Speech #530161230

It may have been a joint resolution. but pension at the rate of 88 per month. itisimmaterial whether it was a bill or a joint resolution. The The bill was reported to the Senate without amendment. orPresident vetoed it because he said it was a usurpation of judi- dered to a third reading. read the third time. and passed. cial power by the President of the United States which he RESTRICTION OF IMMIGRATION. could not approve. That very excellent lawyer. standing almost at the head of the bar of the United States when he went into Mr. HILL. I am directed by the Committee on Immigration. the Presidential office. concludes his veto message in this lan- to whom was referred the bill providing for the inguage: spection of immigrants by United States consuls. to report it with The relief should have taken the form usual in such cases. which is to an amendment in the nature of a substitute. .authorize the appointment of the officer to a place made for him on the re- At the same time I present to the Senate a communication tired list. from the Department of State upon the subject of this proposed I submit that to the Senator from New Hampshire as very ex- legislation and also a communication from the Secretary of the cellent authority upon the constitutional question which he has Treasury. I ask that the bill and substitute. together with the raised in this case. two communications. be printed as a document.