The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-12
DAYLIGHT LAW SAVED BY VETO
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Al effects of work done in the daylight and work done by artificial light
 'It, moreover, served the daily ser vice of many communities of the country in a way which gave all but universal satisfaction and this over- whelming testimony of its value which has come to me convinces me that I should not be justified in acquiesing in its repeal.''
 In regard to the sundry civil bill, the President in another statement to the House said:
 Under the vocational rehabilita- ton bill, which became law June 2T, 1918, the congress has sought to full fill the expectations of the country that their soldier, sailor and marine disabled in the recent war should be gwen an opportunity to secure at tho expense and under fostering care of the federal government such training as he needs to overcome the handicap of his disability and to resume his place as a civilian able to earn a liv- ing upon something like equal footing with those with whom he was associ- ated before he made his great sacrifice for the honor and the defense of the country.
 The work of rehabilitation under this adminisrable law is now at it's heighth, and was to have been given greater speed and certainty by the amendment to seculsion two of the vocational rehabilitation bill which I have today signed and which places the whole responsibility for voca- tional training in a single agency, virtually transferring from the war risk insurance bureau to the federal board for vocational education six million dollars with which to support disabled men in training at the gen erous figures of $50 a month for a single man and s100 a month for a man and his wife.
 Tt is a matter of very grave con- cern, therefore, that at the very mo- ment when these disabled are con- stantly increasing to the government to avail themselves of this plan. there should appear in the sundry civil appropriation bill which I now return limiting clauses which will do much more than seriously cripple and retard the beneficial work of restor- ing these men to useful and content- ed lives. Those clauses would prob- ably, in fact, if put into effect, nulIify tn wholep urpose of the act and render its administration practically impossible.
 The section of the bill which I now return which governs the appropria- ton for this work provides the sum Of six million dollars for all the ex- penses of rehabilitation. including the support of the disabled men in train ing, and this sum is stated to be in lieu of the appropriation contained in the act approved July (-) 1919 amending section two of the act ap- proved June 27. 1918.' Inasmuch as there are already over 1000 dis abled soldiers, sailors and marines in training and inasmuch as another 4,000 would be put into training now that the amendment to section two has become law, it is clear that even at the rate of only $50 , month q sum approaching eight millions will be required for the mere support # these men, and that under the pres ent appropriation nothing will be available for the tuition ana travel or for placing them where they can earn a living and it will be imposSi- ble to meet the needs of the new thousands who are every week seek ing the benefits O. the rehabilitation act.''
 1T therefore return the bill with the hope that the congress will re- consider this section of the law, re- store the six million appropriation un- der the act amending section two, and most liberally revise the salary linn itations, so that this benificent work may go on and go on at once. I am convinced that in this matter I speak the sentiments and the hopes of those who have most carefully studied the needs of the returning soldiers who are best qualified to carry out a pur- pose which I am sure the country has very much at heart"
 Furthermore, the same section of the sundry civil bill places such lfrni- tations upon the salaries which the federal board for vocational educa- ton is permitted to pay, that it will inevitably result in the loss by the vocational board of a very large number of men who have made them selves especially Indispensable in this new work, and to whose advice the disabled men must look as well as for superintendence in the matter os training and employment.