Evening star., 1931-02-27

legislation would not be enlarged. Sen
could not bind future Congresses, or
prevent future Congresses from taking
a different course.
THE veto message of the President
rests on fundamental misconceptions"
said Senator Cutting II feel sure that
no one who favored the draft law would
have said that those men were to be a
special class. They are not group of
specially privileged men. The task
which Congress gave them to perform
in 1917 placed them under a personal
economic handicap. Whatever secur-
tiles have to be sold now to obtain the
money to loan these veterans will re-
lieve the sale of securities later by that
much. 1t has been urged that loans
should be made only to the needy vet
Grams. The difficulty with that is to
know how to decide what veteran is in
need and what veteran is not"
Senator Heflin of Alabama urged the
passage of the bonus bill over the veto.
Senator Hef1in said all the veterans
are doing is coming and telling us
that due to economic conditions they
are in distress.
Bingham Interrupts.
Senator Bingham of Connecticut in
terrupted to say he had letters from
two veterans who we're out of work, but
opposed to the pending BILL
Il would like to see these two ex-
service men," said Senator Hefiin. Sen
ator Bingham said he did not think the
Alabama Senator should make fun of
them.
II am not making fun of them" said
Senator Hef1in. 81 am sorry for them.
1 pause for any other Senator to cite
an eX-service man who is in distress
and who does not want this bill to
pass"
There Yas no response and Senator
Hefiin continued:
Now there is your opposition to this
bill, two ex-service men,
Senator Hef1in said he wished to make
war so costly that those who make
money out of war will be doubtful
whether profits they make out of war
will be greater than it cost.
Senator Bingham, speaking as one
veteran who served throughout the
World War, said that he would be will
ing to support bill which sought to
aid only those veterans in distress If
such bill were before the Senate to-
day, he said, he would not now be
found opposing it.
President Hoover has shown great
courage in sending this veto to Con-
greSs in face of the overwhelming vote
in the House and Senate in favor of
the bonus loan bill" said Senator Bing-
ham. Members of the House are elect
ed every two years. Doubtless they be-
lieve that the veterans will be pleased
with the passage of this bill. l am
not blaming the members Of the House
for their attitude. But at the same cleo
ton at which virtually all members of
the House will seek reelection next
year the President will run again.
Il have not talked with the President
about this matter but 1 assume that,
like other Presidents, he will wish to
be reelected, if only as a vindication
of his administration. The unusual
thing about this veto is that President
Hoover is now in his first term He has
been faced with unusual conditions the
world over which brought about depres-
sion here and elsewhere. Many of the
voters, critical of the administration,
nave threatened to vote to place an
other party in power. Yet, notwlth-
standing all these things, the President
has sent in his veto of this bill He
has shown a degree of courage seldom
seen in the White House since the days
Of Grover Cleveland. 1 admire him for
it,
All Of the 79 Representatives who
voted to sustain the veto were Repub-
licans.
They were:
Ackerman, Aldrich, Andrew, Bacon,
Beck, Beedy. Beers, Blackburn, Bolton,
Burdick, Chalmers, Chindblom, Cole,
Coyle, Dallinger, Darrow, Dempsey,
Dickinson, Eaton of New Jersey, Elliott,
Ellis, Fem, Fort, Free, Freeman,
French, Clifford, Colder. Goss. Graham,
Hale, Hawley Hudson, Morton D. Hull,
Johnson of South Dakota Johnson of
Washington. Kearns. Kendall of Ken
lucky, Knutson, Korrell, Langley, Leech,
Lehlbach, Let's, Loofbourow, Luce, Mar
tin, Menges. Merritt. Nelson of Maine,
O'Connor of Oklahoma, Parker, Per-
kins. Ruth Pratt, Ramseyer, Reece,
Reed of New York, Rich, Rogers, Sic
berling, Snow. Sproul of Illinois. Stall
ker, Stobbs, Swick, Taber, Temple, Til
son, Tinkham, Treadway, Underhill.
Vestal, Wainwright, Wason, Watres,
Watson, White, Wigglesworth and Wood.