Last spring, Congress passed a bill to increase the pay of postal employes. It was to have cost in the neighborhood of $68,000,000 a year. Last June, just before Congress adjourned, President Coolidge vetoed the bill on the grounds that no provision was made therein for raising the revenue to pay the increased cost. All summer the veto lay on the desks of the President pro tem of the Senate and the Speaker of the House.
Last week the bill was taken up again by the Senate. In order to pass it over the...
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