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Show ' PRESIDENTIAL VETOES. KlulUlk. Itrgsnllng t irrrli of Uiecw tl l'rrn.cntlr. "As thn veto Is the bludgeon which tho masterful executlvoemployato beat an offending legislative body Into submission. sub-mission. It Is clear that tho number nnd Importance ot a president's vetoes will to a certain extent measure Its self-asscrtlvcnets The following ta-ble ta-ble ot etoes Is Instructive: I'lrst six presidents 9 Jackson 13 Lincoln 3 I'lrst sixteen presidents f3 Johnson 31 Ornnt 43 I'lrst twenty-ono presidents 133 Clcielind 343 McKlnley 3 Total vetoes to date 493 "It will bo noticed that Jackson, a mnn of strong prejudices, which ha mnn ot strong convictions, ahowed his opinion of enngrrsa by doing 13 bills, three more, than all his predecessors. "Johnson, who also had nn over confdence In his own Judgment, used Iho veto 21 times, twlco mora than any predecessor oxcept Jackson, and suffered the extreme Indignity of having hav-ing IS bills passu! ocr his veto Grant tn his two terms wroto 43 voto messages mes-sages Cle eland, (resh from autocracy autoc-racy nt Uuffnln nnd Albany, wrote 301 In his first term over twlco na many ns all tho 21 presidents who preceded! him and 43 In his second term Washington Wash-ington wroto two John Adams nono, Jefferson none, Monroe one. Van Du-ren Du-ren none, Lincoln three, Arthur four, McKlnley two Five bills woro passed over Cleveland g cto Not a single member of elthor houao has yet voted In faor of pissing a bill over McKln-lej's McKln-lej's veto" a I, Huntir In Alnslco'a Magazine |
