The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-05-23
SENATE WILL ACT ON
BONUS VETO TODAY
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! velt's objections to the Patman
bonus bill yesterday, and in a
noisy, turbulent session overrode
his veto 1922 to SO.
The vote started before Mr..
Roosevelt could get back to the
White House from his journey to
the capitol to tell a joint session
of congress why he could not APP
prove the bill that calls for ST.
| 200, 100000 in ,greenbacks.
That action threw the issue into
the senate where the tide of bat
tie probably will turn on three or
four. votes. The senate began con-
sideratio.i of the veto at 10 a. m.
today. Debate will be limited to
80 minutes for each senator,
which may delay the vote on the
veto until Friday.
Mr.. Roosevelt got a polite,
sometimes enthusiastic, reception
from congressman and senator's,
! but as soon as he turned and hand
ed the official copy of the Patman
bill to Speaker Joseph w. Byrns,
congressman set up the cry OF
"Vote, vote"
Mr.. Roosevelt came up the blue
carpeted ramp into the house,
grim and unsmiling. Without any
delay. he began hammering on his
objections to the Patman bill. The
chief ones were:
"There has been expended up
to the end of the last fiscal year
$500, 100000 in behalf OF the
veterans of the World war. IL
seems safe to predict that by the
year 1945 we will have expended
$13.500,000,000.
"The bill before me means
paying 81, 6O0,OO0,000 more than
the present value of the veterans
certificates. ~,
"This bill favors the able bod,eo
veteran at the expense of the dis
abled veteran.
"The clause stating that spend
ing this money is the most enec-
tive means of Fastening recovery
is so ill-considered that little COM
ment is necessary.
"The greater and broader con-
Germs of the American people nave
prior claim for our consldera-
ton at this time.
ain a majority of cases print
ing press money has not been re-
tired through taxation .. new IS
sue has followed new issue, END.
ing in the ultimate wiping out OF
the afflicted currency. =,
To-day the credit of the United
States is safe. But it cannot ultl-
mately be safe if we engage IN a
policy of yielding to each and all
of the groups that are able to en-
force upon congress claims for
special consideration
There was surprisingly little ap-
plause scattered through the
; speech. Mr.. Roosevelt. in cut,
away coat, gripped the dais and
let his words roll slowly and en-
phatically through the house.
The crowd stretched to the last
rafter. Persons were jammed into
the aisles and chairs We're placed
down in the we'll of the house for
members of the cabinet.
Senator Huey P. Long, who led
futile filibuster Tuesday night
against the Joint session of con-
gress yesterday, did not appear
when the other senator's, two by
two, filed down the middle aisle
of the senate and took their seats.
Mrs. Roosevelt had a seat in the
gallery and chatted with Josephus
Daniels. ambassador to Mexico,
before Mr.. Roosevelt appeared.
The President got about a min
ute and a half of applause as he
came into the house to deliver a
message for which there is no
precedent. He turned and faced
the congressman and senator's, an
! overwhelming majority of whom
were out of sympathy with the
doctrines he was about to utter.
! 1t was serious, weighty speech,
loaded with statistics and eco.
nomic theories. Only once did
Mr.. Roosevelt make any attempt
to tighten it. That was when he
referred to arguments that he had
no constitutional authority to de-