Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-07-18
WILSON SAVES !
DAYLIGHT ACT
Vetoes Agricultural Bill Because
of Amendment Turning
Clock Back.
WOULD CAUSE HEAVY LOSS
Executive Also Refuses to Approve
Sundry Civil BiII-Issues Two
Statements Explaining
His Action.

Washington, July 14-President
Wilson today vetoed the AGRICULTURAL
bill because of it's provision repeating.
the daylight saving law.
In regard to the agricultural blk
the President sent the following COM
munication to the house of represen-
tatives:
Il take the liberty of returning H..
R. 1857. An act making appropria-
tons for the department of agricul-
ture for the fiscal year ending June.
30. 1920, without my signature.
Saves Daylight Act.
II realize, of course, the grave in
convenience which may arise from
the postponement of the legislation
at this time, but feel obliged to with
hold my signature because of the
clause which provided that at and
after O'Clock a. m. on Sunday, Oct
26, 1919, next the act entitled AN
act to save daylight and to provide
standard time for the United States"
approved March 10, 1918, be and the
same hereby is repealed
81 believe that the repeal of the act
referred to would be of very great
inconvenience to the country, and I
think that l am justified in saying
that it would constitute something
more than an inconvenience. It
would involve serious economic loss.
The act was intended 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 econ
omies of fuel and in substantial econ
omy of energy, because of the very
different effect of work done in the
daylight and work done by artificial
| light
Says People Approved.
1T, moreover, served the daily con-
| venience of the many communities of
| the country in a way which gave all
| but universal satisfaction. and the
overwhelming testimony of its value
which has come to me convinces me
that l should not be justified in ac-
| quiescing in its repeaLT
In regard to the sundry civil bill
the president in another communica-
ton to the house said:
"Under the vocational rehabilitation
| bill, which became law June 81 1918,
the congress has sought to fulfill the
expectations of the country that their
soldier, sailor and marine disabled
in the recent war should be given an
opportunity to secure at the expense
and under the fostering care of the.
federal government such training as he
needs to overcome the handicap of his
disability and to resume his place as
civilian able to earn a living upon
something like equal footing with
those with whom he was associated be-
fore he made his great sacrifice for the
honor and defense of the country.
"The work of rehabilitation under
this admirable law is now at its height
and was to have been given greater
speed and certainty by the amendment
to section two of the vocational re-
habilitation bill, which 1 have today
signed, and which places the whole
responsibility for vocational training
In single agency, virtually transform
Ing from the war risk insurance bureau
to the federal board for vocational ed
ucation $6,000,000 with which to sup
port disabled men in training at the
generous figure of $50 a month for a
single man and 500 a month for a man
and his wife,
Acts to Aid Soldiers.
''It is matter of very. grave con-
,err, therefore, that at the very mo-
ment when these disabled men are
coming in constantly increasing num-
i bers to the government to avail them
selves of thi general plan, there should
appear in the sundry civil appropria-
ton bill, which 1 now return, limiting
clauses which will do much more than
seriously cripple and retard the bene-
ficial work of restoring these men to
useful and >coHtented lives. These
clauses would probably, in fact, if put
into effect. nullify the whole purpose
of the act and render its administra-
ton practically impossible.
1.-The section of the bill which 1 now
return, which governs the appropri-
alton for this work, provides the sum
of $6,000,000 for all expenses of rehab-
L flitation including the support of the
disabled men in training. and this sum
! is stated to be in lieu of the appropria-
ton contained in the act approved
{ July (...), 1919, amending section
of the act approved June 81. 1918. in
asmuch as there are already over 4.000
disabled soldiers. sailors and marines
i. in training and inasmuch as another
1000 will be put into training now
:. that the amendment to section has
> become law, it is clear that even al
the rate of only $50 month, a sun
{ approximating $S,000,000 will be re
: quired for the mere support of these
~ men. and that under the present ap
propriation nothing will be available
for their tuition and travel or for plac
: ing them where they can earn a living
= and it will be impossible to meet th'
ID needs of the new thousands who ar
i every week seeking the benefits of th'
rehabilitation act"