MORE BONUS, MORE PAY

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 75, 29 March 1934, Page 9

MORE BONUS, MORE PAY

PRESIDENT'S VETO FLOUTED

CHEERS AND JEERS

United Tress Association— By Electric Tele-Srapli—-Copyright. "WASHINGTON, March 27. Amid shouts and jeers the House of ■Representatives broke away from the President in open revolt today to.override his veto of Congressional plans for bigger veterans' .allowances and more pay for Federal workers. In direct defiance of the President on a major issue, 310 members voted against him. , He found only 72 supporters, tivo of them Republicans. Twd hundred and nine Democrats joined the 97 Republicans and four FarmerLabour members. The vote has left to the Senate the matter of deciding finally whether the veto will bo sustained. President Roosevelt, in a Message, objected that the added funds written into the Independent Offices Supply Bill by the House and Senate would upset his Budget plans, take money needed for emergency relief, and violate the principles he believed should govern the allowance of the veterans' compensation. . ! Silence settled over the House as the Message was read, with none of the applause that usually greets the President's Message. After the vote was under way frequent applause and jeers signified that well-known Democrats had voted against or for the President. In the end.- there was aui outburst 'of shouting, back-slapping, and hand-clapping in which the galleries joined. "This is the worst trimming any) President has ever received at the hands of the House," Representative j Bertram Snell, of New York, Republican leader, said.