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When the Whigs came into power in 1841, they promptly abolished the independent Treasury with a view to resurrecting the United States Bank. Tyler's vetoes, however, frustrated their designs, and it remained for the Democrats in 1846 to revive the independent Treasury and to organize it substantially as it operates today.
I may be making myself an accomplice in some criminal scheme. You observe that he never called for the police a natural impulse in a robbed man. Indeed, he expressly vetoes all communication with the police." "Of course he gave reasons." "But the reasons are not good enough. I can't stop a man leaving this country anywhere round the coast except by going to the police."
He didn't apply for it for a long time, and then there was a hitch about it, and it was somethinged vetoed, I believe she said." "Who vetoed it?" asked Mrs. Leighton, with some curiosity about the process, which she held in reserve. "I don't know-whoever vetoes things. I wonder what Mr. Wetmore does think of us his class. We must seem perfectly crazy.
We are in this fairyland on sufferance; it is not for us to quarrel with the conditions under which we enjoy this wild vision of the world. The vetoes are indeed extraordinary, but then so are the concessions. The idea of property, the idea of some one else's apples, is a rum idea; but then the idea of there being any apples is a rum idea.
While the leader gave his smiling interviews to the reporters on the subject of the governor's vetoes, he had too often had to dissemble that his earliest information came from them. He did not resent the vetoes, if they made party capital; nor did he resent Shelby's popularity, for he liked him. The bitterness of the cup was that the ingrate took no pains to inquire whether he cared or not.
While the greater share of the attention of the Thirty-ninth Congress was occupied with efforts to reconstruct the eleven States which had forfeited their rights by rebellion, the Territories of Colorado and Nebraska applied for admission to the Union. Congress voted to admit both, but the President obstructed their entrance with his vetoes.
You'd be in jail yourself or more likely dead at the hands of a mob!" Spencer paled. "What's your suggestion for compromise?" asked Polly. "Number one: the I-A gets veto power on any candidate you put up," said Orne. "Number two: you can never hold more than two thirds of the top offices." "Who in the I-A vetoes our candidates?" asked Polly.
Stevens Vetoes overridden The Question submitted to the People Their Verdict Summary of Vetoes Impeachment Charges by Mr. Ashley Report of the Committee. The Thirty-ninth Congress is remarkable for having run its entire career with the constant opposition of the Executive obstructing its progress.
Twice had he already arrested, by his royal veto, the energetic measures of the Assembly the decree against the emigres and the decree against the priests who had not taken the oath. These two vetoes, the one dictated by his honour, the other by his conscience, were two terrible weapons placed in his hand by the constitution, yet which he could not wield without wounding himself.
His fearless and energetic administration of this office; his resolute refusal to give any support to those fictions of politicians and office-holders by which the citizens in all our great municipalities are robbed of their rights and their money; his obstinate vetoing of one proposed law after another by which these people hoped to gain their ends vetoes for which he always gave his reasons in the plainest words, meant to be understood by the plainest people his determination, in short, to be true to his principle declared on taking office, that the affairs of government were to be managed as a man would manage his private business all this fixed the eyes of the people upon him as a man to be intrusted with still graver responsibilities.
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