Evening star., 1950-09-22
Congress Ready
To Override
.Anti-Red Veto
Truman Message
Expected Today;
House to Act First
BY The Associated Press

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Lawmakers anxious to start a
fall vacation hoped today that
President Truman will send them
quickly an anticipated veto Of
legislation to curb home front SUBJ
versives so they can override it
and go home.
Definite word that the President
will issue veto message, within
a matter of hours, came from
Eben Ayers, a White House press
secretary. Mr.. Ayers was asked
by reporters: When will the veto
message be ready?" His reply
was some time after noon.
Both the House, which would
act first, and the Senate were
ready to make the bill law despite
the Presidents views.
The bill was passed this week
by a 312-to-2o House vote and
51-to-7 Senate count-in both
cases far more than the two
thirds needed to upset a veto.
Truman Promises Quick Decision.
The President previously has
voiced his opposition to many Of
the bills provisions.
They include a requirement
that Communist and Communist
front organizations register with
the Attorney General, and author
ity for the Government to throw
dangerous subversives into intern
ment camps during war or other
emergencies involving armed
force.
Mr.. Truman has said that pre-
decessor bills contained serious
threats to the rights of loyal citi-
Zens
Beyond saying that no one
would have to wait long for his
reaction, the President refused at
his news conference yesterday to
indicate what he planned to do
with the bill. But Congress had
little doubt he would veto it.
Advisers Work Late.
White House advisers worked
into the night, presumably pre-
pairing the rejection message.
Attorney General McGrath has
publicly denounced the measure
as the product Of public hys-
terra"
And House leaders who cannoa
be named told newsmen: We
will receive a veto and we win
override it,"
Unless all the signs were wrong,
the anti-subversive bill promised
to be the third piece Of major
legislation to be put on the law
books over Mr.. Truman's objec-
tions.
The other two were a general
tax cut and the Taft-Hartley La
Dor Act. both enacted by the Re-
publican controlled S0th Con-
greSS.
Other Recent Vetoes Overriden.
Lesser legislation. however, has
been passed over the Presidents
veto within the past week.
The first bill of general inter-
est to be enacted over a veto
was a bill to give additional free
medical treatment to veterans Of
the Spanish-American War. The
Senate approved it earlier this
week by more than the necessary
two-thirds majority. The House
had done so earlier.
Congressional sources close to
the President said Mr.. Truman
will condemn the subversive con-
troll measure as a menace to free
dom, as a step toward police
state, and as means of driving
subversives underground where it
will be harder to keep an eye on
them.
The bill contains a congress
sional declaration that Com
munists are awaiting the day
when overthrow of the Govern
ment of the United States by force
and violence may seem possible"
1t contains these major pro-
visions:
l. A requirement that Com
munist organizations and Com
imunist-front groups register with
the Justice Department or be fined
and imprisoned. Penalties range
up to five years in Jail or a fine
of $4,000.
2. Authority for the Justice De-
partment to detain. presumably in
(See SUBVERSIVES, Page A-4.)