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Show OVERRIDE VETO OF EMERGENCY AGI CONGRESS APPROVES FARMERS RELIEF BILL IN SPITE OF EXECUTIVE DISAPPROVAL. President Declared He Withheld Approval Ap-proval Because the War Finance Corporation Was a War Credit Agency Not Needed Now. Washington. Veto by President Wilson on January a of tho formers' relief bill to revive the wnr fluntico corporation wns followed almost Immediately Im-mediately by n vote of 53 to 5 In tho senuto to make the bill n law desplto executive disapproval, Tho vote fn tho Iioiibo on tho follow-In follow-In dny wns nearly ns ample ns that cast In tho senate. Tho hnuso stood iJSO for the mensuro and CO against, nr !17 tmirn tliuti tlm riwuiln.l ..... thirds majority. Seventeen Democrats Demo-crats nnd forty-nlnu Ilepubtlcnni voted to sustain the veto, whllo for tho bill's passage there wero 1115 Ite-publlcans, Ite-publlcans, 114 Democrats and one Prohibitionist. President Wilson will luivo to fill nt least ono of the two vacancies on the board of directors of the revived war finance corporation beforo It can make any considerable number ot loans for financing exports with n view to affording relief to farming and other Industries. This statement was made by treasury officials nfter tho resolution directing revival of the corporation cor-poration became 11 law through Its passagu by the house over the president's presi-dent's veto. President Wilson, In a veto message, declared hu withheld his npproval because be-cause the war finance corporation was a war credit agency, not desirable or needed In peace times. Ho suld It "would exert no beneficial Influence on the situation would raise fulso hopes among the peoplo who would expect most, and would bo hurtful, to tho natural and orderly processes of business nnd finance." The legislation, ho ulso said, would result lu additional credit burdens, and the government, ho contended, should not be "called upon further to finance private business nt public expense." ex-pense." Referring to widespread demand de-mand for abolishment of war agencies and removal of governmental Influence Influ-ence from business, tho president Bald bo had "sympathy with this vlew,"nnd added that the "nation should resume Its usual business methods," |