The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1919-07-18
PRESIDENT VETOES
"DAYIICHI' REpEAL

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daylight" REPEAL
Washington, July 12.-President
Wilson today vetoed the agricultural
bill because Of it's provision repeating
the daylight saving law.
The president also vetoed the sun
dry civil bill.
The president explained that he We
toed the sundry civil measure because
of certain items of the bill which seem
to be of the most serious consequent
ces.
In regard to the agricultural bill,
the president sent the following COM
m%unication to the house of representa-
tives:
II take the liberty of returning H.
B. 1857, IAN act making appropria-
lions for the department of agricul-
ture for the fiscal year ending June
80, 192O,' without my signature.
81 realize, Of course, the great 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 2 o'clock
a. m. on Sunday, October 26, 1919,
next, the act entitled ian act to save
daylight and to provide standard time
for the United States, approved March
10, 1918, be, and the same hereby is,
repealed.
Points to Success Elsewhere.
81 believe that the repeal of the
act referred to would be of very great
inconvenience to the country, and /
think that l am justified in saying that
it would constitute something more
than an inconvenience. 1t would in
volve a serious economic loss. The
act of March 10, 1918, to save day.
light resulted not only from a care
full study of industrial conditions by
competent men familiar with the bus
mess operations Of the country, but
also from observation 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
10, 1913, has resulted in the United
States, i nsubstantial economies.
"The act wasintended to place the
chief business activities of the coun-
try as nearly as might be within the
limits Of daylight throughout the year.
1t resulted in very great economies of
fuel and in substantial economy of
energy, because of the very different
effect Of work done in the daylight
and work done by artificial light.
Praised by Many, He Says.
at, moreover, served the daily con-
veniences of the many communities of
the country in a way which gave all
but universal satisfaction, and the
overwhelming testimony of it's value
which has come to me convinces me
that l should not be justified in &C
quiescing in it's repeal"
President Wilson, in explaining his
veto of the sundry civil bill, said GER
tain clauses of the measure more than
seriously crippled the work of restor-
ing disabled soldiers as they can again
take their places as civilians and carr
their living. He said the sum of
$4,000, 900 provided was insufficient
for the work which must extend to ev-
cry orner Of the United States. The
president also said the measure so
limits salaries for vocational work that
valuable men would be lost to the gov
eminent and disabled soldiers who
need the services and advice of ex-
perts.
Published reports intimating that
there had been a disagreement be-
tween President Wilson and Senator
Hitchcock, Nebraska, who has been
one of the leading spokesman for the
administration in the long senate fight
over the League of Nations, were said
by Secretary Tumulty today to be
without the slightest foundation.
Statements also were issued from
Senator Swanson, who, it had been
rumored, might replace Senator Hitch
the offices of Senator Hitchcock and
cock as the leading administration sup
porter of the treaty.
That from Senator Hitchcock's office
said the senator would return to Wash
ington from Swampscott, aMss., in
time for the senate session Monday
and that he chad not relinquished his
interest in the league nor had he had
occasion to change his mind with re-
spect to its approval by the senate.
The statement on behalf of Senat-
or Swanson said Senator Hitchcock as
democratic leader in the absence of
Senator Martin would continue in
charge of the ratification of the treaty
and that "neither the president, nor
any one else had ever made the slight
est suggestion" that Senator Swanson
take charge of the treaty.
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