Truman Seeks To
“Unveto” Veto
WASHINGTON, I1P1 - White
^ House advisers cast about today,
seemingly in vain, for some way in
which President Truman might
“unveto” a bill giving Burton K.
Wheeler, one of his best friends a
job.”
On Capitol Hill the parliamen
tarians said it couldn’t be done.
They declared you can no more
recall a Presidential veto than an
unkind word.
Senator Hatch <D.-N. M.', spent
hours trying to unsnarl the situa
tion last night. He finally told
4 newsmen the parliamentarians are
right.
He said there seems to be only
two ways to get around Mr. Tru
man's "mistake" veto yesterday of
legislation which would permit
Wheeler, the President’s old Sen
ate crony, to act as special coun
sel for the Senate war investigat
ing committee:
1. Have Congress override the
veto.
2. Ask the lawmakers to pass a
new measure covering the same
ground.
Chairman Brewster (R.-Me.), of
the war investigating committee
was appointed Wheeler to the
counsel job, said the more embar
rassing overrider is preferred "by
several of my comrades wrho are
sadistically inclined.” It takes a
two-thirds vote of Congres to over
ride.
The bill in question was to ex
empt Wheeler from statutes which
forbid Senate employees to have
other employment.
Wheeler, former Senator from
Montana, is a pract-cing lawyer in
Washington. He did not want tc
give up his private interests wh'le
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tee complaining that the navy paid
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Mr. Truman’s veto message said
the bill was so worded that it
“might be interpreted” as granting
authority to Wheeler “to initiate
civil or criminal proceedings on
behalf of the Uivted States.”
Since such proceedings are a jus
tice department function, Mr. 1 ru
man said he was confident Con
gress did not intend Wheeler to
have such authority.
Wheeler told a reporter there
must have been a White House
“mixup” since Mr Truman signed
an identical resolution in Decern
ber, 1945, in connection with the
Senate-House Pearl Harbor inves
tigation.
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Statehood Hearings
In Washington
(By Mary Lee Council)
Part II
WASHINGTON — William L.
Baker, editor and publisher of the
Ketchikan, Alaska, Chronicle, was
the second Alaska resident to ap
peal to the subcommittee for recog
nition of the timeliness and need
for granting statehood to the Terri
tory. Mr. Baker laid stress upon
his “intense faith in the future of
Alaska” and stated that faith could
be shaken only if statehood were
not granted. He enumerated many
instances of discrimination against
Alaska which retard desired devel
opment and which could be elim
inated with voting representation
in the Congress of the United
States. He said that Alaskans
could have long since paid any ad
ditional price brought by statehood
wdth what has been the cost of
transportation difficulties, high
freight rates and other discrimin
ations against the Territory for the
very fact that it is a territory.
The sole opponent to speak
against statehood was H. L. Faulk
net, attorney of Juneau, who
claimed to be speaking on behalf
of all Alaskans who voted against
statehood. He said that the people
of Alaska were in despair at the
time of the election last October
and that the vote for statehood was
in rebellion against the long ship
ping troubles.
Basing his argument against
statehood largely on his conten
tion that the people of Alaska can
not produce revenue to pay for the
financial cost of statehood, Mr.
Faulkner, in a brief submitted to
the committee, concluded, “We
think the committee will find that
those who think through the subject
of stateood for Alaska and base
their calculations upon human ex
perience and upon realities rather
than on speculation, sentiment,
dissatisfaction and anger, and who
place on one side the possible ben
efits to be derived and on the
other side the probable disadvant
ages and the admittedly vast in
crease in the burden of taxation
which will result if statehood is
granted Aiaska, are unanimously,
opposed to statehood.”
It is expected that Mr. Faulk-j
ner’s argument that statehood will i
cost Alaskans an additional 15V£j
million dollars every two years
will be challenged by witnesses
who are scheduled to appear be
fore the subcommittee as the hear
ing continues.
Congressman Miller of Califor-1
nia, in broader terms, in connec- i
t:on with cost burden of statehood,
declared, ‘’When the local treas- j
ury will havre to meet these ex-1
per.ses, a means will be found to
broaden the tax base and to tap 1
additional sources of revenue. This!
is not a pious hope. The people of,
Alaska considered and discussed
all aspects of statehood, both the
benef its and the obligations, before
the vote they took last October,
and when they signified that they
wanted statehood, they were doing
so with a full realization that they
must undertake to meet the cost.
Just as the airlines, in estimating
future traffic along a proposed
new route, justifiably include traf-:
fic which has not previously been
carried by any other transporta
tion vehicle along that route, but
which will be ‘generated’ by the
establishment of air service, so it
may confidently be said that the
grant of statehood will ‘generate’
new revenue-producing measures
sufficient to meet Alaska’s in
creased expenses.”
Delegate Bartlett is participating
in the hearings as a member of the
sub-committee.
Part Of Lewis’ Fine
In Refunded
WASHINGTON, </P) — John L.
Lewis Thursday got back $2,800,
000 of a $3,500,000 contempt fine
imposed against his United Mine
Workers, and promptly contributed
$100,000 to striking telephone
workers. Less than an hour after
federal district judge T. Alan
Goldsborough refunded the $2,80' ,
000 UMW officials arrived at tele
phone strike headquarters with a
check for the $100,000 to help su
port the 18-day-old cross-country
tie-up.
In refunding the $2,800,000
the UMW, Goldsborough adde i
warning that a preliminary injunc
tion prohibiting the miners from
striking against the government
*‘is still in force and can be in
voked at any time.”
Goldsborough took the action af
ter assistant attorney general John
F. Sonnett had offered no objec
tion from the government.
Two weeks ago. Goldsborough
had refused to grant the $2,800,000
refund because many mines were
idle. He said that UMW chieftain
John L. Lewis and the union had
not showed they were acting in
GRATITUDE
OSAKA, Japan, —A month
ago Shigeo Iwamiya’s money and
valuables were stolen by another
Japanese. They were recovered
and returned by an American sol
dier.
Unable to speak English Iwami
ya could only bow. The unidenti
fied soldier left, but Iwamiya hired
an interpreter and started looking
for him.
After a month’s search he found
his man, Pvt. Alfred Doane of
Paterson, N. J.—and, through the
interpreter, Iwamiya’s gratitude
was expressed.
‘ good faith” in line with a Su
preme Court mandate.
'_x ole.s borough fined the union
last December because it ignored
his order to call off a contract ter
mination notice Lewis had served
on #he government.
The Supreme Court, on March
G, reduced the fine to $700,000 pro
vided the union showed that it had
fully complied with Goldsbor
ough’s orders.
On the surface at least, the pro
ceeding appeared to wind up the
legal sparring in connection with
the government's possession of the
soft coal mines.
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