Evening star., 1935-05-18
BONUS VETO MAY
HIT |NFLAT|ON|STS
President Speeds Message
for Personal Delivery
to Capitol.
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aarlier in the day as Vice President
Garner, welding four pens so he
could satisfy the requests of memento
collectors, signed the measure amid
q clicking of cameras.
House May Override.
It requires a two-third vote of both
Houses to override veto. Admins
tration leaders still predict the
House will roll up the two-thirds,
though expressing belief that the
Presidents action would swing some
votes to the Roosevelt banner.
Speaker Byrns said: Il doubt
whether anything could change the
stand Of a majority of House mem
bers on the bonus. My belief is that
1t will pass"
Thus the big test would come in
the Senate-as previously predicted
on all sides.
Three of the chief objections to the
Patman bonus bill which have been
expressed in administration quarters,
and which some leaders said they ex-
pected to see reiterated in the Presi-
dents veto message were:
That the administration should not
spend s2,2OO,O0O, 900 for the benefit
OF only per cent of the people.
That the value of currency imitation
was questionable:
That if Congress overrode his veto,
1t should stand ready to appropriate
additional taxes.
Bonus Bloc Maps Course.
Bonus advocates were going ahead
with their plans for further action
If his veto were sustained in the Sen
ate. They intended to have offered, as
q rider on the annual naval appropria-
ton bill, an amendment directing the
President to pay the bonus, but letting
him use either new currency, bond
issue, or money out of the $4,880 000,-
900 public works fund.
Likewise, the special steering COM
mittee which put the Patman bill
through the House arranged to see
President Roosevelt at 1890 am. Mon
day in an attempt to foreStall veto.
1t was generally expected, though,
that the veto message would be writ
ten, mimeographed and ready for dis
tribution by that time.
Senator Thomas, Democrat, of Okla
homa. said Patman advocates would
meet today for final check of their
strength and to outline strategy. He
refused to make any claims, saying
that IF we had the votes I wouldn't
say So"
Van Zandt Opposes March.
There was another statement from
James E. Van Zandt, commander of
the Veterans of Foreign Wars, ex-
pressing his opposition to a new bonus
march on Washington. He made
public a message from w. w. Waters.
a leader of the 1882 march, to the
effect that he had nothing to do with
a new bonus army reported to have
left Portland, Greg
IT am glad that Waters realizes the
futtlity of bonus march, and hope
all veterans will take heed of this
warning against the proposal" Van
Zandt said.
The bonus and other veterans mat
ters have been serious issues between
Congress and four Presidents during
the last dozen years. Measures re-
lating to them have been vetoed by
Presidents II times in that period.
-Four such measures became law by
being repassed over the Presidents
veto.
Presidents Harding, Coolidge, Hoover
and Roosevelt have faced the issue
OF the IL bills vetoed only re-
lated to the bonus. Two of the
3 were passed over the veto.
Harding First to Veto.
Harding in 1921 told the Senate he
opposed bonus legislation. That blocked
it for the time being. But in less than
a year Congress had enacted a bonus
bill. Harding vetoed it. The House
overrode the veto, but the Senate
sustained it.
Coolidge received from Congress in
1924 bill providing adjusted service
certificates, maturing in l945. The
President vetoed the bill. 1t was
passed over the veto in both houses.
Hoover had placed before him for
signature in 1881 bill increasing the
loan value on service certificates to so
per cent of the maturity value. This
he vetoed, but Congress repaSsed the
bill.
During the visit of the Bonus Ex-
peditionary Force" to Washington in
1882 the House passed a bill for i'm
mediate payment of the bonus. The
Senate, however, rejected it.
In the last Congress the House
passed a bill providing for immediate
payment of the face value of the GER
tificates, but it was not passed by the
Senate.