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Show FituM tub inauguration of Washington Wash-ington to that ot Hayes, forty-acven bills have been vetoed and twelve pocketed; that is, having reached the president within ten days next preceding pre-ceding an adjournment of congress, have not been returned by him. Of the forty-seven vetoed bills, sixteen became laws by the vote of two-thirds of each house. Fifteen ot theso were in Andrew Johnson's lime and one iu that of Taylor. The vetoes were as fellows: Washington, 2; Madison vetoed 15 and pocketed 1; Monroe, 1; Jackson vetoed 5 and pocketed 7; Tyler vetoed 7 and pocketed 2; Polk vetoed 3; Buchanan vetoed 1; Johnson John-son vetoed 21 and pocketed 1; Grant vetoed 2. H lyoa h is vetoed 2 and wilt probably veto 2 more, the army appropriation bill and the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill. |