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...Defeated the Bursum Pension Bill, 28 to 53, when it was pressed for passage over the President's veto...
Orderly Retrenchment. The President said to Congress: "It must be maintained and ought to be strengthened by the example of your observance." Congress has passed the Bursum Bill and the Bonus Bill and has other measures in prospect, carrying many millions more of extra appropriations...
...President vetoed the Bursum Pension Bill to increase the pensions of veterans and widows of veterans of the 1812, Mexican, Civil, Indian, Spanish Wars (see Page...
...first veto message to issue from the White House during the present Administration descended upon a pension bill. This bill, sponsored by Senator Holm O. Bursum of New Mexico, was passed by both Houses during April. It was similar to a bill vetoed by President Harding...
...Bursum, seeing his proposal vetoed, was expected to try to over-ride the veto. But no one expected to see him succeed...