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...schooner Amberjack II to his mother's summer home in New Brunswick and a speedy run down to the Virginia Capes on the cruiser Indianapolis. All week long President Roosevelt poked, pressed and prodded Congress towards adjourning Saturday night. To placate the House he gave ground on his pension cuts (see p. 13). To avoid a long Senate wrangle, he dropped his plan to ask Congress for authority to make special tariff treaties at the London Conference. To put down resentful little rebellions in his own party, he released a flood of Grade B patronage. At his command...
...very morning had hobbled into his office to protest a cut in his disability compensation from $100 to $40. Michigan's Vandenberg told of a veteran suffering with gunshot wounds in the back, hernia, arthritis and chronic nervousness who was about to lose $82 of his $90 monthly pension. "That means," cried Senator Vandenberg, "he'll get shot in the back a second time-this time by the Govern-ment." The chamber rang with protests against "the horrors of this new deal . . . its unspeakable cruelties . . . its indefensible hardships." Vainly did the President's spokesmen promise that...
Upshot was the Senate's adoption of an amendment to the supply bill which prevented the President from cutting by more than 25% the pension of any veteran on the rolls March 15, 1933 with a service-connected disability. The vote was a tie (42-10-42) which Vice President Garner broke in favor of the veterans for fear the White House would be given a worse drubbing by alternative proposals. The Veterans' Administration figured that this change would add about $156,000,000 to pension costs. It would not only reduce economies on battle-scarred veterans...
...Speaker Rainey, Majority Leader Byrns, half a dozen important House Democrats. For three hours he gave them a heart-to-heart. Director of the Budget Douglas had advised him to veto the whole appropriation bill, take the economy issue to the country by radio if Congress insisted upon a pension boost. The President did not want to do that if he could help it. BUT THE BUDGET MUST BE BALANCED, he told his House visitors, and if Congress wanted to add $170,000,000 to veterans' cost. Congress could find $170,000,000 worth of new taxes to foot...
Speaker Rainey & friends marched out of the White House looking glum and worried. The President had not succeeded in definitely killing the pension boost but he had made it seem much less attractive politically to the House leaders...