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...President wrote his third veto. His first-of the Bursum Pension Bill -has been sustained by the Senate. His second-of the Bonus Bill-was overridden by Congress. His third-of the Postal Salary Increase Bill-was made so late that the Senate did not have time to consider it and the House did not receive it at all. His third veto, like his first two, was an "economy veto," for the purpose of keeping down Government expenditures. Besides providing increases in postal salaries, the Bill (TIME, June 9) carried a rider for publicity of campaign contributions and expenses...
...Senator who had been out of the Chamber began to think-he had misunderstood how the question was put. He rose and altered his vote from "Aye" to "Nay." The bill was beaten. One set of faces ceased to smile, another set began. This was what happened when the Bursum Bill, to increase the pensions of veterans and widows of the Wars from 1812 to 1904 inclusive, was up for second consideration. It had been passed by both Houses and vetoed by the President (TIME, May 12). Mr. Bursum had summoned it up again to try to override the veto...
...have meant that he had not yet read the veto message. The President's reasons were well-known. They had been expressed in his message to Congress last December; they had been reiterated in subsequent speeches and they had been embodied in large measure in the veto of the Bursum Pension Bill. The President had set his style?it was to be "the economy veto...
...Senator from the State of West Virginia, a state which breeds an eloquence as odorous as the honey of the Hybla* bees. What is more, he is a Democrat and nothing loathe to attack in the Senate the Republican President who vetoed (TIME, May 12) the Bursum pension bill: "I arise to charge the President of the United States with having become a lobbyist. As such, his activities are being carried on at the breakfast table of the White House, where his power ful and penetrating propaganda is being delivered to Members of the Congress who have been previously feasted...
...Since President Coolidge has taken the position that it will be too costly to the country to pay the beneficiaries of the Bursum bill pensions of $72 a month, I hope that our veterans and the widows and orphans of soldiers will decide that it will be too costly to pay Mr. Coolidge $205 a day to be President for the next four years...