Show M MUSCLE U SH SHOALS AlS BIll UNDECIDED Q Question estion of Pocket Veto Yeto by Coolidge Brings Arguments WASHINGTON Dec 22 AP AP- AP The question whether President Coolidge killed the Muscle Shoals bill bill billor or allowed it to become law by failing falling to sign it at the fag end of the last session of congress still was undecided today after a de department department de de- of justice memorandum on pocket vetoes was transmitted to congress The ninety page ninety page statement dated last October 10 and forwarded forwarded for for- warded to th the house with a a. brief brier letter of or transmittal b by the Continued on page 8 8 TO MUSCLE S SHOALS 1 BILL UNDECIDED Continued from page e 1 J. J 9 dent contained no conclusions and merely went into the history of bills bilI sent to the president within le ie les s than ten days of adjournment nt congress and remaining unsigned d. d Instances were cited as as far back ag 1815 isis where such measures were n allowed to become law but the o only l lr r reference ference to Muscle Shoals fact that the measure still was wasat t t the White House with ith a a. penciled n U d memorandum Pocketed a aLewis attach d Lewis Deschler house pa tarlan expressed the opinion h W ever that the wei weight ht of the cas cases S San an ancl precedents cited ten tends to bean beai out the conclusion that a a. bill n n riol t f. signed within the ten da days days' s limit limita limitation tion as prescribed by the federa federi l constitution does not be become me 1 law 1 irrespective of whether i the Len Len-d ten ten-daj limitation is at the final ment meat of congress or erl ed s s' s ses sessions of congress m The Muscle Shoals biff was received re re received received at the White House May May 1 1128 1028 three days s a-s before con congress adjourned Senator Norris lican Nebraska a has contended tl congress was merely in recess af aff May 29 21 and until the second session of ot the Seventieth congress be begaii and that th the failure of the pres d t tto to sign the bill autom ti 1 Ia aed d dit it on th the stat statute te books books' A. A AcaS case in hi this point is pending In th supreme me court 3 The attorney generals general's dum related that unsigned bills ar are found in four places places places-in in the tle custody of the tile se secretary of the senate senat th the manuscript divis division on of t the e libra library of congress the archives of f the thi fb state department and the WhIr e House m |