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Show Truman VcIosj Navajo Bill . WASHINGTON, OcL 18 President Truman has vetoed the M,570,000 Nsvs Jo-Hop! , Indies Id bUL He acted late Monday, Influenced, Influ-enced, he aaid. by the deatrea of . the Navajo themaelvea and by the belief the measure contained "serious threata to the baate rights f these Indiana." But the president aaid the proposed pro-posed legislaUon had really served its purpose. Its aims can be carried car-ried out under existing laws, he atated. The purpose in proposing the 10-year 10-year program for the benefit of. the southwestern Indiana, aaid Mr. Truman, was to give congress an opportunity "to review that program pro-gram as a whole before appropriation appropria-tion estimates were submitted for the Individual Items." "The congress, by its action on . 1407 (the Navajo-Hopl biU), has bow manifested its view that the capital improvements in question should be undertaken at once and rrosecuted speedily to eomple-ion," eomple-ion," be said in his veto message . to the .senate. "Accordingly, I plan to Include In the budget for the fiscal year 1951 (beginning next July 1), appropriation ap-propriation estimates that will provide for initiation of the 10-year 10-year program." . The Navajo-Hopi bin, passed unanimously by both houses of ,""ffr" ""'" program for development of the resources of the Navajoa and Hopis, with a view to making the hard-up tribes self-sustaining. President Truman had no quar-rel quar-rel with these provisions. - What he objected to waa a section of the bill which would place the Indian tribes, "with qualifications, under civil Jurisdiction of too states in which they live Arixona, New Mexico and Utah. This same section had Men under un-der heavy firs ever sines the bill cleared congress along with another an-other provision which would require re-quire the . government to assume the burden of social security payments pay-ments to the Indians. |