VETO OVERRIDDEN
PRESIDENT REBUKED.
SENATE’S DECISIVE ACTION
FOUR BILLS ADOPTED
[UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—BY ELBCTRK
TELEGRA PH—COP Y RIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Received May 25 10.50 a.m. WASHINGTON, May 24. President Goolidge received tile most decisive congressional ‘rebuke of his whole administration to-day, when the Senate, in little more than an hour, overwhelmingly over-rode his veto on four Bills. First it passed two vetoed Postal Bills, making them law; then it passed an Indian Lands Bill and an Emergency Officers Retirement Bill. The .last two measures must still- he acted upon by the House. This is the first time that Congress has failed to heed President Ooolidge’s veto with the exception of the Soldiers’ Bonus Bill. Only a few Republican regulars supported' the president m the noting.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 25 May 1928, Page 5
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