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Show sixteen presidents March- 1933, when tr., assumed office, to t Set n spite of its . ence of the Chief FTng innj ? been Vot n supplying recorbr?Perave Propriations for tZ king ' war. It has p s S4 pnation measure? "PpJ! tal of $110,396,229 0 fmgM. eration of the federal J tte P-Including P-Including re-app used money made avaua -new fiscal year-th I 6 fot total is $130,000,000 000 "lati .effective vote-getting substitutes for these agencis. One aspect of the subsidy struggle strug-gle has been the crystallizing in Congress of a determination to curtail the President's veto power and give a greater voice in the government to the legislature. A constitutional amendment which provides that a presidential veto may be overridden by a majority of both houses rather than two-thirds two-thirds is being sponsored by Representative Rep-resentative Hatton W. Sumners of Texas. This amendment according to Mr. Sumners "would get the executive exec-utive branch of the government back on its side of the fence and would remove a hurtful confusion of the allocation of governmental powers. The incorporation of this proposed amendment in the Constitution Con-stitution giving the Congress the power to make the law would definitely defi-nitely increase the possibility of procuring the redistribution of government powers now concentrated concen-trated in Washington and the re-establishment re-establishment of democracy in the country. The job has got to be tackled soon," he said. In commenting on the growing abuse of the veto power by the executive branch of the government govern-ment at the expense of Congress, Mr. Sumners noted that from the administrations of Presi dent Washington to President Lincoln, a period of 76 years inclusive, there were only 43 bills vetoed by those ty JamsS Preston The 78th Congress which will reconvene on Sept. 14, is taking its first real recess since the war broek out in Europe. Meantime if any chaotic developments devel-opments break out on the home front any increases in the cost of living or any food shortages that occur before the fall term the responsibility will rest solely with the White House, in the opinion opin-ion of observers. The Congressional concession on the subsidy issue, leaders emphasize, empha-size, is only temporary it ends Jan. 1. When the legislators return re-turn in the fall they will attempt to work out a permanent Commodity Com-modity Credit Corporation program pro-gram and write statutory guides for any subsidy action. Farm leaders contend that the administration's major goal in demanding de-manding huge subsidies and rollback roll-back programs is not aimed primarily pri-marily at inflation control but to win 1944 votes. With the loss of the WPA, the NY A, the FSA, and other government aid programs which Congress has eliminated or curtailed, they say the subsidy and rollback programs would serve as |