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Show PRESIDENT VETOES ENFORCED BILL DRY FORCES PROMPTLY PUT MEASURE BEFORE HOUSE AND OVERRIDE HIS ACTION. Refused to Sign Bill Because It Included In-cluded Enforcement of War-Time Prohibition, Declares President in Brief Statement. Washington. I'resident Wilson unexpectedly un-expectedly vetoed l lie prohibition enforcement en-forcement bill on Monday and within three hours the house had re-passed it over his veto by a vote of 170 to B5. The total vote was barely more than u majority of the entire membership, but 22 more than the necessary two-thirds. two-thirds. The president refused to sign the bill because it included the enforcement enforce-ment of war-time prohibition. The objects of war-time prohibition, the president said in his veto, had been satisfied and ".sound public policy makes clear the reason and necessity for its repeal." It would not be difficult, the president presi-dent held, for congress to deal separately separ-ately with the two issues. The veto hit congress like a crack of lightning. The house, getting on its feet again deserted its leaders, who wanted to defer consideration until Thursday, so as to round up all the dry members. But the dries swept into in-to the chamber and showed there was an overwhelming sentiment among them to give the government ample weapons for dealing with the liquor traffic, now outlawed throughout the land. Nobody had really professed to know that the president would veto the bill. The Republicans and Democrats alike and the countless multitude that had sorrowfully watched the passing of the bars thought it would become a law without his signature. Attorney General Gen-eral Palmer, it was said, had delivered : it constitutional. But the president, propped up in ; bed, dictated and then signed a veto messaged and sent it along to congress, without worrying, apparently, about what congress might do. With repassage of the law by the house and the prospect of the same thing happening in the senate, hope of the big "wet spell," that would run over the Christmas seasop, van-' ished into thin air. |
