Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-04
59B|LLS ENACTED;
1882 INTRODUCED
President Signs ISL Meas.
ures in Day-Six Fail of
His Approval.
by the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
With the signature yesterday OF
President Coolidge to ISL measures
the total number of bills enacted into
law was brought to 759 out of the
1882 introduced at the session just
closed
The President began the task of
signing measures early in the day
when he approved G3 at the W hlte
House and then went to the Senate
where he placed his signature TO 81
more before the final gavels fell.
Among the more important biils
given presidential sanction were the
$5l 900. 900 second deficiency bill carry
ing the first years public building
program with numerous other appro'
priations and the veterans compensa'
ton measure which authorizes the eX-
penditure of 100000 additional Tor
former service men and their de-
pendents.
Six Measures Not Signed.
Six measures, however. failed to re-
ceive the Presidents approval ana the
question has again risen as to whether
his failure to sign them constituted a
pocket veto or whether he coulo
legally sign them within 10 DAYS
after adjournment, as PresldentS W Il
son and Lincoln had done.
The bills that were not signed IN
cluded measures authorizing certain
Indian tribes Of the State OF Washing
ton to appeal their claims against the
Government to courts, to make ell
fective the twelfth article of the 1868
treaty between the United States and
the Shawnee Indians and to grant TO
the States Of Oregon and Washington
an amount equivalent to taxes lost by
the revestment of oregon and Gail
fornia railroad company land grants
The President also failed to sign a
bill which would have relnStated Joe
Burton Coursey of Mississippi to the
graduating class at West Point. he
was dropped from the Academy last
Spring for infraction OF rules.
Among Those Approved.
Measures signed by President Cool
idge included
Bill granting the consent of Con
gress to agreements between the
States of Idaho, Wyoming, Washing
ton and Oregon for the apportionment
of the waters of the Snake River ana
its tributaries.
A resolution for completing the
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier IN
A resolution authorizing a pam
Pacific conference on education, re
Mobilization, reclamation and recrea-
ton at Honolulu.
Bill authorizing the construction of
a bridge across Lake W aSnlnGto1
from Seattle 10 Mercer Island. WASH.
Bill authorizing the HidalGo Il
Raynosa Bridge Co. to bridge the
Rio Grande near Hidalgo, Tex.
lao Il
places for terms of the united states
District Court in Montana.
A bill to establish national Mill
tary park at Petersburg, Va
Leasing of Public Lands.
A measure to provide for the leas-
ing of public lands in Alaska for fur
farming.
A bill to revise the boundary Of the
Seouoia National Park in California.
A bill extending the time for be-
ginning the construction of bridge
across the Wabash River at Mount
Carmel, Ill.
A bill to readjust the commissioned
personnel of the Coast Guard.
A bill to authorize an industrial ap.
preparation from the tribal funds OF
the Indians of the Fourth Belkhap
Reservation, Mont.
unallotted irrigable land on Indian
reservations.
A bill authorizing the BroWnsVille
& Matamoros Municipal Bridge Co. to
bridge the Rio Grande at Brownsville,
Tex.
Court i'm Oklahoma.
Establishing a term of the United
States Circuit Court of Appeals at
oklahoma City.
Creating within the San Bernardlno
National Forest in California ma
tional game preserve.
Comforting jurisdiction upon the
Court of Claims to dispose of cases
which the Crow Indians may have
against the United States.
Establishing a dairy and live stock
experiment station at Mandan, n.
Oak.
Establishing forest experiment
station in Pennsylvania and neigh
boring States.
Establishing forest experiment
station for the Ohio and Mississippi
Valleys.
Authorizing the Shipping Board to
give preferential rate to alien vet
Grams and their families returning to
the United States.