Show PRESIDENTIAL II VETOES uA8 the Veto is I the bludgeon which the masterful lOxccutlvo employs to heat an offending legislative body Into submission it is clear thai the number and Importance of a Presidents vetoes will to a certin extcnl measure Its self assertiveness Tho following table of vetoes is Instructive First fix Presldenls T T 0 I Jackson 12 Lincoln S First sixteen Presidents 52 Johnson 21 Grant 41 Klrsi tweniyono PresIdents 132 Cleveland > < JI1 MoKlnlcy I I I 2 Total vetoes to date r 00 It will be noticed fthat Jackson ti man 6f strong prejudices which he sometimes mistook for principles all tho moro adamantine of purpose because be-cause constitutionally unable to see more than one aide of Ihe shield adapted by nature to military ralhor than civil command showed his opinion I of Congress by vetoing twelve bills I three more than all his predecessors Johnson who also had an overconll I dence In his own Judgment used the veto twentyone limes twice more than any predecessor except Jackson and suffered the extreme Indignity of having hav-ing Hflecn bills passcd over his veto Grant In his two lermn wrote forty I Ii roe veto messages Cleveland fresh from autocracy at Buffalo and Albany wrpte 01 in his first term over twice as many as all the Iwotuyone Presldenls who preceded him and fortytwo In his bccond term Washington wrote two John Adams none Jefferson none Monroe Mon-roe one Van Burcn none Lincoln three Arthur four Mclylnley two Five bills were passed over ClevtUaniVs veto Not single member olUuu hpuse Has yet VOJCc1 in favor of p ttfilhlg abllls0ver McKlnleys veto L lluntei In AInslces Magazine |