Evening star., 1936-01-24
Former Stand
Is Taken by
Roosevelt.
SEES DANGER
TOU. S. CREDIT
Senate Is Expected
to Take Similar
Steps.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.
The House quickly overrot', Presi-
dent Roosevelt's veto of the soldiers
bonus bill today, acting almost imme-
diately after the Presidents terSe,
hand written message was read.
The vote was 324 to 81, far more
than the necessary two-thirds ma
jority required to override.
Final action in Congress, however,
will not come until Monday. since the
Senate will not be in session until then.
That the Senate also will override,
thereby making the $2,491 100000 bill
q law. was confidently predicted by
members of that body.
Postponement of Vote Opposed.
The action of the House came after
its members had howled down a mo-
ton by the Democratic leadership to
postpone a vote on the veto until
Monday.
Loud shouts of "vote' showed the
temper of the House. The melsbers
would brook no delay.
No sooner had the reading of the
Presidents message been concluded
than the demand for vote was made.
Representative Bankhead of Ala
bama, the Democratic leader. moved
to postpone action until Monday. His
motion was lost on rising vote OF
l89 to l3l. The question then re-
Cured Oh the passage of the bill over
the veto. Speaker Byrns promptly
ordered the calling Of the roll.
Holds to Former Objective.
President Roosevelt's veto message
was brief, containing less than 200
words. It was written by the Presi-
dent In long hand, the first time this
had been done since Theodore Roose-
velts time.
The President called attention to
the reasons he had given in his veto
message of the Patman bonus bill last
May 22y referring the members OF
Congress to what he said then. He
concluded:
my convictions are as impelling
today as they were then. Therefore,
cannot change them"
The President in one paragraph OF
his message compared the new A6pus
bill providing for the issue of bonds
to the veterans, cashable at any time,
with the Patman bill, which failed TO
become law after he vetoed 1t. He
said:
1.-THE bill now return differs from
last years bill in only two important
respects: First, it eliminates the is
suance of unsecured paper currency
to make the payments required, and
substitutes interest bearing bonds,
which, however, may be converted
into cash at face value at any time;
second, it adds $263,000,000 to the
total payments by forgiving interest
after October /, 1881, on amounts
borrowed"
In urging the postponement of ac-
ton by the House until Monday,
Bankhead pointed out that the Senate
will not be in session until that time
and no conclusive action, therefore.
could be had on the measure until
then. He also said there were con-
siderable number of absentees who did
not expect the veto message today.
He added, however, that the procedure
on the bill was entirely matter for
the House to decide.
Blanton Gives Views.
Representative Blanton. Democrat,
Of Texas, opposing the motion to post
pone, suggested that American Legion
posts all over the country and other
veterans organizations would feel
1mpelled to send kilograms to all men,
bers Of the House. spending money
unnecessarily.
The chairman of the Rules Com
mittee. Representative O'Connor of
New York, backed up Majority Leader
Bankhead in the demand for postpone
ment, saying it would be unfair to the
absentees to have a vote today.
Cries Of ''vote! vote!" interrupted
him. After a final appeal by Bank
head, the House voted down, on q
standing vote, the motion to postpone.
A request by O'Connor for q roll call
vote on the motion did not receive q
sufncient number of seconds.
The vote by which the House over
rode President Roosevelt's veto of the
Patman inflationary bill last May was
s22 to 90. The veto, however, was
sustained ct that time in the Senate.
In his veto message Of last May,
President Roosevelt gave in detail
his reasons for opposing immediate
cash payment Of the bonus. They
included opposition to the issuance
Of greenbacks, the payment Of the
bonus at that time when it was not
due until l945, and objection to the
payment OF $4,000, 100000 at time
when the government needed the
money for other purposes.
In that message, the President said:
II cannot in honesty assert to you
that to increase that deficit (the deficit
Tor the last fiscal year,, this year by
$4,000 ,00O, 900 will in itself bankrupt
the United States. Today the credit
OF the United States is safe. But It
can't ultimately be safe II We engage
In policy Of yielding to each and all
OF the groups that are able to force