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Show VETOED BILL IS PASSEDBYSENATE SENATOR SMOOT AND KING VOTE TO UPHOLD PRESIDENT IN BONUS MEASURE Soldier Bonus Bill Now Becomes Law; Senate and House Join In Overthrowing f Executive Veto Washington. The senate Monday overrode President Coolidge's veto of the soldier bonus bill. The measure now automatically "becomes law, the house having taken imilar action. The vote was 59 to 26 to overthrow over-throw the veto. This was two more than the necessary neces-sary two-thirds majority. Senator Reed, Republican, Pennsylvania, Pennsyl-vania, asked unanimous consent that a vote be postponed until Saturday, but Senator Ashurst, Democrat, Arizona, Ari-zona, blocked the proposal with a formal objection. By unanimous consent the bill was taken up a few minutes after ' 2 o'clock on motion of Senator Curtis, Republican, Kansas. Less than a dozen senators were absent when actual consideration of the bill began with the reading of the president's veto message. Almost immediately on conclusion of the reading of the message the enate began to vote on repassage of the bill. Senator Curtis said he believed the tainds of most of the senators were made up and he favored a rollcall. Senator Robinson, Arkansas, tne Democratic leader, concurred in the suggestion, and there were cries or "vote" from both sides. The clerk then began to call the roll. Several Republican organization leaders joined with a strong Democratic Demo-cratic lineup in upsetting the veto on a vote which was in doubt until the last minute. President Coolidge himself made an eleventh hour effort to s-tem the tide of support for the bill. He summoned sum-moned seven Republicans favoring it to the White House, but was unable to swing over enough votes to accomplish ac-complish its defeat. Thirty Republican, twenty-seven Democrats and the two Farmer-Labor senators voted to override the veto. Seventeen republicans and nine Democrats voted to sustain the president. The rollcall follows: Republicans Brandegee, Brook-hart, Brook-hart, Bursum, Cameron, Capper, Cummings, Curtis, Dale, Elkins, Fess, Frazier, Gooding, Hale, Harreld, Howell, Johnson of California, Jones of Washington, Ladd, Lenroot, Lodge, MacLean, McXarry, Norbeck, Norris, Oddie, Shortridge, Spencer, Stanfield, Warren and Wills 30. Democrats Adams, Ashurst, Broussard, Caraway, Copeland, Dill, I Ferris, Fletcher, George, Gerry, Har-' Har-' Vis, Heflin, Jones of New Mexico, Kendrick, McKellar, Mayfield, Neely, Overman, Pittman, Ralston, Robinson, Robin-son, Sheppard, Simmons', Smith, Trammell, Walsh of Montana and Wheeler 27. Farmer-Labor Johnson of Minnesota, Min-nesota, Shipstead 2. Total 59. Against overriding the veto: Republicans Ball, Borah, Colt, Edge, Ernst, Fernald, Green, Keyes, McKinley, Moses, Pepper, Phipp3, Reed of Pennsylvania, Smoot, Sterling, Sterl-ing, Wads-worth and Weller 17. Democrats Bayard, Bruce, Dial, Edwards, Glass, King, Shields, Swanson and Underwood 9. |