Vetoes

Last week President Hoover wore spectacles of disapproval: He vetoed the Bonus Loan Bill only to have Congress override his objections (see col. 3). He vetoed a Chippewa Indian land bill. He vetoed a bill to hospitalize Army civilians and another to give aliens dismissed from the Army veteran benefits. Week before he had vetoed two other Indian land bills. On the White House "black list" were two more measures apparently doomed to failure--one for U. S. operation of Muscle Shoals (see p. 14) and another to co-ordinate State and Federal employment agencies. In two years he had vetoed 14 bills.*

His friends said this was a fine demonstration of his courageous independence. His critics accused him of wilful defiance of popular sentiment as expressed by Congress, of trying to beat the veto record of Grover Cleveland./-

P: To the White House, Maine's lame-duck Senator Gould conducted a party of French-Canadian hunters who presented the President with moose meat. A visitor lifted a birchbark horn to his lips and said: "Now, Mr. President, we'll show you how we call the moose." No Bull Mooser, Mr. Hoover exclaimed: "No, no, please don't! I'd just as soon look at those horns if it's all the same to you."

P: After the moosemen left, President Hoover received an Elk--Lawrence H. Rupp, Grand Exalted Ruler of that benevolent and protective order. He told the President what the B. P. O. Elks were doing about Unemployment.

P: President Hoover appointed Laurits Selmer Swenson, 65, to be U. S. Minister to the Netherlands. Short, light-haired, blue-eyed Mr. Swenson (born at New Sweden, Minn.) has served as Minister to Denmark and to Norway, is beloved by Scandinavians at home & abroad.

*Major Hoover vetoes: 1) pension increase for Spanish War veterans (repassed over his objections) ; 2) first disability pension for War veterans (repassed as new legislation); 3) Bonus loans (repassed); 4) Harney County, Ore., land care; 5) 50-c- Gadsden Purchase coins.

/-In five months (March to August, 1886) President Cleveland vetoed 108 private Civil War pension bills.

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