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Week before President Roosevelt and the House had reached a compromise on pensions (TIME, June 19). Pension cuts were to be limited to 25%. "Presumptive" disability cases, in which a veteran claimed his post-War injuries were due to military service, were to be reviewed by the President. In the Senate long windy efforts to upset this compromise were finally voted down 45-to-36. President Roosevelt was master of Congress until...
...before adjournment when the pension fight was at its hottest & heaviest in the Senate, Virginia's peppery little Carter Glass, his nerves rubbed raw with the strain of the session, uprose to flay greedy veterans. From the corner of his mouth he snarled...
...presiding officer's gavel put an end to that wrangle. Further debate culminated in a vote on the pension bill. Meantime, the seeds of a new discussion had been planted in the minds of Senators Cutting and Glass. Just before adjournment was voted, the little Virginian rose once more...
...Accepted (243-to-154) a White House compromise on pension cuts in the Independent Offices Appropriation bill...
Much Congressional shoe leather was worn out over the White House doorstep last week before President Roosevelt and the House could compose their differences over reduction of pensions for disabled veterans. Day after day Democratic Representatives traipsed down from the Capitol, spent long hot hours dickering and bickering with the President. What they and their colleagues wanted, what the President flatly refused to let them have, was a Senate amendment to the Independent Offices Appropriation bill which would have limited the President's cutting power to 25% of the old payments and kept on the pension rolls not only...