The Archive · 1935

POTMAN BONUS BILL 'VETOED

Washington, May 22.

Declaring that every nation at-temping inflation has suffered dis Jastrous consequences, that the Pat-Jman clause stating that the spending of money was the most effective Jmeans of hastening recovery was {ll-advised, and that. the measure would not "improve _unemployment conditions, President Roosevelt read this veto message of the Patman Bonus Bill before a joint Jgreat_ sympathy for the argument that those who had remained in home ploy during the World War thad enjoyed the special privilege of unwarranted remuneration.

"That is true, bitterly true." he Jdeclared, "but a recurrence of that type of war profiteering can and must be prevented in any future war. IT invite Congress, the veterans and [the masses of the American popula-

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