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...Estimated additional wages to some 2,100,000 workers: $560 million a year. West Virginia's Matthew Neely adjudged it "a majestic measure of humanity." Last week Congress also: ¶Passed. 409 to 1 in the House, unanimously in the Senate (and President Eisenhower signed), a new 8% postal pay-raise bill which corrects many of the "inequities" cited by the President in his veto of a higher, 8.8% bill (TIME, May 30). Annual cost: $164 million...
West Virginia's Bible-spouting Democratic Senator Matthew M. Neely was in rare form as he raged last week against President Eisenhower's veto of the 8.8% postal pay-raise bill (TIME, May 30). Cried he: "My text consists of the ninth and tenth verses of the seventh chapter of Matthew: 'What man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?' For 1,900 years these questions remained unanswered. But now every postal employee...
...sustain the veto (to keep their fences mended with the Administration). The 54 to 39 vote in favor of overriding was eight short of the necessary two-thirds majority. With the 8.8% raise out of the way, the Senate Post Office Committee immediately began work on an 8% postal pay-increase bill, which has a good chance of passing and being signed by the President...
President Eisenhower last week vetoed a bill for the first time this year, the 53rd since taking office. The bill: an 8.8% pay raise for postal workers that would cost $180 million a year...
Only two of Ike's previous vetoes were of major bills. In 1953 he vetoed an attempt to end the 20% excise tax on movie admissions. Last year he vetoed a 5% postal and civil-service pay raise, partly because Congress had refused to finance it with higher postal rates. Repeating this objection last week, the President spoke of "the imperative need for postal rates that will make the postal service self-supporting and be based on service rendered to the user." Said he: "We can no longer afford to continue a costly deficit operation paid for by millions...