Show Pres identical veto poses problems Probie ms roosevelt said 1 I forbid times for new record by BAUKHAGE news analyst and commentator washington I 1 forbid said president truman he said it 74 times to the congress while democrats were still in control the score for the republican controlled is not quite complete at this writing every american president is permitted to say he forbids but he has haq to say it in latin the word is veto of course the congress can say so right back as they did so emphatically this session in the case of the taft hartley labor act but they have to say it two thirds strong a strength they aren t always able to muster as history has shown why the founding fathers were so generous with presidential power which they never conceived as ex banding to its modern breadth we don t quite know the veto is writ ten down in roman law but latin is a dead language in england the crown has a veto power over parliament but it Is almost as dead as queen anne since it chasn t been used since her time it seems to have flourished on american soil in fact we ought to call it national veto week house majority leader halleck is lepor ed to have re marked when the third presidential veto in one week of june bounced back into the lap of the con gress others studying head lines president nixes tax cut truman vetoes labor legisla tion wool bill turned down shook their heads baukhage and opined that harry S truman was the veto ingest president yet nonsense said capitol old timers harry truman according to the record has been very sparing of his veto and has a long way to go before he attains the really b g time veto cs racked up by pres franklin D roosevelt who had more time than anybody else to ex arcise his thumbs dawn power grover cleveland the veto runner up and ulysses S grant why the old timers grunt when was president it seemed as if we had a veto on something or other almost ev cry ery day and the record shows that he said I 1 forbid or achieved the same end by the pocket method in instances A pocket veto comes about in this way the pres dent has 10 days not including sundays to act on any bill congress sends a bill to him if congress adjourns be tore fore the pres dent s allotted 10 days are up and he still chasn t acted on the blu bill it cannot become a law that is considered a pocket veto cleveland during his two terms in office used his veto power times and was overridden only twice the majority of the cleve land vetoes were personal pension bills many based on utterly ab surd claims growing out opt of the civil war at first cleveland s for forthright refusal to permit these myriad lih ui treasury raids infuriated chiv il 11 war veterans later however the GAB GAR came to consider him its friend ulysses grant a poor third to roosevelt and cleveland ve toed 92 bills was overridden four times all told the veto power has been used more than 1833 1 times b by y pres identa george washington started it off by killing two important acts one having to do with legislative or another which would have reduced the size of the army he was not overridden there were eight other presidents who never experienced a veto upset by con gressional action madison mon roe jackson polk B irli anan lm coin coln mckinley and harding on the other hand there were several presidents who scorned the veto ent rely john adams jeffer son john qu ncy adams van bu ren will am henry harrison tay lor fillmore and garfield perhaps because all was harmon ous be sweep executive and legislators in those days perhaps because as some students suggest today a sus ta ned veto is a contrad action of the principle of majority rule a rule of a minor ty of one third of e ther house plus one plus the pres ident who is not supposed to have a vote it takes a two th ads vote to kill a veto historic trees threatened for years now I 1 have walked back and forth to my labors under a gothic root roof of green firmed by the interlacing elm branches which since civil war days have made my street one of the world s most beautiful avenues today there are some rude gaps in the raftered ceil cell ing where huge branches have been ripped away by the wind and storm but now there is a threat of greater devastation for our and other elm trees ancient and historical or merely beautiful for the dreaded dutch elm disease has descended i upon america two cases of viru lent infect on have been discovered within the district of columbia alone and no cure is known my generation found nothing exotic in the idea of the village smithy under the spreading chestnut tree today the smith would have a tough job finding a chestnut tree under which to build his smithy even it if you could find the smith for thanks thinks to the infamous chestnut blight a horse chestnut tree in this country Is now almost as rare as a horse must the elms go that way I 1 talked this question over with a member of the american for estry products industries inc a private industrial association he said A recent house act on re deuced the federal appropriation for the control and research of the eu and dutch elm dis ease to 51 if it the cut is ap proved by the senate it means the end of ot the dutch elm disease lab oratory in morristown Morns town N J where the department of agriculture s bu reau of entomology and plant antine has conducted extensive re search into the control and possible prevent on of the insect and fungus an elm according to official class fi cation is a prized shade tree in the northeastern and central un ed states but passing over its esthetic value consider that it its S wood is used tor for variety of pur poses e especially specially slack cooperage market and bushel baskets for heavy crating and for veneers t but what does an care for all that consider the aate white house grounds for instance in these quiet 18 acres there are something less than trees comans ng some 90 species the two great magnol as planted close to the rear portico were placed there by andrew jack son nearly every president plant ed a tree there is the benjamin harrison oak the harding beech i ilk the cool dge birch several species set out under horver hoover maples predominate but the elms are next and many have historic memories just southeast of the south portico is an elm said to have been planted by john quincy adams there are others planted by lincoln and mckinley under these trees history lives but for beauty nothing surpasses the high arched clois ter thick in summer stark but graceful in silhouetted line in winter which roofs my avenue it A wilting and partly defoliated so 30 foot american elm elial severely at af fectea with dutch elm disease |