Session #67 · 1921–23

Speech #670055890

That is what the veto power is for. That is the way in which it has always been exercised. Why. when President Taft objected to the immigration bill he did not come up here and. tell his Republican colleagues to take the back track and to kill the bill. He let them pass the bill andl then vetoed it. as it was his constitutional right and privilege to do. When one of the Volstead prohibition bills was before the Senate President Wilson did not come up here and ask the Democrats to submarine it for him. but he did just exactly what the Constitution authorized him to do. let the Senate and the House pass the bill without any interference on his part at all and then vetoed the measure. and that is what should have been done in this case.
Keywords matched
immigration

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Neutral
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
KENNETH MCKELLAR
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
TN
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
670055890
Paragraph
#0
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