The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1911-08-25
PRESIDENTS USES
OF VETO POWER
IN UNITED STATES
PRESIDENT TAFT'S WOOL VETO
PUTS RECORD HUNTERS
TO WORK.
CLEVELAND lHF Vt1OPRt SIDEkT
Many Measures Not Approved by
President Have Become Laws on
Account of the Ten Day Limit for
DisapprovaI.

Account OF the Ten Day Limit foI
DisapprovaI.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21-Presi
dent Taft's veto of the wool and free
list bills, as he has the statehood bill
is by no means the first time thai
such fate has overtaken a tariff bill
or a statehood bill, says the Washing
ton Star.
President Johnson put his stamp Of
disapproval on three statehood bills
during the time he remained in of
flee. President Tyler vetoed two tar
if bills sent to him by Congress, anC
President Johnson refused to sign a
copper tariff bill sent to him toward
the end CT his administration.
Some of the early presidents used
the veto power sparingly, but during
later years a veto message from the
White House does not attract a whole
lot of attention unless it affects a
bill that of itself commanded wide
spread interets.
Over 500 bills have been vetoed by
the twenty-seven presidents of the
United States, and President Cleve-
land holds the record for disapproval
of the largest number During his
first term he returned no less than
301. bills that Congress had passed,
stating that he refused to sign them.
President Grant also kept in practice
but his record did not run over half
a hundred.
Washington vetoed two bills that
were sent to him, one for the appoint
ment of representatives, which was
pronounced to be impracticable, and
the other for a reduction nthe size
of the army, being declared injudi-
cious and unjust. Adams and Jeffer-
son did not veto any bills, but Madi-
sons vetoes numbered six. One of
the naturalization of
said by President Madi-
son to be liable to abuse by foreign
ers; another-for the establishment
of United States bank-was regard
ed as not meeting public require
ments, and a third-for district court
trials-was pronounced to be wi
cious."
President Monroe turned down one
bill during the eight year be sat on
the lid at the White House, declaring
a bill granted federal aid to the Cum
berland road to be unconstitutional.
John quincy Adams followed the ex-
ample Of his illustrious family pred
ecessor by not vetoing any measures
passed by Congress.
Not so with Andrew Jackson.
old Hickory" unafraid of anybody
Or anything, vetoed nine measures
the greatest number that any presi-
dent had dared to turn down Up to
that time. Two river and harbor
bills he vetoed on the ground that.
hey provided government control of
internal improvements; a Wabash
river improvement bill on the ground
hat it was an unjust distribution
Of government funds" and another
similar measure, including Clay's
and bill.
Presidents Martin Van Buren, and
William Henry Harrison did not use
he veto at all, but President Tyler
brought i. back into use for eight
measures that Congress sent to him.
Among those measures were two tar
If bills, two bills for a fiscal bank OF
he United States, and two river and
larbor appropriation bills.
Three measures passed by Congress
we're vetoed by President Polk. He
ound no pressing necessity for a riv-
er and harbors appropriation bill,
pronounced a bill for internal inn
an interference with
tates rights, and disapproved the
french spoilation claims measure.
Zachary Taylor and Willard Fill !
more did not attempt to thwart the
yill of Congress on any of the meas
Tres sent to them, but President |
Pierce turned down measures. a bill (
o aid the indigent insane he declar-
d was lmprovident and unconstitu-
ional, and bills for river and harbor |
of various kinds we're
etoed on the ground that they pro-
,osed internal Improvements by the
General government
James Buchanan is credited with |