Evening star., 1933-03-05
VETO FATE
OF TWO BIG BILLS
President Leaves Cotton Pool
and Independent Offices
Measures Unsigned. .
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Two pocket vetoes remained behind
Herbert Hoover last night as his parting
thrust at the Congress with which he
had disagreed vigorously for months.
One Of the measures left unsigned
was intended to help the cotton farmer
by giving him a share in huge Gov
eminent cotton pool in return for .
reduction in acreage. The other would
have appropriated a billion dollars for
independent offices next fiscal year.
The retiring President issued a state
ment saying he was not signing the
independent offices bill because all ap-
propriations measures Congress had
passed this session were above budget
estimates, if amounts that would have
to be made available in deficiencies
we're considered.
Months OF Argument.
The budget argument had been car
ried on fer months. President Hoover
said Congress was appropriating too
much: members of House and Senate.
some Republicans as well as Democrats,
insisted they were appropriating less
IMAM ne IldQ dSEeO
Although Mr. Hoover gave no per-
:onal reason for withholding his sigma
ture from the cotton bill, a report de.
failing objections of his Secretary Of
Agriculture, Arthur M. Hyde, vigorously
assailed the bill sponsored by Senator
Smith. Democrat, Of South Carolina, TO
encourage acreage reduction.
1t would have pooled under An Agri-
culture Department board cotton col
lateral held by the department on pro-
duction and seed loans, as well as stocks
Of the American Cotton Cooperative
Association. Growers agreeing to slash
1888 production 80 Per cent or more
would have received an option On .
share of this cotton and benefit by any
price increase resulting.
Hyde said be was in hearty accord
with the intent Of the bill, but didn't
think it would fulfill expectations.
Smiths retort was to promise its re-
introduction in the new Congress.
His difficulties with Congress began
less than q month after he took ONCE
Before he called the special session on
farm relief. Capitol Hill leaders criti-
ctzed him for delay. Finally he called
the special session.
Plan Called Unworkable.
When the Senate approved the deben-
ture, however, he called the plan un-
workable. He demanded continuation
Of the flexible provision OF the tariff.
and the Senate replied by voting it out
OF the law. He finally got nearly the
kind Of farm bill he wanted and signed
the tariff law that came to him, but he
lost lot of popularity doing it. One
Of his most potent supporters, for in
stance. Senator Borah of Idaho, left the
hooTer fold in that special session.
But that was not the end Of Mr..
Hoover's differences with Congress He
called "a serious blow to labor" and
vetoed the Wagner relief bill passed in
1880. He tried to get Congress to econo-
mize by asking the people to demand 1t.
He vetoed the s11 10000 Spanish War
pension act. and it was passed over his
veto; the same thing happened to the
measure letting veterans borrow so per
cent on their compensation certificates.
Along about this time. too, there came
the historic dispute over his nomination
of Judge John J. Parker of North Caro-
lima to the Supreme Court Although
his advisers on Cspitol Hill frequently
counseled him to withdraw it, Mr..
Hoover refused The fight dragged
along for two months until the Senate
rejected Parker in a breath-taking vote.
Disagrees on Relief.
President Hoover disagreed vigorously
with Congress last year on relief. His
general idea finally wss accepted after
he had labeled the Democratic plan
pork" but even then he had to take
something he did not like-publicity for
loans Of the Reconstruction Corpo-
ration.
He asked Congress to give him power
to reorganize the Government in the
interest Of economy. It gave him very
little. and when he told Congress spe.
cifically what he proposed to do Con-
gress overrode him Consequently. he
charged Congress with virtual destruc-
ton" of economy programs.
In recent months Mr.. Hoover had
continued to concentrate on economy.
And Just before he left ofice he ap-
proved a bill that will give to his sue
cessor the same power to reorganize that
he had asked