ROOSEVELT’S VETO

Grey River Argus, 26 February 1944, Page 5

ROOSEVELT’S VETO

OVER-RIDDEN 3 TO 1 By U.S.A. House [Aus. '& N.Z. Pres? Assn,] WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. The House of Representatives has overriden President Roosevelt’s veto on the Tax Bill. . , The Senate is expected to act similarly to-morrow. The voting in the House was 299 in favour of passing the Tax Bill into law, and 95 in support of the President’s veto. The House vote is one of the worst legislative setbacks Mr. Roosevelt has elver suffered. It ’is indicative of the extent of the Democrat rebellion against him. After the vote Representative Knutson, of the Ways and Means Committee, immediately called for a complete shake-up of the Treasury Department. He said that Congress was unable to rely on the Treasury’s tax recommendations, wherefore he is ilntroduicing a Bill to establish a Bureau of Internal Revenue as an independent agency “to serve both the President and Congress, and unfettered by theorists and stargazers in the Treasury/' SENATOR BARKLEY. REINSTATED AS PARTY LEADER. WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. At their conference the Democrat Senators unanimously re-elected Senator Barkley as majority leader of the Senate. Senator Barkley, who had resigned, has accepted his reappointment. BARKLEY’S VICTORY WILL HE RUN FOR PRESIDENT ? (Rec. 12.10.). WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. Political experts agree that Senator Barkley has emerged .from the crisis with, increased status and prestige, stated the Associated Press Agency. Some Democrats who are against Mr. Roosevelt seeking a fourth term, have suggested Senator Barkley as a possible Presidential nominee. On the other hand, some expressed the opinion that the net result would be “a clearing of the atmosphere” in the relations between Congress and White House, with little effect on the President’s chances for nomination. Senator Barkley’s re-election to the Democrats’ majority leadership in the Senate created a unique situation, inasmuch as he has broken openly with the leader of his party. Senator Barkley sent a letter to Mr. Roosevelt expressing a fervent hope that the dispute over the tax bill veto would bring the legislative and the executive branches of the Government closer together.