The Congress had passed a bill "donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanical arts." President James Buchanan questioned the constitutionality of the effort as well as the effect of such a transfer of public land on future development within the states and delivered a veto message on this day. An act of this type would be passed and signed into law during the next administration. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
Edward Campbell Mason, Albert Bushell Hart, The Veto Power: Its Origin, Development and Function .... (Boston: Ginn & Company, 1891), 62.
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