had Cared 10 turn do,vn al TO. that
tiiiv. I've river ana h4.bur bills lie
vetced or the grJu1i that they pro-
vided government cuEtr1l 4 Internal
Irover ent bill on .na round tha; III
was an unjust DISTRIBUTION Of x,v
ornrcat funds" AMI other similar
measures. including CLAWS land I'LL.
Presidents Martin Van Buren, and william
Henry Harrison did no; u,e the veto at sil
but President Tyler brought II back into use
for eight measures that Congress sent to
him. Among those measures were two tar!H
bills TWO bills for fiscal bank OF the
United states, and TWO river and harhor
appropriation bills
Three measures passed by Congress were
vetoed BY President POLK. He found no
pressing necessity FOR river and ha.bos
appropriation bill pronounced bill for in
ieEnai improvements an interference with
State rights. and dlsapproved the French
tpolla,!on claims measure.
Zachary Taylor and Mildred Fillmore did
not attempt 10 thwart the VIII OF Congress
on any OF: the measures sent 10 them bu,
President Pierce turned down nine meas
ures. \ bill TO aid the indigent insane he
declared, was improv!dent and unconst!tu-
tional. and bills for river and haroor i'm
provemenis OF various kinds were vetoed on
provements BY the general government.
James Buchanan Is credited with seven
vctoes one o. a bill 20 aid agricultural COL
leges, on the ground that it was lnexpedi-
ent and unconstitutional
President Lincoln sent three veto messages
to Congress. but none OF them affected bills
OF grea; Importance. President johnson was
not so eonEiderate OF the feelings OF Con-
gross. breaking the record OF veto messages
BY sending in twenty-five such conimun.ca-
tiors
braska and Arkansas he refused to sign. and
a resolution for the re,S-n into the Union
o. North Carolina South Carolina Louis
lana. Georgia, Alabama and Flor!da-all
Southern States that had Joined the Con.
federacy-was pronounced by him to be not
In accordance with the mode presented by
the Constitution. on the ground that II
strengthened the military rule he yatosd
two bills supplemental 10 the recon.tructlon
acts, and a bill excluding the electoral
votes o. rebel States he isapproved on the
ground that It implied previous erroneous
views" y copper tariff bill he turned down
durtries"
General U. 5. Grant was not slow 10 write
81 veto" at the end OF bills that he
thought were not proper. and forty-six such