New Britain herald., 1919-07-12


 bill because of it's provision repeating the daylight saving law
 The president vetoed also the sundry civil bill.
 The president explained that he ve- toed the sundry civil measure "because of certain items of the bill which seem to me likely to be of the most serious consequence"
 Tn regard to the agricultural bill the president sent the following commun- ication to the house of representa- tives:
 'EE take the liberty of returning H. R. 3157, an act making appropriations for department of agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920 without my signature.
 Realizes Inconvenience.
 'I realize, of course the grave in convenience which may arise from the postponement of the legislation at this time, but feel obliged to withhold my signature because of the clause which provides that at and after o'clock, a. m., on Sunday, October 26, 1919, the act entitled ''an act to save daylight and to provide standard time for the United States approved March 19, 1918, be, and the same hereby is re- pealed.'
 Is Opposed to Repeal.
 q believe that the repeal of the act referred to would be of very great in convenience to the country, and l think that I am justified in saying that it would constitute something more than an inconvenience. 1t would involve a serious economic loss. The act of March 19, 1918, to save daylight re- suited not only from a careful study of industrial conditions by competent men familiar with the business opera tions of the country, but also from ob Servation of the happy and beneficial consequences of similar legislation in other countries where legislation Of this character has been for some time in operation and where it has resulted, as the act of March 19, 1919, has re- suited in the United States in substan tial economies. The act was intended to place the chief business activities of the country as nearly as might be within the limits of daylight through out the year. It resulted in very great economies of fuel and a substan- tial economy of energy because of the very difficult effects of work done in the daylight ard work done by artifi- cial light
 Thinks Law Is Benefit.
 "It moreover, served the daily convenience of the many cOmmun!- ties of the country in a way which gave all but universal satisfaction and the overwhelming testimony of it's value which comes to me con- vinces me that I should not be justi- fled in acquiescing in it's repeal"
 In regard to the sundry civil bill, the president, in another communl- cation to the house, said:
 Under the vocational rehabilita ton bill, which became a law June 27, 1918, the congress has sought to fulfill the expectations of the country that their soldiers, sailors and ma rines, disabled in the recent war, should be given an opportunity to se- cure, at the expense and under the fostering care of the federal govern ment, such training as he needs to overcome the handicap of his dis ability and to resume his place as a civilian able to earn a living upon something like equal footing with those with whom he was associated before he made his great sacrifice for the honor and defense of the country.
 'The work of rehabilitation under this admirable law is now at it's height, and was to have been given greater speed and certainty by the amendme ent to section two of the VO- cational rehabilitation bill which I have today signed, and which places the whole responsibility for vocation al training in a single agency, Vir- tually transferring from the War Risk Insurance Bureau to the Feder- al Board or Vocational Education six million dollars with which to support disabled men in training at the gen. erous figures of $80 a month for single man and $100 a month for a man and his wife.
 Sundry Bill Not Satisfactory.
 'It is a matter of very grave con- cernS therefore, that at the very m J. ment when these disa bled men are coming in constantly increasing num- loers to the governmen to avail them- selves of this general plan, there
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